TNG s6e7 “Rascals”

  • Newsteinleo@infosec.pub
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    6 hours ago

    Here’s my question, why was the malfunction not replicated and monitized by the Ferangi as a beauty produced? “Look 10 years younger because you will be 10 years younger”

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      Or when they de aged Pulaski to her “proper” age, they could have just gone a few years younger.

      Or when they are aged the people in this episode, maybe only age them into their early 20s.

      The transporters open up all sorts of scenarios that they clearly show as possible, but no one ever uses it that way on purpose somehow…

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        It’s been a while since I saw that episode but weren’t they only able to do that because they had her most recent pattern stored in the buffer or something like that?

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        I like to believe there are strict ethical laws in far future that are actually enforced, and built into the hardware. Like maybe an ethical local AI

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          I like to believe there are strict ethical laws in far future that are actually enforced, and built into the hardware.

          Presumably only powerful people and Section 31 are allowed to use transporters to stay eternally young…heh.

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          But like everyone has the technology. I’m highly skeptical Ferengi would stand in the way of de-aging out of an ethical concern.