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I think it’s fine to acknowledge the unfortunate truth that autistic people have to live in a society designed around the needs of people who are unlike them in important ways. Saying so shouldn’t diminish their responsibility to try to function in society as best they can despite this challenge.

To an extent, it’s a matter of perspective. We can easily conceive of a society where the things that “normal” people do are considered alien and jarring. If they had to constantly suppress their fundamental nature the way autistic people do, they might not seem so natural and healthy.

Henry George wrote about this extensively. The solution is a tax on all land at just under 100% of it’s rental value. That allows landlords to profit from the structures they build and maintain, but not from the land itself. It disincentivizes real estate speculation, lowering the cost of land and housing and improving accessibility to people who use it productively.

They’re written differently, but pronounced the same.

I agree. But there were a few moments where the Ferengi were shown not to behave consistently with the principles they espoused.

They shouldn’t have had any problem with (Edit: Rom) forming a union, for instance. After all, what’s wrong with a little collusion and price-fixing between the sellers of labor?

I guess some hypocrisy is to be expected in any society.

Star Trek: Picard has Picard too…

I vaguely remember seeing a news article about something like that. I think it was a game where killing enemies caused files to be deleted from your computer. It was portrayed as some kind of artistic statement about digital possessions or something.

Someone in the forum where it was being discussed sarcastically said they developed a live action version called “playing baseball inside.”

Yes. If I understand correctly, it’s because the eggs are washed, which strips them of their natural protective coating and causes them to require refrigeration.

My Hero Academia.

My thought was that turning it into an alloy somehow stabilized it.

Nausicans of all species had working temporal technology thousands of years in the past!!!

Is it possible they merely discovered the portal and carved the notice on to it?

So “Horonium” was once so abundant that it was accessible even with Earth’s limited capabilities in the NX-01 era, but somehow it’s now gone from the entire quadrant? Seems like there must be a story there. I wonder if something like The Burn could have come into play (I never watched DISC past the first season, so I’m going off of hearsay of what that was.) Or possibly it was a material somehow created and scattered all throughout the galaxy at once with a limited lifespan. Given that it powers the time portal, maybe it has some weird temporal properties that made it disappear.

Been awhile since I’ve watched it too, but given that Tellarite culture revolves around things we see as rudeness, do we really know for sure that runts are seen as or treated as lesser?

This is similar, albeit much better written, to a theory that I posted on reddit ages ago.

What’s interesting about this is that is seems like Worf is among those who misunderstand what Klingons mean by “honor.” When Worf refused to support the invasion of Cardassia, Gowron warned him that he’d lose his standing in society, he’d have nothing. Worf answered, “Except my honor.” Whereas that act entailed losing, not saving “face.”

Another interesting scene was in The House of Quark, where Gowron told D’ghor, “…if you can stand here and murder this pathetic little man, then you have no honor, and you have no place in this Hall.” If this theory is correct, Gowron was in a sense ceremonially stripping D’ghor of honor with that statement.

It’s possible that the answer is somewhere in-between, however. Klingon honor involves both being trusted and being trustworthy.

Well, the OP spelled out their criteria explicitly.

these should be episodes that can work with a minimum number of sets- In The Pale Moonlight could work on a single set. It’s Only a Paper Moon could work with two. DS9 and holodeck/Vic’s club.

no special effect and modest-to-minimal practical effects- In both cases the episode is carried out through dialogue.

amateur though dedicated actors- This one’s a little harder to quantify, so I’ll leave that up to OP’s judgement.

In addition, they deal with themes that are relatable without being exposed to the context of the story. Moreso It’s Only a Paper Moon than In The Pale Moonlight.

Is it a common trope in Westerns? Maybe it was there as an homage.

I wonder if it’s really time healing itself, or someone healing time.

Taking the idea of temporal wars and a department of temporal investigation to its logical end, it’s like what they said in the second Bill and Ted movie. Only the winner can go back and change things. We can speculate that, at some point in time, the most powerful time-traveling organization possible exists and is actively trying to maintain the meta-timeline that leads to its existence.

What about DS9’s In The Pale Moonlight or It’s Only a Paper Moon?

I like having a keyboard and mouse. Doing things on a smartphone is a last resort.