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Little bothered that Tim Russ said "bias" instead of "biased"
this post was submitted on 18 Sep 2023
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I hope somebody replied with "hi bias, I'm dad"
No, you see he is the literal human embodiment of the concept of bias and was letting us know. The other tweets are unrelated
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
I'm a little bias short and stout, here is my handle here is my spout
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)
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They separated Tuvix on the bias and Tim got more of him.
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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.
Didn't Omar take a couple of rounds as the imposter, too?
She was straight up excellent.
Concerningly excellent, as someone who lives in Minnesota, lol.
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%
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.
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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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Remember this cool stuff? Now it's just a fascist site with RW morons trying to out-nazi each other.
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.
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Also relevant: When Kate Mulgrew surprised everyone at an AOC campaign speech before she got elected.
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see now that is what the social medias are actually good for
Don't know how I missed this one. Thanks for digging it up buddy. Amazing stuff. ♥️
The needs of the many...
Who's/What's Tuvix?
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.
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.
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".
Yes it’s called being an engineer
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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They were out of chronotons.
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Could you please resolve the question for people that did not watch star trek. What did she do?
Let's just say Tuvix is only in one episode
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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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.
I love this conversation
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