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  1. CW: Star Trek: Picard, S1E2, Synthetic Lifeform slavery

    The treatment of the Synths at #UtopiaPlanitia irks me.
    Didn't #Picard warn against this exact use of #SyntheticLifeforms during the trial regarding #Data's sentience in the #StarTrek #TheNextGeneration episode #TheMeasureOfAMan? ¹
    They're created in the image of humans, dressed like them, and put to work like/instead of them, but not treated as such, even though sentience was considered too hard to prove/disprove.

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    ¹ youtu.be/WjCytqku18M