TNG s6e7 “Rascals”
“We haven’t lost everything Miles, you can still work engineering miracles, and I can still criticize you for not being home often enough.”
Wait … can they still fuck? Or is it problematic now? How old is she? Are mental age and physical age the same thing in this scenario? Does she still have her memories?
Woody Allen really needs these questions answered guys.
She is one of several characters with who the infamous 4000yo-dragon defense can actually work.
Anime Character: “I’m just a little baby girl.”
ProZD: “Zero [years old]?!”
Anime Character: “I’m a thousand!”
ProZD: “NOPE.”
Trying to answer this seriously, I’d say no. This is like, a Princess Bubblegum de-aging situation. She has her memories, but her brain and personality is now that of a kid. As opposed to like, Claudia in Interview with the Vampire who is an immortal child that wanted to be treated as the 70 year old woman she was.
But even in the Claudia instance I’d say no because it’s still just too gross. There’s just no getting past the body age thing. I guess I’d say Claudia could probably have a legal right to seek adult experiences (though she would only find sick weirdos), but Keiko and Princess Bubblegum should not.
Heck, even in Adventure Time Bubblegum loses the right to rule because she is too young, despite being a thousand years old or something.
But even in the Claudia instance I’d say no because it’s still just too gross. There’s just no getting past the body age thing. I guess I’d say Claudia could probably have a legal right to seek adult experiences (though she would only find sick weirdos), but Keiko and Princess Bubblegum should not.
I’d argue that a real person in Claudia’s situation shouldn’t be discriminated against for what is ultimately a physical abnormality. I see it as a more extreme version or “dwarves shouldn’t be allowed to have relations with larger people because they look vaugely like children.”
I’d also argue that any media which depicts someone in Claudia’s situation finding love is probably some creep trying to find an outlet for their fantasies.
I agree she has the right to want that and seek love. But, she isn’t a dwarf. She’s literally a 5 year old (11 in the movie). And even if she recites Shakespeare, or can do multivariable calculus, or writes a graduate level research paper on why it’s ok for her to have sex, it would still physically be like banging a kindergartener. And I would HOPE that’s not something normal people would be OK with. That’s why I think she would be doomed to be with some kind of pervert.
But how would I know, I was proven very wrong about what average people think after the last election.
Definitely an outlet for creepy fantasies.
Here’s my question, why was the malfunction not replicated and monitized by the Ferangi as a beauty produced? “Look 10 years younger because you will be 10 years younger”
Or when they de aged Pulaski to her “proper” age, they could have just gone a few years younger.
Or when they are aged the people in this episode, maybe only age them into their early 20s.
The transporters open up all sorts of scenarios that they clearly show as possible, but no one ever uses it that way on purpose somehow…
I like to believe there are strict ethical laws in far future that are actually enforced, and built into the hardware. Like maybe an ethical local AI
But like everyone has the technology. I’m highly skeptical Ferengi would stand in the way of de-aging out of an ethical concern.
It’s been a while since I saw that episode but weren’t they only able to do that because they had her most recent pattern stored in the buffer or something like that?
Sure, but they screw with things in transport all the time.
There’s an infection? Omit it on the beam up. There’s a weapon discharging? Disable it. Have a hard time beaming someone up? Beam them up twice and if one copy bounces back to the planet… Oh well. I seem to recall an instance of them doing surgery while in the pattern buffer too, which makes you wonder why they don’t just use the transporter buffer to do all medical treatment. If you are beaming up a critically injured person, don’t beam them directly to sick bay, just tweak them in the buffer.
Also, what all does the “pattern” contain? After someone has been “restored from backup” in these incidents, they always seem to retain the memory of how they were after the mess up. So clearly they keep their memories as they get merged/tweaked back to the pattern on file.
Of that’s the case, you could store the pattern for whatever age you want and always return to it in the future. I don’t really see that as an issue to the concept. Just more of a hassle, and obviously you can’t return to before you decided to start storing that.
Wife: Would you still love me if I am de-aged accidentally by transporter?
Me: …
