Turns out Picard is a raging alcoholic with cognitive impairment and is only a figurehead the crew needs in place in order to manage the ship.
It also turns out that the entire crew is actually Borg which have adapted into creating perfect disguises for their physical implants and augmentations, to hide their identity and infiltrate the federation .... with an entire federation ship crewed by Borg and captained by a single human who is a helpless easily manipulated alcoholic.
Welcome to the world of being an Indigenous Canadian teen in a non-Indigenous city in the 1990s ..... where you either get wrongly arrested, or you develop a sixth sense for the police
As long as the voting public in first world countries are not starving and have something to eat, even if it isn't enough or even healthy .... they won't vote for any kind of social change.
Nothing more American than to see Republicans freak out at the tiniest possibility that someone wants to actually help average Americans ..... and instead of ignoring them, they label him a radical socialist that is dangerous.... dangerous to who? The rich!