Yeah we just found out our whole life here was a lie but we’re gonna stay here anyway.
And then everyone who wanted to leave basically gets peer pressured into staying because, “we wouldn’t survive without you.”
I don’t see why they couldn’t let people leave and then find people to replace them. Or you know, at least go home to see their families. Or why Alixus had to gaslight everyone in the first place. I can’t imagine that she wouldn’t have been able to find any volunteers for her experiment. The Federation is full of bored people who are tired of their comfortable lives and hungry for “authentic” experiences.
I also didn’t believe that she could have been ridiculed and ostracized for her ideas. The reaction I’d expect from any reasonable person would be something like, “okay whatever, knock yourself out.” I think in reality, she probably just came across as too unhinged to anyone she pitched the idea to, and then she was such a fucking narcissist that she assumed everyone was out to get her.
Thank you for pointing it all out! The indoctrination of 10 years worth of cult behavior may be hard to shake, but what the fuck? Just “Yeah, that’s not right, but we’re good” makes no sense. Then the last thing we see before fade to black:
They get no say in the matter, knowing suddenly there’s other ways to live.
It doesn’t help that it’s sort of retconned with Discovery’s idea of post-WWIII Luddite colonies. She could have just moved to one of those. I’m guessing they didn’t all disappear in a century.
The ending was so dumb, too:
And then everyone who wanted to leave basically gets peer pressured into staying because, “we wouldn’t survive without you.”
I don’t see why they couldn’t let people leave and then find people to replace them. Or you know, at least go home to see their families. Or why Alixus had to gaslight everyone in the first place. I can’t imagine that she wouldn’t have been able to find any volunteers for her experiment. The Federation is full of bored people who are tired of their comfortable lives and hungry for “authentic” experiences.
I also didn’t believe that she could have been ridiculed and ostracized for her ideas. The reaction I’d expect from any reasonable person would be something like, “okay whatever, knock yourself out.” I think in reality, she probably just came across as too unhinged to anyone she pitched the idea to, and then she was such a fucking narcissist that she assumed everyone was out to get her.
Thank you for pointing it all out! The indoctrination of 10 years worth of cult behavior may be hard to shake, but what the fuck? Just “Yeah, that’s not right, but we’re good” makes no sense. Then the last thing we see before fade to black:
They get no say in the matter, knowing suddenly there’s other ways to live.
It doesn’t help that it’s sort of retconned with Discovery’s idea of post-WWIII Luddite colonies. She could have just moved to one of those. I’m guessing they didn’t all disappear in a century.