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Bouncy, good fun. Comedy is always hard to comment on since it is so personal, but for me it worked. I feel this is going to be great addition to the Star Trek franchise. Not everything is going to be perfect, but after just two episodes I am invested in the characters. Especially Rutherford (engineer, cyborg eye) is so kind and lovely.

Discovery got a lot of negative feedback, much of it relating to characters (especially michael) being unlikeable. Here I feel already invested in them, and slightly in love. Let's see where this goes!

Some things in the very beginning made me afraid too much time was going to be put on stuff like "get from A to B", but boy was I wrong. The pacing was great, no unnecessary roaming around or too many fights. Instead we put the screen time on got the good stuff: discussions, deep questions, emotions. It all felt right, nothing was forced in and while I especially enjoyed that, there was some great action, suspence and world-building.

Was this episode a bit preachy with its message? Yes. Does it make this episode horrible? No.

Giving this episode 1-4 is just dishonest. An episode is the sum of many parts, and many parts were ok here. Sadly nothing was very exceptional or great, and while the preachyness (good message, clumsy execution) draws down on the total points I give it, there was still a lot of OK things. (interesting characters, nice locations/set design, new aliens).