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I like them both a lot but the original is a classic I keep going back to. Maybe I'm just the right age for it.

I wanted to downvote your stupid ass but op asked for unpopular opinions. So fuck you here's an upvote.

I'm not trying to tell you "keep at it, it gets better", because it doesn't. It starts out awesome and stays that way, in my opinion.

But if you had watched more you'd see Mariner's persona is a front. She might be the most Starfleet motherfucker in the show.

That's because your instance defederated from hexbear and lemmygrad.

That's a tautological statement. We define words like sentient and sapient in terms of what we are.

Saying "this lifeform that we can't communicate with in any meaningful way (for these purposes) has emotional or cognitive experiences that we would recognize as meeting those definitions" isn't falsifiable and therefore isn't science.

If at some point someone invents a human to mollusk translator so we can discuss our experiences, this topic can be revisited.

Until then words like "may" and "possible" should be used.

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