I wonder how many fights could have been avoided if Kirk wasn’t trying to bone every space babe in a tinfoil skirt?

The earlier Tales short where Gin and Dooku go to that exploited planet because they abducted some senator’s son is where Dooku began falling to the dark side.

Remember, the clone troopers took a decade to grow and train; and that it was Dooku as Tyranus that recruited Fett; and TPM and AoTC were also a decade apart.

The conflict with “only two there are” and maul and dooku both apparently being apprentices is the result of shitty writing. (Though it’s also possible Dooku-as-Tyranus wasn’t Darth Tyranus as yet and rather just a “useful” asset.)

he hasn’t been charged/convicted of any of the relevant felonies that would preclude service, and nobody is going to make an issue of it; simply because all three branches of government are now under christofascist control. any lawsuits will go to SCROTUS, where they’ll just rubber stamp a decision and cite some bullshit.

also the 14th gives enforcement to congress, which won’t do anything either.

He doesn’t. He’s going to pull back and let Russia do their genocide thing. It’s why he blocked Ukraine aid before this started, too.

Same for Gaza, and probably Taiwan as well.

I suspect it has more to do with handedness- which is also partly why English and most western languages are written left-to-right in part because western writing systems were developed after ink or paint became the dominate means of writing over, for example, cuneiform clay or wax tablets. The reason for the switch was that ink would smudge in left-to-right.

In that regard, it might be “easier” to move things from left to right for most people (sorry lefties,) also most manufactures set it up to be moved in that direction and arrange the hinges to be set on that; and while it probably doesn’t really matter, it’s the order they went with. (for the record, you usually can have the doors swapped if you need to.)

Jokes on you, the biofilters automatically filter out superglue. He’s not stupid, you know.

Warm water and salt. Either lots of salt In the water, or let your fingers prune a bit then a dusting.

They should have gone with Clear Line instead of Clear Entry, because CE could also be Clear Everything… which is what clear does.

So, like, it’s prudent to learn a few phrases, “don’t shoot, Russian” or something.

The problem is that… who’s going to believe them.

It seemed appropriate,

Yeah sitting down and discussing all viewpoints before coming to consensus is clearly beneath Starfleet. They should just automatically know the right thing to do (which is obvs what I think is right) and clearly an interplanetary civilisation wouldn’t have any sort of conflict of interest/opinion.

Except that’s not what’s happening here. This is a criminal trial under military/starfleet law to determine if Data has the right to refuse.

This isn’t some arbitration hearing this is a criminal trial. Remember, they came and ordered him, Picard tried to stop it and failed so Data resigned his commission.

Maddox’s argument is that a toaster doesn’t get to do that. (Conveniently ignoring that toasters aren’t commissioned officers to begin with.) it’s prima facie an attempt to coerce data into doing research that will almost certainly kill him; for dubious scientific benefit.

Obviously the guy suing should understand data is clearly a person despite being a new ‘unique’ form of life in the universe that they have never interacted with before. Like come on are you telling me everyone in the federation hasn’t watched tng and become emotionally attached to the characters like I have.

Fascesiousness aside, yes. That’s exactly what should have happened.

Remember that thing called the Prime Directive? several core bits would simply not work without some definitive test as to who or what has personhood and who or what doesn’t.

Maddox’s position has the same level of standing as the recent Florida case against newspapers, where the judge responded “It’s the 4th Amendment, idiot.”

Even further there’s 20+ years of Data passing as a person so well that no one before The Jackass ever questions it. Almost like, because he meets the criteria in the same way that Jackass or Picard or Troy or even the blue barber guy does.

It’s only when Jackass wants to destructively clone Data that it’s even brought up as a question.

So YES, ABSOLUTELY, this trial should never have been allowed to ever happen.

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There’s really 2 things to note about that scene and episode;

First, it was totally the writers letting the earl grey drinkers know he wasn’t going to be another Picard.

Secondly, and very importantly, Q never fucks with sisko again.

Mood 4 is indignation-

”I’m not Picard”

it could have really been an interesting counterpoint- Data being cold and logical, Lore being… more empathetic. That duality. maybe leading to a sort of balance; since neither is useful without the other.

But nope. they had to make Lore a manipulative asshole.

even if Data didn’t mean to be cold, exactly.

Data was good with information, logic and reasoning, etc.

Lore was good at people, colloquialisms and stuff.

Whereas, irl, data is just a collection of facts, a store of knowledge. lore is the myths and legends we tell ourselves, and not necessarily fact.

It’s really unfortunate that Lore was a villain.

The fact they had a trial to determine data’s personhood and that it was agonizingly close, that they were actually considering denying it.

If they were truly moral, the question would have never come up; or Maddox and the general would have been slapped down with a scathing “don’t be evil”.

Also, at that point data was hardly new- he’s been in starfleet for 20+ years in which Data earned his place as a decorated Lt. Commander.

In any case, this isn’t even a question for a starfleet court - this would fall under civil purview, and even hearing the trial is a miscarriage. (Also the IFP courts probably have some sort of test that doesn’t require destructive testing. Details.)

You forgot that it was starlet that created the need for this legal argument in the first place.

If the judge was truly moral; this trial would never have happened. If starfleet was moral, the docheberger that wanted to dismantle data would never have been a member.

Also the other best defense would have been to ask docuheberger to prove he’s not just a machine, and crusher explain in intricate detail how they can reassemble Ryker’s brain. And reattach Ryker’s limb after Warf rips it off.

(Okay, so maybe I don’t like Ryker.)

fun fact. Science fiction is speculative fiction- it’s just a sub genre that’s evolved into its own genre (same with fantasy.)

no. its Cunningham’s- ah shit, you fucker.