holdendanielm

Far and away the most politically charged episode of the series. A scathing critique on "just following orders" military excuses in the face of genocide that slowly turns into a full embracement of what separates the Federation from our real world problems and why we must have hope for a better future. It's episodes like this that will be remembered for the better in a decade. I hope the show delivers more episodes like this (but hopefully they leave the sloppy documentary style to just this one).

An episode like this was needed. Not that S3 has been bad, actually the contrary and that's my point. They needed an episode as fantastic as this to really put a spotlight on how absolutely embarrassing it must be for the haters of this show to whine week in and week out. The very first user review on here of this weeks episode was a 3/10 whining about Paul Wesley as Kirk.

Just admit you don't actually watch the show and spare us having to weed through your objective lies and culture war nonsense.

The Sehlat that Ate It's Tail tells the story of Kirk's first big mission in a captain's chair and cleverly gives all his future TOS friends something to do alongside him. Wesley is fantastic in the episode, the special effects and dread level of this weeks alien problem are absolutely top notch. Spock felt the most like Spock he's ever felt in this series. The character work earns every single beat, and everyone has something interesting to do. This episode was so good I'm shocked that it was only the 6th episode. It has "season finale" levels of suspense oozing from every level of its production, and the ending is very Trekkian and has something important to say about the human condition.

If they thought an episode was a better one to end the season than this, I can't wait to see how the rest of the season unfolds. Easily a top episode of SNW.

Fantastic episode and of the first four S3 episodes easily the best and most focused story. The only reasonable complaint about this one is that we've seen holodeck mishap stories before, but that is a small complaint in an otherwise well executed story.

The clip of the old Trek-esque show were brilliant, particularly Paul Wesley as "not Kirk." La'an remains the best character on the show, and Chong and Peck have unmatched chemistry. Martin Quinn remains brilliant as Scotty, and I love the commander work they're giving Una this season.

Haters are looking for canon violations as an excuse to justify their hate the show, but there are no violations. Literally everything was addressed in the story and lines up with Trek canon. So sick of the whining every week.