Pull a shaxs from lower decks, senior officers are back…no questions asked.

I mean its a little far fetched a simple helmet protects the kmal yet the enterprise hull let it through no problems (until pack modulates the shield), but wont let that get in the way of a good story.

They were in and out in four hours was mentioned deliberately I feel , and then the trekking for 6hours before laan started it all

Actually thinking about it that might be why the line “I’m awful with faces” was there …not just to explain away why 21stC Pelia didn’t recognise why la’an knew her but she didn’t know laan, but also why 23rdC pelia doesn’t remember a meeting 200 years prior

Yeah I was really expecting pelia to come in and lift the watch back up at the end and comfort laan

where were all the Asians? Toronto is filled with East, South, Subcontinental Asians

Well the romulans have been pushing humanity apart fro a while they delayed Singh by 30years. Maybe they been working even longer

I do wonder how Kirk got his initial stake against the chess hustlers though

Chekovs gun (for a very long time I actually thought the phrase related to the good old Enterprise navigator)

I have a feeling the go juice will resurface in later episodes with consequences, it did seem to have ominous introduction so don’t think it will be forgotten…hopfully.

I love that Cerritos quote. I would ammend “boldly go” to somthing more like “dutifully support”. They do what the federation needs to keep working

I would say sci-fi probably has as well or story telling as a whole

Orsen Wells, Asimov etc. A lot of alagory

I think it was to highlight how neera had led Una to say exact phrases. the testimony was many paragraphs long and that flashbacks were to pick out the exact sentances neera had brought out

I am European, we had an interesting talk about the travelling community at my work the other day. When certain groups of travellers come to town there is issues with their culture fitting with the settled communtity and a small but visible element of not following the laws and customs. From issues with their approach to educating their children especially girls, to petty theft, to resolving disputes with violence.

However they revealed among those at my work were several children of travellers or even those that had travelled and settled down. For the first time I heard my self internally saying “not you though your the good ones” and felt ashamed. Ina a sort of interview format they revealed people called local sites slurs in front of them or even they joke about his RV (he has still some connection) being a “[traveler slur] wagon” not realising his connection and that it does hit home to his roots.

It really opened my eyes to those in a communtity where there may be a large minority that have questionable practices but we should still treat individuals on a case by case basis.

a similar thought might be devout Muslims (e.g. personally I think following religious practice IS a choice) with community level mysogeny or homophobia. Again while we may not agree with the community, hating the individual is not humanity.

The fact that there was no body language is the joke. The actors were told to sit there as impassionatly as possible.

Meanwhile Ortega is the audience eyes, it is just two people sat there with zero emotion.

Embenga can see a difference as is skilled people person and knows other races but we can’t see (future doctors must be more akin to vetenarians knowing hundreds of biological systems not just their own like a current doc)

Then the joke is that while on the outside it looks impassionate to a Vulcan that was a “massive outburst”. It’s a joke on Vulcan lack of emotion

I really.dont understand the whole make the prosecution read the law cliche, is there some rule that actors can’t speak as long as a lawyer would do closing argument?

It was good but don’t think it will surpass jean luc

Spock’s line is perfect lying by omission when even omissions is not allowed.

When asked is she hiding something…Spock must answer yes as he knew

What is she hiding…gives a benign thing she is hiding so he has answered the question for one thing…there may be other things she is hiding …like being an Illyrian but spock does.not have to mention that as he has answered.and she does not push.

Its like dungeons and dragons playing with zone of truth

But this was looking at a group of people that had been othered, while the federation had accepted race they othered Illyrians. So it does bring in 50s America or South Africa due to that othering that was alive at those times and still is (BLM being needed). It does also include the modern othering that is going on now so absolutly it speaks to the trans community, but all the same arguments apply to others (one of the the reasons I despise LGBdroptheT is as a group that was othered, a minority of the LGB minority now attempts to join the majority so they can other Trans.)

Now I can just be dismissed as woke

I think they kept that genetic manipulation is bad for the reasons you suggest…but also that the children did not have a choice and shouldn’t be punished for their heratige or things they didn’t choose. It was more don’t single.out the individuals