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  • Thoughts as I watch the episode:

    • Previously on Star Trek: Una is an augment, and Starfleet greatly dislikes that.
    • Oh, Kid Una!
    • “How can he council me when he works for you?” Good point!
    • This was the ready room scene last week.
    • Illyrians hiding on a poisonous planet is a nice touch.
    • So, this is an allegory for Don't Ask-Don't Tell and similar anti-gay and discriminatory policies, isn't it? Hiding who she is, for example. Timely.
    • Damn, Batel's boss is an asshole.
    • Damn, that took awhile to get to credits.
    • Oh, more case law for Starfleet!
    • “I know you hate giving inspiring speeches.” Heh.
    • Ortegas imagining a Vulcan conversation is hilarious.
    • “I regret that you had to witness that outburst.”
    • Seriously, that outburst, it was so horrifying. Not sure if I can ever emotionally recover from it.
    • Oh, those dress unis! Look so much like the TOS ones while still being all modern.
    • Hahaha, she's using all the times they ignore the Prime Directive to show the hypocrisy of rules.
    • The stuff about her being tried for stuff her parents did calls to mind the stuff with the DREAM act.
    • Hang on, wouldn't the fact that La'an has Khan blood flowing through her veins kind of give a possible method of pointing out how much hypocrisy there is to the law?
    • “An affinity for Gilbert and Sullivan Musicals”
    • Good point about how family isn't destiny and also how the discriminated against can be led to self-loathing.
    • I just noticed that the mural/engraving behind witness stand seems to show a bunch of humans, tellarites, andorians, and so on... wonder if it's meant to show the founding of the Federation or great legal scholars of the Fed species.
    • Oh shit, she turned herself in.
    • “Starfleet is not a perfect organization, but it strives to be.” We all should try to live up to that.
    • My Badmiral Sense is tingling.
    • Ah, so an asylum loophole! Clever way of allowing her to stay in while still keeping the anti-genetics stuff still in place come Bashir and Dal's time.
    • Pike Hugs must be the best hugs.
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