You have 2 main characters to follow and it’s absolutely different based on your age.
Very similar experience with Cars 3. Children identify with the new up-and-comer race car while grownups identify with a Lightning McQueen who must accept his glory days are past and embrace the next generation.
Shoutout for the race announcer who drops a microcosm of the whole film in a single line:
McQueen’s fading! Fading fast!
Children, we ride for stovokor
So ultimately, I feel like what we’re saying is that in order for Starfleet and that beautiful vision that Roddenberry had of this optimistic utopia, in order for that vision to exist, in order for the light to exist, you need people who operate in the shadows. And it’s a yin and yang. You can’t have one without the other.
I don’t like this sort of mother-goosery in my fully automated luxury gay space communism.
I prefer the assimilating power of root beer as the true defender of the federation.
Ya that episode is great. It lurked in the back of my mind every episode afterward, always hoping to hear any sort of throwaway line about the fate of that ship.
I stared at this so long I was late for my meeting
Haha yes, thanks. The power of a traumatic episode huh?
Wow good guess, so it’s 3 songs then. Those 2 plus particle man.
As I stare at this meme, bewildered, I realize I am only a dilettante that knows 2 songs 🤣😆
I think mirror Burnham and Lorka tried to depose her way back in Disco S1, but maybe I am misremembering.
I’m hung up on how utterly ridiculous the succession was portrayed.
I like Star Trek and I’m trying to find the silver lining here, but I just come up empty handed.
I appreciate your thoughtful take. Maybe these are unavoidable contradictions when the simple premise of evil twins is stretched too far.
It’s very unsatisfying.
An empire overflowing with ambitious and unscrupulous climbers who have all decided to allow young Georgiou to have the crown.
Ya let’s make the unhinged evil empire very civil and obedient so our protagonist actually back into the throne instead of actively seizing it. How convenient.
Ultimately it feels like they want to have their cake and eat it too: Georgiou is the baddest bitch, but also she was just trying to survive man! She cried when she murdered her own family, under coercion and duress!
I guess I liked her better when she was bonafide evil.
Alright then, keep your ~~secrets~~ 3rd star