teleporter-problems-2
Original: teleporter-problems-2 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Captain Kirk (a man in a yellow Starfleet command shirt, with a green-skinned figure beside him): "Actually, from a philosophical perspective, I'm not the Captain Kirk from yesterday. When I stepped into that teleporter, the me from before was destroyed. The man talking to you now was 'born' yesterday afternoon."
Caption (below panel): Captain Kirk failed to get out of his paternity suit.
Votey:
Panel 1 (a roughly-drawn person on the left speaking to a person on the right):
Left figure: "Come on, man. We live in a post-scarcity society with robot servants!"
Left figure: "But it's the principle of the thing!"
Captain Kirk (a man in a yellow Starfleet command shirt, with a green-skinned figure beside him): "Actually, from a philosophical perspective, I'm not the Captain Kirk from yesterday. When I stepped into that teleporter, the me from before was destroyed. The man talking to you now was 'born' yesterday afternoon."
Caption (below panel): Captain Kirk failed to get out of his paternity suit.
Votey:
Panel 1 (a roughly-drawn person on the left speaking to a person on the right):
Left figure: "Come on, man. We live in a post-scarcity society with robot servants!"
Left figure: "But it's the principle of the thing!"
Alt text
Main comic: A single panel showing Captain Kirk, a man in a yellow Starfleet command shirt, with a green-skinned alien figure partly visible beside him. Kirk says: "Actually, from a philosophical perspective, I'm not the Captain Kirk from yesterday. When I stepped into that teleporter, the me from before was destroyed. The man talking to you now was 'born' yesterday afternoon." A caption beneath the panel reads: "Captain Kirk failed to get out of his paternity suit." The joke: Kirk uses the teleporter-destroys-and-recreates-you philosophical argument to dodge child support, and it doesn't work.
Votey (aftercomic): A crude hand-drawn panel with two figures facing each other. The left figure argues, "Come on, man. We live in a post-scarcity society with robot servants!" and then says, "But it's the principle of the thing!" The other figure looks unconvinced.
Votey (aftercomic): A crude hand-drawn panel with two figures facing each other. The left figure argues, "Come on, man. We live in a post-scarcity society with robot servants!" and then says, "But it's the principle of the thing!" The other figure looks unconvinced.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.