Episode highlights:

  • Prescriptive advice for the Second Nakba

  • Projecting American cultural values on to allegorical Palestinians to make a point

  • Lt. Data gets a smooch Lt. Data arbitrarily pretends not to have emotions instead of just telling a girl he doesn’t reciprocate romantic interest

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  • Picard moves people from their generational home and also wins the day with evil space legalese

  • teft@piefed.socialEnglish
    10·
    9 days ago

    Federation phasers aren’t weak. The federation just prefers to stun people rather than vaporize them. Remember when Data used his phaser to shutdown that power grid? Or the time they vaporized rock with their phasers?

    • Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.caEnglish
      10·
      9 days ago

      Federation phasers are versatile. It’s keeping in line with their whole ethos. Yes the phaser can be used as a weapon, but it also doubles as a tool.

      Kinda like a shovel.

    • kieron115@startrek.websiteEnglish
      7·
      9 days ago

      Pre-Federation weapons were nothing to shake a stick at either lol.

      Trip: You did all this with one phase pistol?

      Reed: You’re good at building things, I’m good at blowing them up.

    • _stranger_@lemmy.world
      4·
      9 days ago

      He phaser’d an aqueduct and vaporized something like milles of water one time.

      Not to mention the times ships have used their phasers to fuck with the planet scale tectonics