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aphyr@woof.group ("École des Bro-Arts") wrote:
#TNG S02E09, "The Measure of a Man". The Federation is a post-scarcity socialist utopia with an adversarial legal system. I think Star Trek is at its strongest when disciplined people differ with integrity, and this episode holds Picard, Riker, and the vigorous Captain Louvois in the courtroom balance.
The real heart of the episode is Goldberg sliding in the knife: "Whole generations of disposable people." "That's a truth that we've obscured behind a comfortable, easy euphemism: property."