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"Your Honour, Starfleet was founded to seek out new life. Well, there it sits. Waiting." - Picard
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TNG s2e9 "The Measue of a Man"
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That episode annoyed the shit out of me.
First off the entire premise of a court martial or hearing is freaking stupid.
The admiral forcing Riker to "prosecute" Data is stupid.
The idea that Starfleet (or the federation) doesn't already have some list of qualifications for sentience or sapience or whatever term you want to use to say 'they're like us'; is patently stupid. And we'll add to it that an Admiral whose job it is to weigh in on these matters, wouldn't have checked if such a test existed, is even more so.
The only realistic thing in this episode is some exploitive asshole shopping around for an incompetent (or bribable?) judge.
but what bugs me most of all? when Riker makes the "So he can be turned off," argument, Picard didn't immediately whip out a phaser and say, "yeah. So can you. " and then have Crusher bring him back just to make a point.
Another nit about Riker's argument: at one point he detaches Data's arm to demonstrate that he's a machine. Four years later Riker's arm was amputated and reattached by the subspace aliens in Schisms.
You could consider that karma.
well, I'd settle for that bit where Riker takes his arm off, "I'd like to call Riker to the stand, please", and then a curt gesture to Worf, armed with a batleth.
(if you're getting the sense that I don't like Riker... there's a reason for that. )
Look, just because the affair didn't turn out well doesn't mean you should have bad feelings towards Riker. Will has to do what Will has to do and there are just so many life forms out there that he has yet to fuck.