Yeah but in Measure of a Man they conclude with they can’t know if Data is sentient but since it’s possible he could be, they have to proceed with the assumption that he is to avoid even risking being racist assholes.
Picard S1 completely misses the point. It’s not that humans are treating the robots as if they’re non-sentient, it’s that people do think of them as sentient and they are racist towards them.
If they were being consistent with Measure of a Man, they would have people considering to be just useful non-sentient machines and when they blow up Mars, they would instantly think they were malfunctioning somehow.
They were telling a story about racism where the target of the racism may not even be sentient. So it’s maybe racism. Which makes the anti-racism message a bit watered down and unclear. Especially when they felt the need to have the final crisis ramped up to insane levels by having the robots all go into a Futurama “kill all humans” mode and try to wipe out all life in the Galaxy. So the shitty writing makes it feel like they weren’t at all sentient beings since they lacked any kind of empathy.
I feel like those robots would all fail the Voight-Kampff test for sure. I doubt the writers of the show even know what a Voight-Kampff test is. They definitely didn’t know how to write a good robot story that’s for sure. Everything in this story about how it’s bad to be racist against robots also has the robots behaving in a non-sentient way which ruins the anti-racist message.
So it fails at being a good robot story which results in it failing in it’s attempt at having an anti-racist message. It’s like the writers thought it was enough to just say “racism is bad” and so they didn’t need to put in any effort with the science fiction stuff.
Tbf tng did actually deal with robot (data) rights and humanity, so robo-racism sorta makes sense.
I agree with everything else you said. I blame the netflixification of media, where they assume everyone is looking at their phones the entire time.
Yeah but in Measure of a Man they conclude with they can’t know if Data is sentient but since it’s possible he could be, they have to proceed with the assumption that he is to avoid even risking being racist assholes.
Picard S1 completely misses the point. It’s not that humans are treating the robots as if they’re non-sentient, it’s that people do think of them as sentient and they are racist towards them.
If they were being consistent with Measure of a Man, they would have people considering to be just useful non-sentient machines and when they blow up Mars, they would instantly think they were malfunctioning somehow.
They were telling a story about racism where the target of the racism may not even be sentient. So it’s maybe racism. Which makes the anti-racism message a bit watered down and unclear. Especially when they felt the need to have the final crisis ramped up to insane levels by having the robots all go into a Futurama “kill all humans” mode and try to wipe out all life in the Galaxy. So the shitty writing makes it feel like they weren’t at all sentient beings since they lacked any kind of empathy.
I feel like those robots would all fail the Voight-Kampff test for sure. I doubt the writers of the show even know what a Voight-Kampff test is. They definitely didn’t know how to write a good robot story that’s for sure. Everything in this story about how it’s bad to be racist against robots also has the robots behaving in a non-sentient way which ruins the anti-racist message.
So it fails at being a good robot story which results in it failing in it’s attempt at having an anti-racist message. It’s like the writers thought it was enough to just say “racism is bad” and so they didn’t need to put in any effort with the science fiction stuff.
This also… “Second screening” only happens for crappy movies and shows.