OMG it starts with a dull Captain's log followed by technobabble salad exposition dump. I already don't care. Hook me for Pete's sake.
Ok, once things get going it's much better, but I still eye-roll at the idea that some 3rd party can get into a critical area of the ship with some sabotage device that miraculously works on the Fed computers
and he can run the ship's weapons AND he manages to smuggle a hand weapon in, too.
The bad guy's name being Yeshua is...tacky in an on the nose way.
Oh lookie, another female character bites it so the male lead can anguish with no effective resolution to his story. It's just "ouch" and out.
The people on this planet sure accept this artifact readily. Too readily. They just fall over themselves to accept this new message after 500 years of conflict and opposed ideologies. I don't buy it.
I am seriously tired of predestination paradoxes.
Doesn't matter that they Edith Keelered the prophet, since the radiation consumed him minutes later. He was doomed anyway.
EDIT: See Tosk's reply for a counter-point (link).
I saw where the episode was going and it went there. It's not a story I would tell, and that's fine, but in this age of growing anti-science it's not a story I care to see given where they went with it. But I'm not about to tell them what to make. I just don't like it. YMMV.
Dramatically, however, the predestination paradox and the unlikelihood of such coincidences as portrayed makes it hard to see this as anything but "god's will" even to the captain. I would have found the ending more satisfactory had sister Zorah interpreted it as a divine act whereas the Captain more clearly seeing it as something else, because she comes across as too credulous. There's a saying in some circles that goes, "Science tells us how God created the world, the Bible tells us why," and that's the direction I'd have gone had this been my story. Their mileage clearly varies.
3:44 & 28:55 the ambient sound changes when I assume the door closes, but there's no close door sound even though there's an open sound. Oops.
