Ignoring the fact that the violence and unhappy endings was largely sanitized from the Disney version of the fairy tales and thus any original meaning is irrelevant, the point of the stories in both instances was basic shit for children like listen to your parents, don't talk to strangers, don't lie, don't break your word, if it sounds too good to be true it probably is, and don't wander off. The other bullshit you spouted is nothing more than humans recognizing patterns where there are none.

Now what's the lead and other heavy metal toxicity like in most of Africa? Or the publicly available learning resources(Not schools, because American schools have steadily declined in quality since the 1970s and in the past decade have gone into a complete nosedive)?

To be fair, there was one good thing about episode 8. Holdo died.

Or the fact that Disney literally has an internal grading system for proposed and ongoing projects based on diversity, which has a tiny disclaimer at the bottom saying you can't actually use any of these things for hiring decisions but we'll give you this sheet anyway and what happens happens.

Right, it's not like right up until the 60's that black marriage rates were on par with whites or that the black poverty rate was declining at a steady rate. It's not like the subsidization of failure and single parenthood, combined with the murder of the two black luminaries to be replaced by the worst kinds of con artists, the disparate effect that the drug war had on inner cities(Not because of the racisicisms but because drug deals are a lot easier to pick up on when the area they happen in is significantly smaller per offense. Easier for cops to spy on and track, much less area to hide the contraband in, and less avenues of escape), and the destruction of the American education system caused by the Dept. of Ed and the national teachers union.

That bill still had warrant requirements in it if it involved American citizens. This one strips that requirement out.

Sorry, that should read "convinced of their lack of necessity"

Which is why the vote to impose warrant requirements with an amendment was 212-212 before being spiked by that quisling Johnson. His explanation of which was "I was totally for warrant requirements before taken behind closed doors and being convinced of their necessity". In which 50% more republicans than democrats voted for requiring warrants and 13 cowardly bitches refused to vote.
https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/...

The very first episode of Star Trek I ever saw was Duet. Have you seen it? It was Season One and by the end of the episode we're pretty far removed from "Terrorist Kira." It did not take seven years for her to view the Cardassians as people or to think that a political solution was possible.

Bullshit. It's not the funding. Above an extremely low bar that the vast, vast majority of schools which fail to meet are rural, and thus overwhelmingly white and latino in composition, funding for K-12 has ZERO correlation with performance.

Black ghetto culture and the slightly higher class black victim culture are pretty damn easy to pick out in practice.

The case revolves around subscribers who received repeated notices but they allegedly never stopped their infringements and cox never disconnected them. This was a problem because the DMCA has language about repeat infringement, strikes, and removal/disconnection but doesn't specify what qualifies as infringement or how many strikes is too many.

The jury seemed to decide that accusations qualify as infringement, and whatever number of strikes was considered "reasonable" was largely ignored since cox allegedly didn't ever disconnect anyone and maybe wasn't even tallying how many "strikes" individual subscribers received.

To my understanding cox was following the law regarding passing on strikes/warnings to subscribers, but as the alleged infringement was temporal in nature there's nothing to takedown. It does seem that the courts just passed interpreting the extremely poorly written law onto a jury which might be the only group of people less qualified than the congresscritters who wrote it.

There's nothing in any canon I can recall that would imply that. I do recall household fusion reactors and replicators (TNG's The Survivors) which is pretty much the opposite definition of central control by the State, unless we assume the replicator has DRM or some such, which was never said or implied. There's also civilian ownership of weaponry in every show, again, opposite of central control. There are privately owned ships, privately owned restaurants, privately owned French estates, the only thing missing is currency, but what good is currency in an abundance economy?

Did you watch the same show I did? That might have made for a compelling story. The story we actually got was about a cartoon villain from a literal universe of cartoon villains. That twist ruined what was up until that point a fairly compelling character story acted brilliantly by Jason Issacs. Discovery has done this time and time again, take a concept from Classic Trek best used sparingly (Section 31) or not taken seriously (tMirror Universe) and drive it into the ground.

That's nonsense but I'm not surprised you worship at the altar of DS9 because it feels like all DS9 worshippers have to throw this shade at the other shows. You don't see any character evolution between S1 Data, Worf, or Picard vs. S7? S1 Doctor vs. S4? S4 Seven of Nine vs. S7? There were certainly characters (Harry Kim) the writers forgot about but it's nonsense to say they stayed the same as they always were. Side note: I like DS9, a lot actually, so don't mistake this as a condemnation of that show, just the more rabid parts of its fan base.

Episodic television is not mutually exclusive with character development and serialized television is not automatically superior. I would posit that it only works when the show runners actually have the whole story sketched out in advance, e.g., Babylon 5. How many B5 episodes ended on a cliffhanger? I can recall only one. How many Game of Thrones episodes ended in cliffhangers? I can't recall any. Those shows (well, GoT until they outran the source material) are how you do serialization, a novel for television, not what Discovery and Picard pull on us. Discovery and Picard take story ideas that could be told in a two hour movie or three episode television arc and try to stretch them out for 10 hours. They do it with cheap tricks, like cliffhangers (invariably resolved in the opening act of the next episode), twists to drive engagement on social media (OMG, Lorca is from the mirror universe!), manufactured interpersonal conflict on a soap opera level (what happened to the professionalism in Starfleet?), blah, blah, blah, all there just to pad the run time and keep the rubes subscribing.

This isn't uniquely a Star Trek problem. It has happened to a lot of other productions. I blame Netflix, or rather, Hollywood's reaction to Netflix. Everyone rushed to copy that production model without asking themselves if there was still room for traditional TV (e.g., Strange New Worlds) or (crazy idea) new concepts.

Blood isn't the problem my friend. It's the gore, torture, and violence for the sake of shock value that ruined Discovery and Picard for me. Something else you said:

You don't need gore porn to tell a story about the horrors of war. If you think you do you've probably never seen the horrors of war. The two Star Trek episodes that most effect my partner -- who actually served in the GWoT and came back with the TBI and PTSD to prove it -- are Chain of Command and It's Only a Paper Moon.

Communism implies the state controls the means of production, which is impossible if every citizen owns a replicator and fusion reactor. It's better described as an abundance economy. In Trek it's implied (in The Orville explicitly said) that humanity evolved first and later got the cool tech that allows you make anything you want out of thin air. That's probably how it has to happen because you just know if some tech bro actually made the replicator a thing it would be burdened with DRM and onerous licensing fees. Here's a replicator, it will feed you a gelatinous mass that tastes like garbage but meets all your nutritional requirements, if you want to replicate actual food you can purchase our Recipe Add On license at an annual fee of.....