Stephen Smith 🇺🇦
I am a long-time advocate of space exploration, settlement and commerce. Migrated from @WordsmithFL on Twitter.
Joined Nov 2022
Stephen Smith 🇺🇦
boosted
I'll believe it when I see it, but this Des Moines Register poll now has #HarrisWalz2024 ahead of #Trump by three points in #Iowa.
H/T @DevinY1
@MLClark You are suffering from technical difficulties. I had an available window so I slipped it in.
Apparently Menosky and Braga differed over the ending. Menosky had Janeway stay (asleep) with EMH while he read the poetry. Braga rewrote Menosky, had Janeway leave to go to a sickbed, then he picks up the poetry book.
I saw EMH letting her leave as a first sign that he was coming out of it, he was concerned about her well-being. Either ending works.
@MLClark We've been down this road before in other episodes, e.g. "Measure of a Man," but offhand I can't think of an episode where Spock or Data or similar basically got caught in a logic loop.
I'm sure the answer is to tweak his programming so he doesn't care that he let this one crew member die, but that would cheat the core of the story.
And let's overlook that we never saw Jatel at any point in this series. But as we know, they make it up as they go. (7/7)
Fin.
@MLClark Janeway orders EMH to have 24/7 company, including herself, while he sorts it out.
(EMH says the universe is 20 billion years old; actually it's 13.7 billion; but who knows what was the thinking in 1998.)
In the end, it's not resolved. Janeway leaves him a poetry book with the message, essentially, take one day at a time.
A pretty good episode, especially since it wasn't resolved ... (6/x)
@MLClark In any case, Janeway decides to tell EMH what happened. Jatel and Harry were injured by an alien attack on an away mission with the EMH. (Again, the alien and the unfamiliar are the threat ...) EMH had time to save only one during surgery; he chose Harry (because guest star Nancy Bell has a one-episode contract).
The decision caused his prorgamming to degrade. Janeway's revelation causes the degradation again; she orders he be deactivated. (5/x)
@MLClark Seven argues that EMH's individuality is being violated. Janeway orders coffee, so it must be serious. She explains that the incident 18 months ago almost led the EMH to self-destruct. Seven argues it was his choice. "You're a human being. He's a hologram," Janeway counters. Seven says she was mistaken to have viewed Janeway as a role model.
Janeway should have made the point that EMH is a valued crew member, that protecting the crew's medical officer is more important. (4/x)
@MLClark Janeway orders EMH to shut himself down to prevent further tampering. (Methinks she's in on it.)
EMH sets up the holoimager to take pictures of anyone who enters the room while he's shut down. Sure enough, he catches Janeway trying to alter his programming.
Janeway explains she had to do it to save him, but EMH feels violated. She won't tell him what happened. She says he's "malfunctioning" and orders him back to sickbay.
Seven confronts Janeway ... (3/x)
@MLClark EMH asks Seven to run a diagnostic on him. When she arrives in Sickbay, EMH has no memory of the request. Harry's scan has been deleted, and EMH's programming has been altered. So have his holoimages from 18 months before.
Seven manages to restore five images. They show a female ensign named Jetal that neither he or Seven recall. (This was before Seven's arrival.) Seven manages to restore some random memories; EMH recalls her dying on an away mission. (2/x)
@MLClark #StarTrek VOY S5E11 "Latent Image." Comments as we go. A vodka shot has been poured for life support.
Scarlett Pomers ("Naomi Wildman") does a nice job as a child actor delivering subtlety in a humorous scene with the EMH.
EMH taking holoimages of the crew for a medical database. Not a bad idea. He finds surgical scars on the back of Harry's neck (maybe EMH removed his rank pips), but neither of them remember it.
Hello, pretty ship ... (1/x)
#CoSoWriters I've posted a new article on my blog, "The Written Trek," about the first #StarTrek pilot episode, "The Cage." Lots of research went into this one. Hopefully you'll find some insights into arguably the most famous TV pilot in history.
www.thewrittentrek.com
"... canvassing insiders acknowledge that some level of fraud by canvassers takes place on virtually any effort in both parties."
We ran into this problem with a local recall back in 1995. Professional signature gatherers get paid by the signature, so they have the incentive to cheat. Although we turned in enough signatures, about 25%-30% of them turned out to be bogus.
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-10-29-me-62639-story.html
From #NBCNews: Elon Musk's America PAC has backfired on him, as his "door-to-door" canvassers are not really knocking on doors, just faking canvas cards and submitting them so they get paid.
Once upon a time, I wrote free-lance for a UK magazine called #StarTrek Monthly. In June 1999, they published my article, "What is a Star Trek Story?" (They renamed it, "Amazing Stories.") I interviewed four Trek writers -- David Gerrold, Judy Burns, Ron Moore, and Brannon Braga.
This was 25 years ago, so it's interesting to look back at the Trek state-of-the-art at the time.
The PDF is at the link.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zADZm2zLogDg9g88PBvShSkQ66r4ke-d/view
@Coctaanatis I suspect the #Trump children aren't far behind.
Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin endorsed #Trump, which is weird, since Aldrin was one of the few astronauts back in 2010 who backed #Obama 's NewSpace plans to reform the agency. (So did Elon Musk.)
But Obama's NASA administrator Charlie Bolden has endorsed #HarrisWalz2024. So has former Teacher in Space Barbara Morgan.
Stephen Smith 🇺🇦
I am a long-time advocate of space exploration, settlement and commerce. Migrated from @WordsmithFL on Twitter.
Joined Nov 2022