That is the point of drugs, yes.
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Hey ensign, ever started in a snuff film with a romulan spy?
"Why are you asking me, your mom's literally a doctor!"
True, but Yar has more data to work with...
I always heard this growing up (though phrased as "but now you get high to feel normal"), and then when I tried weed for the first time I felt normal for once. It shut the constant noise in my mind off, allowing me to think. It melted away my anxiety. I didn't just feel good. I felt like the veil was lifted and I was seeing clearly for the first time in my life.
I do not get high to "feel good" outside of the fact that feeling normal and functional is a good feeling.
Whenever I try to explain people this - that it addresses and remediates an issue that I was BORN with and have suffered from every day of my life since living memory - they simply default to "yeah, you're an addict".
Sure fam, like your diabetic uncle is addicted to insulin. Guess we both just need to man up huh?
I really liked this episode. Next gen was always my favourite series, it always presented calamities and tragedies as problems to be solved.
It conveyed the analysis in a level headed way that removed (attempted really would be the right word) either blame or bias towards either party involved, something depicted as necessary to consider the right or appropriate tools for the situation.
It always got me through my toughest times, and yes I should read more XD
Given that stance, I can only hope that you've watched The Orville. It stands as the spiritual successor to TNG. Gotta trudge through the 1st season, for the sake of getting FOX Entertainment hooked on the line.
Thereafter, they managed to tell the sort of contemporaneous stories that otherwise qualify for TNG in its time.
Might have to watch it. FWIW comparing series, Strange New Worlds straddles the fence between ToS and TNG. It’s got the morality battles of TNG and the absurdity of some ToS episodes. Only issue is the Emotional Spock. Don’t know why these writers and directors have to fuck with Spock all the time.
You really only have to trudge through the first episode, the rest of the series feels different. Every season has a few groaners depending on your preferences, but those are isolated instances.
I tried the first episode and immediately wrote the show off. Now you've got me thinking I might give it another go.
In my estimation, its biggest fans, often (but not always) folks who are also Discovery's loudest detractors, overpraise it. It was made by a TNG superfan to let him be a TNG captain acting out TNG scripts with TNG production values and TNG acting, and -- for good or ill -- with his particular sensibilities about what makes doing so fun. It definitely gets much better than the first couple of episodes, once they'd successfully tricked Fox into thinking it was a full-on Galaxy Quest spoof, and overall I enjoy it, but it has its issues.
TNG also taught me the value of objectivity
I grew up on TNG but I was not old enough to understand it (I was 5 when I saw First Contact). As I rewatch season 1, I notice things that are heartwarming like Deanna having a conversation about confidence with Geordi or Data’s instant infatuation with Sherlock Holmes.
It was a wholesome show. That's it. That's the whole secret. It's incredibly sad how rare this has become.
"What's up, doc, is your life, if you don't cut it out!"
My dumb ass thought she was referring to being pegged by Data at first.
I made an edit that would be a direct response to this, but is lost to time (and me having a mental breakdown a few months ago). Speaking of which, @ummmthatguy@lemmy.world we need to get back in touch for methods for me to recover all of that.