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November 7, 2025

The Masterpiece Society S5E13

You ever wildly overstate something and offend a bunch of people? This guy has.

Ron Canada as Martin Benbeck. He is wearing a purple shirt with a blue blazer and appears upset or angry.
Pictured: Someone who desperately needs the day they deserve.

His name is Martin and he says it would be “suicide” for any member of his Masterpiece Society to leave it, even temporarily. Which begs the question…

Riker, Troi, and LaForge are on an away mission, speaking to two representatives of the planet's human society.
“Which way to the food court?”

The Masterpiece Society

A gorgeous library, stacked high with books;
big bike lanes stuffed with safe passing spaces;
a pond, fish-stocked, plus some free fishing hooks;
restore the old clocktower's bright faces? 

Pools full of swimmers, court burst with ballers;
where rich people pay fair shares of taxes,
and priests prove they deserve divine collars,
where neighbors commit to socialist praxis.

What would your Masterpiece Society
(the levers of power are yours to switch)
require to succeed? Speak with brevity
and poise. We are eager to hear your pitch.

What would your imagination retrieve
for a town it would be "suicide to leave"?
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