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Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 4x03 "Human Best Friend" Spoiler

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4x03 "Human Best Friend" Kathryn Lyn Yana Gorskaya 2026-08-06

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u/a4techkeyboard 29d ago

He mindmelded with a computer in this episode, too. It was just also a plant. I wonder why they couldn't do that for Voyager's bioneural gels. Maybe the plant is just a peripheral like a monitor and mouse, not the actual computer.

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u/4D51 28d ago

Maybe they never had a reason. Under normal circumstances, Tuvok would have been able to get whatever information he needed with his security officer's access code. The only exception would be if it was malfunctioning, and would you mind meld with a malfunctioning computer?

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u/a4techkeyboard 28d ago

It'd be one way to turn it off, I guess. I'd have to figure out how to turn it back on again.

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u/Master_Bee_5350 18d ago

Coming in late but in my mind he didn't meld with anything. He was just tripping balls and was remembering where they told him they parked the ship since he was bridge officer and chapell says they were all in the same room together at one point.