lol what? no i'm an old head. s3 of picard is literally about some bullshit that infects only young people. the next generation if you will. fucking wild for the tng capstone (even though All Good Things was perfect) to be built around that.

it's not commentary on anything, it's anti- torch passing, still reactionary, and it parallels the ossification of government and culture that we're going through now.

the only thing i know about academy is that someone ate their combadge and it was a common enough event to exasperate the doctor.