Where are you getting that from? There is no evidence that Zora thought they were about to be tortured.
Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Discovery | 5x10 "Life, Itself"
e_t_@kbin.pithyphrase.net 4 weeks ago
To just intentionally abandon a sentient ship in the void for an unknowable amount of time is incredibly cruel. Solitary confinement is torture.
Corgana@startrek.website 3 weeks ago
ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 4 weeks ago
I think that makes certain assumptions about how Zora engages work the world, which may or may not be correct. I’d really like to rewatch “Calypso” as it’s been ages, but Paramount+ seems to have…misplaced the Short Treks in my country.
e_t_@kbin.pithyphrase.net 4 weeks ago
The whole reason they came to the future was that Discovery's computer couldn't be disabled or removed after merging with the Sphere data and becoming Zora. So (she?) is always online and conscious. She spent almost a thousand years alone before Craft's arrival. At the time, I could have accepted some disaster that forced the crew to evacuate (or killed them all) and Discovery became lost, with a final order to hold position. But for Starfleet to intentionally put the ship (from which Zora cannot be separated) in deep space and abandon it, I cannot interpret as anything except cruelty.
ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 4 weeks ago
Whoops, fixed a typo in my comment.
What I’m trying to say is, I don’t think it can be called cruelty if Zora, in her capacity as an artificial intelligence, doesn’t mind. It may not be accurate to assume she will react in the way a human would.
e_t_@kbin.pithyphrase.net 4 weeks ago
Clearly, adherence to duty is important to Zora. She was ordered to remain in position and so she did. Nothing indicates that she didn't mind, only that her sense of duty outweighed whatever her feelings were. I read her interactions with Craft as belying incredible loneliness.
FormerGameDev@midwest.social 4 weeks ago
I couldn’t locate this specific one on Amazon or Paramount, but fortunately i had a local copy :D