Comment on DS9 S2 "Second Sight"
lemillionsocks@beehaw.org 10 months agoYeah, I don’t think that I enjoyed any shoehorned romance with Picard especially…
I didnt mind inner light but I guess since that involved him living an entire life in this kinda simulation thing that it wasnt quite shoehorned.
the_sisko@startrek.website 10 months ago
That was a great episode actually, my only complaint was that he didn’t seem to require serious therapy afterwards.
Same with O’Brien’s mental imprisonment episode, though at least they tried to show the psychological damage there. He just managed to get over it at the end of the episode 🫠
lemillionsocks@beehaw.org 10 months ago
My headcanon regarding the federations seemingly impossibly rosey outlook on psychological trauma is that they genuinely have good mental health treatments. That we have the ship’s counselor as a member of bridge crew in TNG is indicative of how important and useful they are.
Between that and psychics existing, the federation is pretty good at dealing with trauma at least in a way that keeps things functional.
In the case of inner light however I suspect the device was designed to have a dreamlike quality to it since it wouldnt be helpful for your knowledge spreading device to cause trauma to whoever it comes into contact with. You remember the important bits and major pieces of historical information but a lot of it kinda fades as just a dream.