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Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 2x02 "Ad Astra Per Aspera"

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::: spoiler Logline Commander Una Chin-Riley faces court-martial along with possible imprisonment and dishonorable dismissal from Starfleet, and her defense is in the hands of a lawyer who’s also a childhood friend with whom she had a terrible falling out. ::: — Written by Dana Horgan Directed by Valerie Weiss

Show threadbirdyJun 22, 2023
This was a fantastic episode. One thing I liked in particular was that they had an actual lawyer defend Una, and not just have Pike do it.
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They kept the tradition alive by having a starship captain handle the prosecution, though.
Jun 22, 2023 at 2:45pmWeb
Show threadmaegulJun 22, 2023

But in contrast, this lawyer (Neera) won by mainly by being a good lawyer (albeit in a tv legal drama kind of way). Setting things on fire with the first witness to create a bunch of fog and doubt about the premise of the case, realising that other important regulations impinge on the case and setting up testimony to substantiate the effect of those regulations.

My memory of most other officer-lawyers is that their methods tend to focus more on the moral "issyew" (Picard's pronunciation of "issue" in Measure of a Man).

Show threadbarsoapJun 23, 2023

“issyew”

/ˈɪsjuː/ is perfectly valid RP. You hear it all the time in parliament.

Show threadmaegulJun 23, 2023
Oh yea I know. In the context of TNG though, where everyone else has US accents, Picard’s Britishness goes up to eleven on that word.