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Any reasonable person knows the topic is a real issue. And there are moments where we get to see the perspective of both a cop and the driver without it being wrapped in all of the emotional overdrive and posturing that oozes out of the rest of the film.

With a different case this same format might have worked really well. This specific traffic stop's footage doesn't tell the story that needs to be told. It might actually serve to convince people in the opposite direction. Instead I have to wonder if the production team watched the dash cam footage. Did they edit it in believing they knew what it portrayed? Or were they so blinded by passion for the topic that they felt Breaion's life story would cause us to excuse her choices?

Either way, it's sloppy. Hopefully future filmmakers take more care to ensure the dashcam footage matches the story they build.

Star Trek has never been as good as we remember it. It's always been a little campy, cheesy, and dependent on technobabble to drive the plot. It's also always been the optimistic critic of our social shortcomings and pushed boundaries. So having someone in the back row groaning about getting whale extinction shoved down their throat when they just want to watch Star Trek is not new.

But this wokeness-turned-to-11 endeavor never develops any charm. The characters are all not that compelling; it's like the Bad News Bears was the inspiration for the crew. The amount of violence was excessive for no real purpose. I don't see how a "24" season-arc approach brings any value in the Star Trek universe. If you like an episode story telling format, this is not your show at all.

Clearly the people that created this vision for Star Trek were not listening to anyone that wanted to steer it back to what the franchise meant to anyone else. It seems like they had specific story telling goals in mind and Star Trek just became the vehicle for their ideas. I'm done with it, I can't watch them abuse the franchise and I especially won't pay for it.