So long as people are starving under the system while others have yachts, the system is unethical, and thus following its rules – insofar as they perpetuate this inequity – is unethical.

Theft from the wealthy is morally right, period.

I’m rewatching it now, and there’s a lot less of that decon chamber cheese than I remembered.

Nope, it’s canonical that Trip had nipples on his arm.

The design influence goes in the other direction.

I’m going to say yes. The Kelvin-verse 1701, on the other hand…

Morls must suffer

It’s wild that you weren’t thinking of that when you made the satyr pic. Must’ve been in the back of your mind somewhere.

That would seem to be a pretty big leap out of character for Mariner. She only acts like she doesn’t have boundaries, but she actually sets pretty rigid limits on where she’s willing to go with people she considers close friends.

I have this headcanon now that Boimler met his purple universe self once, and that’s why he started dying his hair.

Wait a minute now, is he actively dying his beard as it grows in? That’s pretty weird, isn’t it? Did he lie in his own personal log about dying his hair, or does the hair dying occur at a follicular level?

Reading these posts of yours is my favorite thing to do immediately after every new episode. Entertaining and informative as ever.

I was surprised that there was no reference to Boimler’s hair color in this episode. It has been such a non-issue that I almost wonder if there’s something in the show bible about conspicuously never mentioning it, beyond a single throwaway admission in Boimler’s personal log about dying it (LD s3e01).

It could have been fun if there was some weird connection to the purple dimension, especially with how his facial hair has been a running subplot this season. Maybe his bearded alternate self wasn’t the first alt-Boimler he imprinted on and decided to model himself after?

It’s a matter of quality of life. If someone without conventional hearing can have the same quality of life through other means, then there is no need to “fix” them, unless that’s what they want.

Obviously debilitating illnesses and pain are still dealt with, but stuff like missing limbs or other traits that we might call handicaps are not the same impediment in the future as they are to us, because there are so many possible paths for every individual to choose, and many of those might even be better suited to someone with a unique physiology.

The point about accomodation is the key here.

If being born without functioning legs isn’t actually an impediment or challenge because society makes allowances for people without legs, then it’s no longer a handicap!

If a blind person has options beyond merely having their sight “restored” to that of the baseline “normal”, then they have options that might open up paths that regularly sighted people don’t have, in which case their unique trait of being blind becomes an asset.

There’s the secret to the utopia Star Trek positsv not that we try to “cute” everyone born different, but that we instead create opportunities for them to thrive as they are. In the future of Star Trek, the word “disability” is probably alien to them. Rather, they would describe someone in our time with such challenges as “disenfranchised” because we don’t offer them opportunities.

I’m old school. I felt it happen with Bush v Gore.

Now please turn to song 146 in your hymnals, The Cat Cameth Back.

No, I think it’s because they want to hug the mountain, to envelop…that mountain.

https://youtu.be/QNoQ8emo8Tg?si=HCSoM7Smf5NtBoSm

Can it also mean we are safe from memes about it?

I think that’s just because most people are right-handed, so they hold the baby with their left to free up their good hand.