What do you think of these and others characters of Star Trek if they ever granted such artifact?
Hmm... fun idea!
I feel like Worf would reject it as a dishonorable way to kill one's enemies.
Jadzia would probably study it, kind of like an L, trying to learn the rules and loopholes.
Bashir... medical ethics prevents his using it?
Quark.... hahaha, oh nooooooo!
Quark would talk a big game about using it or selling it (or both) but then just lock it up or something and pretend it never existed. Despite all appearances, he does have a conscience.
Garak, on the other hand...
Hey now, simple tailor Garak would just be practical. It would indeed be the safest way
Or maybe Jadzia would wink at the camera and write down "Rick Berman's career".
Quark's Death Note would be one good rounded episode of him creating a market of paid assasinations – before a real pro assassin who is out of contracts due to this would take it and, threating to put Quark in the list, would steal it for themselves and disappear.
Quark… hahaha, oh nooooooo!
Someone is late on their 'stay alive' subscription payments...oh well!
Cause of death: unnatural latinum deficiency.
Garak: can I get another one? Mines full already.
Alternatively: Garak calls Dukat every now and then just to tear pages out and throw them away.
Garak just writes, "See included item labeled 'Exhibit 1' admitted to the record." along with a 1200 page document he's spent several decades amassing.
Death, even at this time, is a disturbingly usual occurence. If I'd mourn every poor soul dying in the universe, I'd have no time running that shop. How can I afford to even shed a tear? That's, my friend, is probably a little lesson to you. If something is as inescapeable as death, you can't say it's untimely or unpredictable. That's just terms of our contracts, and let's treasure our time for it runs out as we speak.
And then he destroys it to hide the evidence.
Damar:
n = 1
while True:
print( "Weyoun " + str(n) )
n + 1
Which begs the question, can a Death Note kill someone before they exist, if you already know their name and face?
You can probably put a delay according to their birthdate to make an abortion. I'd be only troubled how a chain of deaths can cause a butterfly effect on the situation.
Also, if DN's effect is imminent, could it also prolong life by setting it decades after?
Series aren't liked for being smart, but it's interesting to explore these terms.
The rules of the death notes generally have time limits in the tens of days. They can only control+kill a person for 23 days, and the pre-filled death methods (such as how Light killed Raye Pember) are said in supplementary text to only work for 19 days.
I imagine that first clause would prevent any significant life altering shenanigans.
That's an interesting thing I didn't remember. Thanks.
I'd wonder how much of the rules are actually true and if Ryuk tested Light if he can break them. One of things he did is letting not-owner fill the names of the agents in the blank form and using torn pages. Although it isn't condemned, it's half-right. The not-owner wasn't contacted by the God of Death and their code seems to be inclining that, as using one of such devices is basically a deal with the devil. I wonder if it can be pushed further.
Your snippet is slightly flawed. You need a sleep statement or else it will start eating though tons of resources
I can see O'Brien thinking about using the Death Note, followed by Keiko yelling "Miles!" at him and hence resigning himself to beam it into space.
I doubt any of the DS9 characters would end up with a god complex like Light does, but I agree with the other comments that Garak would probably get the most mileage out of it and come up with some very inventive ways of dispatching people. Sisko would probably work out that Garak had the Death Note, but never be able to prove it nor that he'd used it.
Garak absolutely has the skill and resources to do it without the death note(see the whole romulan senator thing). Moreover, his dad would see it as cheating and probably disapprove.
I think he'd tease Dukat that he has it, pretend to destroy it in front of Dukat, then in the Dominion invasion he'd kill "The Great Link."
The title line about Kira ruins the punchline
Note taken.
Cut it.
S3E02 - O'Brien eats chips
S5E07 - Odo eats a cupcake
S7E25 (series finale) - Ducat eats an apple
All other episodes - Nothing happens for 45 minutes
I really don't understand death note's popularity
Legit opinion. I find the second half being like that, and I've seen many hold the same opinion. If you care, I tried to remember it and highlight some points.
But what I want to single out: it was made for teenagers and young adults. Confusion about their lives, wish for some superpower or direction, being able to overturn the frustration of their first boring work. With a shade of phylosophical themes that make them feel like it makes them clever, with guessing what if they end up in the same position, with bleeding edginess of deaths, god complex, acts that can be rightfully called terrorism (plus it's geeky and cool if you watched it when anime wasn't mainstream at your place - it's a kind of a community, and for some - their personality trait). If you don't consume a lot of media and DN became your first anime somewhere between 12 and 22, you'd probably like it.
And it usually kills it when you leave this age group, don't like edginess, fog of intelectualism, not only ill but just immature characters, everything turning around them and don't feel like watching episodes just to see these characters' tricks and quirks. And what can come from psychotyping (yeah, this geeky horoscope) there's no emotional information coded into the series, just pure 'we see these smart men outsmarting each other' and rotating the rules of Death Note like a rubik's cube that is problematic to many people - I'm the opposite, I don't find relationship drama even IRL interesting, but I understand the opposite can be as empty on the other end.
So, as all media, it's a matter of taste and background.
This may be one of the highest quality responses I've ever gotten on the internet.
I sincerely hope it'd be topped. Folks on Lemmy seem good-willing and welcoming enough for that (:
I don't think that's Kira. She looks all stretched out. I think Odo is trying, and still failing, to look like a humanoid.
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