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Personally, I wanted a self-referential parody. Trek has a long and sordid history of taking itself way too seriously... you know, much like the seethers in this thread. It needed something to point out its ridiculous aspects. So no one checked back on Landru's planet to see if he took over again? Picard simply separated Ornara from Brekka and no one checked on how that turned out? Or cared that meddling with a pre-warp civilization was a violation of the Prime Directive? Or hexagonal crates, which cannot be stacked stably under any circumstances? I could go on. No, Trek not only desperately needed LD, it desperately deserved it.
