213. Twentieth Century Thinking (SNW 3.10)

Noted Doctor Who podcasters Anika and Liz settle in to watch a very bad Steven Moffat pastiche. 

Yes, it's time for the season 3 finale of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, and spoilers, turning into a statue might be preferable to this.

• It turns out Marie's whole arc has been about becoming tradwife statuary
• The weird Christian subtext of the season intensifies, not in a good way
• The racial dynamics of this episode are very, very bad
• Do we need to dismantle the carceral state for the Vezda? 
• No more backstory for M'Benga, please, we have enough dog whistle racism
• Kirk, Spock, barroom mind melds, queerbaiting and the weirdness with La'an
• You almost have to respect the effort that went into dismantling Marie as a character before fridging her
• Speaking of dismantling characters: remember when we didn't hate La'an? When she was, in fact, one of our faves?