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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mark" data-source="post: 678014" data-attributes="member: 5">SPIOLERS!!!!!................The plot was not suppoed to be subtle in the least.  I think their point is that the time for subtlety and double standards is over.  Once the nail has a good start, it's time to bring the hammer down early and often until the point is driven home.Excellent episode.The subplot, however was quite subtle.  What they seem to have done is use that as a mirror for the Riker episode you mention above.  If it hadn't been for you mentioning it, and my reading the spoilers, I admit that I may not have noticed.I think the minor exchanges that kept the rest of the crew in the episode were also very clever.  Hoshi taking a chance to tease Trip, but then pulling back when he deisplayed discomfort...even though she had no idea why...was cute.  Travis getting injured in another of his reckless hijynx capers, aprropriately slipped in so we not only don't forget him, but we also don't forget that he may be the biggest adventurer of the lot.  Malcolm given advice with one side of his mouth while he grins at Trip's predicament with the other.  I'm surprised that they didn't take the opportunity to to have Phlox introduce crew member Cutler, but that would likely have side-tracked the episode.Anyway, as said, when you have your demons on the run, like bigotry, you have to confront it at every flare up until it is extinguished.  I commend them for taking at least one episode to address Aids and take the right attittude about not allow it to lurk in the shadows.As to how they can justify using Mind Melding as a metaphor for alternative sexual behavior, and claiming that in the era in which the show is based that it is perceived as abhorant?  I have no trouble believing that we happen to be peering into that universe as the last vestiges of bigotry are being stomped out.  It certainly helps to explain how humans can be so prominent in the Federation eventually.  Since it is unlikely that by the time of TOS we'd have advanced beyond our betters in technology, we have only our diplomacy and human nature to set us apart and perhaps allow us to take a lead role in the Feds.Every episode involving Vulcans in any depth always has to do with how they are supposedly so "in control" and almost every time it turns out that they are not.  Let's face it.  That's the big myth.  That's the big secret they all carry.  They're just a bunch of big liars! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />..................END OF MY SPOILERS!!!!</blockquote>

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