Freedom of Speech by Norman Rockwell and referencing TNG s7e12 “The Pegasus”

  • Miles O'Brien@startrek.website
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    3 days ago

    I guarentee that if you murdered someone with a flintlock pistol by shooting them, arguing that “technically its not a gun” would not help your defense in any reaonable way.

    No, but if you get arrested for having one, you absolutely can argue it’s not a gun.

    Plenty of legal cases have been decided on technicalities.

    • rainwall@piefed.social
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      3 days ago

      You can argue it, but it wont mean much after you shoot someone with it.

      Thats what the federation did here. They used a “technically not a cloak” to “cloak” their ships. Technical discussions about whether a “Cloak is a cloak or not” are moot when you cloak with it.