“So ultimately, I feel like what we’re saying is that in order for Starfleet and that beautiful vision that Roddenberry had of this optimistic utopia, in order for that vision to exist, in order for the light to exist, you need people who operate in the shadows.”
Alex Kurtzman continues to prove that he fundamentally does not understand the property that he’s helming, yet again making me want to puke
There are a few PTSD episodes that at least try : Picard at the chateau and Archer on shore leave after the Xindi adventure.
I feel these are the best episodes where a character realizes they have changed and not for the better, but I wish there were more.
Maybe trek is sleeping on the post-adventure recontextualization power of a shore leave coda?