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qcontinuum) wrote2008-02-05 12:03 pm
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Five senses and a desert island?
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theatrical_muse from 3/17/2004.
Why am I becoming overwhelmingly convinced that these questions weren't written with my species in mind?
I have considerably more than five senses. I am virtually omnipotent. This means that I can not only do anything I want, I can also sense anything I want. Discussing which of the human five I would least like to lose is laughable; I don't care that much about any of them. The senses I would least like to lose tend to be the ones that pertain to my powers and my natural state, and I'd have difficulty describing them to the sort of limited minds that could come up with a question like this.
But, I suppose.... *sigh* In the spirit of full disclosure, I will admit that for one hellish day I lost all my senses *but* the human five, and had I been forced to remain that way, I suppose I would have developed a greater attachment to some of them. I never did get to experience what all the fuss is about a sense of taste, a sense of touch comes packaged with the ability to feel pain and that has to therefore be one of my least favorite, the sense of smell mostly just delivered me a number of unpleasant stinks, and so I imagine that *if* I were limited to five human senses, it would be either vision or hearing I'd least like to lose.
Lose vision: be unable to see when potential enemies are zooming out of force fields trying to kill one.
Lose sound: be unable to hear everyone else's whiny blathering.
Hmm. I'm thinking, vision.
As for a desert island, you *must* be joking. I can't be stranded anywhere. I'm a Q. I can instantaneously teleport anywhere in existence I want to go.
I was, once, stranded in a pocket dimension, with no contact with the outside universe and no control over my powers. That was... rather worse, actually, than losing my powers entirely and becoming human. The boredom was simply unbearable. You can't imagine.
If I were going to be stranded somewhere, anywhere, with insufficient control over my own powers to get back home, it would be the boredom I'd most need to deal with. Nothing resolves boredom quite like a sentient being to talk to, so the three things I'd bring if I were stranded somewhere and could not use my powers to escape are Jean-Luc Picard, a replicator to feed him with and a power supply for the replicator. (I'm assuming my own powers would not be up to this task; if they were, I could just snap my fingers and leave.)
Not that I want to dismiss Kathryn Janeway, of course, but if I'm looking for *intellectual* stimulation, as opposed to other sorts :-), I believe I'd prefer Jean-Luc. Besides, he'd whine about his ship slightly less. The thing about these starship captains is their belief that they're absolutely indispensable and that if they're gone their first officers, who they otherwise profess respect for, will run their ships aground completely. In Kathy's case, however, this happens to be true; Will Riker may be something of a buffoon with bad facial hair, but he seems to be relatively competent at running Picard's ship, whereas I can't say the same for Commander Chuckles The Wilderness Man. Kathy would simply become obsessed with escape-- which, of course, I imagine would be impossible if *I* were stranded; how could one mere human accomplish an escape when a Q could not? Jean-Luc would be a lot more fun.
theatrical_muse from 3/17/2004.Why am I becoming overwhelmingly convinced that these questions weren't written with my species in mind?
I have considerably more than five senses. I am virtually omnipotent. This means that I can not only do anything I want, I can also sense anything I want. Discussing which of the human five I would least like to lose is laughable; I don't care that much about any of them. The senses I would least like to lose tend to be the ones that pertain to my powers and my natural state, and I'd have difficulty describing them to the sort of limited minds that could come up with a question like this.
But, I suppose.... *sigh* In the spirit of full disclosure, I will admit that for one hellish day I lost all my senses *but* the human five, and had I been forced to remain that way, I suppose I would have developed a greater attachment to some of them. I never did get to experience what all the fuss is about a sense of taste, a sense of touch comes packaged with the ability to feel pain and that has to therefore be one of my least favorite, the sense of smell mostly just delivered me a number of unpleasant stinks, and so I imagine that *if* I were limited to five human senses, it would be either vision or hearing I'd least like to lose.
Lose vision: be unable to see when potential enemies are zooming out of force fields trying to kill one.
Lose sound: be unable to hear everyone else's whiny blathering.
Hmm. I'm thinking, vision.
As for a desert island, you *must* be joking. I can't be stranded anywhere. I'm a Q. I can instantaneously teleport anywhere in existence I want to go.
I was, once, stranded in a pocket dimension, with no contact with the outside universe and no control over my powers. That was... rather worse, actually, than losing my powers entirely and becoming human. The boredom was simply unbearable. You can't imagine.
If I were going to be stranded somewhere, anywhere, with insufficient control over my own powers to get back home, it would be the boredom I'd most need to deal with. Nothing resolves boredom quite like a sentient being to talk to, so the three things I'd bring if I were stranded somewhere and could not use my powers to escape are Jean-Luc Picard, a replicator to feed him with and a power supply for the replicator. (I'm assuming my own powers would not be up to this task; if they were, I could just snap my fingers and leave.)
Not that I want to dismiss Kathryn Janeway, of course, but if I'm looking for *intellectual* stimulation, as opposed to other sorts :-), I believe I'd prefer Jean-Luc. Besides, he'd whine about his ship slightly less. The thing about these starship captains is their belief that they're absolutely indispensable and that if they're gone their first officers, who they otherwise profess respect for, will run their ships aground completely. In Kathy's case, however, this happens to be true; Will Riker may be something of a buffoon with bad facial hair, but he seems to be relatively competent at running Picard's ship, whereas I can't say the same for Commander Chuckles The Wilderness Man. Kathy would simply become obsessed with escape-- which, of course, I imagine would be impossible if *I* were stranded; how could one mere human accomplish an escape when a Q could not? Jean-Luc would be a lot more fun.