The allegory was trans people. Hence all the talk of needing to 'pass' to be accepted and the wonderful lil touch of Unas child cast being the colours of the Trans flag
These sets look great, but I really hope they change the slip cover of the complete Picard series within the Legacy collection.
To not feature Rios, Jurati, Dahj/Soji or Elnor when they were main characters for two seasons is pretty insulting.
I feel like the 'boring' rush from sequence to sequence is happening a lot in media right now. I remember feeling the same during a couple of episodes of the last season on Mando.
Almost like paying and rewarding writers properly, so you get their best work is important.
Best I can put it down too is that they're keen to make the characters seem strong and powerful, but they forget to set up proper flaws, tension and stakes/the ones that used to exist have been ruined by now over a decade of magic resurrection macguffins whenever somebody dies in popular media that fans like.
As sub par as TNG Season 1 was, and regardless of the toxic behind the scenes environment that led to it, we can't deny that them killing off a principle character was a bold move than really set the stakes that anybody could die and that it wouldn't always be in a blaze of glory.
There's been a fan theory for a while that the reason for Discovery's really long nacelles was that the ship (and Glenn) were specially modified for the spore drive experiments.
This episode would seem to reinforce that.
Also interestingly the saucer seems to be the one from the original (substandard) CG teaser Discovery saucer, rather than the final show version.
You: I'm going to come into a new space to discuss Star Trek and immediately start repeating moderation Conspiracy theories instead of discussing Star Trek!
Others: Can you just not
You: Omg why is everyone being a dick to me
I mean, I think the entire episode which revolves around how quick they can build the Delta Flyer is that reference...
Interestingly it was almost an opposite phenomenon, Voyager was widely liked at the time but became less popular as serialised TV shows took off.
It's now coming back again as people are getting a bit burned out by everything having to have a season long plot line
It always amuses me that Seasons 1&2 had the most serialisation, but are often the least liked by the same people that complain the show wasn't serialised enough
There were a number of angles for Chakotay I think.
The romance with Janeway was obviously squashed by Mulgrew but could have been an interesting one to explore.
But the biggest missed opportunity was not making him into a more official counsellor/advice position - we have here a highly spiritual man who manages to keep a cool head in most situations. Use that. Don't have Seven go to The Doctor for social lessons (as fun as blind leading the blind plots are), have it be Chakotay.
I feel like they kind of realised this angle in S7 when they had Seven working with the Chakotay hologram, but the less said about how that turned into that ridiculous romance the better.
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