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That would be such a mistake and only serve to cause more division, because as you say, the UK would never accept it. Neither would multiple countries already in the EU that also use their own currency.

The EU, generally, are pragmatic. They’d much rather get other concessions than wasting political capital on trying to enforce the Euro on the UK.

E: downvote all you like, but that’s realpolitik. The EU isn’t going to pass up the second largest economy in the continent over something so trivial that they don’t even pressure much smaller countries into it. Pure fantasy from people who don’t have a clue.

He’s right.

It’s far safer to have automotive glass that shatters into small pieces than something that is very difficult to break and that eventually breaks into long, sharp shards.

Was it not remarked in TNG that they sometimes have it turned off in simulations?

Regardless, IMO only the captain and maybe some other senior staff should be able to do it, IMO.

It certainly came across as romantic to me

Really? I must have literally completely forgotten.

Didn’t Raffi tell Picard near the end of S1 that she loved him and he said it back? I thought that at that stage they were exploring a romance for them

Ok I must admit that I’ve not seen the latest season of Picard, so maybe that’s the reason, but I had no idea her character was bi

But then she came back to Riker, because she values quality over quantity?

E: or maybe she just saw the way he treats Alexander and noped the fuck out lmao

I think they mean they immediately know which button to press as in press the one that they’re designing the pop-up around encouraging you not to press.

i.e. “that button is given far less emphasis and made less convenient to press, so it must be the good one.”

I’d call that shitty. It’s not that the design is good, it’s that the above person has become so accustomed to navigating this shitty dark pattern that it has become ingrained in how they use computers.

Kinda like gaining the experience of knowing which download link is the real one on a website full of fake download buttons. The fact that we can pick out the real one with a moment’s thought doesn’t make that any less of a scummy design move.

Nah I don’t have telegram, must’ve been somebody else I’m afraid :)

It’s worse because she’s telepathic - she knows the advances are unwanted and makes people uncomfortable, and yet she does it anyway.

On top of that, she’s a very important Federation ambassador. People might feel pressured into keeping her happy.

I have a feeling that if she were of a different sex people would view her relentless unwanted sexual advances quite differently.

But I guess “man trying to avoid sexual advances of horny older woman” was seen as being a hilarious role reversal on 90s TV.

She did have some amazing scenes though. She can certainly act when she gets a serious scene as opposed to a sex pest scene.

Yup. This is my problem with it.

IMO, once Neelix and Tuvok stop existing, they are dead. They have no consciousness, they aren’t around. They’re gone. They’re ex-people. They’re not sad about the situation, because they no longer exist. There’s no brain there to process any of this. Once you are dead, you don’t have a right to live, especially not if it means the death of another.

Tuvix, on the other hand, existed. He was conscious, self aware, intelligent, alive. He was dragged, crying, begging for his life, pleading for anybody to step in and stop him from being murdered. Then he was killed to bring two people back to life.

Now I know people will say “but 2 is more than 1, so it’s fine to kill him”, but that’s never sat right with me. What was that Picard speech about arithmetic not being a good reason for discarding the rights of sentient beings?

Tbh I’m astounded the Star Trek community is massively on the “murder of an innocent is ok if it saves more people and he’s a little ugly” side

I mean, that logic was only ever applied by the Vulcans as a personal choice/sacrifice, not something to be enforced by the barrel of a… er… phaser.

Spock sacrificed himself, it wasn’t done forcibly against his will. Kirk didn’t order the execution of one man so that others could live.

I don’t think we should take a slogan as an absolute moral lesson, you can justify all kinds of evil with it.

E.g. your organs could save dozens of lives. Would it be right to pin you down, kill you, and remove them, so that others can live? Surely one life lost is a worthy price to pay? The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, after all.

Ethics are a lot more complex than a catchy slogan.

In fairness, Picard is extremely upfront and honest that he has broken the Prime Directive in situations where he’s felt it would be callous not to.

Separately, he also said that while rules are a good thing, rules cannot be universally absolute.

Another thing he’s said is that Starfleet doesn’t want officers that will blindly follow orders, but rather to think about them seriously and weigh them in their minds.

Janeway straight up said to another captain that she’s never broken the Prime Directive in her life, despite clearly doing it a bunch of times. She’s in denial.

Considering it uses day then month, 24hr clock, and distance in km, I’m guessing the reason why it’s not “human readable in American” is because it’s intended to be “human readable for pretty much everybody else”

The date format isn’t incorrect at all

With Discovery essentially being the Burnham show, when I was originally watching I was 100% expecting the Burn to be some temporal shenanigans from Burnham, and that’s where the name came from.

Ended up just being a Kelpian got really sad…

We’re talking thinking something, at a moment of extreme stress and anger, after everybody on the planet he lived on was killed, including his wife.

We aren’t talking someone physically doing something.

You’ve never had any intrusive thought, ever? Can you affirm that you wouldn’t have an angry thought even if everybody on Earth was murdered, including loved ones?

Yeah but we aren’t talking heat-of-the-moment shoving someone into traffic during a bar fight, we’re talking heat-of-the-moment naughty thought during an aerial bombardment from a hostile force where his wife was killed.

Genocide does require intent, yes.

Phlox, Janeway, Sisko

Damn. Lots of genocide from the good guys.