Amanda’s Reviews > Fighting for the Future: Essays on Star Trek: Discovery > Status Update

"Whereas in previous series we were dangerous to the Mirror Universe, in DSC the Mirror Universe becomes dangerous to us."
This ties in well with the essay's comment that the Federation needs to "attempt to earn its utopia" and really brings home the fact that Star Trek's utopian future isn't a natural progression of society, it takes work-- something that really resonates with our current point in history.