One of those shows, I think it was Elimidate, introduced the world to a young Aisha Tyler, so that's one good thing.

So you want to be a diffusing hot gas?

Actually, I are a scientist!
Falsifiability is a key virtue of a theory, but not a defining feature. Theories are typically derived inductively from observable phenomena. Hypotheses are derived deductively from theories, and then tested against the data. You can't really derive a hypothesis from observations, that's…

Given this sudden outburst of hostility, I'm not interested in continuing the conversation either.

"In my epistemology it is impossible for their to be free will, therefore there is no free will" is not logical truth, it's just rigidity. As discussion of Libet-style experiments indicates, you can't actually falsify the claim that there is free will, or the claim that there is no free will. It's a question that…

Just because you have an epistemological framework in which free will cannot exist doesn't mean that it's "logical truth".

Nope. Falsifiability is a virtue in a theory, but lack of falsifiability doesn't demote a theory to a hypothesis. A hypothesis is derived from a theory.

Ah, the Libet argument. I never understood how people were convinced by that one. First, you have a measurement problem, or rather an external validity problem. How do you know that you're actually measuring the onset of the desire to make a movement? With the original experiments, the measure was the self-reported…

Not at all. Scientifically, anything that we cannot ascribe to deterministic laws we ascribe to stochastic processes (random events). That's an epistemological choice, a stance. By taking that stance, we have a priori ruled out "free will". In order to even discuss free will in any sort of meaningful sense, we have to…

The ghost of Jonathan Demme?

Well, we are talking about a dating website here.

That's why God invented linen.

I feel you, brother.

I know there was some cross-pollination in the "modern" era. There's a TNG episode that is basically an homage to Dr Who (complete with a time machine that's bigger on the inside), and one of the episodes of modern Who was inspired by "Darmok". I'm not sure that anyone who wrote for TOS was watching classic Who.
But…

I think they just lost interest in the concept and decided it was simpler to focus on the Changelings as an enemy (given their connection to Odo and their scary cylon-like mimicry abilities), with the Jem'Hadar as Klingon-analogues and the Vorta for moustache-twirling.

Free will is not an objective property of the universe that can be measured scientifically, it is a stance toward your own experience.

I think that's what the election of Donald Trump was getting at.

I think you might want to rethink that.
Americans who identify ethnically as "American" are the worst.

But at least you came?

The Borg, if anything, are the opposite of Trump voters. The Borg welcome immigrants… indeed, they force you to immigrate! They incorporate your distinctiveness into their society, whereas Trumpistas are afraid of anything foreign. The Borg are frighteningly adaptable, while Trumpistas are frightened of change.
The…