The acting was great in this short episode,but this episode is the proof DSC is a remake,not a soft reboot or a refit or a re-quack-quack ,lol.We know Data had only a brother and Romulans had another android ,almost a century later,so this can't be ..canon .But that is alright ,because my mind can't relate this show to the another series from the franchise,and anyway it is almost certain humans will develop androids much earlier than they will develop the starships.Probably this is the most original episode,because Calypso (the best episode IMHO) was very much inspirated by ...Nightflyers (i don't know how they did it but is true ).As an ex-soldier i hoped to see a remake like The Last Ship (in space) or like Stargate Universe (but with more positive characters) or unleast like Stargate Atlantis,because Discovery is realistic only for geeks who doesn't know anything about war and the army excepting the things they saw in war movies ,but i still have hopes for this series and for the future of this franchise,even if i still don't get how they will connnect the new remake universe with the TNG universe,because the whole Star Trek continuum is more twisted even than the X-men timeline from Marvel movies.
P.S. @ thehabsfan ,offcourse they had robots before Data,but nothing as complex as him (they said that many times) but those replicas are behaving more complex even than Lore,they seems to have very complex emotions,so if they were so evoluated what can be so special on Data to be considered so unique ?