“Star Trek Embarrasses And Degrades Itself With Star Trek: Lower Decks Orgy Scene”
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My interpretation on how this came about:
Writer 1: Let's do a homosexual propaganda episode!
Writer 2: How do we disguise it?
W1: We'll do it as a holodeck thing!
W2: Won't that be out of character for almost all of the cast?
W1: We'll do that sex virus thing from TNG. The episode where Data was fully functional.
W2: How will we make that work? It'll be forced for sure.
W1: It'll be a test thing. For the stunning and brave black female lead as a command thing or whatever.
W2: How are we going to have a conclusion that isn't a disaster?
W1: We'll play it off as that Kirk thing, Kobiashi Maru. The lose-lose situation where it's supposed to show your character.
W2: But Kirk beat that by cheating so if we don't have our stunning and brave black female win people will point out that a white male succeeded where a stunning and brave black female lost.
W1: If anyone points that out we'll just call them racist because it's current year!
And my biggest error in all of this is thinking they had a discussion at all instead of just going with an already written fan fiction posted somewhere on the Internet.
As much as I like your first idea, yeah it was just someone's fanfic they ripped or had saved personally that they wrote.
The novel of the original timeline had such a better solution for Kirk solving that. He was that sure of how awesome he's be he reprogrammed the test to reflect how infamous he'd be in the future and solved the unsolvable test by hailing the attacking ships and going "I'm Kirk, gtfo!"
reported :)