Given his age and taste in music it's probably the only way he can hear it at this point.
Maybe they need to be lectured to then. Hiding the message behind a filter of scifi was too subtle because we've reached the point to where we're rounding people into camps as we're rapidly destroying the planet's ability to keep us alive. It's an active call to either create a better future or just stop considering yourself the good guys.
This. In the episode, they say Rios is being sent to a Sanctuary District along the border, and maybe by 2024 that's what they'll be called, but right now they're immigration camps, or concentration camps if one such as myself prefers, and they are Sanctuary Districts in every way except the 1990s direct allegory of concrete walls.
Possibility 4. Picard has somehow traveled to OUR timeline where humpback whales survived extinction due to the release of Star Trek IV.
Have always loved this episode.
A good point. I'd say that's one reason why the political aspects of Picard (and other shows) don't work for me is precisely what you say here - they cater to one the point of view almost exclusively and revel in the tropes and stereotypes inherent in that view.
Everything they showed are things actually happening. It would be more about one being uncomfortable with the state of things being depicted as happening, rather than that they are somehow fantastic or bent a certain way. If one is aware of the current political situation in the US, the show is accurately portraying that and letting you be the witness who chooses how to interpret it through your own filter.
Yep, it's very real, and what they depicted in this episode, and last episode, are things ICE does on a routine basis.
It doesn't seem likely that Spock would even exist in this timeline where humans are militant xenophobes.
there is always the case of "the good other" or "the exceptional other", the example of how to behave as a member of a "other" group to be accepted
Art is not required to be "fair and balanced". Artists, be they musicians, writers, filmmakers, painters or whatever, have a point of view. Their art will project and promote that point of view. You're free not to like it,
well, the sanctuary districts where exactly that in the 90s when DS9 invented them, but just like sliding doors an flip phones...I appreciate the insight. Honestly, I thought it was all some heavy-handed exaggeration of where things might be heading, rather than what was already.
It's part of the reason why I keep links in my signature about the current locations of those camps, among other things. I would love to see the day when they're nothing but a sci-fi bogeyman.I appreciate the insight. Honestly, I thought it was all some heavy-handed exaggeration of where things might be heading, rather than what was already.
