Emperor_Cartagia

I never stab him if he’s cheating.

So you’re not fully committed, ok.

Ok, so as a starter, I’d recommend that someone going by the above do a kind of seven episode primer on Star Trek and what it’s about. Moral/Ethical philosophy.

TOS - Balance of Terror, is preemptive aggression ever justified?

TNG - Measure of a Man, what makes a person a person?

DS9 - In The Pale Moonlight, do the ends justify the means?

VOY - I’d go with Equinox parts I & II over Year of Hell, but also a “do the ends justify the means.”

ENT - Judgement, is justice arbitrary or universal?

Skip DISCO, plenty of issues to be examined but each one takes a whole season.

Skip LD, there’s a few issues but they’re not as well presented.

SNW - Strange New World

I think that instead of doing a TOS remake they should move forward in the TOS era but with another ship and it’s adventures. Imagine following Una Chin-Riley as Captain of, say, the USS New Jersey? Or a non-Constitution like the Reliant? Contemporary to the Enterprise under Kirk, on its own missions, and she takes Lt. Ortegas and (now Commander) La’an Noonien-Singh as her XO. That way we get new stories but still they get the nostalgia factor and the writing constraints of a lesser technological level.

And let’s not forget the NX-01 herself shows up onscreen in Picard Season 3.

Frakes is, in addition to an iconic Actor, the best Trek Director of the modern age. 11/10.

A couple of interesting things to take note of, in both the prime timeline here and in the Kelvinverse timeline, Uhura and Kirk meet in a bar. The plot here is similar to TNG 4x17 Night Terrors, both episodes feature a crewman from elsewhere but the Enterprise (Ramon from the refinery, Hagan from the Brattain) receiving communications from an alien race in trouble, followed by a singular crewman from the Enterprise (Uhura, Troi) getting the messages, figuring out the mystery, and getting the crew to help them help the aliens. Overall I think Night Terrors did it better, though SNW certainly wins in the effects department.