This was my favorite episode of season three of Strange New Worlds; but it wasn't perfect.
The thing that bothered me the most was that James T. Kirk was unable to make decisions. I can't imagine this Kirk would grow up to be the William Shatner Kirk; I can't even imagine him on the command track.
In this episode, I felt most comfortable when Pike, not Kirk, was onscreen. And I enjoyed Pike and La'an working together.
When they started talking about a planet killer, I thought: Oh, NO! The Doomsday Machine. Fortunately, they didn't go that route.
I kinda enjoyed the old phones, but I couldn't believe that they wouldn't recognize a communication device.
The monstrous machine didn't LOOK like V'ger (Voyager) from The Motion Picture, but it made me THINK of V'ger. It was a destructive mechanical construct that kept adding to its size, complexity and power; like V'ger.
I was saddened to think that humans had become scavengers, but it was nice to see Kirk's pain at having killed 7,000 humans. And the Kirk-Spock relationship is developing nicely.
I want to give this episode an eight because I DID like it. I think, though, that I'll give it a seven, tying it with episode one of the season; it was good, not great.
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