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I disliked the episode visually. It was mostly short close up shots with blurry backgrounds in poorly illuminated areas, even the exterior scenes.
Then there was those weird shaky shots that felt so fake.
If someone tells me that it was made with AI I could believe it. Were they going for AI slop aesthetics?
This episode was a close miss for me, it's like it had the framework to be a good episode but they just didn't finish it up correctly.
so this episode...
The whole debate thing with Jay-Den saying Klingons must be Klingons, yeah duh, everyone knows that, weak! And the thing with the fake battle, really no one else thought of it? Honestly ST always had problems portraying Klingons consistently, they usually make them appear so dumb you wonder how they can manage to keep their fricking starships operational.
Speaking of inconsistency, Darem was introduced in E01 being an asshole for no reason, then five minutes after changed completely, now he's even a wannabe-counsellor? I'm all for character growth, but there was none, it was more like character switch.
Loved the quote from The Drumhead, loved hearing the Klingon theme once again, I would have loved to hear it a bit longer.
Picardo is killing it as usual.
I'm seeing a slight improvement. I'm still hopeful this show can sediment into something good. I'm worried how they seem to have picked a protagonist once again, a thing I hated from Discovery.
I really didn't care for this one.
The premise of the debate was flawed from the start. The Federation has an obligation to offer help, but there's no requirement anywhere that it must compel another race to accept that help. Indeed many, many episodes have gone out of their way to point this out. So the whole idea of a "debate" was pointless. Of course they should offer the help, but that's the end of any moral or legal responsibility. Doing anything more would itself be unethical.
Interestingly as an aside, I found this whole prospect very American at its root. Not only should we accept that we must offer help, but of course we must compel these people to accept our idea of help. It stinks of regime change from without and I find the idea that the Federation would ever work this way ridiculous.
On top of that, we're somehow supposed to pretend we didn't all watch Esri Dax's excellent critique of the Klingon Empire back on DS9 and instead accept that this lie of "conquest" is supposed to prop up the Klingon culture. Are we to believe that it's been hundreds of years and the Empire is still built in lies they tell each other about honour and battle? Instead of showing any hint of evolution (and potentially stoking internal conflict at the idea of accepting charity from an enemy), we just had a 5 minute "battle" and it's all ok now.
This wasn't even a respectful battle. No blood was spilt by either side, no sacrifices made. Where is the honour in that? It was a mock battle to preserve a lie. Esri would not be amused.
Just to your point about the debate being pointless, it wasn't even meant to be in the curriculum until the students fought for it.
We could mince words about whether or not the writers forced the debate plot, but what really matters is whether they sold that it was within the characters' motivation to hold one. And for me it did.