A lousy script assures a lousy episode, and here we have a mash-up of various story gimmicks adding up to nothing.
To save his lover Captain Marie, Pike and the good doctor take a shuttle to the planet Kenfori in a forbidden zone, off-limits to all after a war with the Klingons, their mission to find a rare medicinal plant for her cure. There, improbably, the doctor encounters a female Klingon warrior who has a long-simmering blood feud grievance with him due to the captain assassinating her dad in war. Making the situation more complicated (and stupid), her dad was a traitor and it was her duty to kill him, so she's angry that the doctor did so instead.
These story lines don't mesh, and to top it all off, the absurd gimmick of a bunch of zombies, both human and Klingon, on the planet threaten to eat our heroes and the Klingon woman. As soon as the zombies showed up and brought gore into the occasion, my interest in watching waned.
To justify this nonsense, we also get conflicts on the ship, mainly Ortegas' insubordination getting her into big trouble with Una, who is commanding the Enterprise in Pike's absence.
