Post by Nathan Landry on Oct 28, 2018 19:28:34 GMT -8
"I'm not sure our Sickbay would cater enough drama to garner interest. To weave a clever and dramatic story from there... well, I do believe the one to be that to be a true miracle worker."
Nathan chuckled, nodding to her. "I yield to your superior knowledge of the department, Ms. Viaen," he said. "I'll freely admit that I spend as little time there as I possibly can." He'd never liked doctors, he had to confess, and adulthood had done little to make it a more pleasant. Present company excepted, of course. Maybe.
"Well, a number of the races we've encountered have fairly comparable practices to our own."
Her overview was brief, curt almost. It brushed against their closest allies, the Etimonians, and ended with the intriguing knowledge that their observer didn't approve of the Horisi. Nathan had spent a fair amount of time helping categorize the data that had returned from that foray, mainly delving into their cultural and societal databanks, and he tended to agree with her--though he might have chosen slightly more... diplomatic terms to describe them. Despite their technological prowess--a prowess that had been frankly praised in every single interview he'd had and report he'd read--they had a strangely cavalier approach to ethical questions like 'does life matter' and 'is there something unique about sentient beings'. True, he had his own slightly troubled history with such quandaries, but he liked to think experience was bringing him a fresh understanding and valuing of them.
"I take it you had the opportunity to visit Horisi itself?" he asked, idly toying with the handle of his abandoned fork.
Tag: @auri
Nathan chuckled, nodding to her. "I yield to your superior knowledge of the department, Ms. Viaen," he said. "I'll freely admit that I spend as little time there as I possibly can." He'd never liked doctors, he had to confess, and adulthood had done little to make it a more pleasant. Present company excepted, of course. Maybe.
"Well, a number of the races we've encountered have fairly comparable practices to our own."
Her overview was brief, curt almost. It brushed against their closest allies, the Etimonians, and ended with the intriguing knowledge that their observer didn't approve of the Horisi. Nathan had spent a fair amount of time helping categorize the data that had returned from that foray, mainly delving into their cultural and societal databanks, and he tended to agree with her--though he might have chosen slightly more... diplomatic terms to describe them. Despite their technological prowess--a prowess that had been frankly praised in every single interview he'd had and report he'd read--they had a strangely cavalier approach to ethical questions like 'does life matter' and 'is there something unique about sentient beings'. True, he had his own slightly troubled history with such quandaries, but he liked to think experience was bringing him a fresh understanding and valuing of them.
"I take it you had the opportunity to visit Horisi itself?" he asked, idly toying with the handle of his abandoned fork.
Tag: @auri