“We needed a villain that kind of matched the re-rise of fascism, this thing that we thought we’d nipped in the bud is back! That’s why we wanted to take a character that was kind of a joke from the TNG episodes and say, what if, because they were a joke, people didn’t take them seriously enough, and they got too powerful, and now they are actually dangerous and people are paying with their lives for not taking them seriously?“ - Mike McMahan, Star Trek: Lower Decks creator (x)
I just wanted to give McMahan his due for just how timely his warning was in the season 1 finale of Lower Decks a few months ago. (Yeah, I did alter the Pakled’s line above but felt it appropriate.) Those who demonstrate a laughable level of cluelessness by buying into conspiracy theories can still be a deadly threat.
