I agree with your comment that this episode was a tonal mess, yet for all that still enjoyed it. Life isn’t neatly packaged into times of only deadly seriousness, lighthearted nonsense and character growth, sometimes they all happen at the same time.
hidden or nsfw stuff
There seemed to be three areas of focus: Kirk coming to terms with having to make difficult decisions as well as to take up the mantle of command with the Enterprise crew who beamed aboard, Pike and La’an trying to remove the thingie draining power from the ship and No 1, Pelia, Ortegas etc trying to patch ship functions back together.
In that sense, each of them clearly had a distinct tone to me
You clearly saw the seeds of the lead up to TOS in the Farragut storyline, which was ultimately it’s purpose.
Off-topic but holy hell are spoilers so difficult to use on Lemmy
I agree with your comment that this episode was a tonal mess, yet for all that still enjoyed it. Life isn’t neatly packaged into times of only deadly seriousness, lighthearted nonsense and character growth, sometimes they all happen at the same time.
hidden or nsfw stuff
There seemed to be three areas of focus: Kirk coming to terms with having to make difficult decisions as well as to take up the mantle of command with the Enterprise crew who beamed aboard, Pike and La’an trying to remove the thingie draining power from the ship and No 1, Pelia, Ortegas etc trying to patch ship functions back together.
In that sense, each of them clearly had a distinct tone to me
You clearly saw the seeds of the lead up to TOS in the Farragut storyline, which was ultimately it’s purpose.
Off-topic but holy hell are spoilers so difficult to use on Lemmy
You’re not wrong, but fortunately these threads are fair game for spoilers - no syntax needed.