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Episode 6 out. Sorta in line with one of the TOS “meh” episodes, though they through in a lot of fan service type stuff. The first “official” meetings for Kirk with “fleet captain” Pike, Spock and Uhura. Some Jim & Sam Kirk time….a little Kirk and Le-ann time….they actually went sly with those…and a brief update on the Spock-Chapel thing.

Despite the overall episode being, as I said what I’d consider a Tos throw-away style episode they seemed to put a lot of connections in.

Agreed. This was certainly the weakest episode of season 2. While it was still entertaining, it suffered from a weak script that could have been elevated better.

One thing I did really like in this episode was establishing a little back story of the Kirk brothers. I was please they retconned the prer-mature death of their father George Kirk by establishing he lived past the Kelvin and was part of their upbringing

Here are a few of my "pedantic thoughts":

1. Using TNG's Ten Forward as a template for a social bar/club, the one on SNW's Enterprise is too big and glitzy for a smaller ship from nearly 100 earlier than the Enterprise-D

2. The Federation must have money to burn. Blowing up that array with no physical evidence and just the word of an ensign fresh out of the Academy was a stretch. This is bad writing. The Science Team or the Medical staff should have established physical proof with Uhura's help.

3. Why do writers continually want to put Spock in a relationship? The JJ Trek tragedies had him hooking up with Uhura and SNW has him in a relationship Chapel.

The TOS Spock was the pure scientist. He was the rationale side of Kirk that created a great balance. I don't like these over-emotional Spock's that we're getting.

Next episode is going to be a crossover with "Lower Decks". 2 Live versions of those animated characters will be visiting the Enterprise.

This post was edited on 7/21/23 at 4:34 pm