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I might have felt the punchline of this comic more than any other, and I've been reading Dinosaur Comics for MANY years now (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Alt text (which is actually, and always has been, the title text but we all just call it the alt text: "wipe questions about old star trek episodes from MY mind and there simply wouldn't be anything left, and i would be as blank as Uhura was when her memory was wiped by Nomad, the space probe created by the collision of an Earth probe designed to seek out new life forms, and Tan Ru, an alien probe programmed to secure and sterilize soil samples from other planets, and their two programs merged and create a probe who believed its purpose was to seek out and steralize imperfect life forms and which then mistook Captain James Kirk as Jackson Roykirk, its creator!"

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I love how they casually stomp on log cabins and cars while deeply pontificating philosophical issues

[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago

I've stopped even seeing that - if I were describing it to someone who'd never seen the comic I don't know if I'd remember to mention it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

And a woman!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago (2 children)

This makes sense if you subscribe to the thought that everyone dies in the transporter, but they recreate the person like the food on board and upload their consciousness into the newly created meat sack.

They could upload a backup into Uhura, and she would be good as new.

Wait, why did it take a week? Why do they have backups?!? 😳

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You don't need to upload anything. An exact copy would already be conscious.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

Oh god, the food is conscious and feels pain. 😳🤮

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I feel like a newly created meat sack.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Omg, HOW did I forget about dinosaur comics, I'm so disappointed in myself

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

I've got two of Ryan North's books, "Romeo and/or Juliet" and "To Be or Not to Be" on my bookshelf, but until seeing a Dinosaur Comic again just now, I entirely forgot the connection.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It would be awesome if someone shared them here. I keep forgetting to check the website and I don't think there's really any other way to follow then.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

There’s an rss feed!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Don’t be, just be happy you can rediscover them!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

Coincidentally i happened to see this episode last night, and it is basically as described in the comic, and i had the exact same problem with this plot.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 10 months ago

Well that was a waste of my time.