Why Aren't There More Lawyers in Space?
TV is sorely lacking this subgenre
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5 min readOct 10, 2023
In 2023, the second season of the Star Trek show Strange New Worlds, the prequel spin-off to the original series, had a legal episode where the civil rights attorney Neera defended the genetic modifications of Lt Cmdr Una Chin-Riley. The Federation, despite being a socialist polity, still has biases, and one of them has been its…
