This is the Daystrom Institute Episode Analysis thread for Strange New Worlds 2x02 Ad Astra Per Aspera.

Now that we’ve had a few days to digest the content of the latest episode, this thread is a place to dig a little deeper.

  • theinspectorst@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    It is also actually insane that Captain Batel was not recused from that case.

    It’s not even the first time they’ve had clear conflicts of interest in a trial for dramatic effect. In The Measure of a Man, a judge who happened to be Picard’s former lover press-ganged Data’s friend and colleague Riker into representing Maddox’s case against Data - multiple conflicts that surely should not have been permitted!