Some of the most memorable Star Trek episodes were the ones that showed just how fragile that veneer of utopian ideals really was. Like the episode “The Measure of a Man” when Data was almost denied legal status as a free and sentient being or the episode “The Drumhead” when an overzealous Starfleet Admiral (who my mindcanon always misremembers as Judy Dench even though she was played by Jean Simmons) goes full Joe McCarthy.
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