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In Descent/Descent Part II, Data joins Lore and basically tells the crew he is going to help destroy all human life.

Of course, this is because of the emotion chip or something, but still. He is just back on the bridge with his rank after this? I would think he would be deactivated at minimum, if not destroyed. Certainly not just put back in his position with Starfleet.

Mantis from Guardians of the Galaxy meets Troi.

Mantis: You’re an empath, right?
Troi: Yes, half-Betazoid. I can sense emotions, not thoughts.
Mantis: So, diet telepathy?
Troi: …Excuse me?
Mantis: How come you didn’t notice that Ambassador Ves Alkar was sucking your life energy?
Troi: That was a powerful psychic attack.
Mantis: Yes! I saw the video! You turned cranky and nobody thought, “Maybe the empath’s dying.”
Troi: That was a traumatic experience.
Mantis: You’re right, I’m sorry. I’ll pick another. Remember when the old lady was accusing everyone of treason? You could have just said, “She’s nuts!” and stopped moral panic. Or sensed when Captain Picard was possessed in the Neutral Zone.
Troi: They are decorated officials. I had to tread carefully.
Mantis: You tread carefully a lot. Like when Riker was replaced by a fake. He was literally a clone, and you didn’t notice!
Troi: Empathy doesn’t detect duplicates!
Mantis: Mmhm. And when the Romulan claimed to defect, you said, “I sense he’s hiding something.” That’s not empathy, that’s just common sense!
Troi: He was hiding something!
Mantis: Yes! Everyone saw that coming! Your special powers added nothing.
(Troi grips her teacup like a stress ball.)
Troi: I help the crew process trauma!
Mantis: Oh! So you’re like a therapist who narrates the obvious.
(Troi glares, barely holding it together.)
Mantis:  Oh! You’re angry! That’s growth!
(Cut to: Riker at the bar, watching with La Forge.)
Riker: Should we step in?

La Forge: Give it another minute.

Did it not dawn on any of the crew that the premise of Rascals seems to imply that anyone… at anytime…. can modify the transporter to make themselves younger by resequencing their “RVN” strings??

Like, this is literally a fountain of youth xD —(as proven by their ability to revert the change in the same way).