If you didn't know, Predestination is based on a (even more problematic, but I think slightly more coherent) Heinlein story called All You Zombies
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Oh jesus, All You Zombies... Although to be fair I did immediately look at the shenanigans therein and decide 'fuck it, if possible, I would do that'
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Replying to @0ntosMagnificus @BootlegGirl and
We studied it at uni and pre-trans realisation me didn't even pick up on it being particularly problematic... partly because it's Heinlein, all his stuff has a pretty high background level of 'err'
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Yeah. It was just... Weird to me. The most pre trans weirdness it caused for me was that I immediately thought "I would not want to be the main character because why would they change in that direction" (I was like 10, cut me some slack)
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It is up there with Ian M Banks in the subset of stories where 'In The Future you'll be able to casually change sex and it will just be a thing that's normal' which I do like
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Like for real, it has to not be a big deal; we really think you couldn’t go to Bones or Crusher and be like “I’m trans” and they give a handbook and schedule you for Tuesday. That’s it.
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Replying to @Higgins_J @0ntosMagnificus and
This is kind of orthogonal to the discussion but I never got why they couldn’t do major surgeries like that while they’re a transporter pattern
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Replying to @Cybren @0ntosMagnificus and
I wouldn’t use a transporter for that just because it’s not used as a medical device or operated by a medical professional...
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Replying to @Higgins_J @Cybren and
It's Trek canon that living tissue is too complex to safely mess with in energy buffer form Same reason you can't create actual living things with the replicator
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Higgins_J and
you cannot create complex organic structures,* such as living things, with a replicator *unless they are food
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You can create food because the food isn't alive, it starts off dead That's one reason Klingons don't like the replicator since most of their cuisine is alive It's also implied that this is why replicated meat doesn't taste right
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