I can’t think of anything that screams, “Making a prequel was a baaaaaad idea and we regreeeeet it!” more than giving up after two years and jumping the characters forward in time until it’s not a prequel anymore.
“If we learned anything, we learned we’re not yet ready to learn everything.”
This is such an incredibly cheap, lazy, and anti-science sentiment. Just because knowledge must be handled responsibly doesn’t mean the answer is to simply throw it away.
And what is the answer? It depends on the specific question. In this case, I think that the correct answer would have been not devoting an entire season to an inexplicably evil AI in the first place.
Evil and one-dimensional. That one dimension being “evil.”
It’s a particularly disappointing quote in the context of Star Trek, delivered by Spock… but I think it’s generally problematic too.