Remember when Picard kept asking Data follow up questions at dinner because he was trying to cock block Lwaxana and when they cut back Data has opened a PowerPoint presentation.
He was truly living the infodump dream in this episode.
when i see takes like “there’s no good reason to kill a character” i’m like fair dues they should’ve just had mufasa comedically stuck in an elevator for the second and third acts of the lion king
imagine we finally undeniably make contact with aliens, like they land on the white house lawn and walk out of their spaceship in front of news cameras and thousands of people, but they all look slightly uneasy as they get their first proper look at humans in the flesh. one of them starts saying something that sounds like "nänga hūlu?" before the alien next to them shoots them a glare and shushes them. everything goes fine after that, they meet the president and solve world hunger and cure cancer, whatever.
a decade later you're on the first cultural exchange mission back to their home planet. they land you in a field so you can get an appreciation for the local wildlife and you're taking it all in with childlike wonder: the bright purple "grass", the "trees" resembling fungi... suddenly you notice an animal emerge from the forest that looks like a cross between a bison and a sea slug. you ask your alien tour guide what it's called. they look extremely nervous and use their translator to say "well in our tongue we would call it a 'nänga', but it's actually extremely dangerous and you shouldn't be that close to it," and they start trying to escort you away and divert your attention. but before they can, the nänga rolls over to reveal what is unmistakeably its genitals, and they look exactly like a scaled-down human, down to the fingers and toes
Kind of insane of Babylon 5 to say that the extant impulse towards Fascism and Authoritarianism exists within all peoples and cultures, and yet that a better world is still possible and achievable in spite of this impulse. That no matter how dark and bleak the state of things becomes, we can still rise above, and perhaps even succeed in finding and building that better, brighter, world.
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