The Picard Maneuver@startrek.website to A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world · 11 months agoWell, it looks like verification photos might be useless now.startrek.websiteimagemessage-square155fedilinkarrow-up1967arrow-down170cross-posted to: stable_diffusion@lemmy.dbzer0.com
arrow-up1897arrow-down1imageWell, it looks like verification photos might be useless now.startrek.websiteThe Picard Maneuver@startrek.website to A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world · 11 months agomessage-square155fedilinkcross-posted to: stable_diffusion@lemmy.dbzer0.com
minus-squareHiddenLayer5linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up82·edit-211 months agoAt some point the only way to verify someone will be to do what the Klingons did to rule out changelings: Cut them and see if they bleed.
minus-squarechemical_cutthroat@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up20·11 months agoDon’t worry, companies like 23andMe and Ancestry have been banking DNA records, so mimicking blood won’t be too hard, either.
minus-squareUriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up4·11 months agoThe Thing migrated to Star Trek?
minus-squareryper@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·11 months agoI think that stopped working as of Picard season 3.
minus-squareHiddenLayer5linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·11 months agoWait really? Haven’t seen Picard, what happened?
minus-squareSpaceCowboy@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up3·11 months agoTwo seasons of stupid garbage followed by Season 3 which just ignored the garbage and made things right.
minus-squareHiddenLayer5linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 months agoSo they’ve gotten better at mimicking other life forms? Is that the canonical reason in the show or is Picard just going against established lore?
minus-squareCaptPretentious@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·11 months agoI only watched a little of Picard before I gave up. But if I had to guess, it’s that the writers never watched any Star Trek, so they get a lot wrong.
minus-squareSpaceCowboy@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1·11 months agoYeah but isn’t it just the changelings that Starfleet did all the fucked up experiments on that bleed?
minus-squareEngineerGaming@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·11 months agoYe, good thing I already have spychecking as a persistent habit!
minus-squareUriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·11 months agoPyro has entered the chat.
At some point the only way to verify someone will be to do what the Klingons did to rule out changelings: Cut them and see if they bleed.
Don’t worry, companies like 23andMe and Ancestry have been banking DNA records, so mimicking blood won’t be too hard, either.
The Thing migrated to Star Trek?
I think that stopped working as of Picard season 3.
Wait really? Haven’t seen Picard, what happened?
Two seasons of stupid garbage followed by Season 3 which just ignored the garbage and made things right.
Well, changelings bleed for example
So they’ve gotten better at mimicking other life forms? Is that the canonical reason in the show or is Picard just going against established lore?
I only watched a little of Picard before I gave up. But if I had to guess, it’s that the writers never watched any Star Trek, so they get a lot wrong.
Yeah but isn’t it just the changelings that Starfleet did all the fucked up experiments on that bleed?
Ye, good thing I already have spychecking as a persistent habit!
Pyro has entered the chat.