Data correcting pre-industrial teacher (Star Trek: TNG)

From Star Trek: The Next Generation, episode "Thine Own Self". Data has lost his memory, so the people call him Jayden.

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[planetary109]

She reminds me of every Priest I've met.

[charleshoskinson]

We have a Sarah Palin!

[Rhysesmum]

@otherjr I was using the lines from the video to comedic effect but I do think that a 'modern science teacher' as you said, would have the tools to at least listen and not just brush Data off. This episode is one the best TNG and I really like Data as a character.

[otherjr]

@Rhysesmum If you stumbled into some town with no memory of who you are, then told a science teacher how actually its possible to move faster than light, you think the teacher would go to the great lengths necessary to prove or disprove you?! After just one sentence from a total nobody? You carry out that experiment, then report back to me. After seeing that Data is actually pretty brilliant, this woman does start agreeing, but she wouldnt just do so straight away.

[Rhysesmum]

@otherjr I do not believe that is correct. I believe you are reasoning by analogy. A modern science teacher would have the skills inherent to science, that being the ability to take a suggested theory and make a reliable test to prove or disprove it and to show their results.

[acev1per]

@planetary109 So she doesn't remind you of anyone?

[325982668]

pre industrial my ass, that shit is pre-enlightenment, pre-scientific revolution.

[ProperMuzik]

A part of this has been cut out. His last word. ".......none of which is fire Bitch"

[papermermaid]

@charleshoskinson

That is short sighted. Prove the she said anything remotely like this

[otherjr]

@charleshoskinson She was unrelenting in her belief because this would sound ridiculous to her. Data is explaining science to her that would take hundreds of years to develop on her world, and hes just some nut that wondered out of the mountains. If someone started explaining how to travel faster than light to a modern day science teacher, im pretty sure you'd get the same result.

[charleshoskinson]

@otherjr Actually I didn't. She was unrelenting in her belief and wasn't willing to consider outside possibilities. Sounds like a book burning Alaskan if I ever knew one.

[otherjr]

@charleshoskinson Science went through this exact same process on Earth, people didnt just go from thinking the world is flat to a total grasp of modern physics. Comparing this woman to some modern fundamentalist is so hopelessly stupid I cant even begin to feel sorry for you. Congratulations, you missed the point entirely.