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[-] Doug@midwest.social 81 points 1 year ago

Little bothered that Tim Russ said "bias" instead of "biased"

[-] TeaHands@lemmy.world 39 points 1 year ago

I'm not mad I'm just disappointment.

[-] AceBonobo@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

I'm not mad just disappoint

[-] Thassodar@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago

Son. I am dissapoint.

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[-] Opafi@feddit.de 23 points 1 year ago

I hope somebody replied with "hi bias, I'm dad"

[-] usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 year ago

No, you see he is the literal human embodiment of the concept of bias and was letting us know. The other tweets are unrelated

[-] Infynis@midwest.social 9 points 1 year ago

It's true, that's why his role as Tuvok was so impressive. The exact opposite of type casting

This is a pet peeve of mine

[-] TerminalEncounter@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

I'm a little bias short and stout, here is my handle here is my spout

[-] ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 year ago

A peeve of mine is the term “pet peeve”. 😅

If something bothers you so, why the fuck would you keep, nurture, and tend to it as a pet?

I propose it change to haunting peeve, because you don’t want it, can’t get rid of it, and it exists regardless if you think about it or not.

😁 (I’m not super serious about this, but “pet peeve” really does low-key bother me)

[-] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

They separated Tuvix on the bias and Tim got more of him.

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[-] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 50 points 1 year ago

Unrelated to Trek, one of my favorite Twitch streams was watching AOC play Among Us with Ilhan Omar, Canadian MP Jagmeet Singh, and a bunch of YouTubers like Jack Septiceye and ContraPoints. The way Omar would giggle every time she killed somebody was adorable.

[-] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Didn't Omar take a couple of rounds as the imposter, too?

She was straight up excellent.

[-] AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year ago

Concerningly excellent, as someone who lives in Minnesota, lol.

[-] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 33 points 1 year ago

Janeway leads with focus on her mission - to get her crew home

I don't believe that AOC has seen more than about three episodes of Voyager. If she had seen at least three, the statistical likelihood that she would have seen one where Janeway yanks the crew into some conflict they have absolutely no business involving themselves in would approach 100%

[-] marcos@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago

yanks the crew into some conflict they have absolutely no business involving themselves

That's all of Star Trek.

In fact, that's almost all of most of the space drama series.

[-] Touching_Grass@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Also the family vacation series

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[-] HairHeel@programming.dev 26 points 1 year ago

Poor statement of her mission. IIRC Janeway says pretty clearly in one of the first episodes that they're still going to carry out their duty as a Starfleet ship to seek out new life and new civilizations, boldly go, etc. That's their mission, and getting home is an important part but not all of it.

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[-] Grant_M@lemmy.ca 30 points 1 year ago

Remember this cool stuff? Now it's just a fascist site with RW morons trying to out-nazi each other.

[-] WhoRoger@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

By Trek's logic, Tuvix's identical copy lives in an alternative universe of some sort. And that's really the only way to justify all this.

Ed: Also the "Oh wait, they can't speak so someone has to speak for them" has some interesting implications, doesn't it.

[-] Plibbert@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 year ago

Dude. Mirror universe tuvix. Gets the imagination going.

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[-] triktrek@startrek.website 17 points 1 year ago
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[-] theodewere@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago

see now that is what the social medias are actually good for

[-] Rhaedas@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago

The needs of the many...

[-] cybervseas@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Don't know how I missed this one. Thanks for digging it up buddy. Amazing stuff. ♥️

[-] ComicalMayhem@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago
[-] cynar@lemmy.world 37 points 1 year ago

Further to the link. Tuvix is a character in star trek voyager. There is a transporter accident that ends up welding 2 other characters (Lieutenant Tuvok, Neelix) into 1 individual. The episode is spent trying to resolve this issue.

By the end, Captain Janeway is given a solution. They can reverse the process and recover Tuvok and Neelix. Unfortunately this will destroy Tuvix. Tuvix, meanwhile has developed on his own. He doesn't want to die and makes that clear. Janeway has the dilemma. She can do nothing, and let Tuvix live, or kill him to bring Tuvok and Neelix back.

Basically, it's the trolley problem. Do nothing, and 2 people die, or kill 1 yourself, to save them.

[-] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 22 points 1 year ago

What I don't get is why they didn't do some technofoolery with the transporters to make a copy of Tuvix and then just split that one. In a universe where there's two William Rikers there's gotta be a way to use transporters to clone.

[-] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 33 points 1 year ago

You kinda have to accept the bounds of the problem as stated in order for it to be worth thinking about. It undercuts the value of the experiment if you just say "I find a solution other than those presented which denied the central conflict entirely".

[-] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago

Yes it’s called being an engineer

[-] pwr22@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 1 year ago

O'Brien could probably do it if you give him a couple hours

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[-] Kahlenar@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Then you'd have two Tuvixes that both don't want to die. Actually I had an entire day of one philosophy class to discuss this, however it was very specific that "teletransportation" absolutely kills you and replicates you. My professor specifically said that having an understanding of star trek was necessary that day.

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[-] nomecks@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

They were out of chronotons.

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[-] heimchen@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 year ago

Could you please resolve the question for people that did not watch star trek. What did she do?

[-] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 24 points 1 year ago

Let's just say Tuvix is only in one episode

[-] Kage520@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

To give some context, if I remember correctly, Tuvix wasn't just "clearly against the split". He was desperately trying to save his own life, crying out "doesn't anyone see that this is wrong??", before they essentially killed him.

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[-] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 year ago

The fact that it is still widely discussed even after so many years, proves is such a great episode with a great moral dilemma.

Whether they chose is the right choice or not, I can not say.

But from a story perspective, all I can say is that I didn't really like the character of Tuvix, too whiney and weird. While Neelix may not be everyone's favourite, Tuvok definitely was an excellent addition to the team. So for my enjoyment, they did make the right choice.

[-] HappyMeatbag@beehaw.org 9 points 1 year ago

I love this conversation

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