re: #195 Targetpractice

The third episode was sort of the distillation of all that was bad about the first season: the horrible “new look” of the Klingons, the fourth-wall breaking efforts to address the total disconnect between this series and prevailing Trek canon, the whole Mirror Universe BS, Section 31, etc.

The first two episodes felt like classic Trek. The third? Felt like bad fanfiction.

Ep 3 had too many subplots for a one-hour time slot. You’ve got Tilly and her intelligent parasite, Michael and her missing brother, Michael’s main squeeze and his Klingon mistress(??), the mirror universe empress and Section 31, and the red angel story arc nonsense. Would have worked much better to have distributed those subplots across two or three episodes.

The first two eps were OTOH pretty good. Not cluttered with extraneous action and story lines.