Remember the Vulcan kids bullying Spock (mentioned in "Amok Time" and shown in "Yesteryear")? Or Finnegan hazing Kirk in "Shore Leave"?
The more things change . . . .
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Remember the Vulcan kids bullying Spock (mentioned in "Amok Time" and shown in "Yesteryear")? Or Finnegan hazing Kirk in "Shore Leave"?
The more things change . . . .
Rich parents often send their kids to Boarding school and lets the school 'raise' them.For a year?
Definitely a case where some establishing dialogue would have helped.
Oh I remember those. It's just not very progressive, is it? With the pounding the Federation has taken since then, you'd think mental health would have a high priority.
The Enterprise-D engineering crew teased Barclay. Hardly behavior befitting grown adults and trained, uniformed professionals in the 24th century.
"Rogue Synths" are the big bad this time? Reminds me of the 80's television War of the Worlds which featured "rogue synths" which showed no mercy either...
Lol, and let’s all give them participation trophies, and no more competitive sports, since it may hurt their feelings when they lose. Let children be children. Generations after generations of children grew up without anyone worrying about their mental health. The experiences from their childhoods, both bad and good, made them grow up into strong adults. This early 21st century attitude that children need to be “protected” from everything is raising a generation of sissies who won’t be able to take care of themselves when they grow up. Glad to see that in 24th century kids will still be kids and will be exposed to all the experiences that they need to be exposed to.
Yeah, and it seemed to stop when he made a breakthrough they couldn't manage! Like Rudolph the Red-Nose Reindeer...
And remember, just because kids get the day off on First Contact Day doesn't mean their parents do.
Didn’t look like the kids were off either.
Hopefully they get paid at least time and a half for working on a holiday. Oh.. snap..
My point is that there should be systems in place to mitigate bullying in the schools by that time.
We know Jake was able to live at Utopia Planitia with his dad less than twenty years before this, and since the girls are taking a school bus, they probably aren't in a boarding school. Either both of them come from broken homes, or their parents have jobs on different planets.
Starfleet has been known to throw multiple prisoners in a single cell without anyone monitoring them, but you think they're going to turn schools into panopticons?
Starfleet created a race of slaves, it seems like. Exactly what Picard was worried about in "The Measure of a Man". You can even see signs of their intentions in late-VOY where they turned all the EMH Mark 1s into miners.
Starfleet is not as high-minded as it says it is or would like to be. Picard has finally found that out and woken up.
It seems that even if Section 31 is no longer a major influence in the Federation after DS9 and the Dominion War the Section 31 attitude about playing with dangerous technologies and skirting around the law still are.
Honestly, this seemed to be less about bullying than a short-lived squabble between two kids, one of whom was clearly troubled by her father's repeated absence. The conflict lasted exactly one day and, in fact, the school administrators were already intervening. Had it persisted, no doubt steps would be taken to address the kids' issues, parents contacted, etc.
Seems plausible enough for me. Do we really think that kids are always going to get along, never lose their tempers, get their feelings hurt, or hold grudges in the future? "Progressive" doesn't mean that everyone is perfectly well-adjusted and well-behaved all the time, just that society is developing better ways of coping with the inevitable messiness and imperfections of sentient beings. You're still going to have kids acting out and having personality conflicts. What matter is how you cope with them.
Am I the only one that didn't even notice anything odd about the ship designs? Granted, I don't pay much attention to that and the only ship designs I recognize are probably the hero ships from each series. But even if I did notice it wouldn't bother me, especially for a mini-episode with limited budget.
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