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Reference for those out of the loop.
Star Trek: The Next Generation, season 6 episode 10, "Chain of Command".
Picard is captured by Cardassians and tortured, with the promise that it will end if only he admits that there are 5 lights.
The original reference be from 1984
Yes!
I always thought the episode premise describes on reddit was kinda dumb.
Why doesn't he just say there's five lights knowing there's four so he can get out and start helping people who need him?
Useless pride? Or do they have some kind of monitoring system that only releases him if he tricks himself into believing there's now five lights?
Because it’s an entertaining TV show that likes morality tales. Applying real-world logic to most any show would stop the show in the first 5 minutes.
"I had a minor misunderstanding with my friend, how can I fix it?!"
'... talk to them about it?'
"oh, right."
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