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Have you ever considered that the Prime Directive is not only not ethical, but also illogical, and perhaps morally indefensible?

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  • As a finale, I think that was satisfying. I’m glad they got the cameos out of their system last week, and primarily focused on the core cast this week.

    The main thing that I wanted to see this season - a tie-in with the impending Romulan supernova - didn’t come to fruition, but I’m trying not to hold that against them. They’ve very clearly left themselves a path for continuation in some form, so we’ll have to see what comes of it.

    Boimler eventually turning away from the alt-universe PADD was an inevitable conclusion, but I like the reason they provided, avoiding the low-hanging fruit of alt-Boims turning out to be a dick or something.

    The overall Rutherford arc was less successful. I guess they seeded it previously, but I always just assumed his implant was on the fritz, so it was odd to see him suddenly blaming the ship.




  • Fun(?) fact regarding a *Defiant-*class ship landing on a planet.

    Per Ex Astris Scientia, while the Defiant MSD had visible landing struts fairly early on (the revised MSD introduced in “Shattered Mirror”), it seems no one thought to inform the writers:

    The real-world reason for the Defiant never landing is that the producers were not aware that there were landing struts visible in the MSD. Ron D. Moore said in an interview with LCARScom.net: “The Defiant has landing gear? You have to remember that things like CD-ROMs and the various “official” manuals put out by Paramount are not done in conjunction with the writing/producing staffs and that the authors are usually simply extrapolating information based on what’s actually been seen on screen.”




  • As I understand it, the original plan was that Captain Kim was going to be kind of like Admiral Shelby [Elizabeth Deneny], that was going to be you.

    Correct.

    So, I was wondering how far down the road did they go with you on that?

    It went all the way to my manager saying, “You’ve been cast.” It was originally a three episode arc, which then changed to two, then then changed to one. But I was told by my manager that I needed to be in the LA area in January for a fitting for Picard. So it was there. It had progressed fairly far actually having Harry on that show, pretty darn far. The script was written. Harry’s name was in there… Jeri Ryan said to me, “It’s so funny because we got sent a script, and Harry was in there, and all sudden, the revisions, Harry wasn’t in there.” I was like, “Oh, wow.” So, it went pretty darn far. And I’ll be perfectly honest, being a sci-fi fan, I was depressed for months after that when it didn’t happen. I was literally crying into my own sleeve. [laughs]

    I haven’t listened to the audio, so I don’t know what Wang’s tone is like during this story, but…that sounds really shitty. Possibly worse than filming something that later got cut.