In a universe where the entire life of Sisko has been preordained by wormhole aliens, a pregnancy is not an accident.
But has anyone asked the ketchup people?
The wormhole aliens don't "preordain" anything. They simply exist outside of time, so they see past, present, and future all at once. Yes, they knew Ben Sisko would be important and thus put the thumb on the scale to ensure he would be born, but that hardly translates to micromanaging every single event in his life.
They can't even agree on vegetable or fruit.
I have an RN license. You're wrong, plain and simple.
It didn't result in a child.
The Mayo Clinic still disagrees.You're right, that negates physical reality.
That doesn't cut the mustard.
I relish your explanation why
It's all a bunch of horseradish.
Yes, you do seem to be in quite a pickle there.
No, but it does overrule ignorance and idiocy.
Morons still spouting bullshit about masks, must be a day with a y.
Insist your surgeon not wear a mask to your next operation if you really believe this, whydontcha?
Apparently not. It's just a membership card for the "viruses are the size of beach balls" crowd. (Good news: if you get it punched enough you get some free Mayo)
Guess you never figured out why surgeons wear masks? (Hint: not viruses)
Bloodlines is certainly among the very worst of TNG. No writer with all their faculties together would ever think Picard having children was a good idea.
One minor thing in "Bloodlines" that's always bugged me is Picard telling Jason "You'll never look at your hairline the same way again." My understanding is that, while it isn't always the case, the gene for male pattern baldness is usually inherited from the mother, not the father. (I inherited most of my father's physical traits, but I still have a full head of hair in my late 50s, unlike my father and paternal uncles and grandfather.)
The other thing that bugs me is not about the episode itself, but how everyone sems to forget that "Bloodlines" established that interstellar-range transporter technology was well-known to the Federation by 2370, so it wasn't something Scotty invented later on as people tend to assume about "transwarp beaming" from the 2009 movie. (Which, within that movie, didn't mean interstellar beaming, but beaming onto a ship at warp, "transwarp" as in across the warp barrier rather than faster than warp. Although Into Darkness forgot that.) Of course, the Federation had known about such technologies since TOS ("The Gamesters of Triskelion," "Assignment: Earth," "That Which Survives"), and Earth had experimented with the idea as early as ENT: "Daedalus." But as "Bloodlines" established, it was considered impractical due to the power demands and the risk involved. (Naturally -- over a vast distance, any tiny percentage error in targeting might cause you to miss your target by thousands or millions of kilometers. Even ST '09 showed the danger of imperfect targeting by having Scotty materialize inside a coolant pipe.)
The other thing that bugs me is not about the episode itself, but how everyone sems to forget that "Bloodlines" established that interstellar-range transporter technology was well-known to the Federation by 2370, so it wasn't something Scotty invented later on as people tend to assume about "transwarp beaming" from the 2009 movie. (Which, within that movie, didn't mean interstellar beaming, but beaming onto a ship at warp, "transwarp" as in across the warp barrier rather than faster than warp. Although Into Darkness forgot that.) Of course, the Federation had known about such technologies since TOS ("The Gamesters of Triskelion," "Assignment: Earth," "That Which Survives"), and Earth had experimented with the idea as early as ENT: "Daedalus." But as "Bloodlines" established, it was considered impractical due to the power demands and the risk involved. (Naturally -- over a vast distance, any tiny percentage error in targeting might cause you to miss your target by thousands or millions of kilometers. Even ST '09 showed the danger of imperfect targeting by having Scotty materialize inside a coolant pipe.)
I was talking hypothetically. A good contraception is one that both parties need to stop taking to ensure it's mutually agreed.
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Well he didn't, that's the entire plot of the episode. I've seen worse but it was certainly clear the writers were exhausted by this point.
That association is overstated and both sides of your family influence it. But I think it's safe to say it's not just a case of looking at your father as the joke implies. And it was a joke, it was an attempt at levity. He wasn't going to send him down for a follicle scan.
My dad was bald at about 18, and I'm now many decades past that and touch wood still have mine.
Which is my point.
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