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Posted by Beryllium (aka grayman) Jun 19 '23, 08:48

Sounds like Plot-Advancing Drugs. The writers set up the scenario and then used the drugs to push through it. Are the drugs left over from the war? The dialogue suggests this is the case. The ease of Spock's forgiveness from
Starfleet indicates that there won't be a deeper inquiry into Chapel/Mbenga from that front. So if it's going to be explored later, it will have to be another avenue. Addiction, withdrawal, permanent sideeffects, or maybe through a hypocritical interaction with another species - can't take the moral high ground if you're no better.

And the writers may never touch on it, but that seems like they'd be missing out on Lesson One of writing: chekov's phaser.

Although on the other hand, it might be more of a Sulu's Katana situation where the series writers don't touch on it again, but it gets surfaced in a later spinoff/remake.

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one thing I wondered was - Beaker 🍺 Jun 19, 08:50 1
- With the ep he went from being my least favorite crew member to an interesting one, for sure. -- nm - Spawn Jun 19, 09:00

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