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?