This episode, 'Among the Lotus Eaters', is currently the lowest rated episode of season 2 of 'Strange New Worlds'. It's ranked lower than the first episode of this season, 'The Broken Circle', which is easily the worst episode of this season, and frankly, one of the worst episodes of all of 'Star Trek'.
In my review for 'The Broken Circle', I noted the conspicuous absence of 'strange new worlds' in a TV show that contains the phrase in the title, nor am I the only reviewer to point this out. Well, 'Among the Lotus Eaters' finally gives us a strange new world, and an interesting science-fiction story with our characters stuck on a planet which causes perpetual memory loss, and features good performances that stretch the range of our trio of main actors to top it all off and... it's the lowest rated episode of the season.
Some of you are your own worst enemies. Enjoy the next Star Trek reboot from Paramount with Khan and the Borg getting trotted back out for the millionth time, only now they'll be angsty teenagers challenging each other to starship Tokyo Drift races as they fly around shooting lasers at each other to 'Rage Against the Machine' songs, Fast & Furious-style... and that's if your LUCKY.
I'm not saying "love this show". SNW is not a great Star Trek show, overall. But this episode, specifically, is interesting science-fiction. I fell in love with 'Star Trek' because it had interesting, humanist science-fiction like 'Where No Man Has Gone Before', 'Return of the Archons', or 'The Motion Picture'. You should commend these rare wins. You can still criticize stuff like the lack of discipline/decorum of the bridge crew, the grating use of modern lingo and other stuff this series gets wrong, while at the same time acknowledging the positives. You're sending mixed signals to the writers by dumping on the most 'Star Trek'-like thing they've ever done in the entire run of this show.
Anyway, this is a good episode and it's the closest thing to actual 'Star Trek' this show has offered thus far. Rant over.