They've got to plant seeds of suspicion and hooks they can use in later seasons. Obviously they want to keep a Vast Conspiracy subplot going; what else is Maggie Q going to do?

That's why he had to be actually in the server room and plug into it.
The idea though that he could copy basically the entire secure database onto his laptop, in a few minutes; or have the storage, is pretty unlikely. Even less likely he could stream it offsite; presumably wirelessly. I'm pretty sure you could not get…

Bernie would have been close enough for me.

Too bad just this week IRL we learnt that the President definitely cannot order the FBI to let a suspect go. But you can't, I suppose, expect anyone less than the Director to push back.

KGB just pulls out fingernails until they tell them who the lawyer is and how to get it back. Or just look significantly at the wife and daughter.

His post-911 stories even more so. I just read "Absolute Friends"; great and very depressing. A lot like "The Americans" in that you sympathise and fear for characters regardless of ideology.

Even Tim would not be that naive. He knows the grasp of the KGB. He knows he'd be dead.

Clark married Martha. Not Philip; and certainly not Mischa.

It's a prequel to "The Handmaid's Tale".

Some really dumb lines from Moss, the Sec State.
First he recaps all the NATO leaders for Kirkman; as if he'd never even heard their names before. And an Indian woman as UK PM? Hilarious. This is the country that just voted for Brexit to keep the wogs out.

It is science fiction. The epidemic of infertility is the element of SF that the whole story begins from.This appears to have begun at least 10 years previous to the present, so it's actually an alternate history SF

Could be that we're in the upper-class area, where every "captain" has a handmaid. Actually, I'm a bit surprised they only have one each.

Or to avoid it, you cast Idris Elba as a Norse God.

Stalin was doing it in the 30s, 15 years after the revolution. (Which inspired Orwell's 1984, written in 1948.) Mao in the 60s, also about 15 years after he took over. In Cambodia in the 70s the Khmer Rouge did it even faster. Trump made a good start with the Muslim Ban and the Wall. Fortunately the checks and…

In the 1st episode (the orientation class) we see the birthrate declining from the 60s and collapsing soon after. So this is really an alternate history (like "Man in the High Castle), not a projected future.

The "rapist"'s real crime was using another man's maid.
And many religious types are very happy to tear down the temples of other religions..

Pretty sure he did enjoy it; but doesn't want to let his wife see that.

Not necessarily "anti-religious". It's about how an ideology can be used as a tool of oppression, backed up with secret police and informers.This society is apparently anti-Christian, at least they demolished all the churches. They talk a lot about "God", but it could as well be Big Brother or Chairman Mao in the…

Of course the reviewer wrote it. Never said otherwise. You quoted it and commented on it; I was doing the same. Following your comment doesn't mean that I am attacking you.

You know they really did visit all those worlds in TOS….