Security warning! This article contains spoilers For Season 3, Episode 7 of "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds".

When the creator of "Star Trek", Ein Birth, first set his vision for his series of science fiction, he wanted to be set in the future where the country became a real utopian society. Actually he initially had The "Without Conflict" rule that made writing episodes "Star Trek", especially challenging Under his watch. Starflit, the research and peacekeeping hand of the United Planet Federation, should be close to flawless with flawless moral standards that clearly fall in line with Earth's commitment to egalitarian, pacifist society. Unfortunately, not everyone in the huge range of space is just as interested in following the rules like Starfleet, which can make diplomacy a little complicated.

Although there are numerous spin-offs and stories in the franchise, Starflit is only occasionally put under any real control, and it is a kind of shame. Blindly accepting that Starflit are good guys at any time except for Occasional unreliable admiralIt is simply not really in line with the entire ethos of "Star Trek", even if it forced Born Birs to feel warm and vague. When we look at the cracks in Starflit and how individual officers deal with those moral contradictions we receive to see real heroism.

In the episode "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" "What is Starflit? Since Beto's cameras see every move and its problems causing their intentions, the company's crew is forced to come face to face with one of the franchise's biggest contradictions.

In "What's Starflit?" The company is tasked with helping a stranger transporting to its home planet on Tychus-B to anger-7, a world that is not the federation of war. The alien is the size of a hipwar and must be pulled with a tractor beam, but when it starts to rebel against its connections, the crew starts to really doubt why they move the creature. Beto examines them at every turn, revealing that not only are the aggressors in the war, but the creature that the company needs to move is made live weapons. Maybe I'm just me, but I'm pretty sure delivering (living!) Weapons of mass destruction of war criminals can make Starflit the bad guys here. (Also, it's a bit of a nose as American military allegories go, but I dig.)

It takes a lot of examination of Beto and a lot of suffering from the creature before certain crew members stop following the orders blindly and start doing the right thing. Although the characters that seem morally sublime, have some pretty disappointing moments when they simply closed all questions with "it's classified", others have changed clearly and will be potentially critical of Starflit in the future. Because hereditary characters like Kirk (Paul Wesley) will be Absolutely continue to challenge Starflit in the futurejust feels right.

In the end, Beto concludes that the true value of Starfleet is not the Starfleet itself, but the individual people who make up the organization. Of course, Starflit may have helped them to expose their skills and get incredible experiences, but in return they make Starflit great. Without Officers ready to challenge orders and status quoStarflit cannot survive and actually stands for the ideals she claims to represent.

The episode is filmed a fax documentary style in a mix of still surveillance cameras, drones and interviews with crew in the same vein as One of the biggest episodes "M*a*s*h" Of all the time, and does not work as a format. "Strange new worlds" played with genres and formats so much that it became a little disorienting and "What is Starflate?" is just the latest example. Despite the format, Beto and journalistic voice questions are important. Journalists are sometimes abused in the real world because they are buzzing or taking heroes down from the peg by calling their mistakes, but it is important to maintain powerful entities responsible regardless of our personal bias. The Beto documentary is probably going a little softer on Starfleet than it would have if his sister were not the pilot of the company's crack, but still questioning Starflit's motives and potential corruption. Starflit is essentially a military hand of the federation, for better and worse, which means staining their hands.

Another series "Star Trek" that occasionally caused Starflit's unmistakability and questioned his military status was "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine". Captain Benjamin Cisco (Avery Brooks) was not afraid Use subversive methods to get your upper arm in war And he even questioned Starflit himself, but his son, Akeeke (Lofton Ziror), was a journalist who had some original criticism of Starflet. Akeeke looked at Starflit's rules and regulations and questioned his father's motives, giving the audience the opportunity to do the same. Although both Beto and Akeeke are only young, the disadvantages of journalists to do their best to respond to the mass organization, they are reminders why good journalism is important.