Star Trek The General Star Trek Thread - From TOS to Corporate Schenanigans
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Jaenera Targaryen
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Normally I'm not into remixes of classic movie scores, but damn! Daft Punk really proves their talent, that was great!
Sergeant Foley
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Subscribed and following this very closely.One of the legendary Big Three, Star Trek is a staple of western science fiction, with 13 movies and 7 TV series released to-date, plus innumerable comics, novels, and games. Feel free to discuss anything directly related to the media or production of Trek, as well as commentary on the franchise and fanworks derived from it.
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Bassoe
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Abstruse Goose | THERE ARE FOUR LIGHTS!!!
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Jaenera Targaryen
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Abstruse Goose | THERE ARE FOUR LIGHTS!!!
To be unfair, 'help' in Star Trek basically involves just going to the holodeck and bringing up a simulation of Sigmund Freud. That, or asking a telepath to muck around in your mind.
FFS, I'd say 40k has better basic mental help, i.e. talk to a priest.
If said telepath is a sexy Vulcan chick. I don't see many dudes protesting.
Jaenera Targaryen
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Counterpoint: sexual attraction is illogical and thus has no place in a therapeutic session
Now, if the therapist in question is a hot-blooded Orion, things would be different. On the other hand...
"Mike, you go to therapy to get your issues worked out, not bang your therapist."
- Officer Marcus, Bad Boys 2
Bear Ribs
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Given Troi's entire purpose was to be the ship's counselor and psychologist, and she called Data out on the silliness of having a Sigmund Freud holodeck session instead of going to her as the ship's professional, I don't think we can fairly say there weren't therapists available.
Jaenera Targaryen
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Forgive me if I'm not confident with having a telepath mucking about in my head.
Bear Ribs
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Troi couldn't muck about in anybody's head. It was literally a plot point several times. She could sense emotions but couldn't sense actual thoughts and definitely couldn't send anything, much less muck about in heads.
Jaenera Targaryen
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Ah, yes, just an empath...such an improvement...can we have a Null Maiden (if not an Oblivion Knight) present during therapy sessions?
Vyor
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... Why?
Jaenera Targaryen
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Now, instead of a telepath mucking about in my head, it's like having a...psychic parasite? Energy (emotion?) vampire leeching off my emotions...can I just have a normal person to talk to? No psychic powers, no fallacious pseudo-philosophical bioroid, just another ordinary person.
Hell, I'd take Quark at this point...in fact, I could probably get more results by just visiting Quark's bar and having a good time - with real alcohol and not synthehol garbage - with a bunch of ordinary joes and janes all night long.
Vyor
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So an EEG machine leeches off your emotions?
Jaenera Targaryen
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It's a machine, not a living thing. There's a difference.
Bear Ribs
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Well, guess there's only one psychologist in the world for you.
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Jaenera Targaryen
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Well, guess there's only one psychologist in the world for you.
Dr. Sbaitso
Dr. Sbaitso was an artificial intelligence program for MS-DOS-based personal computers distributed with various sound cards published by Creative Labs. The program would "converse" with the user as if it was a psychologist, though most of its responses were along the lines of "WHY DO YOU FEEL...classicreload.com
...psychiatrists IRL aren't psykers, even watered-down ones like Troi. Also, I wouldn't be so trusting of AI, if I were you. Letting machines think for themselves has got to be the biggest mistake of the 21st Century. If we don't pay the price for it, our children will.
We're on the countdown, now, to the Iron War.
Oh you sweet summer child. You think in a universe where telepaths are common. They won't be doing that already on the down low.
Vyor
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The person reading the EEG machine is...
Robots are not thinking for themselves and I have the perfect method to stopping them.
Pulling the plug.