I don’t see Seven as ASD coded. She has levels of trauma that can sometimes be mistaken as ASD and has lived outside of regular human society for much of her life.
You’re completely right, there is obviously no deeper meaning to presenting a character who is a mature adult yet requires structured classes in order to learn how human beings socialise.
Picard was written by different people who needed different things from the characters, however there were occasional moments where her previous manerisms showed through.
A feral child who was not ASD could have been portrayed like Mowgli (or, for a more Star Trek reference point, Tuvok when he had brain damage). Seven gradually learns how to navigate human interaction (and how to smile, for instance) through studying and is surprised when it’s occasionally useful, a non-ASD character could have learned through interpretation of people’s reactions and would have sought socialisation rather than peace and quiet in a neatly ordered cargo bay (I’m led to believe that’s how it works anyway).
All of the traits you’ve described also very much fit PTSD as well.
To me taking a Watsonian approach to the character we she a woman who was forcibly taken by the Borg and assimilated at a very young age, then years later ripped away from that as well. That’s two extremely traumatic events( that we know of). Then following on we see the character years later at a point where she has somewhat worked though those traumas.
A Doyalist reading we can say it was the 90s and discussions around neuro-divergency and more general mental health were far less common in media. So we’re probably both over reading things.
You may be right, the more of Voyager I watch the more flexible each character appears in order to fit around what the story requires. Apart from Tom Paris repeatedly being an idiot, that’s a constant.
We can agree to disagree and enjoy it on our own terms I guess. If I have been dismissive of your argument I would like to apologise, that was not my intention.
Im guessing based on your username this character is an obsession of yours, and there’s a need to insist your interpretations are absolute fact. But unless the writer’s state explicitly what they were intending with her character. Its all just opinions.
On another note. Despite what you might think based on a lot of comments, it is possible to discuss things on the Internet without being unnecessarily smug and condescending purely because someone contradicted your head cannon
Not an obsession, I tuned out of watching Voyager when it was first on TV and I’m partway through a complete watch now … she’s simply my favorite character from the show, and given that Star Trek fans have a pleasant and active community here I thought it was a good choice. Perhaps I was mistaken.
Being interpreted as smug was not my intention, I thought I was simply stating my opinion with equal force to the poster above. How should I have responded?
Hell, I remember all the hype building up for Skyrim for years before its release. I made it a point then to ignore all the articles and reviews and Bethesda salesmanship, and I was in awe at the game on release. I remember people being angry about snow wasn’t sticking like Bethesda promised or some such nonsense.
Same thing with Starfield…I’ve ignored all press events and interviews and spoilers and anything that had to do with promises of features. Just started it tonight and I’m enjoying it. I’m not in awe yet, but it’s fun. I’m certainly not angry about anything, that’s for sure.
Ignoring the hype(eroblizing) is always the better option. People follow every little crumb of a rumor over years and build up a mythical, impossible standard in their head. Of course they’re disappointed. People online just get so toxic about the things they “love”. It’s sad to watch.
Personally, I don’t really bother with keeping up with things like upcoming releases, reviews, teasers and trailers.
Not only to avoid the hype but also because there have been a couple of occasions when watching a single review or trailer on YouTube led to me getting a recommended video of the game during the release week, and that video had a massive spoiler in its title.
I prefer to go into it completely blind. Maybe I just have incredibly low standards though. Some of my favourite games are those which were widely hated.
Although after spending 10+ years on Reddit (which I’ve since quit using). Even the dedicated game subs are full of bitching and constant arguments, and God help you if you’re a fan of MMORPG’s cause that sub seems to absolutely despise them.
I do the same for pretty much everything these days. Between news bites about every little thing about production, to trailers with way too much…everything, it feels like if one’s not careful, the entire thing will be known before it even comes out. That goes for games, movies, shows, etc. I find the experience much more enjoyable when I avoid those info dumps as much as possible.
And yeah, “fan” spaces online seem to inevitably become toxic pits of negativity if it’s not proactively negated. I’m sure an entire study could be done on it all, but my cursory conclusion is that it’s a result of 1) constantly focusing on one thing, and 2) finding the small flaws in that thing that become “bigger” by focusing on them for too long. People tend to let objectively small issues that are really only a small part taint their opinion of the whole.
B for sure. Consider a long pole (stationary relative to the track) entering the portal at the front of the trolley, it would leave the portal at the speed the trolley is moving.
Yes but it wouldn’t be possessed of any momentum, it only appears to be moving because the train is moving. As soon as it cleared the portal it would drop straight to the ground.
I think B and maybe it’s easier to explain my reasoning with a more dramatic example. instead of people on a track, maybe the trolly is heading towards a 50 foot horizontal pole. when the trolly comes to the pole at 90mph, the pole is not moving. but after the trolley’s portal has “swallowed” 40 feet of the pole, all 40 feet of that pole are exiting the portal at 90mph, being pushed by the 10 feet of pole that the trolly is still “swallowing”, so the momentum of 40feet worth of pole would continue to launch the remaining mass of the pole out of the portal and it would be launched out instead of flopping to the ground.
if we go back to our people on a track example, I think this would also kill them as for people on either side of the portal, it would feel like they’re being ran into at 90mph by the people on the other side of the portal.
Yes, I also thought of the pole example. It would feel like a wave of gravity suddenly shifting around them. I do think it would be less dangerous than a direct collision at the same speed, but only by a little - the danger with sudden deceleration isn’t the fact that it’s sudden, but that it is almost always uneven, it rips things inside you apart or collapse them together. But the portal would be a very clean uniform wave of pressure moving over you, so it could still cause damage by compression over one dimension (in the direction of portal movement) but most other forms of impacts will be missing
Not sure how you searched but I assume you didn’t use or know apt? How do you install packages in the first place? Through GUI or Terminal?
EDIT: I assume you use the Linux Mint GUI package manager. I can’t find how to do this too, would need to search more detailed but I don’t have enough time for this now, need sleep, don’t have enough sleep.
I know about and have used apt, I install pretty much everything through the terminal. What I searched for was “how to reinstall libpcre” because I thought that it required a specific method or something due to the fact that it’s a system library.
Anyways, it reinstalled it but I wont know if it fixed the issue until tonight.
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