Nerdiest Post Ever

I'm just going to dig into this without constantly referring to how nerdy this is, even though I know it.

While doing dishes yesterday, I listen-watched an episode of "Star Trek: Voyager," a show I've always felt has sucked. But when you have 55 minutes worth of dishes to do, you want something easy to follow and that's what "Voyager" is.

Anyway, the episode was about the holographic doctor somehow thinking that he was a real human and everyone around him was a hologram. Pretty dumb standard reversal I'd say, particularly since this is revealed twenty minutes in. Then one of the holograms tries desperately to convince the doctor to destroy the ship, saying it's the only way out.

What I found funny is how the writers used the doctors as a stand-in for what is probably a pretty cynical Star Trek audience. After being told to destroy the ship, the doctor spends the next twenty minutes constantly asking the head hologram different forms of the question: "How do I know you're not some alien presence trying to trick me into destroying the ship?"

While a little cheap to actually do, this was really the only way to get this possibility out of the viewer's head. I certainly thought that that's what was happening. Even after listening to them go on for twenty minutes about how it wasn't the case, I thought that's what was happening. Basically the writers pulled a "Wheel of Fortune," taking the RSTLN E of "Star Trek" out of the mix so that their audience would keep trying to guess what was happening rather than assuming it was an alien trying to trick him into destroying the ship.

And in the end the head hologram was lying anyway.

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