[CaptainCrunch]

I thought that was an exceptionally well done social commentary episode that brings in full circle the story of Topa as she struggled with feeling wrong based around the gender re-assignment that she under went as a baby.



It debated a lot of very deep issues that are fairly relevant, and while I think they took the easy path of the resolution, and put in a heavy handed question around doing the right thing versus doing the convenient thing, I thought the character writing and the basic premise was very strong.



While we've had Kelly episodes before, this one dove even deeper into understanding her moral stance and Adrianne Palicki absolutely knocked it out of the park performance wise.



Its funny as the show has gone on, it feels like Ed is becoming more of a background character that comes in to balance the scales in any debate. He's become the critical judge of the crew.


I also loved that in one way they could have done the easy thing as Isaac was a key point in the episode and gave the solution that was the do an end run around every one in a quest of doing the right thing. And when he was told that he had done the right thing for Topa, we find out that his actual motivation was to try to get the crew to trust him and like him a little bit more.


One thing I've said from the start is that this show gives an old fashion trek feel due to their use of a orchestra based sound track, and man it stands out in this one in giving emotional punches during key moments, and the uplifting theme at the end was brilliant.



There were no gun battles in this one, and not much action, and no real destractions from what could be seen as a contraversial story line. So it was perfect in this case.


And on another note we say goodbye to another cast member as Kylden makes his exit from the show. In the end they went all out to make him unintentionally unlikable as a closed minded, bigoted individual, and he left after uttering one of the most horrible lines when he tells Topa that he wishes that she had never been born.


The interesting thing is that there was a distinct change in Kylden's make up and manner of dress that emphasized the above character as they thickened up his next and dressed him darker. It was literally a black hat transformation.