Sometimes boldly going involves sitting at benches, banging gavels, and giving a good speech or three—but we’re entering our own tribunal to sort the best from the rest.
Absolutely this. Best part of the episode, for me, was the examination of April.
A) It’s a not uncommon legal tactic for the defence, to just mess shit up and cast doubt over the whole trial.
B) It, as you point out so well, laid out the morality of the issue and the cultural hurdles it was running into … the kicker being the judge’s statement at the end of the examination that it was all “stricken from the record”, which on the one hand made perfect legal sense, but on the other perfectly demonstrated how hard it is to even talk about the issue from an outsider’s perspective. All of which also gets back to A … Neera knew what she was doing and let it set the tone for what the trial was really about, even though it wouldn’t register legally, it would register in everyone’s guts, where she had the actual legal argument coming to stick the landing.
Absolutely this. Best part of the episode, for me, was the examination of April.
A) It’s a not uncommon legal tactic for the defence, to just mess shit up and cast doubt over the whole trial.
B) It, as you point out so well, laid out the morality of the issue and the cultural hurdles it was running into … the kicker being the judge’s statement at the end of the examination that it was all “stricken from the record”, which on the one hand made perfect legal sense, but on the other perfectly demonstrated how hard it is to even talk about the issue from an outsider’s perspective. All of which also gets back to A … Neera knew what she was doing and let it set the tone for what the trial was really about, even though it wouldn’t register legally, it would register in everyone’s guts, where she had the actual legal argument coming to stick the landing.