"It‘s as spectacularly irresponsible as - oh, I don‘t know, Dubya invading Iraq without any kind of plan for how to keep it stable post Hussein? Brexit? Just -WHAT EVEN?"
You sum up why I found this episode mildly offensive--and I mean those words very carefully, genuinely offensive, albeit rather mildly (because it was trying to say some nice things about working things out and no one being just fully evil). It's still a stunning example of an ideology that caused incalculable harm in the world put forward with the unexamined self-congratulation the typifies American culture at its very worst. I want better from my Star Trek, certainly in 2019.
On another note, my partner and I both independently came to the same conclusion mid-episode that the reveal was going to be that the Kelpians and Ba'ul were the same species (before and after the transformation). I think that tracked better with the slightly ominous bellicosity we got from Saru in the beginning, and frankly I think it would have been a much more interesting plotline.
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You sum up why I found this episode mildly offensive--and I mean those words very carefully, genuinely offensive, albeit rather mildly (because it was trying to say some nice things about working things out and no one being just fully evil). It's still a stunning example of an ideology that caused incalculable harm in the world put forward with the unexamined self-congratulation the typifies American culture at its very worst. I want better from my Star Trek, certainly in 2019.
On another note, my partner and I both independently came to the same conclusion mid-episode that the reveal was going to be that the Kelpians and Ba'ul were the same species (before and after the transformation). I think that tracked better with the slightly ominous bellicosity we got from Saru in the beginning, and frankly I think it would have been a much more interesting plotline.