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Yeah, in the last few minutes of the episode, I kept thinking how in TNG they would have discovered it was an anaphasic lifeform or some kind of telepathic residue or something, and here we don’t get any explanation. Maybe they’re trying to spin off Section 12 as some kind of “X-Files in space”.

I am glad to see Prodigy getting some love, but “Kobayashi” is actually one of my last favorite episodes of the series. I assume it’s on the list because of the fan service. I think a much better episode of S1 is “Time Amok”.

In the same vein as TNG “Disaster”, I’m really done of DS9 “Starship Down”.

IMO the scene of Pike making serious faces to show he was debating whether to intervene probably would have been better if some second character like Spock had interjected that maybe this planet was destined to be destroyed like Edith Keeler in “City on the Edge of Forever”.

This episode presents some interesting ethical issues, but I don’t think it really explores them enough. Mostly just dumb and fun.

I was horrified at the end when Pike said “I would have done the same in her place” because what she did was commit mass genocide approaching the scale of Kevin “we have no law to fit your crime” Uxbridge.

John De Lancie in Breaking Bad. Not that he was bad as Q, of course, but he didn’t usually have very meaty material to work with.

It was bad, but I don’t think it was her fault.