Miri
While I was interesting in seeing Kirk beaten to death by feral children and I liked them learning about what happened via apocalypse logs, the ongoing subplot of Yeoman Rand being jealous over a child and Spock being ‘logically she’s over the age of consent so get over it, Janice’ while Kirk was trying to act normal and Bones was ignoring everyone to inject himself kind of off-putting and WOW that’s a hell of a sentence you’re welcome.
In conclusion, episode had good points and ‘they made it weird’ points and every Star Trek fan I’ve mentioned watching this episode to told me it needed to be burnt to the ground.
Court Martial
Universal excitement from the Star Trek fans about watching this one, I enjoyed how about midway through it turned into Ace Attorney and then in the climatic scenes scenery was ripped from the floor and eaten whole without chewing. I am not wholly sure about the logic about the chess. I like that there’s a kid named after Kirk and her costume was pretty neat.
Charlie X
I was recommended this one as a better ‘weird feral child’ episode and it certainly was in the sense that I didn’t want to scrub myself clean after watching it. Important detail: Apparently 17 year olds serve on the Enterprise and Thanksgiving (I assume Canadian Thanksgiving) is an actual Enterprise holiday.
I did not care for Charlie, finding him to be an increasingly creepy little man and the final conclusion of the episode was very ‘oh. Well then’ that felt like vindication after I noticed the majority of his victims were simply women he happened to walk by.