I've enjoyed six episodes of Strange New Worlds season 2, but episode 8, Under the Cloak of War is not one of them. In fact, it's the second Klingon episode I didn't like.
The worst thing about the episode is there there about four or five crew members who are still suffering after the Klingon war, and Captain Pike still wants them to go to a dinner for the Klingon Butcher. They did it for dramatic effect, but Pike would have not put them near the Klingon.
The episode reminds me a bit of a Deep Space Nine episode of a former Cardassian clerk who had surgery to make himself look like a famous Cardassian bad guy. Kera Nerys hates him most of the episode; then he's assassinated, and she falls to her knees and mourns. This SNW episode is attacking this from the opposite perspective.
Some people will say this is the greatest Star Trek episode ever; I won't.
I guess I like a kinder, gentler version of Star Trek; I suspect I'll skip the Gorn episode to end the season.
I will say, though, that I was impressed with Robert Wisdom, the actor who played the Klingon.
