95. The Tragedy of Darth Greg the Wise (Disco 1.05)

'Twas a few days before Christmas, and here on Discord, Anika and Liz got together to talk about Star Trek and politely overlook Liz's total and absolute inability to use rhyme or meter. It turns out we were onto something thematically relevant with our calls for prison abolition! "The Examples" feels like TNG or Voyager, and this time we mean it as a compliment (It feels so much like a Voyager episode that we have to debate whether or not the character played by an First Nations actor was an ethnic stereotype…) Ruon Tarka is a great foil for Stamets and a … temptation? For Book? We have a lot of feelings about the USS Janeway and the NSS T'Pau Was Zora's development of emotions triggered by the anomaly? Is this set-up for Calypso? We have WILD SPECULATION and VERY LITTLE EVIDENCE! Liz is not entirely certain how to pronounce "eschew" but that's not going to stop her from trying! Prediction: the anomaly looks like an eye because we are going to be asked to empathise with it