All right, I'll admit: I adored every minute of this episode. I thought it was brilliance wrapped in ingenuity.
I really enjoyed the fact, first, that it took place some 200 years ago, by Enterprise's time-line. (The episodes from TOS where Kirk went back to the '60's or whatnot, or Carpenter Street, from Season 3 of ENT? Genius.) It was the not-so-original crash-landing-on-a-primitive-planet-and-we-all-have-to-fit-in plot, but it worked out /splendidly/. It also highlighted looking past what you've been told (Mestral's obvious start of some chemistry with that Maggie gal? Sarek x Amanda Grayson, much?) and really having an open mind.
A very good second episode for the second season of a great series. Besides, who's to say our friend Mestral wouldn't have lived to see "First Contact" occur? ;D
I really enjoyed the fact, first, that it took place some 200 years ago, by Enterprise's time-line. (The episodes from TOS where Kirk went back to the '60's or whatnot, or Carpenter Street, from Season 3 of ENT? Genius.) It was the not-so-original crash-landing-on-a-primitive-planet-and-we-all-have-to-fit-in plot, but it worked out /splendidly/. It also highlighted looking past what you've been told (Mestral's obvious start of some chemistry with that Maggie gal? Sarek x Amanda Grayson, much?) and really having an open mind.
A very good second episode for the second season of a great series. Besides, who's to say our friend Mestral wouldn't have lived to see "First Contact" occur? ;D