This video is about Star Trek, certainly

Starfleet is sending its thoughts and prayers out to all the families on Galaxy-Class ships.

Love that the, "I don't really care about lore, I just care about story" Steve has expanded the ST lore in very interesting ways. Of course this is using "lore" to make a good story.

Steven, you can’t say you’re making a fun silly little sketch and then just write a really good episode of Star Trek

At first I'm like, this is dark and then I saw the point you were making and realized it needed to be 40% darker

"That's why so many casualties of the Battle of Wolf 359 were children." Dark line. Helps put into perspective the lingering distrust and hate for Picard.

We need whistle-blowers like you. You are a brave man!

I wonder how many people actually put together what you were really saying in this well-done skit? It truly is a shame we have so many children endangered by a completely avoidable circumstance in real life. There are things we could do about it - things that do not involve our schools being more militant and more like a prison than even some actual prisons. Then to go to their homes to find similar situations... Is it any wonder why things are the way they are? How can anyone send thoughts and prayers when they have absolutely no intent of changing the circumstances that resulted in those "thoughts and prayers" - can you think of anything more blasphemous that looking at the problem, thinking about it, saying - in the name of your religion none the less - that you are saddened in your heart and soul... then to do absolutely nothing of substance when the ability to do something is directly in your hands? I hope some people at least felt very uncomfortable watching this - it means they, at some level, knew what you were talking about. I wish enough would get the message to be able to shift the tide on the larger scale.

As a therapist, I have to wonder who counsels the counselors in Starfleet.

I'm ashamed at how long it took to me to realize where this was going.

Fellow guidance counselor here. I remember being on a star ship and having to tell a child who was partially phased through the floor that everything would be alright, even though his lower half was sticking out of the warp drive. I...I really hate my job. Help me.

“Storage on the Sad Pad is full.” You’ve just described so many of our current mental states more succinctly than I ever could.

“What kind of society sends children to school in conductions where on any given day they could die a violent death”

No, see, we just need to give this guidance counselor a phaser. Because the only way to beat a bad prankster creature from another dimension/ hostile alien race/ haunted murder-suicide warp core bay with a phaser is a good guy with a phaser. Oh wait...

I’m now imagining a counterpart guidance counselor or teacher who is stubbornly in denial about how bad an idea the school program has been. Always changing the subject when a death gets brought up. Eerily cheerful

Oh man did you hit the actual counselor experience disturbingly on the head. I trained as, then worked as one for a few years, mostly seeing walk-ins and, eventually I just couldn't hack it anymore because 9 out of 10 of the people I saw just needed like...food, a house, more income, y'know, basic necessities. You can't therapy someone out of poverty, and after seeing that every day for two years, a society that willingly leaves them in that poverty begins to feel as insane as one that loads childern onto starships and sends them to fight the Borg. It drives you a little crazy to say the least.

This is the type of thing we need to get out of Star Trek. The mirrror to look back onto ourselves. Not mental gymnastics to turn it into conservative worship of the military industrial complex.

Twist ending: there is no guidance counsellor, just a traumatised child cosplaying helping his peers as a way of dealing with his loss.

My partner is the principal of the middle school in the district with the highest ACEs (adverse childhood experiences) scores in California. He has not been able to hire/keep a councilor or mental health support personal for years. This is pretty much his real life. So you have a kid that cursed out a teacher and hit another kid, but its the one year anniversary of the day they witnessed their parent kill themsleves and their other parent has not been home in three days and their are currently in local jail's drunk tank. To this my husband says, "yep thats a Tuesday." People have no idea what its like to work in schools today.

Oof, this was darker than I expected.