I’d appreciate it if everyone could just stop burning fossil fuels, please. Thank you for your cooperation.

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  • How in the hell is this the same federation of TNG, Voyager and DS9?

    Clearly it isn’t. Why should it be? It’s the far future. Giant prison colony, shock collars, cruelty, punishment with no semblance of a fair trial on screen; clearly the Federation are the bad guys now, or at least adjacent to them. I was prepared to accept that premise. Could be interesting… but no, they immediately shove that concept under the carpet and pretend it doesn’t matter because this one person involved feels really bad about it. It was all just another convenient plot device with no meaning, and they moved right on without stopping to think about it. It’s utterly lazy writing, the kind where they go with whatever half-baked idea they come up with first whether or not it makes any sense for the characters and story. I say that with confidence because I’ve seen so much of it before. In this case the character they betrayed was literally Star Trek itself, but they’re doing it all the time in smaller ways.

    Anyway I’m off to rewatch DS9 instead.