Legacy

The Enterprise is on a rescue mission. Two Starfleet officers have ended up on Turkana IV – failed Earth colony and birthplace of former Enterprise security chief Tasha Yar. Imagine their surprise when they meet someone who claims to be Tasha’s sister. But is she really? And even if she is, can she be trusted? Warring factions! Familial ties! An android that may or may not have feelings! Join the away team when we put Legacy in the Mission Log. Still listening to your podcast, so I will change this if you address this issue, but… They returned Ishara to the planet without her implant. Isn’t that giving one side a BIG strategic advantage?? Hello, Prime Directive calling. This felt like a watchable episode, although at no point did I think Ishara was one of the good guys. There was no suspense at all there, and no surprise when we saw her true intentions. Anyhoo… lol, yup they went there… I was listening early am, tidying house from daily toddler hurricane…I think, again, the persistent take away, is that Rodenberry’s vision is great and something to aspire for, but is pretty unlikely. Getting to a technological point to make hunger, war, and disease pretty rare on Earth is mayyyyybe attainable, kinda like how the Swiss, Austrians, Swedish, have pretty nice societies, w/o massive shootouts in ghetto or random home invasions, but that is because of a particular set of rules and confined space. Like hometown USA or suburbia can be pretty nice…but once you go beyond those confines…things can go sideways pretty fast. Is there enough resources in the Federation to feed the starving kids in Cardassia or on Bajor or anywhere…? nah, it’s just not likely. The scarcity of resources and conflicting beliefs will always lead to conflict. Who knows what the Coalition and Alliance were fighting for? Coulda been a transmitter or the assassination of a leader or the succession of leadership, it’s just humanity in a nutshell imo. If they were wanting to do a gang violence thing , which would have been pretty appropriate considering the year, 1990, they should have had younger fighters, who just fought for the sake of fighting. Having adults, made it seem a bit silly. For goodness sake, did they let the stranded crew even say one word? ugh, royalties…. Yes, very true. I am pretty sure Rodenberry would not have liked how DS9 developed, but it’s the harsh reality of life. People fight. I think the Ishara advantage would be minimal. She is still just one person. Not clear if they had transporter technology or not, but still one shot and she is toast. Now if they had medical types that would have been able to repeat what Crusher did to the chip, that would have been interesting, but probably good. Let them fight, die, evolve…. Crusher does outrank Worf… and everyone else save Picard. She holds equal rank as Riker, but has seniority. Riker is the XO, but Crusher’s position pretty much puts her outside of that line of command. The only decent think about this episode Beth Tousant is nice to look at and te comedy that is Data saying I don’t have a magical qualities, but I do have those things described in mechanistic ways which is likely how they work in everyone… because there isn’t really a way for them to not work in that way… but I want the magical qualities that are indistinguishable. It’s kinda like the Free will arguments. To describe freewill is to describe how just the regular old workings of the making a choice based upon data and this holds for determinism or “free will” they’re indistinguishable from each other, so it’s a pretty stupid argument. The only thing that could even possibly said beyond this in such arguments is that you’re not asking about the ability to choose from data, but rather the ability to not have any limits imposed on you in any way… for example the ability to magically jump from point A to Point B or to travel backwards in time any other number of things that are not logical such as having the choice to exist or n