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Spoilers Starfleet Academy Episode Preview Thread

Mind reading powers are not just for Star Trek shows anymore it seems.

It's a really, really bad trait to have in a regular character of any dramatic TV show.

It can be a nice "turd in the punchbowl" for a guest character. But so much of drama rests on either miscommunication or a character hiding their real intentions. Having someone who cuts through all that every single episode eliminates a lot of stories. Not to mention in action-adventure franchises like Trek, you could just have them read the minds of the antagonists every single outing, again killing tension.
 
There has to be some kind of limitation: they can't control when it happens, it takes too much energy out of them to do it too often, they can only do it in certain circumstances (species, locations, times), they need tech to do it which doesn't always work, etc.
 
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