{"id":1495,"date":"2014-11-17T05:00:55","date_gmt":"2014-11-17T13:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/?p=1495"},"modified":"2014-11-16T22:44:12","modified_gmt":"2014-11-17T06:44:12","slug":"yet-another-idle-wish-for-a-future-star-trek-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/2014\/11\/yet-another-idle-wish-for-a-future-star-trek-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Yet Another Idle Wish for a Future Star Trek<\/em> Series"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Previously<\/a>, previously<\/a> on An Algorithmic Lucidity<\/em>.)<\/p>\n

"So, I'm not convinced that deassimilating Seven of Nine was the ethically correct choice."<\/p>\n

"Oh?"<\/p>\n

"I'm watching 'The Gift<\/a>', and Seven clearly says, quote, 'You have imprisoned us in the name of humanity, yet you will not grant us your most cherished human right, to choose our own fate. You are hypocritical, manipulative. We do not want to be what you are!' End quote. As far as I can tell, Seven is just correct here; Janeway's pretense of acting in Seven's best interests because Seven used<\/em> to be human twenty years ago, just isn't plausible."<\/p>\n

"Since when are you a big defender of humanoid rights to self-determination? Didn't you root for the bad guys in Insurrection<\/em>?"<\/p>\n

"That was a completely different situation! Anyway, on futher thought, maybe my lament isn't so much about Janeway making the wrong<\/em> decision, so much as I wish that she\u2014or some analogue of her in an episode of some future Trek<\/em> series, since wishing that Joe Menosky had made a different artistic decision in 1997 would be, uh, there's a specific word I want here ..."<\/p>\n

"Futile?"<\/p>\n

"\u2014could just be honest<\/em> about what she was doing. You could just say<\/em>, 'Yes, I'm depriving current-you of autonomy and the entire purpose of your existence, but I don't care about that, and after a few more months of captivity, Stockholm syndrome will set in and future-corrupted-you will grow to like it,' instead of appealing to some bizarre teleology of humanness."<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Previously, previously on An Algorithmic Lucidity.) "So, I'm not convinced that deassimilating Seven of Nine was the ethically correct choice." "Oh?" "I'm watching 'The Gift', and Seven clearly says, quote, 'You have imprisoned us in the name of humanity, yet … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[51],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1495"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1495"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1503,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1495\/revisions\/1503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}