I totally enjoyed this episode but I think, for the purpose of asking a question that represents a very big mystery today, we project that same level of mystery & ignorance into a fictional future. Speaking of which: “Data endangers Picard to save machine!” I think Exocomps wrote this week’s log line. We gotta scoot, places to be next week! Hey, please remember not to lobotomize your robo-gerbils, yeah? And yet we not only overcome it, but we hand her robo-gerbils back to her – the ones she planned to lobotomize – at the end of the show. Not saying that Farallon can’t see the error of her ways or can’t be redeemed, but there seems to be a credibility gap that’s hard to overcome now. ![]() What separates those two characters? One heinously destructive act, and probably some PTSD. ![]() But then let’s rewind to the scientist who destroyed the Crystalline Entity: she also arrived at her conclusion (the thing’s gotta die!) without paying attention to any of the steps along the way (hey, it’s alive and we can communicate with it!). ![]() With regard to Farallon’s fixation on the conclusion she wants to be able to reach without having to do all the pesky leg work in backing that up with cold hard numbers, it seems like there’s a question this episode never bothers to ask: does she have any credibility as a scientist or engineer once this has been revealed about her? Indeed, by leaving her where she is, Exocomps in hand, it’s almost as if the episode is saying that’s not important. I think we’re forgetting the overarching technophobic/don’t-mess-with-nature message that cropped up so often in MST3K: “He tampered in God’s domain.” (Probably by redirecting it to a different name server.)
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