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Trek has always been this way. In TNG, Data takes over the Enterprise singlehandedly to go see his dad. In the Darmok episode, they just beam Picard away. There are Q episodes. There's the spinning disk metaphor for drugs episode.

Maybe it's not the most reasonable on every single plot point, but it also spans a wide range of topics, genres, level of seriousness, etc. The point of Measure of a Man isn't that the full legal system of the Federation is explained in a consistent way. The point of Darmok isn't to do an audit of the security system.

If you can't get past the points that are less than perfect to get to the points that are important, it may not be the show for you. Maybe try watching a few with the idea of looking for what's important instead of trying to find what's wrong and see how that goes.

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    If you've ever seen Euros or Australian dollars, they have a lot of accessibility features such as each denomination being a different size and color and raised print. As per usual for the US, somebody had to sue to get anything done and get accessibility considered, the US bills being the only currency out of 180 to have all of its bills be the same size. The lawsuit started in 2006 and the results might be fully rolled out by 2030. At least one redesign since the decision ignored accessibility for the blind.

    Australia has fun names for some bills like lobster and pineapple. Extra bonus: no pictures of slave owners like on the US $1 and $2 bills.

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    Edit: Not a real series. There's just the one story in Watchmen and an adaptation of that.

    Tales of the Black Freighter is a swashbuckler anthology pirate comic book series. It was published by National Comics (which later became DC Comics).

    Shying away from mainstream adventures, Tales of the Black Freighter's radical and innovative stories show a disturbing reality against metaphysical terrors and perverse comments on the human condition.

     

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