The first appearance of ‘moist’ in an episode title. Spoilers.
Another good, but not great, episode. Great use of animation to portray something that would have sucked up a year of budget for a live action TV show, and some good jokes along the way. Some elements of it, particularly Mariner, continue to not quite work for me.
I’m finding Mariner’s schtich a bit draining, which made this episode a bit tricky. Her disrespect for authority is just not quite earned enough for me. The episode itself did a really good job of painting the ‘do you really want to get promoted’ question, which I think is great. It’s a really important question that Star Trek hasn’t really grappled with before. I’m hoping that there’s some more back story than mother-daughter conflict coming one day.
The B-plot with Tendi was a fun look into a common trope of Trek, ascending to god-like powers. I was glad Tendi got a bit more time to have some character development, even if the beats of the story were fairly rote.
This week also felt like a bit of a reduction in the pace of callbacks and references to other Trek, which was welcome. Too much of a good thing was becoming a bit of a drag.
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