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“When I wrote that episode, it was in a really dark time where there was a lot of nationalism and fascism re-rising in Europe, and obviously we have a real problem with that here [in the U.S.] as well. And for me, I wanted to find an entity that Starfleet could not be focusing on, that could then have been built up in power. And that line about, ‘Oh, aren’t these guys a joke?’ ‘Well, they’re not a joke anymore’—that feels to me like a lot of what we’re dealing with right now: that dangerous people are dangerous, even if you didn’t know they were.”

— Mike McMahan on choosing the antagonist for the Lower Decks season finale