Well that was decently tense episode, but left me with too many questions.
That 'all American' town was a dash odd; that is a weird thing to base a town off, though it was nicely 'futuristic' where it needed to be.
Why have these people set up outside the Federation? With no defences?
So if they are going to drop a demarcation line, why destroy the Cayuga instead of telling them to withdraw?
So a disruption field generator on one part of the planet and screw up the whole planet's comms and transporters?
Does this planet only have one town? Ok, if its 5k people I can see that, but really no farms, no exploratory outposts?
Nice to see 'deep baritone' April again.
Can anyone just walk into a Snr crew briefing now? Kirk should have been thrown out for interrupting.
Where are La'an' security teams? That shuttle can take more than went down, a lot more.
Anyone else expecting 'Pike's box' to be projectile weapons?
Using the debris field to fly to the surface was a nice idea. but if the other debris is not dropping into atmosphere why did the Gorn not see the shuttle?
Why is Pelia recalibrating the deflector shields herself and not having a crewman do it?
Scotty? Scotty? Well not the intro I expected for him but ok, his juryrigging might be exactly what they need.
CME activity affecting the Gorn? Interesting idea.
So they are just going to drop the saucer without checking for any other survivors?
Spock is the 'only one' who can do this as he is alien? Why? And what about those Andorians we saw an episode ago? Surely more than one person fitting retro rockets would be faster?
Pike, Batel, and Scotty leaving without telling the others? And La'an let them go?
Chapel is the only survivor? Really?
That EV suit bay was dreadfully conveniently placed heh? Could not have found Chapel a weapons locker as well heh?
Adult Gorn are annoying, its more like the ENT design - I do wonder if these are Gorn teenagers out on a jolly though, particularly since they still have tails!
Scotty's shuttle - could we wear our Alien influences any stronger?
Why did Spock need to place a retro-rocket inside the Bridge? Its only firing into the interior? Odd choice.
Liked the fight though, felt like Z-G.
Of course Batel is infected.
And I suspect you could have talked Hemmer out of it Pike, you had plenty of time to talk to him or stun him or something instead of letting him goto his death.
Dropping the saucer does stop the Gorn from getting any UFP data from the computers I guess.
Mass beam out? Def alt universe! Or obviously not Starfleet.
Is it me or does Scotty look like he's going to setup a wicked console gaming session with all that stuff in his arms?
If Batel has eggs - do any other any survivors?
So the Gorn have the crew and start firing on the Enterprise? Why? From the Gorn pov what did the Enterprise actually do but stay in orbit? The saucer of the ship they broke smashed into their tower with no evidence Starfleet was invovled. Yet they kidnap some lunch er.. people AND start a shooting war over it?
Ah, the dreaded 'to be continued' I wondered when we would get one of those for SNW. It is going to be a long wait for Season 3.
Overall, decent season I felt. My favourites are Ad Astra per Aspera and Under the Cloak of War.