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Star Trek: Voyager S6E11, “Fair Haven”.

In this episode, Tom Paris has created a holodeck scenario involving an idealized 19th-century Irish village. Captain Janeway meets an interesting man there, a bartender named Michael Sullivan. They don’t have much in common, but she’s intrigued by him. He’s married. In the episode, she changes his personality and appearance, deletes the wife, and does little things to make him more attractive to herself.

You know, the same old story. “Girl meets boy, girl modifies boy’s subroutines.”

At which point did she go too far?

  • She did absolutely nothing wrong, and she was correct in making it impossible for herself to change Michael’s subroutines any further in the future
  • She should have left well enough alone
  • She was all right in deleting the wife, but modifying his subroutines was a step too far; differences are what makes relationships so interesting
  • She should never have set foot in Fair Haven to begin with
  • My answer is more nuanced than any of the existing poll answers

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