• @Stamets
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    • CarlsIII
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      278 months ago

      I think this is a rare case where “it was all a dream” is fine

    • Melllvar
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      168 months ago

      My headcanon is that Q shifted Picard to an alternate quantum reality. Like what happened to Worf that one time.

    • @CileTheSane@lemmy.ca
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      138 months ago

      Q has made little pocket realities before that don’t seem to affect the rest of the universe.

  • @lugal@lemmy.ml
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    418 months ago

    We need a Lower Decks style series about this ensign Picard. Lower Decks style as in it’s not about the captain but the lower decks

    • @merc@sh.itjust.works
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      178 months ago

      I just want to see how happy and relaxed Ensign Picard is. No critical decisions to make. Able to make friends among the crew without his rank getting in the way.

      We get to see Captain Picard in Ensign Picard’s body, but we never get to see the slacker who has big dreams but doesn’t bother to push himself.

      • @lugal@lemmy.ml
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        228 months ago

        What we don’t see in the episode is that Q does the same thing to ensign Picard and he is like: “This sad and lonely fellow would be me if I sacrificed everything for my career?”

      • @Sharkwellington@lemmy.one
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        108 months ago

        Makes me think of the plot from The Office when Michael had a telemarketing job and seemed so much happier when he was one of the underlings instead of the guy at the top.

        • @ReplicatedSoda
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          38 months ago

          I’ve been in that position before. From manager to agent, and back to manager.

          It was a blast, I had so much fun.
          It got boring pretty quick though.

    • @mostNONheinous@lemmy.world
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      198 months ago

      It reads like a Chief O’Brien at Work strip. Except he wouldn’t say “hey what the fuck” because he would just be so sad he couldn’t speak.

  • @TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee
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    238 months ago

    Holy shit, was this a real episode? Anyone got the Season Episode and Title handy? I know at least a few of you nerds do

      • @CitizenKong@lemmy.world
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        48 months ago

        Well, poor guy/girl is probably from a reality where Kurt Russell did play the lead in Vanilla Sky and is now having an identity crisis.

    • @Rodeo@lemmy.ca
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      18 months ago

      All other people are NPCs from the perspective of one person. That’s what “non-player character” means.

      You’re the player in your own mind, aren’t you? That makes the rest of us NPCs.

      I just don’t see how someone else’s perspective of my autonomy should cause such a crisis in me.

        • @Rodeo@lemmy.ca
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          18 months ago

          I mean a cursory glance at your own life ought to show you that you do in fact have a life outside of the experiences of some arbitrary person. If you were told you are an NPC, does your lifetime of personal experiences simply vanish?

          Even if you were shown proof that you’re a simulation, can you really just let go of your entire existence like that?

          I think denial would be a far more common reaction than existential crisis.

  • Bappity
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    118 months ago

    mfw a version of me from an alternate universe possesses my body and begs an omnipotent god to let him out