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Just noticing something: people complain how current media destroys former characters so we can have new characters replacing them, often minority characters: Luke Skywalker, Indi, Doctor Who, etc.

But TNG did right with Sarek.

Sarek wasn't a "main" character, I know, but he was a legacy character from the original show. And his final fate, albeit sad, it's in fact a very realistic take of something that can happen to anyone once they hit old age.

They didn't make fun of him, they didn't make him do goofy stuff. He isn't either an asshole, but rather someone who has lost something important of his identity and it's not his fault. This is exactly what happens to people with senility, Alzheimer, and similar conditions. Everybody wants to help him out of plain respect.

And Picard doesn't "replace" him, he helps him so he still can present himself as the man who he used to be.

This is how you say goodbye to a character hitting an age when they can't go in adventures anymore. When Sarek died, he was with a loving wife, he completed his last mission (and nobody outside the main crew of the ENT noticed something was wrong), and his son finally could know how much he loved him. Despite the tragic nature of his illness, he did well.
 
Drag-on Knight 91873 said:
When you think about it, it is rather obsessive of Sisko to be personally offended at 1960s America:

1. Skin color is not a meaningful distinction in a society of Antedians, Bolians, Tellarites, Andorians, Vulcans, and everyone else in the Federation.
2. His personal culture growing up is in New Orleans, and sure, there are Black people there, but they really like to consider themselves some variation of French. The food he ate growing up was Cajun after all.
3. His African items are from some place in Africa (I don't spend time studying these cultures), not the Antebellum American South, meaning his personal interest is in those cultures and their aesthetic tastes, which is not similar to American Slave culture.
4. We've already established that Negress is an archaic term in 400 years.

So, Sisko being offended at this particular era of American history is like Critical Drinker getting offended at the English for their treatment of William Wallace. Remember that in the future, people have a hard time telling the difference between Canadians and Americans, so studying American history that didn't lead up to WWIII is rather niche.
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Sisko's irrational nigger behavior is a result of the Profit (or maybe Pah-Wraith I forget) vision where he gets oppressed by cartoonishly evil racists and the character that looks like his son gets shot by a white cop while he dindu nuffin was stealing a car.

To be fair, he does get over it and all the other characters correctly act like he's being crazy for caring about racism. Quite based.
 
UnKillShredDur said:
The Bajoran Occupation was a hoax.
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ToroidalBoat said:
Why doesn't the Enterprise D have some safety feature to beam antimatter into space if there's an imminent containment failure?

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There is a mechanism to dump antimatter out of the ship if containment is failing. It was the failure of those systems that destroyed the Yamato in Contagion.

I don't know why they didn't mention it afterwards. They just "dump the core" every chance they get, instead, which seems a bit silly to me. It'd be like throwing your engine block out because the fuel tank is on fire.
 
teriyakiburns said:
There is a mechanism to dump antimatter out of the ship if containment is failing. It was the failure of those systems that destroyed the Yamato in Contagion.

I don't know why they didn't mention it afterwards. They just "dump the core" every chance they get, instead, which seems a bit silly to me. It'd be like throwing your engine block out because the fuel tank is on fire.
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Could be a retrofit. "Oh, automating the core ejection system doesn't work when malware is in the computer, so we need a mechanical solution instead."
 
ToroidalBoat said:
Why doesn't the Enterprise D have some safety feature to beam antimatter into space if there's an imminent containment failure?

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Any science fiction show about a spaceship, even when the science is as soft as Star Trek, needs some sort of thing that goes wrong causing an emergency.
In TOS, it was dilithium crystals. In TNG, it's the warp core, which I guess is supposed to be an improvement.
 
ToroidalBoat said:
Why doesn't the Enterprise D have some safety feature to beam antimatter into space if there's an imminent containment failure?

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I vaguely recall antimatter having lots of issues with casually being moved around. I assumed it would be like "why don't they just have somebody reach in and pull out the fissile material" to solve meltdowns?
Like, an antimatter core blowing up already can rip a hole in spacetime, if you transporter it AND it blows up it'll probably blow up that transporter dimension where the leech monsters attacked Broccoli
 
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