Spoilers Choose your pain game

[marsh8472]

You're in prison and playing this game.

 

[marsh8472]

Spoiler: Game rules

The Klingon's come in and ask you to pick someone that they'll beat the crap out of

 

[KennyB]

Choose the OP every time?

 

[Kor]

Point to one of the Klingon guards. Then, because of honor and duty to the rules of the game, he has to beat himself up.

Kor

 

[Kemaiku]

The airlock, first one to break it wins.

 

[Burning Hearts of Qo'nos]

I chose myself. I NEED MY PAIN! Also, I probably wouldn't survive the first beating, better to go out on my own terms!

 

[Mad Jack Wolfe]

Point to one of the Klingon guards. Then, because of honor and duty to the rules of the game, he has to beat himself up.

Kor

Or as the Klingons call it, "giving himself a pep talk."

 

[GeekUSACarl]

It'd start out as me trying to judge who I'm in there with, their character.

but after a while I'm sure I'd choose someone else every time.

 

[Cyrus]

I don't get it. Why would someone choose themselves?

 

[GeekUSACarl]

I don't get it. Why would someone choose themselves?

Guilt, manipulation by others during down time, threats greater than that of a simple beating.

 

[Kor]

I don't get it. Why would someone choose themselves?

To spare the other inmates pain, thereby gaining their favor in the rare instance that circumstances may turn in the inmates' favor.

If you keep choosing the other guys to get beat up, then you make enemies with them. Inmates cooperating together in good faith in this situation may come up with a system so that a stronger one may volunteer to get beat up a little more, and somebody in a more weakened state may be spared a couple beatings.

Incidentally, this kind of treatment of prisoners constitutes a war crime. Star Trek: Discovery commits war crimes again!

Kor

 

[Locutus of Bored]

I don't get it. Why would someone choose themselves?

It's psychological torture. By putting the decision in your hands, the Klingons are trying to make you feel guilty for the suffering they're inflicting on the other prisoner(s). By choosing to only have them punish you, you are removing that option, albeit at the cost of you now experiencing physical torture instead.

Besides possibly building loyalty and cooperation with the other spared inmates as Kor mentioned, you might also gradually earn the respect of the guards doing the beatings themselves, and they may consider you a worthy adversary and decide to spare you any further beatings. Much like the Jem'Hadar First that Worf kept fighting in the Dominion prison asteroid, who eventually decided to spare his life out of respect (although that didn't turn out too well for him).

 

[guyute03]

I don't see a "volunteer for L'Rell" option....

 

[jamestyler]

I don't see a "volunteer for L'Rell" option....

*raises hand*

I married a Klingon, I know what I'm getting into.

 

[Refuge]

The writers.

 

[USS Triumphant]

The poster below me.

 

[David cgc]

^ You'll get yours next time. *Spits out tooth*

I'd imagine the Klingons don't actually let you choose yourself to be beaten. I mean, Starfleet probably covers the Prisoner’s Dilemma at the Academy.

 

[USS Triumphant]

^ You'll get yours next time. *Spits out tooth*

Don't blame me. You self-selected, there, Katniss.

 

[Captain of the USS Averof]

It depends.
Am I a (more or less) honorable Starfleet officer from TOS/TAS/TNG/DS9/VOY/ENT or am I a douchebag from DSC?

 

[SPCTRE]

I mean, Starfleet probably covers the Prisoner’s Dilemma at the Academy.

in that case I choose Option VI*

*cheating