Holy fuck that episode rules and was amazing. Diverse casting is one thing but the show went full trek and made a clear stance with a very thinly veiled Sci fi metaphor. The surface plotting was excellent and the main character beats though few were great. Franchise classic.
It's funny, I had a completely opposite reaction. A prejudiced legal system can be overcome simply through impassioned speeches appealing to the humanity of the judges within that system? Pursuing 'salvation' through self-sacrifice motivated by personal discomfort or self-interest? Requesting asylum from the very political body that you require asylum from? Activist lawyer comes off as problematic for using a wider perspective on the oppressive history of Starfleet-Illyrian relations at the expense of her client's legal prospects? Skirting the messiness of a eugenic society and essentially sidestepping the paradox of intolerance by siding with the position that we have to be tolerant of the intolerant? I thought the episode was pure unexamined liberalism.
I'm happy to see the light though
