Episode highlights:

  • Prescriptive advice for the Second Nakba

  • Projecting American cultural values on to allegorical Palestinians to make a point

  • Lt. Data gets a smooch Lt. Data arbitrarily pretends not to have emotions instead of just telling a girl he doesn’t reciprocate romantic interest

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  • Picard moves people from their generational home and also wins the day with evil space legalese

  • Sunsofold@lemmings.world
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    1 month ago

    To be specific, it’s not representing those things themselves but a way of projecting what would happen if those elements were more exclusively glorified. Klingons are a culture in which martial strength and honour are culturally glorified. Ferengi are a culture in which greed is not just present or prominent, but specifically glorified. Each one takes a concept, raises its value to max and then a society is built around that value. And then the Captain, as embodiment of enlightened liberalism, meets that culture and comes to terms with it.