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
Hm... I suppose I might get downvoted, but I thought that the episode was just okay. Don't get me wrong, I love Star Trek episodes that aren't action-oriented and have actual good drama, but we have done courtroom dramas already multiple times. TNG had it with Measure of a Man, which was superb at the time. Battlestar Galactica had that one space court drama that was well executed too. While this episode was maybe emotional and had the allegory on modern society, I thought the episodes borrowed too heavily from so many courtroom drama clichés (objections/"you may proceed, but treat carefully", making someone who would otherwise be on your side be the prosecution, having the defendant lawyer make their own client look bad at the beginning, making prosecution read off a law in front of the court).