• Lydia_K@lemmy.world
    3·
    6 days ago

    This meme hit me in the feels the most, it’s the last panel of him gripping his flute, clinging to the last remaining piece of all he’s lost.

    • zarathustrad@lemmy.world
      1·
      6 days ago

      They just took it for granted that the whole of humanity should benefit from automation, AI, and limitless energy / matter conversion. How silly.

      (Let’s all just ignore the show’s inability to imagine a world without class, servants and land ownership in the post scarcity economy. As Picard somehow owns a vineyard with servants who work it in his absence)

      • Maya S. Trojan@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        1·
        6 days ago

        To be fair, maybe in a post scarcity space faring society that land is abundant on Earth as most humans live elsewhere now, allowing the Earth to heal ecologically. Perhaps he only “owns” it insofar as his position as a starship Captain for the Federation allows him to have this space to himself because no one else would use it. Perhaps the “servants” actually live in large nearby houses and this is just what they wanted to do with their lives and how they wanted to live and since they take care of all the properties anyway, why not upkeep the small portion of the property that a Captain actually lives in.

        I dunno, just spitballing. Probably wrong on Earth being less populated somehow. I’m not queen of star trek trivia or anything.

        • FrChazzz@lemmus.orgEnglish
          2·
          6 days ago

          Yeah you kind of have to assume that, in the depicted post-scarcity society, any “job” you see people doing is something they want to do. Like, Picard owns the vineyard or whatever but all those people in the fields might be people who like making wine and so Jean-Luc opens the land for them to do this.

          Sisko’s dad has a restaurant in a society with replicators. Clearly this exists because he likes making food for groups of people.

            • Rhaedas@fedia.io
              2·
              6 days ago

              Replicators are copied of a given prepared meal. Actually cooking adds variety (good or bad depending on the cook, I suppose).

              • kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
                2·
                6 days ago

                And if you make a dish better than the replicator can, you can scan it and upgrade the replicator for everyone!

                • HurricaneLiz@lemmy.world
                  1·
                  6 days ago

                  I want to add Gramma’s orange slice cookies to the list of stuff ppl can replicate, that’d be amazing 💜

  • dkppunk@piefed.socialEnglish
    1·
    6 days ago

    I’m going to get dehydrated with all the tears these memes are creating 😭

    Everyone go drink a glass of water. That’s an order!

    • ° 。Juniper 。°@piefed.zipEnglish
      1·
      6 days ago

      I went through an entire tissue box last night, and I’m halfway through another one today. Really great order to drink some more water ❤️

      It’s incredible how much of an impact he had on so many people across the world.

      I think I’m also grieving again a bit of my grandfather’s passing, because they had the same eyes. Those videos where he’s out with Ian McKellen, or even when he’s just being silly on camera hit me the most in the feels. My grandpa was also a really silly guy lol

    • SlurpingPus@lemmy.world
      1·
      5 days ago

      Thank god he’s back to his normal French existence of being obsessed with Shakespeare and drinking Earl Gray constantly.