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The concept and storyline of this had me excited for a good show; but, the writing and acting really let me down. A Torres centric story about Nick's past promised much, but delivered little. The writers didn't seem to know how to deliver a script with much punch, but the real letdown was Wilmer Valderrama's complete lack of interest and subsequent lack of emotion. I have tremendous respect for Valderrama's abilities, and think he's a great actor, but he just didn't show it here. Perhaps he has/had issues in real life that he's focused on, or perhaps it's a matter of everyone seeing the writing on the wall for this once great show. Either way, the monotone delivery of supposed highly emotional scenes simply did not deliver anything close to good theatre. Hard pass on this one.

I'm not sure what this was supposed to be, but it wasn't Star Trek. Actors who have played "Star Trek: Picard" characters oozed through scenes written for some fantasy or horror show were involved. And maybe in some twisted "Disney Dark" show this could be something. But this was far from any Star Trek show as you could get. It had absolutely nothing to do with season 2 of Picard - so I'm not sure why it was here. I only gave it a 6 because Stewart is such an amazing talent. Sad times we live in where this passes as a Star Trek episode.

I love NCIS, or at least I used to. IMO the show has continued to decline since about season 8 or so. This episode? Poor, lazy, and contrived writing. The whole "kidnapping" sub-plot was just so poorly done. The actors did they best they could with it all, but it wasn't enough to save a poor script.