ummthatguy@lemmy.worldM to TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoSacrificing a child to power it all would just be giving it awaylemmy.worldimagemessage-square60linkfedilinkarrow-up1165arrow-down15file-text
arrow-up1160arrow-down1imageSacrificing a child to power it all would just be giving it awaylemmy.worldummthatguy@lemmy.worldM to TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square60linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareummthatguy@lemmy.worldOPMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·2 months agoJust the visual of the orange lines connecting from the platforms to the machine. Other than that, we have to extrapolate from the dialogue: The machine needs the neural network of a child to function. Our founders designed it that way. We don’t know why.
minus-squareCatoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·2 months agoPresumably because they read The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas!
minus-squarekieron115@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 months ago why would you re-traumatize me like this
minus-squareummthatguy@lemmy.worldOPMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 months agoThat does appear to be much more than coincidence. Strange that it never came up for me in school aside from the usual dystopian readings (1984, The Giver, Island, Fahrenheit 451, etc.).
Just the visual of the orange lines connecting from the platforms to the machine. Other than that, we have to extrapolate from the dialogue:
Presumably because they read The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas!
why would you re-traumatize me like this
That does appear to be much more than coincidence. Strange that it never came up for me in school aside from the usual dystopian readings (1984, The Giver, Island, Fahrenheit 451, etc.).