If it lasted a week, they'd have to feed him with an IV-drip.
TNG Rewatch: 5x25 - "The Inner Light"
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If it lasted a week, they'd have to feed him with an IV-drip.
Nothing to get, no now what. It's just accepting the severity of what the aliens did. What Picard does with the experience and how he copes with it is something else entirely. That doesn't change the fact that what the aliens did was a forceful violation of Picard's mind.
Vastly, vastly different things. Picard wasn't forced to read a book, he was forced to experience a situation and decades of life against his will.
A long standing and time-honored Trek theme.
They were about to die on a planetary scale, so maybe they didn't think that your personal idea of what constitute a rape was important enough in comparison.
That reminds me of a line in Cheers (the show):
"That guy gave up his life when he pushed me out of the way of that zamboni but he broke my wrist!"
"That hurts!"
Everything is relative....
But, as Star Trek itself has taught us, sometimes the needs of the one outweighs the needs of the many.
For me it's not really hate. I mean, I really like the episode it's got some great moments and themes in it. Though I think it may also be a touch overrated. But, at the same time, it's still possible to discuss the implications of the events in it.
I second this emotion.
I just find it really, really boring more than anything else.
And this is not one of those times.
It clockwork oranged them.
Now, each time they see a memorial, it makes them want to puke.
No, but we should condemn people for forcing it into someone's brain artificially. A mindf##k is a mindf##k is a mindf##k
Which is arguably a lie or at least an exaggeration. It didn't appear like they were forcing anything on him. Sure they lied to him but lying is hardly exceptional and definitely not enough to qualify as mind-number-number-k.
Civilizations on a galactic, and even on a universal, scale die off all of the time for various reasons. These people's "need" or want to to be known doesn't trump Picard's need/right to have control over his own mind and some sense of sanity and continuity to his own life.
No one he interacted with was real. What the cerebral implantation consisted of is not the issue. That they felt it ok to hijack someone's brain & screw with it is. Forcing memories of a lifetime spent having to relent & eventually accept these people as real & his true life, only to have the rug yanked out & leaving him the loss of a family that was never his, is damn cruel. They gave him no choice but to build an actual family with some strange woman, who he got brow beat into accepting as his wife, & then after a lifetime of watching it grow, they tell him it's all Bulls##t
Which is arguably a lie or at least an exaggeration. It didn't appear like they were forcing anything on him. Sure they lied to him but lying is hardly exceptional and definitely not enough to qualify as mind-number-number-k.
There's only 2 possibilities. Either that ssn of his, played by Stewart's actual son, was a son made specifically for him, or it was yet another recreation of an actual person who he really has no familial connection to. In the 1st scenario, they created a son for him, even looks like him, & then it's all a BS illusion & he is just an idiot pining over a son that never existed, or option 2, he got duped into believing that some stranger WAS his son & the whole thing was just some program that he was made to believe was his life. Either way. It's a terrible thing to do to someone, regardless of how badly they want to be valued & remembered. Send a video encyclopedia for god sake, & leave people's identities alone, jerkwads
That's absurd. It's like saying to someone: "The fact that you're dying doesn't give you the right to disturb my lunch."
It's not only inhuman in its insensitivity, it's also self-centered and borderline sadistic.
You're severely under-estimating what occurred to Picard here.
He wasn't having a lunch, he was living his life. Their disturbance? Was forcing him to live 40-years of a life that wasn't his and then after living that life where he had a friends, a wife, kids, grandkids and strugglede this dying civilization and then it was all yanked from him. Leaving him with a lot of emotional pain to deal with.
That's a bit more dramatic of a thing to do than to tell someone the story of your life.
He wasn't having a lunch, he was living his life. Their disturbance? Was forcing him to live 40-years of a life that wasn't his and then after living that life where he had a friends, a wife, kids, grandkids and strugglede this dying civilization and then it was all yanked from him. Leaving him with a lot of emotional pain to deal with.
That's a bit more dramatic of a thing to do than to tell someone the story of your life.
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