I want this show to make use of that story in a meaningful way, and I want to meet some Kree with lines.

But then immediately undercut by her punishment. And the casting of the whole race was off, as they looked female and clone-like. It was a very clumsy attempt to make a muddled identity statement.

It tried but those weren’t quite the most shining or memorable moments of AOS. They haven’t made it clear enough how it all links up.

The Inhumans do have a sob story of their own; they are the genetic play things of the Kree established on earth as military breeding fodder, and their odd society is a meritocracy they built without precedent or guidelines, making them outsiders with no true home. But of course the MC hasn’t really gotten around to…

Agreed about the pronunciation issues: never in my childhood comics-reading head did I hear AT-ilan, but surely their majestic alien city is ah-TIL-an?

Of course that was a very controversial episode about a planet of lesbian librarians that Riker disrupts by trying to “save” one into heterosexual love, and having Worf help because he’s so macho was highly problematic ( given how Worf privileged Klingon culture over individual needs on the regular ).

Against her will? That’s pretty far off from what was presented, a newborn whose parents were making tough choices on her behalf. We also have no idea how invasive the procedure was in this future; it might have been a pill or a lotion for all we know. For me the problem resided in the unexamined sexism of the…