Anika and Liz watch Star Trek: Starfleet Academy's "The Life of the Stars" and have a little cry. Featuring a special guest appearance by Bradley Whitford and Liz reads a brief excerpt from Discipline by Randa Abdel-Fattah. 

• We got Star Trekked. We got Our Towned. They got us RIGHT in the feels.
• The women that time forgot
• How much agency has Tarima had in her recovery? It seems like not much!
• Did Liz totally misread the Tarima allegory? Banshees and mental illness and maybe you can spend so much time looking for the allegory that you miss the story?
• "Stealth trauma counselling" isn't the MOST unethical use of psychology in Star Trek, but we have raised our eyebrows!
• At no point did we think Sam would die, but ALSO we were on the edge of our seats through this entire plotline
• "Not holding Sam's hand felt like a war crime."
• Us a few weeks ago: "Sam's makers feel like an allegory for helicopter parents." This week: helicopter parents fail to build resilience in their children
• The Tarima-Caleb-Genesis love triangle is handled … really maturely? What if you were attracted to someone and simply chose not to do anything about it?