Another solid episode. Not great, but I'd put par with last week's. Again too much expo and set-up and not enough stuff happening. I agree that these three should have been truncated into one 90 minute episode with a bit of a bigger climax.
It's clear that Disco's structural problems continue here. *And I don't mean this as a slight against serialized storytelling.
However, I do love how - once again - we get humans acting like humans. Especially Picard. These three episodes have presented him as a more complete individual than seven seasons and four films ever did. Truth be told, I always found the base character under Stewart's performance to be pretty vapid and not particularly compelling. It's just that Patrick Stewart is fucking Patrick Stewart. So he made us love the character. None the less, deep down, there was never really any there there, as the kids say. Which is why I was always a "Kirk."
I also love how unabashedly derisive this show is about the Roddenberryistic pretentious bullshit. Raffi's 'circumstance' (for lack of a better word) is really a breath of fresh air. I've always said Star Trek isn't about humans "being" better, it's about "doing" better. Thre isn't any kind of lesson to take away if you just hand-wave it away with the "humans have evolved" rider. But at the same time, humans doing better feels disingenuous if the avatar/analog is something unrecognizable.
You're assuming she's 100% full-blooded Vulcan. You're also assuming all Vulcans have the same evolutionary eye structure, which given that Vulcan's have different skin pigments and other evolutionary traits probably isn't true either. Heck, assuming she's a Romulan posing as a Vulcan; if it's true that Romulans - as the very episode stipulates - of different hemispheres were on Romulus long enough to develop brow ridges, then they've probably been there long enough to develop different eyes.
Of course, all that is immaterial because sunglasses aren't just about protection. Some people even wear their sunglasses at night, so they can watch you weave then breathe your storylines. Also, it's deceiving and cuts through security.