• Ensign_Rutherford@startrek.websiteEnglish
        4·
        10 months ago

        She is totally one of my faves. I wasn’t even aware of all this stuff about Tuvix until I joined lemmy, personally I don’t think she did anything wrong either

            • Jaccident@lemm.eeEnglish
              2·
              10 months ago

              If I could reverse engineer your dead parents from your DNA, but it would kill you, have I therefore a moral imperative to deconstruct you, even against your will?

              • Stamets [Mirror]@startrek.websiteOPEnglish
                4·
                10 months ago

                That is a bad faith argument. You’re ignoring the entire context of the situation. On top of that, you’re narrowly compacting the actual ethical/moral situation at hand.

                I’m down for an actual discussion, if you want, but not if it’s gonna be like that. The discussion around Tuvix is not as black or white as you’re painting it out to be.

                • Jaccident@lemm.eeEnglish
                  3·
                  10 months ago

                  I’m not ignoring the context of the situation, there are good arguments for returning Tuvix to his previous selves, but “needs of the many” isn’t one of them.

                  Ultimately we’re talking about a ridiculous dilemma though, so I don’t know it needs to be this serious.

            • illusoryMechanist@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              10 months ago

              Tuvix was more effective than both Tuvok and Neelix and comsumed less resources. Needs of the many should actually lead to more crew fusions, not less.

              • Stamets [Mirror]@startrek.websiteOPEnglish
                2·
                10 months ago

                1. It is quite literally impossible to be more effective than both Tuvok and Neelix. Both had their own individual jobs that were now collated into a single being. He had less time and availability to answer all issues. He cannot be in two places at once.

                2. If Tuvix was injured or killed then two roles were left unfilled.

                3. While ‘sort-of-but-not-really’ the same person, that didn’t stop everyone from feeling the loss of Tuvok and Neelix. This new guy may have had the same memories and experiences but he had a completely different outlook on all of those memories. Relationships that had been built with both crewmen now were left to wither and die.

                Tuvix was already damaging crew morale. There’s a reason that the bridge had zero response to him being led away. Tuvix wasn’t their friend and never was. He wasn’t the person they had built a relationship with. He was a perpetual reminder that everything they knew was gone. They lost not only their morale officer but a senior officer.

                The needs of the many were fulfilled by unmaking the mistake of Tuvix.

  • NumbersCanBeFun@kbin.social
    9·
    10 months ago

    I drink three cups of coffee every morning and steam barrel my way through work crushing every agenda item in my list.

    I usually skip lunch. I’m on salary so as long as everything gets done everyday I can basically run my own schedule. I get up at 4am, start at 6am and leave by 3pm everyday.

    My peers get jealous and say stuff like “I wish I could leave at 3 everyday” to which I always reply with an invite to come it at my time. Nobody ever shows up 🤣

      • WarmSoda@lemm.eeEnglish
        17·
        10 months ago

        It is. And they’re also bragging about working for free for an hour like they gamed the system.

      • NumbersCanBeFun@kbin.social
        1·
        10 months ago

        Yeah? I still get out 2 to 3 hours earlier than my peers with more work done. So more free time in the afternoon and my job is happy. Win/win for everyone.

        • lastjunkieonearth@lemdro.idEnglish
          6·
          10 months ago

          that’s great your work schedule is 6-3 with no lunch break instead of 9-5, I’m just saying it’s not the flex you think it is, but whatever works for you man!

      • NumbersCanBeFun@kbin.social
        2·
        10 months ago

        Wow. Nice to meet you too. Did you wake up this morning and decided to be a dickhead or does it just come naturally for you? 🤣

        • WarmSoda@lemm.eeEnglish
          9·
          10 months ago

          You have an advertisement for reddit as your profile picture. Seriously?

          You seem like a cool guy. You’re happy with your morning job and that’s cool. Your comment is like copy/paste from every guy over 50 that thinks it’s so cool they wake up a whole 3 hours earlier, though. I’ve been there, it’s still just a 9 hour shift. Nothing special. But yeah it’s nice to get out before everyone.

          But come on. You’re happy you refuse to take an hour off in the middle of your shift and not get paid for it? You’re better than that.

    • remotelove@lemmy.caEnglish
      14·
      10 months ago

      Of Voyager? Once you get through the first couple of seasons, it’s OK. Just remember that anytime you see a Kazon, just go get a coffee or a beer or something and pretend they don’t exist. Don’t acknowledge them and don’t talk about them.

      Just imagine each Kazon episode like Garfield minus Garfield and the storyline is so much better.

      • DontMakeMoreBabies@kbin.social
        4·
        10 months ago

        So… Kazon? I’m sure I could Google it, but I’m curious to hear a fan’s perspective (I watched TNG growing up but that’s about it).

        • Stamets [Mirror]@startrek.websiteOPEnglish
          12·
          10 months ago

          The issue about getting a fans perspective on the Kazon is that said fan has to remember the Kazon. They were incredibly forgettable.

          Voyager takes place tens of thousands of lightyears away from Federation space. The whole plot is them trying to find their way home while running into new alien species. Vulcans, Klingons, Romulans, Ferengi… all that is gone and we need to start over. So they go back to the drawing board to make a bunch of new alien species for the show. One of the main ones being Kazon.

          They were seemingly designed to be a hostile faction that really liked war. They had forehead ridges, jagged teeth, a very particular hair style and their skin color was predominately darker. If that sounds familiar it’s because it’s basically just the klingons. Only issue is that these guys had none of the history that the Klingons did. Just Klingon Lite. Also didn’t help that they were wildly misogynistic. The society was entirely patriarchal so women were treated as second class citizens.

          They lasted two seasons. The last time we really saw them on screen was the first episode of Season 3. Anything since have been passing references.

          They were just kind of a lazy, badly written species that had nothing going for them and are best left relegated to the scrap piles of history.

    • jarfil@beehaw.orgEnglish
      2·
      10 months ago

      If you decide to watch them, then, and I can’t stress this enough, DO NOT start with the warp 10 one. It has… uh… too many layers upon layers… or something.