“The Federation is functionally the Human empire” has always been a far less interesting view than “The Federation is functionally the Vulcan empire”
When you’re a V-22 minding your own business until you spot a marine and the osprey drive kicks in
There’s just a kajillion of them:
Their Stasi Vs our neighborhood watch
Their whataboutism Vs our providing important context
Their unaccountable regime security forces Vs our police officer who feared for his safety
Their re-education Vs our cult deprogramming
Their GULAG Vs our federal bureau of prisons
Their prison camps Vs our prisons
Can’t wait for people to not care anymore about the gallant people of Ukraine under Russian occupation because they got Marvel fatigue and stopped watching the war 3 seasons ago.
Like that’s bad, but their handling of the optics is so much less important than the substance of that abusive culture. Being less tone-deaf in their non-apology wouldn’t really change much.
It’s been done before and it was glorious
Battleship Potemkin mashup called Snow White Terror
This must be what going outside feels like
They worked smoothly but never silently, once you know to look for the breaks in dialogue for the door audio to be easily removed you never stop noticing it