It’s worth noting that this isn’t a single account, but a whole board over on Lemmy (at startrek.website). That may be a lot of things to put on your feed.

Strange New Worlds is alright, in my opinion. It has its flaws, but it’s also doing quite a few things right.

One thing I’m partial to what they’re doing, is how they’re looking at issues with established Federation policy, that isn’t just the standard Prime Directive issue. The only problem is that since they’re a prequel, it means that they’re limited in what kind of changes might come up from those issues.

One example would probably be the Illyrians, who are explicitly stated to have used genetic modification to have genetically modified their colonists rather than rely on the standard environmentally-destructive array of terraforming technologies, or biodomes. In an attempt to appease and respect the Federation attitude/laws around genetic modification, they tried to undo all of their changes, becoming extinct when it went wrong and drove them to extinction.

Since only Earth and the Klingon Empire have been shown to have problems with genetic modification (the Klingon Empire used a modified version of Earth’s anyway), and Earth’s Augment program was panned as “going too far”, is it right for Earth to impress the consequences of its own actions on the Federation, and through that, everyone else?