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Rizzo's description of Oh as an "ally" says "Vulcan" to me. I also think the camera lovingly lingering on the Surakian bricabrac in her office is meant to remind us of a) the Vulcans being shady in ENT generally and b) the "logic extremists" in S2 of DSC. I also think that Clancy mentioning the threats to withdraw from the Federation over the Romulan rescue op is pointing forward to DSC S3.

When I watched The Measure of a Man last month I was struck by the fact that Picard doesn't realize that turning Data over is wrong until pretty far along in the episode, relatively speaking. (Unlike Riker, who gets it immediately and then has to play devil's advocate.) So it doesn't seem that farfetched to me that Picard and/or other people in Starfleet weren't automatically opposed to the existence of the synthetics, on top of their history of everything else.

The thing I like best about that scene between Picard and Clancy is that they're actually both right.

ETA: Has Michael Chabon read Murderbot? Also, why did he think it was okay to reuse the title of his essay collection for an episode that doesn't actually make use of the "legends" pun?