And how many space slavers DIED for your freedom, sir?!

Not nearly enough

Nemesis was poorly thought out, and then the writers of Picard used it as the basis of their broken status-quo going forward.

Writers of the Prodigy finale hung a lampshade on how wrong it all was. Lower Decks ended before it would have had to deal with it, but I can just imagine Mariner's reaction to the Picard-backstory Starfleet.

Didn’t the federation literally fight off the Borg to maintain humanity’s freedom? How many Borg died for that freedom? Absolute lib crap.

the berman era of trek (1987 to 2005) was always so problematic and would have probably been completely awful scifi if it weren't for roddenberry's influence.

this example plus other notable episodes like "the outcast" and "rejoined" shows that roddenberry's legacy survives but deeply marred by trek's profit motive that berman emphasized.

nemesis is a fucking mess

Didn't the federation literally fight off the Borg to maintain humanity's freedom? How many Borg died for that freedom? Absolute lib crap.

borg aren't people anymore, that all happened before voyager's shitty writer's room got their hands on them.

Paul Kagame of Rwanda who strove for national unity and reconciliation

OK I don't know a lot about Star Trek but I want to emphasize this is 100% not true. I have no idea who that Twitter poster is but they need to read some more books on the region. Kagame and the RPF used the Rwandan genocide to regain power, set up a "reconciliation council" on the model of South Africa to leverage that PR to get a free hand from the West to do whatever they wanted, meanwhile engaging in reprisal killings for the admittedly terrible genocide that chased hundreds of thousands of Hutus from Rwanda into the DRC. They also slaughtered a ton of Hutu refugees as reprisal killings, oft times killing Hutus who had worked to hide and save Tutsis from the genocide. A great example is the RPF massacre at Kibeho Camp, where they killed thousands of women and children in a refugee camp. This of course then created more refugees that fled Rwanda into the DRC. Then they used the existence of those refugees in the DRC as an excuse to invade the DRC (via the claim that many of the actual committers of the genocide fled Rwanda and were using these refugee camps to regroup and invade Rwanda, which was actually true in part), topple Mobuto (the hopelessly corrupt president), and kick off the deadliest conflict of the 21st century that killed 5+ million people. This Twitter poster is weirdly glazing Kagame, despite the dude being a total piece of shit that has leveraged Western guilt over inaction during the Rwandan genocide to stay in power for 20+ years in his strange attempt to turn Rwanda into the "Singapore of Africa" (complete with massive repression and "disappearing" any political opponent), as well as directly causing the deadliest war of the 21st century. All of this is well detailed in Africa's World War: Congo, the Rwandan Genocide, and the Making of a Continental Catastrophe by Gerard Prunier.

The HRW (a lib organization, but useful for this kind of stuff) writes as follows:

In contrast to progress in trying perpetrators of the genocide, very few RPF members have been held to account for the war crimes and crimes against humanity they committed in 1994. These killings were not in any way equivalent to the genocide, but the victims and their families have a right to see justice done. Human Rights Watch believes that the impunity protecting most RPF members from prosecution for these crimes has not only led to a sense that the RPF is above the law, but may have hindered progress toward reconciliation in the aftermath of the genocide.

After the genocide, the new government formed by the RPF admitted that its troops had carried out killings in 1994, but sought to downplay these crimes, describing them as isolated cases of revenge and claiming that it was bringing those responsible to justice. To Human Rights Watch’s knowledge, fewer than 40 RPF soldiers have been tried for these crimes, and most have received comparatively lenient sentences. They include four officers charged with war crimes in connection with the murder of 15 civilians, including 13 clergy and a young boy, in 1994. In a case initially prepared by the ICTR then handed over to Rwanda by the ICTR prosecutor, a Rwandan military court in 2008 acquitted the two most senior officers and sentenced the two lower-ranking ones, who confessed to the killings, to eight years’ imprisonment; their sentences were reduced to five years on appeal in 2009.

Per: https://www.hrw.org/news/2014/03/28/rwanda-justice-after-genocide-20-years

villain trope where the villain is 90% correct but they have to shove in a 10% evil so they can be villains and you oppose them.

check out The Swerve by Nia Frome

If I was a clone of Adolf goddamn Hitler, wouldn't I look like Adolf goddamn Hitler!?

I mean all white people with the same haircut look identical to me, but still. If you want a narratively cheap way to get Picard invested, don't be a coward and cast Steward in both roles.