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You're profoundly missing the point. That's all entirely irrelevant - none of that requires the level of stupidity and ignorance of what a law even is here.
Also, the lawyer literally described their victory as a technicality. Which is of course nonsense that further proves that this was basically written by a 15-year-old.
Nah, that's a nonsensical and cheap cop-out.
I work in the law and computers, and shows vary wildly in how badly the portray both. At the one end you can have something like Bones, where laws don't apply, and computers are literally magic more powerful than Star Trek's holodeck, but at the other you might have Better Call Saul or Halt and Catch Fire, where most of the people getting mad about stuff are actually showing their own ignorance (Halt and Catch Fire particularly caused a whole bunch of nerds to show how little they knew about computing in the 1980s).
Obviously I don't expect Star Trek to be Better Call Saul.
But I do expect it to do better than utterly brainless trash like Bones.
And it didn't. It didn't even come close. I don't think even Bones, a show without a single brain cell, would have gone for a resolution as profoundly stupid as this.
I'm shocked because the rest of SNW has been up to "good TNG/DS9" standards, and this was way below that.
Maybe I could if the speeches were stirring, or the victory dramatic, or the representations of prejudice valid, but none of those things were the case here.
Here we saw a people who aggressively use genetically engineering on their children, when it isn't necessary, is against social norms, is against the law (for good reason), and who then proceed to lie about it, and we're expected to think this is saintly behaviour? No. It's despicable behaviour. As I said, the pro-genetic augmentation arguments here were creepy and ill-formed, and didn't even make any rational sense. They were the worst and nastiest kind of appeal to emotion - they tried to appropriate real-world stuff that's happened to people genuinely through no fault of their own, and apply it to people actually doing something naughty. Gross.
The speeches were pretty bad too. I think there was about once convincing one in the whole thing, and not from the lawyer.
There was also nothing dramatic about the victory, because it was simply magic, rather than some sort of legal ninjitsu, or profoundly compelling argument. It would literally have been better if she'd argued without using Federation law and just argued that they needed to make an exception, that could have been considerably more compelling.
Absolutely not.
You've seen shows manage this - and they don't have to go to great pains - they just avoid the issue. Don't go into detail about things you don't understand. This is a basic principle of writing. This episode was the result of arrogance from a bad writer, frankly.
