But Tuvix was not.
It's a messy issue, with vociferous supporters on both sides.
Are there any fan-favorite/well liked Characters (from any Trek) that you just can't stand?
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It's a messy issue, with vociferous supporters on both sides.
Lwaxana. Maybe not a huge "fan favorite" but people generally are more positive about her than negative, while she almost always made an episode worse and harder to watch. The one exception being Dark Page (and no, not Half a Life).
My father always hated Q. While not my favorite character, I didn't mind him so much. Plus some of his episodes were pretty great.
My father always hated Q. While not my favorite character, I didn't mind him so much. Plus some of his episodes were pretty great.
I don't remember Half a Life condoning anything. The planet kills the best chance to prevent their own extinction, perhaps dooming their world to an early death.
And poetic justice if it does, given that it practices global genocide.
Unless I'm hideously misremembering the episode, there's no genocide taking place on their planet.
Everyone on the planet is expected to kill themselves at age 60. Even if it's self-inflicted, the fact that their society essentially requires it makes it involuntary. Basically everyone who reaches age 60 is a victim of it.
I don't agree with that planet's practice, either. But there's something to be said about knowing when you will die (barring an accident, of course). It's a different version of LOGAN'S RUN, too. Makes you wonder if life on that world is similar. (Without the machine controlling everything, obviously.)
Agree to disagree.
Respectfully, you should look up the definition of the word.
...I might do so too, just to cover my bases in case there's some loophole in the definition that could conceivably cover what was happening on that planet.
Any definition of the word is going to include the intent to destroy the group being killed.
In this case, as offensive as the practice is, its intent is to preserve the culture, not destroy it.
Agree, more akin to the idea of seppuku, a cultural form of suicide considered to be 'honorable' and not horrific.
I would personally call the elder population of Timcin's world a distinct group. This isn't like euthanizing or providing assisted suicide to sick or infirm people with no quality of life. That is at least defensible, especially in a secular society like the Federation. Timcin was at the height of his intellectual capacity and value to his society, and was effectively executed by an arbitrary number.
I will not give the practice the dignity of any term other than global genocide.
I will not give the practice the dignity of any term other than global genocide.
It's also quite parallel to Anan Seven's viewpoint.
Exactly. Willingly walking into a disintegration chamber is not 'genocide' either.*
It's simply the wrong word for being willing to commit suicide for the good of your society.
*(We only see adults at the chambers. Are children exempt then? They wouldn't be in a real war...)
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