Ghosts of Illyria

An episode focussed on Una with a fairly lightweight story, lots of introspection and too much monologue/narration. Still decent, but falls below the standards set in the first two instalments.

Some filler, good filling though. The pace is nice and steady, the content is at times predictable, but executed well, and the writing is as good as any Sci Fi series I've seen. Production is still top notch, I feel like if it was going to fall off at some point it would have been this episode. The plot of this episode is a "classic" one that nearly all of us that follow ST should be accustomed to and it was done well, though a bit of a dues ex machina to sum up the episodes conflict. Felt like a bit of an easy out, but still a solid episode. Still really enjoying the series, it shows so much promise.

My big issue... the male leads are vapid. Every compelling storyline up to this point has been focused on the female crew. The males are there to redshirt, screw up, or become incapacitated and wait for one of the many females to figure it out and save the day... The symbolism is not lost on me, I get it, role reversal from past ST and Sci-Fi series. Yet, still... three hours down and it's getting a bit old. I just don't understand why it has to be one extreme over the other, many series are able to pull of some semblance of balance.

Liking the new star trek I'm really enjoying what they're doing with the crew and characters. But this episode was a little bit strange and I'm not going to add any spoilers here but there were a lot of things that really tested the borders of science and were moving more into the realm of fantasy than science fiction so I'm going to take my vote a little down for this one though I'm excited to see the next episode.

To seek out new life and new civilization, to boldly go where the 2 previous Kurtzman shows refuse to go. SNW is on the right track as meant to be for Gene Roddenberry's inspired creation. Book the 2 previous shows on the shelf to collect dust and branch off this creation.

A number 1 episode! With lots of social commentary packed in without being in your face, the main question is, who are we really?

I absolutely love Rebecca Romijn and how she played out her secret.

Hemmer! Hemmer is awesome! He and number 1 play off one another brilliantly.

I'm invested in SNW. Far superior to the very poor show that is Discovery.

More please!