It's documentary time! Anika and Liz look straight into the camera and share their feelings about Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' "What Is Starfleet?", including...
- We have complicated feelings about this episode! It interrogates the documentary as a form of propaganda, but also interrogates the Federation in bad faith?
- SNW is not equipped to deal with Israel/Palestine or Ukraine/Russia through allegory
- Liz would like to apologise to the Spanish speaking population of Earth for her pronunciation of "Beto"
- This is an episode about journalism that doesn't want the audience to ask too many questions
- Anika appreciates the messiness of this story
- Did we not? Have a whole Prime Directive? About not getting involved in foreign wars?
- SNW has a lot of the same problems as Voyager
- We did not need a self-harm story from Spock, anymore than we needed an animal harm story from Pike
- It's not enough that now everyone joins Starfleet because of trauma, but now everyone is alone and friendless until they are assigned to the hero ship
- It's so unfair? How people keep bringing up that murder M'Benga did? It's actually really triggering for him?
- Anika explains how Starfleet is like the spirit of Norway
