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* BrokenBase: A dying Gill denounces his own intervention, saying that the AlienNonInterferenceClause is the only possible moral way to study other societies. Audiences since are divided between the Prime Directive fundamentalists that agree with him absolutely and those who instead feel it's a very debatable point since Gill chose to break that clause by ''introducing the people to National Socialism''.
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* {{Anvilicious}}: Nazism is bad. Also, totalitarian government is not a good model for a healthy society no matter how [[WellIntentionedExtremist well-meaning the founders are]]. The moral is made all the blunter in that the only real sci-fi part of the moral is that the "Jews" to this version of the Nazis are an alien race, highlighting the arbitrariness of the enemy other needed to sustain the regime. Other than that, the Aesop isn't different from anything you could get out of a normal WWII series.

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* {{Anvilicious}}: Nazism is bad. Also, totalitarian government is not a good model for a healthy society no matter how [[WellIntentionedExtremist well-meaning the founders are]]. The moral is made all the blunter more blunt in that the only real sci-fi part of the moral is that the "Jews" to this version of the Nazis are an alien race, highlighting the arbitrariness of the enemy other needed to sustain the regime. Other than that, the Aesop isn't different from anything you could get out of a normal WWII series.
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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: The premise -- coming across a civilization about to go down a path parallel to Earth's during the rise of fascism and exploring the moral dilemma of interference to stop [[HistoryRepeats history from repeating itself]] -- is a pretty good one. Unfortunately, the story becomes more about fixing the damage an outsider already caused instead.

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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: The premise -- coming across a civilization about to go down a path parallel to Earth's during the rise of fascism and exploring the moral dilemma of interference to stop [[HistoryRepeats history from repeating itself]] -- is a pretty good one. Unfortunately, the story becomes more about fixing the damage an outsider already caused instead.instead, especially since rather than repeating the parallel pattern, the episode is about an ''exact'' replication as a cost-saving measure, using up the production company's old Nazi props.
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** So Creator/LeonardNimoy and some other guys disguise themselves as employees of a fascist government as part of an espionage [[Series/MissionImpossible mission?]] [[JustForPun Impossible!]]

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** So Creator/LeonardNimoy and some other guys disguise themselves as employees of a fascist government as part of an espionage [[Series/MissionImpossible mission?]] [[JustForPun mission? Impossible!]]
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* {{Anvilicious}}: Nazism is bad. Also, totalitarian government is not a good model for a healthy society no matter how [[WellIntentionedExtremist well-meaning the founders are]]. The moral is made all the blunter is that the only real sci-fi part of the moral is that the "Jews" to this version of the Nazis are an alien race, highlighting the arbitrariness of the enemy other needed to sustain the regime. Other than that, the Aesop isn't different from anything you could get out of a normal WWII series.

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* {{Anvilicious}}: Nazism is bad. Also, totalitarian government is not a good model for a healthy society no matter how [[WellIntentionedExtremist well-meaning the founders are]]. The moral is made all the blunter is in that the only real sci-fi part of the moral is that the "Jews" to this version of the Nazis are an alien race, highlighting the arbitrariness of the enemy other needed to sustain the regime. Other than that, the Aesop isn't different from anything you could get out of a normal WWII series.

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