Logline
Commander Una Chin-Riley faces court-martial along with possible imprisonment and dishonorable dismissal from Starfleet, and her defense is in the hands of a lawyer who’s also a childhood friend with whom she had a terrible falling out.
Written by Dana Horgan
Directed by Valerie Weiss
Ad Astra Per Aspera
A beautiful title, I remember watching the anime Ad Astra a few years back. They had a ROUGH time.
Through hardships, to the stars.
YES! GIVE ME THAT STRENGTH!
So it was either dishonorable discharge OR Dishonorable discharge with 20 years in a penal colony.
That’s a rough decision.
GIVE EM HELL UNA!
So La’An has an idea that the evidence against Una might have been illegally obtained. This is going to be a really in depth court drama from Star Trek!
But Uhura strictly refuses La’An’s illegal order. :|
And of course the JAG gets pissed off at that type of reasoning, how convenient.
Spock’s line about what una was hiding OMG!!!
A BRITISH TAR IS A SOARING SOUL AS FREE AS A MOUNTAIN BIRD HIS ENERGETIC FIST SHOULD BE READY TO RESIST A DICTACTORIAL WORD
And we get more into exactly That.
OH MY GOOOOOOD…
“Ad Astra per aspera”
To the stars through hardship.
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So it was four months in between Ghosts of Illyria and last season’s finale.
What an amazing courtroom episode! Did a lot of work for equality in the current moment.
I was recalling a lot of the classic courtroom episodes too, The Menagerie, Drumhead, Measure of a Man. This is top tier stuff.
I also feel relevant to our current controversies.
I loved April getting called out for bending/breaking rules.
Seems that captains of the Enterprise breaking the Prime Directive is a very old tradition indeed.
Spock’s line is perfect lying by omission when even omissions is not allowed.
When asked is she hiding something…Spock must answer yes as he knew
What is she hiding…gives a benign thing she is hiding so he has answered the question for one thing…there may be other things she is hiding …like being an Illyrian but spock does.not have to mention that as he has answered.and she does not push.
Its like dungeons and dragons playing with zone of truth