Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x08 “The Life of the Stars”

• ValueSubtracted@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I would find some sort of magical “mental health technology” not only unrealistic, but rather insulting.

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  • minorkeys@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Why?

    That’s the perfect scenario for science-fiction. It’s theoretically possible to do so, trauma has a physiological footprint, it manifests in physical reality that can be altered by technologies. It’s entirely plausible for some effects of trauma to be healed medically instead of solely through something like talk therapy, or in this case, theatre therapy.

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    • ValueSubtracted@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      That’s the perfect scenario for science-fiction.

      I don’t agree at all - it sounds rather soulless to me, stripping the humanity from the story.

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      • minorkeys@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        That’s a pretty common part of science fiction, particularly cyberpunk, though. What does it mean to be human in a world of advanced technology? Data from TNG was this very question, that character existed to explore what it meant to be human and confront the realities of our relationship to technology. This hologram character could have been similar. If little to no part of the story is the relationship between human beings, technology, and scientific knowledge, it isn’t science -fiction.

        I think that’s the crux of the hate for this series and discovery, of this Kurtzman era of trek. It’s isn’t science-fiction at all, it’s drama set in a techno-fantasy world. Those are two very different things and neither is Star Trek.

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