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So you're just advocating for a different system of policing, which does not at all contradict what I originally said. Cool.

During the cadets’ first training mission on an abandoned ship, they encounter a dangerous new enemy. As our cadets fight for survival, Nahla must risk everything to save them by seeking help from an unexpected, untrustworthy, source.

I was just thinking that it's about time we returned to the Nus Braka plot, so we'll see if he's the "unexpected, untrustworthy, source."

It looks like we might get to see more of the War College kids, which I think is a good thing.

Any thoughts about the abandoned ship that they're visiting?

The best nostalgia is nostalgia for something that never existed in the first place.

or put him next to Tom Paris or Kassidy Yates in a Penal Colony with an ankle monitor.

Unfortunately, Earth was still independent at that time, so New Zealand is out of the question.

Bring us...Space New Zealand!

Yeah, someone summed it up very well elsewhere in the thread: "utopia" describes an ideal to strive toward, but is inherently unachievable, if only because you will never find two people who have the same utopic vision.

Unless "utopia" includes some sort of system for forcing everyone to think alike... 🤔

If you can offer a compelling argument about how those other 98% were more fair and just, and can outline exactly what that better system was, I'm all ears.

It's an interesting idea, but it also tiptoes right up to the line of "neighbours spying on each other on behalf of the state" - not great!

There's a difference between a trial and a sentencing.

I certainly am not a fan of policework as it is currently, commonly conducted, but I have a hard time imagining a society that has laws, but doesn't have a dedicated system to uphold those laws that involves some kind of police.

I think it's extremely disingenuous to equate "bad things happening sometimes" with "dystopia."

The point of everything you mentioned (except for the police in '09, which you don't actually seem to have an issue with aside from the fact that they exist?) is that these things can be overcome, which is precisely the opposite of a dystopian setting.

Yeah, personally I prefer the best available version of the original footage.

Great. Read the interview, and if there's any aspect of it you feel you need to add thoughts to, go ahead and do it. And if you don't have anything to add, (a) that doesn't mean it's not worth sharing, and (b) you can just bypass the thread entirely.

It's not on OPs to tell people what aspects of an article to talk about, and in many cases, I would argue that it's not appropriate to try.

I don’t appreciate it anymore than a friend shoving a magazine in my face

You can't possibly think that someone posting something online is analogous to approaching you and shoving something in your face. Please tell me you can tell the difference.