Funnily enough the quote does at least make an understandable point, as in it's just not gibberish, even though the point is obviously wrong.

The "opium of the masses" by Marx/Engels was supposed to be a comment on how religion deceives, is ultimately unhealthy and deafening, but at the same time is the last refuge many people have, and therefore still helpful in a twisted way. The "meth of the masses" analogy would mean that it still has the unhealthy, deceptive and deafening aspects of a drug addiction, but without the "soothing last refuge of peace" part; more of a steroid rage kind of thing that is also way more addictive, dangerous and might make you super aggressive, which are common anti-socialist metaphors.

As far as anti-communist drivel goes, at least this one is plausible and has meaning instead of just being babbling.

That's how I met my girlfriend, unironically, lol. Since then I have to explain to family why I have a huge-ass dog crate in my bedroom. :3

But it does have 4G and GPS and all.

You are using a fake app.

How did we get from "in the future, humanity can build a utopia if we leave conservatism in the past and boldly go to explore the wonders of space" to "the power of friendship and believing in good® is the only thing saving humanity from the cruel world we have built"?

I mean, it fits the Americanized capitalist realism of new Trek, but it's depressing. When did we downgrade back to platitudes and traditionalist values?

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I'm glad! Happy (belated) birthday!

You're the kind of guy to argue that when I cut a sandwich in half then there are two sandwiches.

Am I not the same person as I was yesterday?

Sure, I am now different both to a molecular level and due to the experiences I have made since, but for all linguistic and social intents and purposes, I am the same person I was yesterday. Because "person" is already an arbitrary term we put on this collection of atoms merely based on continuity, like the Ship of Theseus. If we went by "spatial-temporal space", then I would be space dust, a collection of bacteria, fluids, cells, proteins... and who "I" am would change every few seconds.

The same is true for two Rikers. That's the entire point of the episode; that despite them diverging at the point of the cloning into two different people, they are still the same person and need to live with that.

Two people can be literally the same person. Your argument only works if there's a magic law that says there can be only one real 'you'.

I feel so talked down to by these. They're even more unfunny/more quippy than the first season of Orville, and that's saying something.

Why can't some writers these days not just let something absurd be played straight and let the viewers laugh? Why do we need a character explaining the joke out loud? "Uh-oh, that alert isn't part of the song! Guyss!" How to ruin a decently funny situation in one easy step.

Imagine if movies like "The Naked Gun"/"Police Squad" or "Airplane!" made the characters explain and comment on every funny moment.

Then if replicator technology isn’t able to kick start the process, how does transporter technology do it?

It physically pushes or moves the field, it does not recreate it.

Depends on the process by which a neural energy field first is created by an organism; whether it's a "one time charge" thing or just a byproduct of their brains. If the latter, that'd throw the entire theory away since that just means you can replicate a brain and it starts going on by itself.

The Memory Alpha "bureaucrat" is user "sulfur", who has their Discord listed as sulfur#3610 on their user page.

The Memory Beta head administrator I believe is Captainmike, who has their Discord listed as Captainmike#1381 on the user profile page.

Other than that, there's also the List of Administrators on Memory Alpha.

The GamingWikiProject, while largely about game wikis, also helps people who want to build up an indie wiki project: Click here

... which other projects easily manage with donations.

But Fandom is not operating the wiki, the community is. They couldn't care less about "the cash cow" it is. Being the largest wiki by far makes them a prime contender to move over to another solution.

In the same way that you might be able to perfectly replicate a fireplace and kindling wood but need a lighter to make it burn, there simply might be a process to "kickstart a brain" that goes beyond its physical structure, some way to "charge" it with neuro-electric energy that happens naturally but cannot so far be replicated. Star Trek never shied away from quasi-religious concepts like "the sanctity of life".