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Episode 93: Queries and Quandaries

Worldbuilding for Masochists

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Are You Just Going to Use the Trope Without Thinking About It or Considering It?

Dying childbirth was a not uncommon cause of death overall but in an individual birth it wasn't nearly that high. There seems to be like a lack of imagination in terms of what advanced medicine or advanced magic could do to make birth easier which I mean especially on something like Star Trek where it seems they want to just keep the beats of what a giving birth story is regardless of would this still make sense within no the 24th century yeah transport that kid right out of me in take it out The episode of Voyager where where Samantha Wildman is born that is actually what happens because but they were going to do it naturally but then complications and then like instead of a Cesarean it is a just

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