OK I re-watched the episode "Revulsion" after a long time and to be honest I do think of it as a bad episode although there were creepy anti human lines in that episode that got under my skin (so to speak) back in the day when I first watched it and they still sometimes come to my mind and those are
DEJAREN: That's how much power went into life support. Fifty nine point two percent. Just to keep them breathing, warm, comfortable.
EMH: They do require quite a bit of maintenance, don't they?
DEJAREN: I should know. I spent my entire existence cleaning up after them. When they were busy sleeping or reading, or engaging in their slovenly carnal pleasures.
What brings down episode for me is that premise is wrong, I mean this is what this evil hologram (Dejaren) is claiming "I exist as pure energy, but you depend on food and water to survive. Frankly, I find it disgusting. etc"
And that is just wrong. Even as a hologram Dejaren is not 'pure energy' he has hardware parts like 'hard disk', processors, chips... he is part of the computer and if you destroy the computer you destroy him. Because you could say in the same way that humans are 'energy beings' but then again they must have body parts to create their consciousness and when human organs start falling off so does the overall consciousness.
I don't think there is such a thing as "pure energy". Energy always has to be in something. Closest thing is light but even the light is particles.
So that is why. This Dejaren gives out this philosophical claims and the other characters, which are B'Elanna and EMH, don't engage in the conversation. Especially B'Elanna whose character pretty much trough the whole show is just tech babble, especially in first one or even first few seasons.
DEJAREN: That's how much power went into life support. Fifty nine point two percent. Just to keep them breathing, warm, comfortable.
EMH: They do require quite a bit of maintenance, don't they?
DEJAREN: I should know. I spent my entire existence cleaning up after them. When they were busy sleeping or reading, or engaging in their slovenly carnal pleasures.
What brings down episode for me is that premise is wrong, I mean this is what this evil hologram (Dejaren) is claiming "I exist as pure energy, but you depend on food and water to survive. Frankly, I find it disgusting. etc"
And that is just wrong. Even as a hologram Dejaren is not 'pure energy' he has hardware parts like 'hard disk', processors, chips... he is part of the computer and if you destroy the computer you destroy him. Because you could say in the same way that humans are 'energy beings' but then again they must have body parts to create their consciousness and when human organs start falling off so does the overall consciousness.
I don't think there is such a thing as "pure energy". Energy always has to be in something. Closest thing is light but even the light is particles.
So that is why. This Dejaren gives out this philosophical claims and the other characters, which are B'Elanna and EMH, don't engage in the conversation. Especially B'Elanna whose character pretty much trough the whole show is just tech babble, especially in first one or even first few seasons.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
