RainbowLynx

Really good episode. I love how Strange New Worlds is experimenting with different genres.

Here is a good psychological test for Kirk and his future team. And as always Pelia brings some fun to story with some... old technology.

I rate this episode as 10/10, because I can't give it a 9.5, since we already seen similar story in Star Trek: Discovery.

I LOVE IT!

I love that Star Trek story keeps experimenting with different genres. Strange New Worlds brings so much more to Star Trek world, than its ugly predecessor Discovery. I love the crew, no one is stealing the show (Burnham), everything is really "Strange and new".

Experiments with genres is always difficult in tv series because people expect same drama, comedy or else in every episode.

Star Trek was different starting with TOS. We had fun with tribbles, we had our minds blown with "Taste of Armageddon", and we cried watching "The city on the edge of forever".

There were some iconic episodes in TNG and Voyager (sorry DS9, I don't like you), but nor Enterprise, nor Discovery made any attempt to be better than predecessors. SNW did. In all possible ways. We got drama, we got projections of modern society on the future, we got comedy, we got tears. Now we have musical.

Where no one has gone before. This show not only declares it, but does it.

P. S: Except La'an. She is very boring, struggling with war flashbacks it's just impossible for her to be head of security and also, it's impossible that so many hundreds years it's still not possible to treat such conditions. But that's something creators of new new generation star trek ignore. Just remember Discovery - we often see a man in wheelchair at the same time we see Airiam, who is basically a brain in robot body... Star trek needs more scientists to assist writers.

P. P. S: At first, I thought it's a great episode, now I think it's one of the worst. When you watch it first time, it looks fresh and new. But songs are primitive, music is very easy to forget and well... storyline... If you miss this episode, you won't miss anything significant.

Also, Christina Chong is great actress, but her character La'an is very boring, she suffered flashbacks in season 1 from Gorn attacks, in season 2 she suffers from flashbacks of romantic kind. So, 2 seasons, and she always suffers from something. Does she even have normal life? Whose idea was to put a psychologically unstable persona as a head of security? Parts of Spock/Chapel are good in terms of music. Sometimes I wish it were a music (not musical) episode. Music is good.

And sorry, but why Uhura spends almost half of episode in engineering sections? And why engineering looks like a hangar for Hindeburg with so much empty space?

So, story: 0 out of ten (there is no story) Character development: 1 out of 10 Visual effects: Visually 10 out of 10, logically -10000 out of 10. Really, comms officer looks at random numbers on a screen. We already have AI and BI systems which present data in understable ways. So wee still show rays of random digits like in a... 50's?

In all ways it's a great episode with an emotional finale.

But there is one "But". Who is Airiam? Why should I care about her? She was almost non-existent in previous episodes. It takes time to bond with character, but I don't feel anything about her. At least there should be an episode in first season to tell us about main characters. There is also a lot of questions to how she was infected? If she was a computer, it's OK, but she was a human before. So how much of a computer is she now? How much of a human?

Direction of that episode is great, but screenwriters do not deserve anything for such poor story of a character.