• Stamets@startrek.website
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    1 year ago

    Yeah I’ve actually thought about this.

    Like… did Q just re-create existence around him? Or did he pluck Prime Picards consciousness and dump it into the body of Beta Picard? I like to think it’s the latter with Beta Picard in the background just like “Wait… what? What’s happening?” and then Q and Picard fuck off leaving this poor dude to desperately rely on therapy for the next couple years.

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    1 year ago

    We need a Lower Decks style series about this ensign Picard. Lower Decks style as in it’s not about the captain but the lower decks

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      I just want to see how happy and relaxed Ensign Picard is. No critical decisions to make. Able to make friends among the crew without his rank getting in the way.

      We get to see Captain Picard in Ensign Picard’s body, but we never get to see the slacker who has big dreams but doesn’t bother to push himself.

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        What we don’t see in the episode is that Q does the same thing to ensign Picard and he is like: “This sad and lonely fellow would be me if I sacrificed everything for my career?”

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        1 year ago

        Makes me think of the plot from The Office when Michael had a telemarketing job and seemed so much happier when he was one of the underlings instead of the guy at the top.

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          1 year ago

          I’ve been in that position before. From manager to agent, and back to manager.

          It was a blast, I had so much fun.
          It got boring pretty quick though.

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      1 year ago

      It reads like a Chief O’Brien at Work strip. Except he wouldn’t say “hey what the fuck” because he would just be so sad he couldn’t speak.

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    1 year ago

    Holy shit, was this a real episode? Anyone got the Season Episode and Title handy? I know at least a few of you nerds do

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      All other people are NPCs from the perspective of one person. That’s what “non-player character” means.

      You’re the player in your own mind, aren’t you? That makes the rest of us NPCs.

      I just don’t see how someone else’s perspective of my autonomy should cause such a crisis in me.

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          I mean a cursory glance at your own life ought to show you that you do in fact have a life outside of the experiences of some arbitrary person. If you were told you are an NPC, does your lifetime of personal experiences simply vanish?

          Even if you were shown proof that you’re a simulation, can you really just let go of your entire existence like that?

          I think denial would be a far more common reaction than existential crisis.

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    mfw a version of me from an alternate universe possesses my body and begs an omnipotent god to let him out