Yep. Whatever one thinks of PIC (any season of the series) the show transferred Picard's very life energy and essence into a near-perfect replica body.
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AKA "Needs of the plot"
It's established within the Canon of Trek.
It's not the first time that a 'DisEmbodied Soul' would get shunted into a 'Physical Body'.
That was a entire Plot Arc for DISCO for Adira / Stamets / Culber to find a way to put Gray's Soul into a body.
Which they reused the Golem Tech from ST:PIC to do so.
The Golem technology is amazing, but the success rate is very low for transfering Souls apparently.
What does "canon" have to do with my post?
The plot of "Return to Tomorrow" is building android bodies to house the "souls" of Sargon's people. Kirk and Lester switch souls in "Turnabout Intruder". As mentioned in post #17438.
This would have been five years after Roddenberry had Vulcans with a seventh sense that could feel God.
You made it sound like Picard's Soul switching bodies was a "Plot Contrivance" to keep Patrick Stewart around when it's been established in Star Trek Lore that you can migrated a persons Soul from Body to Body within the history of the franchise.
Picards Energy or "Soul" was reintegrated with his body via Transporter in the TNG ep "Lonely Among Us".
So it's not JLP's first time having his "Soul" seperated from his body.
No. It was a comment on how well a particular piece of technology works in any given story,
But then you can apply that same idea "Needs of the Plot" to nearly every single piece of tech within Star Trek.
Yes you can and it wouldn't be wrong.
But it tries to be scientific, and sometimes succeeds in doing so.
Make what is happening in Trek the plausible scientific answer to a 'what if?' statement, not because some wandering hobo waved a branch, some hermit twitched two fingers or some stuck scriptwriter put a Deus Ex Machina into the last act should be the first ironclad rule for Trek writers, Q, Metrons and Organians notwithstanding.
Welcome to creative writing 101.
Not really. see sig.
Point was, the tech exists to serve the story. It fails, breaks down or causes some calamity to place our heroes in "jeopardy". Sometimes it exists to present a moral quandary. But the show isn't about the tech.
The writers ( or their consultants) drop current science lingo into the scripts to make it feel "real". It's often just "tech the tech" until then. Sometimes it's retrofitted to the plot.
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That's what they think. Poor Picard. Never got to live to see his fantasy of being married to two hot women at the same time in Crusher and Laris come true.
He's now a sex machine
It doesn't. And it has always always always resorted to fantasy and magical explanations since the beginning.
Actually, two or three episodes of SNW have paid a bit more attention to science concepts than seven years of DS9.
But what Trek has always adopted as a baseline is the enlightenment posture that the Universe is knowable and can be understood through reason. And that's close enough to science, I suppose.
Well, yeah. Your point?
Now you're getting it.
Yes, you rather obviously and correctly can.
That feels like "Lazy Writing" and relying on a form of "Deus Ex Machina" instead of logical believable conclusions to a story.
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