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Have you ever considered that the Prime Directive is not only not ethical, but also illogical, and perhaps morally indefensible?

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  • This one won’t be going down in history as my favourite episode.

    Much of the episode is devoted to zombies, and zombies are boring. Moving on.

    This might just be reflective of where my headspace has been at lately, but it bugged me that the crew showed absolute contempt for a treaty. There was absolutely no discussion of whether it was moral or just to violate it - they just wanted something, so they went ahead and took it. This isn’t exactly new ground for Star Trek, but it wasn’t something that I enjoyed watching in 2025.

    I can’t decide if this was a bad Pike episode, or a good Pike episode that happened to reveal things about the character that I don’t appreciate. It’s telling that Batel didn’t tell him about her treatment because she knew that he would react in exactly the way that he did.

    I wasn’t sure how I felt about clearing up the ambiguity of what happened with M’Benga last season, but I think it was handled pretty well - the strongest part of the episode by far. It seems like he might have a…different career path ahead of him when he leaves the Enterprise.

    The Ortegas/Una story wasn’t bad, either. I do find it interesting that Pike will not be filing a report on this mission because it was off-the-books, but Ortegas gets reprimanded and sent for remedial training. I’m not sure how that works when there’s no mission to log.

    I thought the directing and/or editing was pretty lifeless (heh) in this one, too - not a lot of tension throughout.