[Cecil Terwilliger]

S2 E5. Tilly gets abducted by a bug, S31 searches for Spock, dead Dr returns.

I was ready to hate this episode so much but it turned out quite well. Starfleet is not evil. They don’t send secret agents to assassinate people. But the show did a great job of showing that S31 aren’t evil and were just doing their jobs. Even the Emperor showed some humanity and compassion. It was like they were trying to piss me off for the first 15 minutes.

I really enjoyed the mix of ST science and exploration, while also advancing the overall plot. We got to see some old schools trek where they show their inquisitiveness and respect for other life forms, mixing in some classic trek ingenuity. And yeah this show is heavy, like super heavy, on implausibility but I thought it was well done.

It’s one area that a serialized show sometimes misses out on is that ability to let ideas naturally grow but we got to see some of that with how they’re developing the spore network and the life forms that inhabit it.

I can’t remember many shows like this, maybe dexter, where from one episode to the next, or even within episodes, I’ll be cursing out the writers one minute thinking I’m gonna hate watch this garbage and the next minute I’m completely enthralled and want to binge watch it.

One complaint is they need to stop teasing us with death. Eventually it’ll lose all meaning. Seru one episode then Hugh the next. After enough fake outs I’ll start losing interest when they hint someone is gonna die or dead because they’ll have cried wolf one too many times.