I watched the entire video, but I timestamped the link to where I believe it matters most for any comrade that ever liked Star Trek, liberal idealistic and quasi-militaristic flaws and all, and would like to see a succinct and thorough summary of what they might have already felt, may have already inductively collected for themselves, but got it drowned out by “well the TNG gang got together by the end of Picard Season 3 so just enjoy it like a popcorn movie, 4/5” or even worse brainworms like “section 31 is based and it’s just cold hard reality that such an agency would have to exist for the Federation to exist, just like in based Deep Space 9 which was totally about wars and genocidal biowarfare plots and how cool and necessary they are.”

The Trek fandom site in the Lemmyverse is loaded with insufferable liberal/libertarian brainworms and a fair amount of Thermian Arguments that justify anything that was presented on screen as not only good, but necessary if they were done by protagonist characters, and not just the flaws, weaknesses, and (for lack of a better term) sins of characters that weren’t intended to be infallible, let alone blindly emulated, no matter how cool it was when Sisko punched Q or whatever.

TL;DR: I hope comrades find value in this concluding section of a much larger video, or maybe even watch the whole thing, which I also think is worthwhile. Also, I fucking despise Section 31 apologists because they make the Lemmyverse’s Trek site unbearable for me. If Kurtzman gets his way (especially with that Section 31 series he keeps jerking off about), Trek will become increasingly murderfucky gory edgy black ops obsessed bootlicking schlock with a vague and redundant nostalgia flavor.

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      The last time I tried to comment on a Lemmyverse Trek thread, an entire comment chain got derailed with standard issue brainworms about how every atrocity that DS9 characters did under pretense of winning the Dominion War was not only justified but absolutely necessary because that’s how the episode went.

      I don’t know how to deworm brains that are that eager, even craving “adults in the room” to do atrocities for them to enjoy.

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          Lower Decks is a treasure in so many ways. It even dunks that “say no to drugs no matter the circumstances, screw your material conditions” TNG episode even with its playfully merciful reveal of “it was a very bad idea to just put a planet through withdrawals but the Cerritos crew were lucky and didn’t have to see the worst of that.”