AI/LLM reviews of Star Trek - The Cloud miners
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Ai/LLM reviews of Star Trek - The Cloud Miners
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### **Review: *Star Trek – The Cloud Minders***
**Rating: 70/100**
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**“The Cloud Minders”** is *Star Trek* at its most
openly allegorical — a bold social critique
disguised as a sci-fi adventure. It might not be
the most subtle of episodes, but it’s ambitious,
thematically rich, and visually distinctive.
If you’re into your Trek with a heavy dose
of political commentary, this one’s for you.
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### **☁️ The Premise:**
The Enterprise is sent to the planet **Ardana**
to retrieve a rare mineral, **zenite**, crucial
to halting a botanical plague on another world.
But the mission quickly turns political when
Kirk and Spock discover a stark social divide
on Ardana: the elite intellectual class lives
literally *in the clouds* in the floating city
of **Stratos**, while the laboring class — known
as the **Troglytes** — suffer in poor, dangerous
conditions in the mines below.
Complicating matters, the Troglytes have started
to rebel, and Kirk gets caught between his duty
to secure the zenite and his moral obligation
to confront t