Funny, but the truth is most warp cores from 2375 have secretly been powered by the suffering of transporter clones of Miles O'Brien made without his knowledge while he taught at the academy. Eventually, when people found out what actually powered ships sometime before the 31st century, O'Brien warp propulsion was retired and dilithium was brought back into use.
Ooh. That’s difficult to say. I feel like the holosuite ones are always great, but that’s nearly every Trek for you.
I can live with “In the Pale Moonlight “.
Yup. Always are.
I got the Worf one and a mini-Spock for Christmas (sitting here in my bathroom cabinet):
I love the Janeway one, though, one of which I gifted to my mother a few years back.
I swear it’s one of the top episodes in the franchise now.
Also, according to an okudagram shown close up by someone who worked on it, Harry is a lieutenant during Prodigy.
Miles O’Brien in the chair after a field commission to captain on an engineering vessel: “Time to suffer, I guess.”
(Personally, though, I head cannon that O’Brien eventually gets the nickname “Non-com Admiral”.)
I think you give valid examples and make your point well.
However, another weird thought is perhaps we’re always slowly dying to some extent. For instance, you at age 7 is dead; today, yourself at age 7 cannot speak or act or think. For instance, in a situation where your young self may have tried to buy a toy, you have different wants and make different decisions - you cannot perfectly replicate what that past self would have wanted.
This might be true even of myself from five seconds ago - I hadn’t thought of a certain wording of this concept yet, and so might have worded it differently under different circumstances - that “me” is gone and can’t do anything. This could be true even a millisecond ago, or a duration approaching either an instant or perhaps one cycle based on whatever the “clock rate” (if there is such a thing) or the human brain is.
However, to function, we need a convenient abstraction for what life and death are. I think my definition of life would be when one particular sum of experiences permanently terminates its (mostly) granular evolution.
Thomas and Will Riker both evolved from the same sum of experiences of the original William T Riker; since those sums of experience are still evolving, he is, within our convenient definition, alive.
Our family actually has a bunch that an aunt sent once.
Was about to cite TNG Tech Manual as well - although that also said that holodeck characters’ bodies were replicated meat puppets, which I think they didn’t stick with.
Ah, you must be an ice man. 😁
Fun Fact: These noises actually comprised much of the background “whir” for TNG. People were used to tuning it out when watching TNG, but were confused when they heard it during one of the DS9 episodes where Alexander came back since they hadn’t heard it for a while.
"His neural engram structures are experiencing rapid total depolarization. Get me the dineurotrocacaline hypospray, quick!"
Man, making up nonsense Treknobabble is fun. 😏