They're all evil Spoonheads.
Personally, I always liked the idea that Cardassia would one day reform itself, establish a democracy, shake off its fascist history, and join the Federation. I like to imagine that the Cardassians' belief in the need for collective action and collective solidarity, channeled away from fascism and towards democracy, would be something that the Federation would benefit from.
Well, we know that Trill rejoined at the end of S3 and that Ni'Var is taking to the Feds again. Nothing has yet established United Earth as having rejoined though. Personally I would like to see the reunion of the Federation with its founding member worlds as its own arc.
SMG has not once over-acted in this entire show. Hell, I'm old enough to remember when everyone was bitching that she was too wooden when the show began! Her character's arc is one of someone who goes from repression to healing from trauma to leadership. Crying is part of that -- and there is nothing wrong with crying. I agree that the writers had her cry exactly one too many times almost three years ago in Season Two. This was only a mistake insofar as featuring too many scenes of her crying makes the others feel less dramatically powerful; at no point was the character's crying an inappropriate response or an indication of over-acting or over-emotionalism. I can't even remember any scenes of her crying in S3.
I liked his scenes on Kaminar -- I like getting a sense of what's going on in the domestic affairs of other planets, and I really liked seeing that the revolution Saru set off in S2 has led to the Kelpians and the Ba'ul living in peace and equality.
I think they're probably going to set up Saru as the captain of the new sporedrive ship President Rillak was talking about.
If she has some valid points, maybe that means she's not an obstacle? Vance turned out not to be an obstacle last season, after all.
That is an excellent point I didn't think about. I thought his getting upset at the "pudgy white dude" dying was gross and weirdly self-pitying, but I didn't synthesis his comments the way you did. Thank you for pointing that out.
Very disappointing, especially considering that it's in contradiction to his stated politics -- his twitter is full of condemnations of overt institutional racism, IIRC. But there again, he's hardly be the first white liberal to be much more anti-racist in theory than in practice.
It's also consistent with the horrific misogyny of saying that a female writer ought to be forced to walk naked through the streets with people screaming and throwing things at her just because he didn't like their script for an episode of TV, though.
Interesting side-note: RMB accused "Unification III" of being anti-semitic because he thought it was some coded attack on the right of the State of Israel to exist -- like the Romulans coming back to Vulcan/Ni'Var was the equivalent of Palestinians getting the right to return or something. But that parallel really doesn't line up with the real-world history of Israel and Palestine, so I don't see where he got that from. Also, "Unification III" was a follow-up to TNG's "Unification I & II," whose writer Michael Piller had explicitly compared Vulcan/Romulan reunification to the reunification of West and East Germany after the end of the Cold War.
I agree. And I also see flaws in both of them -- as I said, it was incredibly inappropriate of the President to question Michael's orders in front of the crew and undermine her authority in a crisis. But, her points about Michael's motivations were valid, and Michael's reaction to the President in their conversation was overly-defensive. I think they both have something to learn from each other.
ing didn't! And even if the record reflected that inaccuracy she also ended the war.
