ROCK AND STONE FOREVER!

Stop deliberating, Will. That junior officer might have all the fun if you don’t jump in.

GLORY TO YOU AND YOUR HOUSE PARTY

Worf as Pigpen checks out

Embrace Chodak thought.

like allowing differences of opinion and anti-authoritarianism

Getting steamrolled by nazis after inviting them to the table under pompous pretenses of “allowing differences of opinion” isn’t even a viable starter for a government. The Weimar Republic comes to mind.

The in-setting excuse for why the Federation survived at all, shaky as it was, is that it employs cryptofascists already and gives them unchecked privileges to surveil, harm, and murder on a whim to maintain the status quo: Section 31. You might be a fan.

Do you have any argument to back that up that isn’t GOMMUNISM VUVULZULA GORILLION DEAD?

That was one of the most timelessly funny episodes of that show, ever.

TFW no buffer time

TFW you have discovered pottery

Already happened; there was a Reading Rainbow episode where LeVar Burton showed the audience the Star Trek TNG set. He showed how the transporter effect was glitter stirred in a glass. It was pretty awesome to see that as a kid and it also made some connections between fiction and reality that can really help ground an impressionable mind.

Perhaps not, but the first and only thing we as individuals are aware of (when we are aware) is that we are aware. The perceptions of external observers may not share that experience, but they can certainly try to invalidate it.

I suppose that’s the issue: it’s externally observed rather than internally experienced. The difference may matter for the one experiencing it rather than just being observed.

#JustKlingonThings

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In the time travel instance, there is still two of a person if they happen to visit the same place at the same time. They have different perspectives and experiences at that point and are different people even if they are from the same origins. They don’t share a consciousness; there are now two consciousnesses.

Same deal with the transporter struggle session if it just so happens that matter was replicated (like in the comic) but the person that was to be disintegrated simply wasn’t disintegrated.

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