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Sinkhole
This podcast did something different that made me want to listen more and more and that is data restoration and archiving. A lot of newer podcasts have the setting of an archive as that lets you do a lot of cool things and with the popularity of the magnas archive, it has become a rather convenient setting. But sinkhole is about a nerd that's into data restoration in a future where you can feel the emotions of those that record it if you get something put in your skull. Our main character lives near an anomalous sinkhole that messes with data and space. They are a survivor of that sinkhole and by that they are sunken so they can not get a thing in their mind. I think that this is a really interesting podcast that brings up ideas of privacy and the need of formatting for those that can not afford certain tech or that their bodys are not able to interface, As of mar 28 2023 sinkhole has two seasons out and season 3 is being made. I rank it B over Ghost Wax
Average shift on the USS Enterprise
#igotalittletoosillyyourhonor
types of tng episodes
1. somethings wrong with Data and it’s Everyone’s problem
2. somethings wrong with everyone and it’s Data’s problem
Star Trek: The Next Generation // S02E21: Peak Performance
SPOILERS FOR STAR TREK: PICARD
This is a page in my sketchbook that I initially started because I needed to make meticulous lines for emotional regulation. But the colors ended up reminding me of Data.
I think it went over a lot of people's heads that the end of season one mirrors the end of season one. Picard was so worried that Data never knew he loved him. But Data always knew.
"I don't want the game to end" is another way of saying, "I love you."
"I can see that," is another way of saying, "I know."
I really think this hinges on whether or not we have "souls." A thing that is greater than your neurons firing, a thing that observes them firing and is the thing which says "I am me," if that exists then I don't believe transporting means death. The soul, which is not broken down because it is not physical, follows the matter wherever it goes. And so the body being deconstructed and reconstructed doesn't matter. Theoretically, you could attach your soul to something other than your body and you still have not died.
This makes the occasional cloning issue have a bigger philosophical meaning. If you were cloned by transporter, then which one has the soul? Figure that out, and you've solved that issue. I don't think there would be a way to do that though since I imagine a collection of cells and atoms with the personality of your friend and that same collection of cells and atoms that is also being observed and operated by your friend would be very difficult to distinguish from each other.
This leads me to my next point: uhm. I don't think souls exist. So when there is a break in consciousness, there is death. I'm not worried about it though cause that already happens pretty frequently. Like, every night when you're sleeping but not dreaming, that is a kind of death. If you go into a coma, if you're brain dead and you're revived by a doctor, death death death. It's ok. We are always dying and being born.
Which might mean that life is an illusion and really all that's happening at any given moment is remembering what the previous moment was. Like a computer that powers down completely and opens the applications you were working on when it powers up. Every moment, forever. And "life" is what we call a long enough series of those moments without *significant* breaks. And when they stop and will not start again, that's what we understand death to be.
So transporting might mean you die, but no more than usual.
Also Data is definitely a living creature as much as any bacteria, ant, human, vulcan, or computer and everyone needs to shut up about that shit!
In Star Trek, the transporter works by converting you as a complete copy from matter to energy containing all information necessary to reassemble you, sends that information wirelessly over a distance to a location where you are then reassembled, molecule by molecule. Since the copy is so perfect you do not perceive any interruption between conversions and everything about you is physically in tact at the end of the procedure (assuming nothing goes wrong, which canonically very rarely happens).
my account was one of the ones that got breached on wattpad and this fucking saved me
FYI for anyone who ever created a Wattpad account, there’s been a data breach.
Apparently I created an account back in 2014 *sigh*
Made a timeline in excel for cooking Thanksgiving Dinner
GUYS I cant help it----- I'm a basic trek girl🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈 I love SPOCk I love DATA I love JULIAN and you cant take that away from me😭
Star Trek TNG + Texts
Star Trek TNG + Texts
This one is specifically Wesley Crusher because my kid obsession with him came back the other day
It has been on my mind lately while posting more segments of the Bog Knight (Wrought Rot) comic on Webtoon, who among you read it?
previous art，gonna delete it somewhere else so put here for storage