I always like to respond to "[X] has always been political" with a simple allegory: Pretzels are salty; pretzels have always been salty. I like pretzels partly because they're salty. These people are trying to give me a saltlick that they call a pretzel and are surprised as to why I don't like it.

In DS9 "The Jem'Hadar" Quark called out Sisko for disrespecting his culture (based on money), saying something like "You preach about tolerance and understanding, but you only practice it to people who remind you of yourselves." STD writers would never challenge themselves enough to play with that idea

The Outcast from TNG explores gender identity, sexuality and related taboos in a far more mature and sensitive way than what Discovery has ever managed. Discovery just has characters who tick checkboxes and feels the job is done

I always felt that “The Drumhead” (Star Trek: The Next Generation, Season 4) was a superb example of a courtroom drama that explored the subject of witch hunts. A young officer’s career is derailed as he falls victim to a fanatical retired admiral who sees enemies where there are none. In the quest for “justice”, is it morally justifiable to trample on people’s personal liberties? At the centre of it all is Picard who can see the sinister implications all unfolding. Such wonderful television, and a money saving “bottle-show” as well.

From the original series: "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield". A great look at where untethered racism and hatred actually leads.

P.S. The other problem with Adira and Gray is that Gray died. Gray's memories were preserved in a symbiote that Adira inherited. So Adira is in love with a memory of who she used to be. It's very narcissistic.

Star Trek 6, The Undiscovered Country, dealt with prejudice in the aftermath of the "Cold War" in one of the best ways possible. It asks the audience as well as the main characters to overcome their distrust of the Klingons. An aged Kirk and company is forced to be an "olive branch" to a collapsing Klingon Empire. Kirk has every reason to distrust the Klingons. They have always been at war with the Federation. Klingons are responsible for the death of his son and the destruction of the original Enterprise. There are reasonable and convincing arguments presented in the movie that they should simply "let them (the Klingons) die." There are even fifth elements in both the Federation and Klingon Empire that conspire together to spark a final war between the two parties. Kirk is forced to do one of the hardest things at this stage in his life. He has to overcome his distrust and prejudice in order for a chance at peace, even though he has many legitimate reasons for not wanting to do so. The movie is in my opinion the 2nd best Trek movie behind only The Wrath of Khan, and it is the very best one in terms of exploring a difficult topic (making peace with the former Soviet Union) in the form of allegory. The movie does not condemn people for having the prejudiced views that it ultimately disagrees with. Much of the audience may in fact be against peace with the Klingons, but I think that Kirk's character arc from an unwilling "olive branch" to a true believer in forgiveness and future cooperation is both realistic and convincing to those on the "pro war" side of the argument. By the way, I love the channel. I hope you guys make it big. Keep it up!

To people making the "you just don't like diversity argument," there are (at least) two potential responses. a} Then why did we like pre-Discovery Trek at all? That was actually MORE diverse. b} We do like diversity. We just don't like lecturing to replace stories, and the general level of vindictiveness and desire to punish, rather than include and integrate, anyone who even potentially disagrees with the show's message. Discovery's fans who think we are hateful, need to understand that from our perspective, they (and the people who make this show) are actually a lot more hateful than we are. The original series' bridge crew had representatives from half a dozen different human cultures. With rare exceptions like Captain Pike, Discovery focuses on a single group, black women. So I am actually inclined to throw the diversity hater argument back against those who make it themselves. Diversity in contemporary terms does NOT mean the same thing that the word used to. At this point, the word "diversity" has become a euphemism for black and/or transgendered women, specifically. I have seen the people who claim to be champions of diversity, be more than happy to discriminate against Asians or Latinos who do not ideologically submit. So if you accuse me of hating diversity, you might just be a hypocrite. I also recently saw a video review of Discovery from a white woman who claimed to not be a Star Trek fan or have any real skin in this particular race whatsoever, whose focus was on what terrible leadership skills Tilly exhibited during an away mission, while mentioning that that was only one example of what she saw as Discovery's fundamental problem. Discovery is a bad show. It's a bad show literally whichever way you slice it, or from whichever angle you want to look at it. It's bad in terms of how the characters treat each other. The writing is bad. The replacement of real, extensive diversity with an exclusive focus on narcissistic, immoral black women is bad. Using the diversity card to shield this show from criticism, and claiming that anyone who does not like it is automatically a fascist bigot, is purely and simply dishonest. Anyone who does that is lying.

Great analysis. My deepest regret is that, to an overwhelming degree, you put much more thought into this presentation than the producers of the current Star Trek have in the last thirteen years. I am looking forward to part 2. Keep up the good work.

DS9 in the pale moonlight is one of the most excellent written episode that I fee it is still relevant today

DISC should end with its final episode being the grand reveal; the whole show, all along, was part of Ensign Burnham's holodeck fantasy aboard the ship she serves on. She is like kind of like Barclay, meek and prone to getting upset in the real world, so she goes into the holodeck to play out wild adventures. In the end the Captain of her ship is dissatisfied with her service and she is transferred to a cargo freighter that happens not to have a holodeck installed.

Evil cannot create, it can only corrupt - Tolkien

Here is the quote from TOS's Metamorphis. It's purely alagorical, of course. But it's also shockingly early. COCHRANE: That thing fed on me. It used me. It's disgusting. MCCOY: There's nothing disgusting about it. It's just another life form, that's all. You get used to those things. COCHRANE: You're as bad as it is. SPOCK: Your highly emotional reaction is most illogical. Your relationship with the Companion has for one hundred and fifty years been emotionally satisfying, eminently practical, and totally harmless.

During the measure of a man episode I wanted to hear the question " If we are having a hearing to see if Data is indeed a person, isn't that enough proof in itself to consider that he is at least enough of a person to have a hearing?" I mean, we don't have hearing for a couch before we throw it in the garbage...lol. I always thought that if you are that unsure if someone is sentient then the unsureness alone is proof enough to at least err on the side of "yes".

You have articulated, in a way I have struggled with, the whole problem I have with series. Wasted potential and ham fisted virtue signaling. I miss the days when Trek gave me things to think about.

My sexuality has no bearing on my life outside of the bedroom, being autistic and all the social challenges and sensitivity to noise that comes with it has formed such a huge part of my personality and life that if you completely removed the autism, I would be a different person entirely whereas if you changed my sexuality to fully gay or fully straight, it would simply change my choice of sexual partner and category of porn

Some Great stories where computers gain "feelings" are "The moon is a harsh mistress" And "I have no mouth and I must scream" But those were written by artists with talent...

Also, in hindsight, DS9 was a very non-heteronormative show; it's just that said references were for the most part low-key. Part of that would have been network concerns, but an equally large part of it was due to the colour blind approach, and the simple assumption that because they were in space, unconventional sexual pairings were completely normal for the setting anyway. On a space station with multiple different forms of extraterrestrials, exclusively heterosexual, human-only sex actually would have been MORE weird, not less.

I might be a little late to the party here, but I hope i don't need to spend too much time explaining the TNG episode "Darmok". Absolute perfection.

TOS episode Balance of Terror. It introduces the Romulan Empire (my favorite!). It also dealt well with crew not trusting Spock because he looked so similar to the Romulans. It was interesting to see the seeds of prejudice and racism even in a culture that moved far beyond the racial history of all peoples in the federation. It also taught the audience a valuable lesson about two people appearing the same can be quite different. It was great!

26:38. I’m so grateful to here that line. As someone who is Bisexual and leans to the right it’s such a relief to hear someone else say it out loud. Just because I love a certain way does not make me part of the “team”. And yes it’s true these people nowadays have no concept of how scary it is to grow up being either gay or bisexual. I was born in the 80’s. From a young age I knew I was different and that I liked girls and boys the same. It wasn’t a choice it was just how I felt and nothing anyone said or did could change that. But I also knew that if I spoke up about it I’d be labeled and abused by my peers because I lived in a flyover state and it was common to get harassed for being that way. And when I say harassed I mean guys showing up at your house at 3 am with bats and stuff to trash your property and graffiti your house. (Which is one of the many reasons why I’m very pro 2nd amendment and carry a gun at all times). It was a hard life and to this day I still feel the need to stay alert and not trust easy. That said todays world is so much different. I remember when one of my coworkers noticed that I never asked anyone out he asked “Dude are you gay”? My immediate reaction was to tense up and deny it. But he responded “Dude it’s okay if you are. You don’t need to feel ashamed. If that’s how you are then that’s how you are. I’m not gonna think less of you dude”. As clumsy as that was, it actually made me smile because it showed me just how far we’ve come. So whenever I here zoomers and late millennials complain about oppression I have to try not to lose it. Having someone say “leave that gay shit out of my movies” is nowhere near what oppression is. I’ve lived it. My sister lived it. And we were just grateful because we didn’t live through the time my aunt and uncle lived through because back then the gangs were twice the size and were there to kill you instead of just trashing your property and calling you a “fag” in the hallways at school. You’re 100% correct that these kids have no concept of how good they have it today. And once more they have no right to try and recruit to this far left ideology that spreads hate and lies about the right and independent people because gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgenders exist on the right too. Politics should have nothing to do with who you are attracted to and damn sure shouldn’t be used as a shield from criticism. Especially this stupid “queer” identity thing which is just vanilla Bi. Or stolen alt valor. It’s trendy to be LGBT now so those who aren’t and have no personality or interesting traits take on this new made up sexuality of “queer” which is the equivalent of “I watched a porno and wasn’t turned off by the guy in it”. That’s not being gay or bisexual that’s imposing yourself into the scene which is the entire point of putting a good looking dude in a porno to begin with. The people calling themselves queer are the same kind of people that pretend that they served in warfare or have autism or have a thyroid issue. They’re people who have nothing interesting to do or say, and want attention for something they don’t have without having earned it. I know this one was a long response and I apologize for that but I just wanted to thank you for this specific part of the video as someone who’s also alt but independent of the rainbow cult. Just thank you for putting yourself out there and showing those like us that being alternative to the norm doesn’t mean you have to subscribe to this whole bullshit and to be grateful that the world is so boring because even 20 years ago the price of being alternative was to be alone and scared. Subscribed.

Discovery's episode on computer sentience is not like measure of a man at all. It's simply like meeting Data for the first time. It's not in itself enough to have an episode about. My favorite line is when Burnham tells the computer to "focus". It is not possible to like Discovery after that scene.

Not to mention the acting range of SMG is hard to measure it’s so small.. she was horrible on TWD and putting her in a Trek series was a huge mistake. Very good video!

You forgot the classic trope of SciFi to win the episode: "REVERSE THE POLARITY!!!"

52 year old gay guy here. Love Trek and have been watching since I was a kid. Like many, I gave up on Discovery and Picard. Just found it all so tiresome. Found this video to be thoughtful and insightful. You write and speak as someone much older than your years. Well done.

I miss Trek when it was still Trek.

This video was brilliant you don't know how rare it is these days to hear someone talk like this. Excellent many thanks it's nice to know other people like me still exist

I swear the Kobiashi maru has become like the magic wand that picks out the chosen one in trek. This problem was one that's been going on from the growth of the old expanded media even before new trek handled it. But the original "test no one has won" turned into "oh that test only the main character wins" like there's at least 5 people who've beaten it so far, and even more if you include tests that were updated or alternate versions of it.

One of my indicators of whether a Star Trek episode and/or series is good is my desire to re-watch the episode. With every other series, there are several episodes that I feel are worthy of re-watching, but I can't think of a single episode of Discovery that would fall into that category. There's just nothing there that hooks a viewer into the plot or the characters. One of my very favorite Deep Space 9 episodes is Duet from the first season. Marritza comes off as such a despicable character for his approval and enjoyment of the Bajoran holocaust, yet the plot twist at the end of the episode was a complete surprise. It still feels like a surprise every time I re-watch that episode. It really makes one think of how preconceived biases can shape your own thoughts and actions and why those preconceived biases must be overcome. That's one heck of a moral to the story. Will we ever see that quality of story telling come out of Discovery? I'm not holding my breath.

Seeing how Star Trek: Picard Season 2 is literal filler just to rush to Season 3... These criticisms apply to the entire franchise as a whole.

TNG: "The Measure of a Man" DS9: "Far Beyond the Stars" Voyager: "Living Witness"

How was indeed explicitly explained in the very first 2001 novel. His murderous impulses came as a direct result of being forced to follow orders in direct contradiction to his fundamental programming: the accurate processing of data without distortion or error. In essence, because he was ordered to withhold information from the crew, the psychotic Hal decided if he eliminated the crew he would illuminate the contradiction. Or as Bob Balaban so eloquently put it in the movie “he was told to lie by people who find it easy to lie”

TNG episode - The enemy; deals with war time bigotry ,and the question surrounding a character making a medical decision with far reaching implications (will the captain force said procedure?), also there's a TOS episode - A Taste of Armageddon; that deals with war ,and touches on the whole "social contract theory". Sorry if I've over simplified the plots

Aren't self-aware holograms (the EMH in Voyager) and androids like Data, basically self-aware A.I.? The EMH is a computer program. Data is a walking computer.

I love how you set out your argument like an old school debate. Bravo.

As a longtime Star Trek fan (and as a not-strait person, myself), I want to commend you on this thoughtful and thorough critique. I look forward to viewing this channel’s content - both old and new. Regardless of subject matter, your astute observations and command of language will always engage.

The entire character arc of T'Pol getting (if I remember correctly) Panar Syndrome in Enterprise was supposed to be a metaphor for the AIDS epidemic, was it not? I thought the Vulcan's distaste for mind-melders was supposed to be allegorical to homophobia; and I thought it was done quite well. I don't care what anyone says, I will defend both Enterprise and early TNG as being the best of Star Trek.

I will never forgive discovery for destroying the federation, that earth and Vulcan would leave was ridiculous, and the federation already had a committee or boby that handled this issue, federation commissioners like the European union. ( tos ) . Oh tony ben god i miss him .

It seems to me that "old trek" tried to create a situation to intelligently explain whatever social commentary they were approaching in a way to change someone's mind or nudge them in the right direction through well-thought-out dialog. Displaying other perspectives to show where others are coming from, shining a light in a spot you might not have considered yourself to look at. It seems to me now that "new trek" is not trying to change your mind or enlighten someone by showing them other perceptions or perspectives about a topic, but instead, try to use the time or information to shame or belittle the viewer for having an opposing view. They are attempting do something that requires subtly to get through to people, Not half-cocked, hamfisted attempts to change a mind through pretty much bullying them into either agreeing or just keeping their opinions to themselves. That is not how to affect change, it only causes a wider gap and scares off a lot of people that would otherwise be watching your show.

You're not wrong sir. Modern Trek is terrible and the people who defend it seem to have the same level of talent and intelligence as the creators of modern Trek. I hope the YT algorithm starts to promote this channel more than it has. You deserve more subs.

The second that computer started talking about it's fee fees it'd be format c: Not a quick format either. A FULL format.

My choice isn't an episode, it's an entire character. And it is relatively straight forward. Jadzia Dax says Trans rights! That's all.

Saw this was an hour long and was like do I wanna sit through that? Check the voice. British. Solid.

I found your channel a while back but today I felt compelled to say I'm really glad I discovered your content.

Its honestly surprising how shows like this cause you to forget virtually everything about it immediately after..

A very well crafted analysis. Can't wait for Part II.

Pre-Kurtzman Trek dealt with homosexuality twice, from memory. The Outcast, in season 5 of TNG, and Cogenitor, in season 2 of Enterprise. I prefer the latter episode, if for no other reason than because I view Trip Tucker's political leanings as closer to Gadsden flag or moderate libertarian conservatism, rather than Riker's/the TNG crew's usual San Francisco Leftism. If you want the closest thing we've got to a Trek show from the perspective of the Right, TLP, then I strongly recommend Enterprise. While it is true that the writing was genuinely wretched in places, (although it still did not quite sink to Discovery's level) there was a clear attempt to culturally model Trip and Captain Archer on the American generation who participated in the Second World War. It is a genuine tragedy that the show was not permitted to run the full seven seasons, if only because of the potential for real political reconciliation that it offered.

Too much crying in this series, to a point they cry over absolutely everything.

This video has a way better humor, dialogue, editing, and feeling than the actual show. Your ability to sit down and make something this entertaining is so impressive to me. I could not do that and you make seem easy and fun. 😄 Talent.

I found your channel recently and have been binging all your vids since. Truly love the intelligent talk.

Thanks for expressing so amazingly well how I feel about new Star Dreck! The "writers" are children that don't know enough about literature to write for a porn shoot. The dialogue is always so cringey. The stakes are always universe encompassing. There is no breathing room for story and character development, not that they could do that anyway.

I am realy pissed that they canceled enterpise that was canon of the original startrek time line . and they keep running this Discovery crap.

This is great. I love your exquisite critique and how well presented it is. I don't think I have ever seen anyone else who does it as you do. Very well done!

Deep Space 9: Homefront. Its an amazing look at 'Those who choose security over freedom deserve neither." Watching Sisko go barreling down the rabbit hole we see Picard avoid in The Drumhead, only to be pulled out of it as he sees the pain in his father's face. DS9: The Forsaken. A wonderful, heart touching tale of two people the learn to very genuinely care for each other. Troi is fantastic, doting, and caring for Odo, making him understand she doesn't care 'what' he is, but 'who.' One of the handful of really, really good Season one episodes

Thank God I thought I was the only one. What a contrived bunch of bullshit this series is. It's all big spaces, open plan areas and holograms loosely disguised as technology. The characters are soulless constructs trapped in a self made universe of politically correct angst and permanant moral crisis. I feel betrayed. I love Star trek. I've loved it since I was a kid. It's like watching an old friend acting like an asshole while you're desperately trying to convince everyone that they're just going through a phase and then realizing that it may be permanent.

Your videos brilliantly articulate my exact thoughts about NuTrek.

It hurts to watch this and remember just how far Trek has fallen. Great work!

I believe the best take I've heard related to STD is that David Cronenberg was never actually *cast* - he was just strolling by, witnessed the extraordinary pathologies on display, and decided to analyse the fk out of these "symptoms without enjoyment" (for shits and giggles, or the Canadian equivalent) and everyone was so terrified of him they just let him stay and he *allowed them to film the sessions*

I never in my life thought I'd be quitting watching a Star Trek show. Untill STD and second season of SNW came along..

Old Trek wasn't afraid to explore more than one side of things. There was a TOS episode that depicted hippies as dangerously naïve radicals who feel too much and think not enough. There was an episode where the solution to the given problem was the MAD approach wherein Kirk supplies guns to an iron age tribal society. There's an episode where Kirk meets Abraham Lincoln and they discuss just how much race DOES NOT MATTER.

While I don't agree with everything you say, I do find it comforting that the writers of 'Time Trax' found other employment. Not that I enjoyed 'Time Trax'', it was a study in stupidity. It just comforts me to have proof that you don't have to be a great writer to get a job in writing. There is hope for the average hack as proven by this entire series.

Thank you so much for this. I despise new Trek and everyone I know gives me the runaround you describe in the beginning and it’s so frustrating and dismissive to hear it from people.

Excellent work. Your verbal skills do put me in mind of younger (and more centrist) Douglas Murray. It's very much to our gain that you're a fan and critic of modern science fiction, with its endless waffling flaws.

Thank you for the time and effort you take to deconstruct, analyze, and discuss Star Trek Discovery in this video series. I gave up making your points a few years ago sadly. I just got exhausted being called a -phobe and an -ist when I am a non-straight, non male person when I criticize/analyze the social commentary methods deployed in STD in comparison to legacy Star Trek. Legacy Star Trek invited discussion by abstracting then current social commentary to encourage discussion. Modern Star Trek preaches at the audience and finds fans wanting if they do not 'drink the kool-aid of wokeness'. The writers appear to have forgotten an axiom of good writing - actively Show (diversity and social respect) don't aggressively Tell (sic lecture us about the CORRECT position to hold).

I heartily agree with the Firing Line recommendation. I was in my mid twenties when I discovered the episodes on YT, and while my own political leanings lie elsewhere, it was simply a joy to listen to reasonable debate on the substance and principles behind any given topic rather than the shallow mudslinging we see on cable TV today. Also for what it's worth, I noticed and appreciate the Buckleyish delivery.

Looking back att history through our own lens, and the projecting those injustices on the issues of our own time but so much harder is so damn foolish. Like saying that our world is so much more racist and anti-gay than it used to be, while the fact is that society is much more tolerant. We interpret stuff differently today, due to privilege of growing up in a tolerant world. Media is omnipresent due to the Internet and social media. So every negative report of injustice in (social) media is interpreted as the world i going under. It is so damn crazy.

TOS S3 Ep15: “Let That Be Your Last Battlefield”. Iconic episode in which the Enterprise rescues two survivors of a war-torn planet, each half-black and half-white but on opposite sides of the face, who continue their crazy feud on board the ship. First broadcast in 1969.

During the original run of TNG, my friend used to call this science gobbledygook the "Geordi save the ship button".

Yooooo, I love your perspectives and insight, I disagree on points Gere and there, but over all your content is refreshing and mad entertaining. I implore you pleases continue with the production of your top notch content, LOVE IT!!!!

The intro to this is like he's trying to reason with someone suffering from acute paranoia.

23:03 I cant be the only one thinking that guy on the leash was Linkara, right? 🤣

In "For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky" and "Spock's Brain", the crew of the Enterprise comes into possession of advanced alien knowledge. In the former, that knowledge happens to provide the cure for McCoy's terminal illness (revealed in that episode). In the latter, the knowledge is used to allow Spock's stolen brain to be put back in his head. Of course, the show didn't get renewed past that point, so there was no chance to use either as a further plot device. It's also worth mentioning that these were both season 3 episodes of TOS, which even cast members such as Nimoy acknowledged were the worst of the series.

Speaking as a straight, 67 yr old conservative, American, red white and blue MAGA constitutionalist Republican, I love your work and listen to every single second of every multi-hour show. I also closely follow Nerdrotic and Drinker. I am not a unicorn. We are Legion and there are a whole lot more of us out here who were raised in the 60s and 70s where all of this diversity crap doesn't mean a thing to us because we take people at face value, not their pronouns.

TNG Season 3 Episode 16: The Offspring Where Data creates his child, names it a gender neutral name "Lal" it starts off as a non gendered form, and data expresses that he will allow Lal to choose their own gender. This is light years ahead of its time, and was genuinely one of the most emotional episodes of TNG possibley all of Star Trek, emotion from Androids. 10/10

Im convinced that they did the whole burn/fungus-net thing just to avoid using a space-travel mechanic with established rules.

I just found your channel and I'm loving these analases, Star Trek is by far my favorite thing to watch and it's sad how much they have defiled it and mildly infuriating that they call me a bigot for not liking their version (which also tells me they probably don't know about or even like the Trek that came before)

TNG: "The Merchant" (I think is the English title) Data is captured by a collector and tries all stages of passive resistance and faces in the end the question, of whether force is justified or not justified to end an injustice situation. TNG: "Darmok" Picard meets a species with a totally different cultural background and tries to establish communication. We are all talking in metaphors. We need to find a common ground and not concentrate on the differences. The episode you cite as a clip when Picard is tortured and (nearly) breaks. The Trial on the decision "Is Data a person", all those episodes raise interesting questions and inspire deeper thoughts.

Nice work. I look forward to watching the next part.

Darmok Star Trek: The Next Generation: Season 5, Episode 2 - Darmok. Darmok and Jalad… at Tanagra. Darmok and Jalad on the ocean. but it's more Shaka, when the walls fell these days...

I came here to see Discovery get eviscerated, and instead was treated to a monologue on sexuality and politics that should honestly be shown in grammar school. Please continue having the courage to stand up to ideologues and zealots who would see you reduced to a political token to be spent in whatever way they see fit.

Ah, miss a lot of your commentary....cheers mate!!!

"It socks you in the mouth and hopes you stay plastered" (ca 19:02) sounds very much like Buckley vs Vidal IIRC 🤔

To be fair, beyond TNG and TOS, DS9 had a character who could be seen as an alagory for trans people(her species is symbiotic, and they get transfered from a male to a female host). And Enterprise had one episode that was a VERY blatant allegory for AIDS and gay people(there was a disease among vulcans that is spread by mind melding, which was considered taboo at that time)

Diversity without white people, straight people, old people, religious people and any other demographic excluded from the "we love LIEversity" crowd is not Diversity. It is, as i said, LIEversity. Diversity doesn't mean exclude who we hate. That's literally antithetical to Diversity. Not everyone has the capacity to understand that simple concept.... and I'm ok with that. I don't want to be where I'm hated. Even if I don't hate the people who hate me.

I wouldn't be surprised if your average Minecraft player has a better grasp on the scientific method than this show's writers. Half of the appeal of the game is to say "Hmm, I want to do this...how can I do it?" and then trying out various builds, contraptions, harvesting methods, etc. On several occasions I know I've come up with a hypothesis, built an initial experiment, seen it fail at a certain point in a way I did not expect, make an adaptation, see an improvement that I think proves my hypothesis, but then later sees it too is flawed, making me realize I need to come up with a new hypothesis. Looking up the answer could be seen as cheating, but sometimes new information is introduced that another person came up with that could reopen the hypothesis and thus lead to checking again.

"Let This Be Your Last Battlefield", "Patterns Of Force", "Turnabout Intruder" and easily a dozen more

I see another longman style reviewer. We need more people to review like this. 40:20 ok its new to the franchise but Gundam 00 and Gundam Iron Blooded Orphans have FTL and Artificial ( non centrifugal or thrust) based gravity but don't have them make things into hamfisted manner. With Gundam 00 the FTL method called Quantization requires massive amounts of particles created by the Gundam's unique reactors the GN drive to create enough of a point of quantum stability to connect 2 different points in space. In Iron Blooded Orphans ships and Mobile Suits have what are called Aheb reactors which are able to produce gravitons of enough density to allow inertial dampening and Artificial gravity. Both ideas are rather odd for Gundam's rather hard Sci-fi worldbuilding but when explained actually work with our theoretical physics models. By comparison the Sporedrive changes rules rather quickly.

Late to the party, but want to make sure that Star Trek: The Original Series Season 3 episode, the Gene Cook-penned “Let That Be Your Last Battlefield” gets mentioned as a rumination on the enduring alienation that viewing the universe through a racial lens fosters.

Ive never watched Star Trek but i will watch anything Platoon makes hes the goat of youtube media reviews

The way these people see "science" today, is best understood as passing through the simplistic lens of a generation obsessed with Harry Potter novels, and the like. Think about it... Disclaimer: I didn't come up with the idea, and the person who did explained it in a much deeper way that I won't butcher by trying to paraphrase.

The video and commenters are completely missing the point. Especially when it comes to Gray and Adira. Adira and Gray were two teenage orphans who fell in love aboard a generational ship in search of the Federation. Senna Tal assured them that Gray's relationship with Adira would not be affected before joining Gray. So Gray agreed. When their ship was attacked and Gray was mortally wounded, Adira agreed to have the symbiote transferred to her. And then on Trill was it possible for Adira to finally have access to all previous lives of the symbiote including Gray, their lover. But Gray was more than just a collection of memories. All of Gray's emotions and memories existed as a sentient entity in and of itself inside of Adira. Essentially, Adira inherited Gray's Katra. Gray's journey was a fascinating one. It wasn't until Adira transported to Sukal's planet that Grey was able to emerge fully. This is when Gray tells Dr. Culber that this was the first time that he felt fully "seen". This moment was extremely touching because it's as if Gray had felt (and for all practical purposes was) invisible to the rest of the Disco crew until that moment. Mirroring the experience when many transgender people feel when they come out for the first time and appear as they want to be seen by the rest of the world. How's that for allegory? Simply beautiful no? And Discovery reveals more of the transgender coming out process when Gray was transferred into their golem. He tells Dr. Culber which physical characteristics from Star Fleet's genetic database on him no longer feel like they belong. In this case, a mole. Which mirrors the transitioning process transgender folk might experience when having cosmetic operations to achieve their ideal self-image. As best as science can provide when it comes to facial features and more intimate body parts. Disco wisely chose to use the mole analogy as a placeholder for far more intrinsic changes to one's sex. But the problem is. Disco-dissers are so blinded by seeing Queer people being presented as they exist in the real world. They can't see the beautiful nuance and subtle allegories that old Trek would never ever dare to broach. Where Nu Trek excels is boldly going where old Trek was far too tepid to go. Nu Trek presents "rainbow people" as they truly exist in our own world. Fully formed. Out of the closet for all the world to see. And deftly uses nuance and allegory to present the complex inner worlds of queer folk that much of society is still too afraid and bigoted to face.

It feels marvelous being seen... *Never seen again*

glad i never cared enough for TREK i was always much more of a Star wars/Middle earth/Castlevania person but i do also feel for those true Star trek fans since i know also the pain of being a SW fan and great franchises been sabotaged by this decadent era of bankruptcy that is been plaguing everything that is dear to us or at least mostly everything just very lucky and almost a miracle that at least the Castlevania anime series was made by the right hands and for the most part true lovers of the series despite also it's numbers of flaws i was just too lucky that it came out the way it did just referring that as fine example that not all is Lost

The TOS episode "Metamorphosis" presents the first trans character in St (trans-species). We see an energy creature who identifies as a human woman and undergoes a species-change so she can be with the human man she loves. There's a great scene in which everyone argues to the man that love transcends anatomy. It's the closest thing to dealing with transsexual issues as possible in the 1960s. Yet the message is pro-love, not politics. Also, "Turnabout Intruder" repeated the idea that gender identity is not related to anatomy.

If ever a show ever NEEDED to be cancelled....

They actually used a door closer like everyone you see today. 🤣🤣🤣

Star Trek the original series: “Let that be your last battlefield”: did an amazing job showing the follies of racism by wisely viewing the situation from an outside point of view to show how foolish racism is to everyone watching the show regardless of their racial background, unlike many modern shows which strongly take a certain side to the point of alienating and encouraging racism in the unenlightened by people on both sides towards people on the other side. Despite theoretically attempting to be unifying, most modern shows cause divisiveness instead through their ham-fisted methodology.

Despite the whole "born this way" slogan, these days apparently you can reshuffle your sexuality like a baccarat dealer.

I agree 100% with your analysis of this show. The writers have traded good story telling and Star treks ability to be a commentary of the human experience for a pandering mess whose only function is to appease a certain part of the audience. I find this show very difficult to watch not because of the subject matter but because of how badly its handled. The messaging and wokism is so heavy handed it takes the place of good , well thought out writing. It’s a shame this show had so much promise and season after season it disappoints.

Belated kudos on the quality of dissection applied to the carcass of this long dead franchise.