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that episode was one of the reasons i didn’t like this season.
I felt it was a fun episode and I loved the post-credits scene but you are right, I also feel the same way.
While I can enjoy the campiness of the episode it felt like it was mocking Star Trek just for laughs. I don’t mind some of the one-off episodes but SNW seemed to really lean into that this season where the overarching story was put in the background behind fun little episodes. It made the season feel disjointed, uneven and with little payoff.
I like those fun little side quest episodes but not at the expense of the main theme for the show. It feels like since the Lower Decks crossover and LD ending there is this bleed over affect where SNW episodes tend to have story foundations in fun or funny scenarios. It makes the serious episodes feel not so serious. This season felt like the recipe for SNW was not quite right and I hope for next season they try to orient it more towards a serious ST show about adventure and exploration with a little bit of humor to break the serious tone from time to time.
agreed, the premise was fine, trek has done race swapping episodes like that before. SNW just did it way too campy, in a season already filled with lots of camp. 3-4 campy episodes in a 26 episode season is a lot different than 3-4 campy episodes in a 10 episode season.
It also didn’t help that the main story arc for s3 was a terrible trek story. Evil space demons. again, perhaps acceptable as a standalone episode here or there but when half of your episodes are built around something like that you aren’t writing sci-fi anymore.