#but yeah idk i thought that was interesting! i think the implications for future augment storylines get. a smidge messy. but on its own

[joshuaalbert]

anyway complaints about storytelling on a stupid shortened scale aside (i think with a 22+ episode season we would not have some of these issues, since you could get attached to these characters more naturally over time vs having to give them all sad backstories so you care about them, and the dynamics between characters would have more meaning) i do think this episode was interesting for how it handled multicultural views of augmentation. it makes sense that races other than humans would have different perspectives and different purposes for it, and i find the idea of changing yourself rather than your environment when exploring and establishing new settlements to be a genuinely interesting one. you can still understand why the federation bans it, given earth’s history, but it’s a nice degree of complexity to realize that every species does not have the same values as a lot of human societies have had and therefore wouldn’t necessarily fall into the exact same patterns if enhanced.