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Temporal Investigation Lady handwaved something about the Devise that would "Protect" La'an from changes to the timeline, so even when La'an timeline vanished, she didn't. Or something like that.

I could ship La’an and M’benga if the show goes there.

So if Kid Khan was killed would La’an cease to exist? And if she doesn’t exist how could she go back and kill Khan?

Sorry but Paul Wesley just isn’t Kirk to me. Oh Spock, you party animal! I would expect the quarters to have better soundproofing.

Ugh. What was that? At least it was Toronto and not San Francisco this time. Why doesn’t La’an change her name? I lost interest in Trek time travel back in season two of Picard. We would all like to go back in time to change something. It could be something personal like preventing the death of someone we love. Or a major inflection point in history like 9/11 or the Coronavirus Pandemic. I’m more interested in what we do with the timeline we have. Pelia is starting to grow on me. In my head canan she is the same person Carol Kane played on The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. Pelia is the Guinean of SNW.

And the deadly ripping of his shirt!

This. It's not that a smaller person can't hold their own against a much larger opponent. Many Martial Arts teach how to use a large person's mass against them. But that has limits. There are reasons why so many boxing/wrestling/martial arts sports have weight categories.

So in "The Menagerie" what was Pike blinking no to? No to being alive? Or no to going to Talos 4?

Interesting. I am unfamiliar with Star Trek Continues. Good set duplication.

I’m watching “Turnabout Intruder.” It’s pretty bad😶

Vina

My question as well. As I said upthread, law in this era is different than our laws. Starfleet/The Federation may take the "All life is scared" approach and any DNR or Living Will has no legal bearing. The "Menagerie" has been criticized for being very abelist on its views that Pike could not have a meaningful life after such serious injuries. To which I reply "Its was the 1960's! Attitudes were Different!" In creating the SNW canon these evolving views put the SNW writers in a potentially murky area about living with disabilities, so Pike isn't going to get Neera The Awesome Civil Rights Lawyer to draw up a super air-tight living will.(As far as we know) I realize that this is a super sensitive area, so a huge YMMV here.

A blanket ban of Genetic Augmentation (and maybe cloning) may have inhibited medical treatments in ways that aren't immediately obvious. Medicine in the 23-25th Centuries is obviously much more advanced that in our own era. Yet if you aren't allowed to genetically modify anyone or clone any body parts (except in the case of several birth defects) that could have spinoff effects: Perhaps that is why Pike didn't have a better quality of life in "The Menagerie", or why Picard has an artificial heart instead of a real one (I'm handwaving that no suitable hearts for a transplant were available at the time or that heart transplants are no longer a thing for some reason). Or why Worf went through a risky surgery to cure his spinal cord injury. The list goes on. It's never the technology, it's how it's used. YMMV.

The doping in sports analogy is an excellent one @QuantumMechanic

They walk up and down the stairs! They must have board games and cards and there may be a rich (if forbidden) oral storytelling tradition. And a Fight Club which nobody talks about.

I don’t understand why Billing burned the book. That was heartbreaking after what people through the years had sacrificed to protect it.

I don’t understand why Juliette wasn’t handcuffed while she was being escorted up the stairs.

So what if a species reproduces by cloning? Would they be banned from Starfleet too? That’s the problem with arbitrarily rules. Adapting to be comfortable in an atmosphere that normal humans can’t breathe seems sensible rather that morally suspect.

If Genetic Mods are forbidden, where does that leave cloning? Is it illegal or just discouraged? The various Soongs may be clones because they all look like Brent Spiner.

"In the past, some augments did bad things! So all augments are bad!". Yes, that makes sense.😑 I liked this because Augment (Illyrians or otherwise) are code for *insert group of your choice*. That is classic Trek, and I am here for it, although the analogy was more than a little heavy-handed. In watching Trek Era courtroom dramas, we must assume that law will evolve and change. The Trek courts may initially look similar to 21st Century Law, but in practice it will be different. I LOL'd when The Uniform Code of Justice is a giant book, even though it must exist online as well. Una's lawyer was badass, but I was almost expecting Kirk's cranky book-loving lawyer from "Court Martial". It is a little disappointing that prisons are still a thing, even though I assume they are far more humane than 21st Century prisons. In Discovery, the methods of punishing crime are bizarre but I like that TPTB are looking for alternative ways to punish and (maybe) rehabilitate people.

I continue to enjoy the updated TOS uniform designs. The Dress Uniforms look sharp. Good episode, but the Inspiring Speeches were a bit much. It was realistic that Una got off on a technicality. Changing the law will come later. Or maybe not, Bashir would be outed for being modified a century later. I was reminded of TNG's The Measure of A Man The No Mods in Starfleet rule is going to rule out a lot of applicants. Many species may modify their DNA or whatever for a vast variety of reasons, such as repairing birth defects. It could also be argued that mods are part of normal evolution.

Sorry, I should have been more clear: The TOS writers did allow female commanders, just not Human ones. Because that would have been weird.🙄

There was the Romulan Commander! We can handwave the whole Lester thing this way: she was delusional about woman not being captains. She in fact couldn't be a captain due to her mental health concerns, not her gender. At least that's the way I retcon it.

Imagine sitting through one of Pelia’s engineering lectures.

Thank you @kariyaki. That is a very in-depth article.