• 4am@lemmy.zip
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    28 days ago

    She’s an empath, not a telepath. She can’t read your thoughts she can only feel your feelings.

    Also, pretty sure she regularly does it between starships to the people who are on screen, which means you don’t even need to be in the same star system for her to feel you

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      28 days ago

      Okay, but the way it was depicted 9/10 times it just made everyone else look really stupid.

      Shady man with shifty eyes: "$30 to come spend time in our space casino/beach resort full of beautiful woman

      Piccard; great idea let’s go

      Tori; Captain, I’m getting a strange aura from him, he may be lying, perhaps we should proceed with caution.

      Piccard; your console is appreciated, Riker has already gone over to investigate.