We all knew where this episode was going the minute the ship was needed elsewhere urgently and landing parties went to explore a crashed ship.
>Pity we didn't get to see a reimagined K-7.
>The Peregrine was a slightly smaller and faster version of the Constitution class? Why not just feature another Constitution class?
>The Gorn are now xenomorph-Magog hybrids with Predator vision. OK. And
fast.
>The failures of common sense necessary to make a lot of this episode's plot occur were staggering. NOT forcefully questioning the conveniently surviving human girl. NOT putting the girl and Blue Boy in the brig or at least behind a medical force field. La'An constantly spouting new and vital information about the Gorn which you'd think she would have told Starfleet long ago. La'An NOT telling Hemmer and everyone else that the venom is how the Gorn reproduce, thus NOT giving Hemmer the chance to be put in stasis or even in the transport buffer. NOT arming every member of the away team. NOT making every part of the ship freezing except the cargo bay, waiting a bit, then transporting everything in the cargo bay outside or just scrambling the matter.
>Killing Hemmer was a huge mistake. He was one of the coolest new characters, not to mention it was wonderful differently-abled representation. It should have been La'An. I guess the door is now open for Scotty to be chief engineer next season.
>What exactly is going to happen next episode? Hemmer and La'An and Uhura are gone. Will we get more Spock or more Pike pondering his future.
>I'd love an episode where someone is targeting the young people Pike's sacrifice will ultimately save.
>We continue to see Spock and Chapel get closer and closer. Poor Christine.
I was a bit disappointed in this episode obviously but it's still light years better than DIS and PIC.
Can the show stick the landing next episode? Will we finally get a season-ending cliffhanger?!