It can still be utopian and aspirational without every character being those things. The same way you could have a show where you explore the concept of Justice by having a profoundly unjust main character. Or a show about Sin with a righteous main character. Sometimes you explore a theme by demonstration, sometimes by contrast.
Ohhhh, ok, we are talking about entirely different episodes. I thought you were misquoting “Erase that entire personal log” from In The Pale Moonlight. Yeah, the one where he gasses a planet is not the best.
I mean, like what you like. I think you can still have utopian fiction that explores when characters fall short of their utopian ideals, or the boundaries of a utopia, or the shortcomings of a particular form of utopianism. It helps us understand that it’s not magic, it doesn’t just happen, it’s what could be, if real people all worked very hard against the systems and people preventing it.
And I’m not a space lawyer but I think technically Sisko doesn’t do any war crimes in that episode, he’s just accessory to 2 normie murders.
Why? It’s widely considered the best episode of ds9.
To be fair, did any of us have great social skills for the first decade or two after activation?
Humans are the real space orcs
The bribe was the settlement payout. The censorship is just a bonus.
Throw in the episode where they go back to 90s California too, call it Hella Voyager
You could stick it in the middle somewhere. A side story we didn’t see on screen. Or, they could remake Year of Hell or something.
Listen, if Bashir can casually turn Sisko into a klingon in an afternoon, outpatient, I’m pretty sure becoming my fursona gender transition is nbd
My boring dayjob is to sit in front of the holodeck and shoot anything weird that comes out.
I only recall seeing the hallway bunks in Lower Decks, and I think that was intended as a joke.
I don’t think “reasoning” is the right perspective to examine Picard’s comment from. He’s not making a debate point, Picard is politely telling Ralph that he’s acting like an assclown and that it WILL stop.
Stick with Star Wars, they have nice, safe-for-work Jizz Music.
There’s also Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force where they get transported to a ship graveyard.
Blast off and nuke the site from orbit, it’s the only way to be sure.
Humans are the real space orcs.
When Lwaxana scanned the bar in DS9 s01e17 The Forsaken to figure out who stole her broach, she has to look at each person in the room to read them. Perhaps the range for Betazeds is very high or unlimited, but using it requires them to be aware of the person’s presence, or to specifically focus on them? Or perhaps there’s general vibes, but truly reading someone requires active focus?
I want to see a Trek episode shot like one of those Eddie Murphy films where he plays all the characters, using Jeffrey Combs
In fairness, there was a whole episode of ds9 about obrien struggling with his trauma.
Maybe their therapy techniques are as advanced as their other forms of medicine?