Star Trek is about a socially advanced humanity who wear their benevolence and wisdom on their sleeves, but in actuality it's a television show written by a bunch of TV writers who are not from a socially advanced humanity. And sometimes they just botch it up horribly. This episode shows the worst side of Star Trek, when the characters become pompous, morally superior, and dumb. It kills the believability, because such people could not make it very far in even a fantasy version of our world, and certainly couldn't bear the weight of responsibility for other people's lives successfully. In this episode Captain Picard isn't a morally responsible leader, he's a farcical caricature of one. And because of that, it's just not a worthy entry into Star Trek lore.
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