"History may not repeat, but it does rhyme."
- Ancient Klingon proverb
skfsh
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"Oh look, it's the AR wall" is the modern version of "oh look, it's the same octagonal set dressed up with random props from a couple of other episodes to represent an alien planet"
I sort of kept thinking this was kind of like a reverse Tuvix.
Identifying potentially unreliable narrators is such an underrated strategy! So a character says "The Federation has never encountered this race/phenomenon before." Off to Memory Alpha to state this as fact! But of course, people state beliefs as facts, incorrectly, all the time in real life!
Burnham is the one that said "family," but I'm wondering if she even knows what Soong-type androids are, since they would have appeared after her time. She probably made an assumption that Fred was biological, given how quickly she had to sweep the room and leave.
I'm more curious why they didn't just hook up Fred's head and turn him back on. They were able to do that with Data. Maybe they figured Fred wouldn't be cooperative, or that Stamets just didn't have the technology or know-how to able to do that and went straight for "download the data".