re: Star Trek Strange new Worlds Season 2

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It's easy to scream "woke" in this episode

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Yes it’s becoming more and more woke.

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but it is a deeper dive on Humanity

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Not really unless NAZIs are your focus of humanity. Experimenting on humans, kids, and the unborn is not something I would put on same level as needing to be accepted like with race or sex. Old Star Trek would have found a way to show being excepting or one’s biology not manipulating it.

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I would think this episode was written in the same spirit.

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It was forced and dumbed down and should not be mentioned with those other Star Trek episodes. Episode was based on a winning with technicality and one that really didn’t match the law outside of lawyer saying it did or what really happened. She knew as a child she was lying. She knew as an adult she was lying. She knew as an officer she was lying including months after telling Pike. Even if seeking asylum it was from humans not from her own people. Pike didn’t grant asylum but chose to keep her secret. It would not also change lying on application part. It was legal manipulation by lawyer & judges which isn’t really good story telling or a deeper dive into humanity.

It felt completely forced and nothing like Data’s episode. I didn’t agree with that conclusion outside of science fiction context, but I enjoyed that episode a heck of a lot more than this one. It could be in part that Data was a better character and performed by a better actor making Data more well rounded and likable than Number 1 even as an android. We also got to see Data grow over longer time frame, and we saw that Data wanted to be more human than some humans. Rebecca isn’t a good enough actress. Her character gets left behind by others (including some as acting number 1 or acting captain) and is not very interesting. She was not interesting in the episode she came out as being genetically modified and made a future episode like this one easily foreseen. Her best acting is when she morphed into other characters in X-Men films Or filled out that blue skin…

On a different story telling note - What did Pike do to change the future he saw in season 1 finale with #1 convicted for these crimes and still in jail (7 years later I think)? Was he so caught up saving himself that he didn’t go get her friend to defend her? I just can’t see that even with the future version trying to save himself from his fate and seemed forced as well, but maybe I missed a better explanation.

Edit: even with episode’s faults it was still better than Discovery.