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Is Michael Burnham a Horcrux?

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I don't believe that katra has ever been the same as a neoplatonic idea of soul, though it can be seen as something equivalent. The Katra seems more like a "last good backup" of a Vulcan's memories and personality. It can work imperfectly in another sentient body, it can be transferred to certain storage media.

While Katra do appear to be stored from at least some exceptional members of Vulcan society, they don't seem to make a point of storing everyone's Katra or if they do, the process is more recent to the TOS era and beyond, as it was certainly not that common during the Vulcan High Command era.

So, no, I don't think she's a horcrux.
So the katric ark is basically the last “system restore” point?

And the Fal Tor Pan is basically just going into control panel and conducting a system restore?

Star Trek III: the search for the boot disk

OMG! WE'RE the MU!
We are, yes.
 
Perhaps the real reason for Vulcan's purging of emotions is a lack of storage space and throughput
So... when Spock got to the end of the Kholinar, the Vulcan lady basically said “Spock, you have performed an illegal operation and will be shut down. If the problem persists, please contact the programme vendor”.
 
Thus, Harry Potter and Star Trek exist in the same universe.

Think about this for a second: have any Trek characters ever referenced the Harry Potter series on screen? Nope. So Potter and Trek are on the same dimensional plane of existence.

We know magic exists in the Star Trek universe from that TAS episode where Satan showed up and taught the crew how to do magic. Not science indistinguishable from magic (a la Catspaw), but real magic spells and abilities.
 
I'm just glad a horcrux turned out to be some magical thing I never heard about instead of a new sexist slur invented on the internet that I haven't heard about.

Jason
 
I thought Horcrux was a Pokemon, then I looked up who I was thinking about. Burnham is indeed NOT a Heracross. :guffaw:

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I don't mind "magic", if you're doing something interesting with it. I loved the idea of the Spore Drive, thought the execution was absolutely dull and unimaginative.
The saucer section spins around and around, the ship rolls over a few time, and then the whole thing goes zipping upward.

How can you call that "dull and unimaginative?"
 
Major spoiler for Harry Potter:
A horcrux is an object, animal or person which has a piece of a wizard's soul in it. So long as the horcrux exists, the wizard cannot die.

It's ok. The likelihood of me watching a Harry Potter movie is about the same as me landing on the moon covered in Parmesan cheese and being worshiped by Vulcan love slaves.
 
The Katra seems more like a "last good backup" of a Vulcan's memories and personality. It can work imperfectly in another sentient body, it can be transferred to certain storage media.

This just made me think of Walter Bishop, desparately trying to back up the soul of William Bell (Nimoy) to an old computer drive of some sort, from the vessel it was inhabiting..... on the show Fringe. Man, did I have some crazy mashup theories years back combining X Files, Fringe and Heroes.... :D
 
They had the summer off.

Had Voldemort simply attacked during the summer holidays, the world would have been his. Then again no one acts with any real intelligence in the books so that's not surprising.

That or Dumbledores most ingenious plan was to make sure all the wizarding hotels offered the best deals so they all cleared off out of the country on a booze cruise or something.
 
I now think Dumbledore needs to make an appearance on Discovery... for reasons like "Just because!" :evil:

I'd say Snape too, but Alan Rickman's shoes are hard to fill.
 
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