It’s a fun, well executed episode. It just happens to be one of those occasions where the Trek writers betray their complete misunderstanding of evolution.
Yeah, it’s thematically appropriate for Star Trek, and a solid episode by just about every other metric. And Star Trek has never exactly been hard sci-fi, so I mostly don’t let it bother me.
On the other hand, having lived through the “teach the controversy” nonsense, I do get just a little more bothered when they get evolution wrong than I do when they mess up something else.
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It’s a fun, well executed episode. It just happens to be one of those occasions where the Trek writers betray their complete misunderstanding of evolution.
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Yeah, it’s thematically appropriate for Star Trek, and a solid episode by just about every other metric. And Star Trek has never exactly been hard sci-fi, so I mostly don’t let it bother me.
On the other hand, having lived through the “teach the controversy” nonsense, I do get just a little more bothered when they get evolution wrong than I do when they mess up something else.
Not to mention the scale of space and time