Signal [Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal]

[email protected]

Well, sort of, they asked for help with their problem, then hamstrung Earth's progress by deceit so that they could make it over in time.

[email protected]

My interpretation is, they sent the message to prevent the creation of anything that could plausibly be a threat to them and ensure the success of their invasion

[email protected]

In which reguard?

The Trisolarians actively blocked humanities scientific progress in order to avoid further advancement during the 400 years it would take their fleet to get to Sol. Humanity didn't choose to slow down or even regress.

[email protected]

I do not remember there being such a gap between book and show but at least in the book it's earth reaching out while the one good guy on Trisolaris tells them not to.

[email protected]

At least we got to live 100 years of true life in peace, that’s more than in our entire history

[email protected]

Yeah, I'd take that deal.

[email protected]

Only if you want to regard one of the worse NuTrek series as canon.

In TNG Data is known about in both the Klingon and Romulan empire, and throughout TNG the impression that Dr. Soong was a genius who's work is nearly impossible to replicate was really high. So the Romulan just couldn't make someone like Data.

Ricky Rigatoni 🇺🇸

If we get a signal from space telling us not to do something, we're gonna fucking do it.

[email protected]

You're confusing active suppression for inability. The Romulans aren't idiots, nor short on genius, they're deluded at their core, to the point that their intelligence alone explains the long-term survival of their civilization. The Picard series didn't invent that about them, and the stable 8-star-star-system believed to have been created by super-tech in Romulan space is old lore as well.

[email protected]

That does sound familiar; I think I read it eight years ago so my memory is very patchy (to the extent I used the show to cover what I thought happened!).