The important thing is that they banged out 26 of these things a year. There are gonna be some loose ends.

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people say TNG-era trek is woke but they let the chief medical officer do a full season's worth of microaggressions at data! they're all about the marketplace of ideas, to a fault

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i think that the federation is generally open-minded (laudatory) but also sometimes open-minded (derogatory). "oh the robot wants to join starfleet? sure, give him a uniform! oh, this other guy thinks robots aren't legally people? hmm let's hear him out!"

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this would be dumb in any rational universe but honestly this is the same society that lets holodecks keep operating even after it's been shown they somtimes spawn sentient beings by mistake bc they're like "huh, interesting"

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Data is a multiply-commendated watch standing line officer on the most prestigious ship in the fleet, there is no way a civilian contractor would get to dismantle him "just to see what happens"

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