Yeah, its lazy writing. At least in Deep Space 9, you get the sense that while Section 31 has enough connections to keep itself hidden, it wasn't all powerful. If I were gonna pick up the plot threads, I'd have it be what it was first stated to be: a small group of essentially vigilantes, high on their own mythology and exploiting the gaps and shadows of a huge organization like the federation.
I think in some ways, Star Trek let liberals indulge in American Exceptionalism. Like, here's all the values we purport to hold, being evangelized by a good democratic federal government and its space-navy! Yes, they're socialist; but its because of replicators! Don't worry about it! Obviously, this varied across episodes and writers. Some might be more explicitly socialist, some might have a little more yankee-brainworms. But New Trek feels like its all in on the American Exceptionalism. So now Section 31 is just Federation CIA and they do "critical work" whatever that means
Yeah, its lazy writing. At least in Deep Space 9, you get the sense that while Section 31 has enough connections to keep itself hidden, it wasn't all powerful. If I were gonna pick up the plot threads, I'd have it be what it was first stated to be: a small group of essentially vigilantes, high on their own mythology and exploiting the gaps and shadows of a huge organization like the federation.
I think in some ways, Star Trek let liberals indulge in American Exceptionalism. Like, here's all the values we purport to hold, being evangelized by a good democratic federal government and its space-navy! Yes, they're socialist; but its because of replicators! Don't worry about it! Obviously, this varied across episodes and writers. Some might be more explicitly socialist, some might have a little more yankee-brainworms. But New Trek feels like its all in on the American Exceptionalism. So now Section 31 is just Federation CIA and they do "critical work" whatever that means
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