We need a Lower Decks style series about this ensign Picard. Lower Decks style as in it’s not about the captain but the lower decks
I just want to see how happy and relaxed Ensign Picard is. No critical decisions to make. Able to make friends among the crew without his rank getting in the way.
We get to see Captain Picard in Ensign Picard’s body, but we never get to see the slacker who has big dreams but doesn’t bother to push himself.
Makes me think of the plot from The Office when Michael had a telemarketing job and seemed so much happier when he was one of the underlings instead of the guy at the top.
mfw a version of me from an alternate universe possesses my body and begs an omnipotent god to let him out
All other people are NPCs from the perspective of one person. That’s what “non-player character” means.
You’re the player in your own mind, aren’t you? That makes the rest of us NPCs.
I just don’t see how someone else’s perspective of my autonomy should cause such a crisis in me.
I mean a cursory glance at your own life ought to show you that you do in fact have a life outside of the experiences of some arbitrary person. If you were told you are an NPC, does your lifetime of personal experiences simply vanish?
Even if you were shown proof that you’re a simulation, can you really just let go of your entire existence like that?
I think denial would be a far more common reaction than existential crisis.
On a related topic I wonder if Plague of Gripes ever finished that fence around his farm.
