Star Trek: VOY Reviews - From Start to Suicide!

They were basically the sort who open an "Irish" bar in America which has a big green neon shamrock outside.

Memory Alpha says: The "Bringloidi" colony, now led by an Irishman named Danilo Odell and his hot-tempered daughter Brenna, are followers of an early 22nd century philosopher who advocated returning to a pre-industrial agrarian lifestyle

So the original colonists could have been a bunch of poorly informed morons following a 22nd century influencer/lifestyle guru.

Exactly. and growing up in America where that sort of thing is 'the norm', I never thought of it as insulting.

I'm pretty sure most people from outside the US would be embarrassed and offended at the way shit happens/exists in the US.

I just read an article that the actress Kim Rhodes was considered for the role of T'Pol, but was considered too fat. That's gotta be Rick Berman. Apparently Kate Mulgrew wanted her to become a reoccurring character because she liked her performance so much. This episode should have come in the earlier seasons.

*Googles*
...and, she ended up in one of the Atlas Shrugged movies.
That's literally worse than porn.

*Prodigy and Picard happen*

*Comedy trumpet*

As one of those, I don't actually find it offensive at all, just a bit ridiculous. There have been a lot of those kind of tropes in Hollywood for a long time. The Banshees of Inisheerin was actually much worse, because people take that seriously and showered it with Oscar nominations.