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Starship Farragut finale "Homecoming" Grading & Discussion Thread
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First, congratulations to the Farragut team for completing "Homecoming." I know it was a long road, getting from there to here, to borrow a phrase.
I don't want to yuck the yum from that victory, so I'll keep my comments rather brief.
An average episode of Farragut. The best episode to date remains "Price of Anything".
This episode, also written by Paul Sieber, shares a lot of similarities in terms of family. But I've watched it twice and both plots don't really add up. Both meander. It felt like two separate episodes smooshed together.
But I'm proud that they were able to cross the finish line! And I look forward to Farragut Forward.
I don't want to yuck the yum from that victory, so I'll keep my comments rather brief.
An average episode of Farragut. The best episode to date remains "Price of Anything".
This episode, also written by Paul Sieber, shares a lot of similarities in terms of family. But I've watched it twice and both plots don't really add up. Both meander. It felt like two separate episodes smooshed together.
But I'm proud that they were able to cross the finish line! And I look forward to Farragut Forward.
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Reading back, yep I could have phrased that part less gatekeeper-y. But I tend to think Star Trek elements like the Prime Directive ( where Starfleet members are prohibited from interfering with the natural development of alien civilizations) was a direct response to real world events like the Soviet Union and the US/UK playing armageddon checkers with each other and using defenseless nations and citizens as collateral damage. Mainly, because of viewing those unfortunates as inferior beings if they consider them as human at all...
Now I realize that the original Star Trek was really quite bipolar when it came to the notion of racism and how it had supposedly been eradicated by the 23rd century (having Uhura be all bemused at being called a ''negress'' IIRC, and no longer fearing words), yet there were several instances of characters clearly displaying visible prejudices (Stiles and his attitudes towards Spock and Romulans, Scotty and his disdain for Klingons at K7, etc. ).
But I like to think that things that happen in our lifetime, such as the CIA destabilizing entire nations and warhawks starting conflicts in dirt-poor Asian, South American and Middle Eastern countries all disguising repugnant racism under a cloak of liberation or righteous justice would finally end many decades before the 23rd century.
Sadly, Errand of Mercy showed us that even Kirk (he of the ''Klingon bastards you killed my son!'') was sometimes not above a little severe disdain for ultra-pacifistic cultures as being not as enlightened and wise as he (had the Human guises of the Organians not been caucasians but of a different shape or flesh colour, would we still look at Kirk the same way today?)
If I was an admiral and found out that the captain of a starship under tow, understaffed, with half the crew down sick, up and left for some shore leave, I'd relieve his ass so fast he'd think he been warp-pitched to effin' Andromeda.
Man, imagine how the rest of the sick, overworked crew would feel to see the Old Man just up and take off for some R&R. "Epic Failure of Leadership" doesn't even come close.
Man, imagine how the rest of the sick, overworked crew would feel to see the Old Man just up and take off for some R&R. "Epic Failure of Leadership" doesn't even come close.
Finishing any film good or bad, is a huge effort and I always applaud anyone who can get across the finish line.
The only story I want to see about Section 31 is about it being dragged out of the shadows and dismantled as antithetical to the letter and spirit of the law of the Federation and Starfleet.
That would be a good comeuppance story, but the problem is much like what we ran into in the 50s when it came to Communism. There was an actual threat. We later found out that the threat was greatly exaggerated and amplified by mutual distrust and misunderstanding, but there was a threat. Not trying to analyze and counter that threat would have been irresponsible. Of course, the problem is that the mechanisms for countering communism were co-opted by ideologues and ambitious political hacks. A superpower such as the U.S. or the United Federation of Planets will always face threats, whether trivial or existential and there has to be some way to tell one from the other and to find ways to counter them. The mechanisms for analyzing and countering those threats will always be at risk of being subverted by ideologues and ambitious political hacks.
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