The Problems Persist

I really hoped that after nearly 800 years the Klingon bullshit would have mellowed out some, but it's more like they quadrupled down on the bullshit.

I thought Jay-Den would be a savior, not an enabler.

Edit 1/30/26

I've been sitting with this for 24ish hours now and I have thoughts:

If we had been show Jay-Den practicing healing and getting smacked down by the Klingon bullshit, I would have been happier. I would have actually learned about Jay-Den. As it is, we are only told by his brother that Jay-Den likes science and healing and we see their dad calling healing a worthless pursuit. We never see Jay-Den's experience with what we are told he loves.

Imagine if there had been a scene where Jay-Den sets a broken leg of his family's pet targ and then places a spint. He smiles. He's proud. His brother is proud. And then his father come and kills the targ because it's a wounded beast. We would see his pain.

Or, going with what we see in the episode itself, what if shortly after Thar died Jay-Den said, probably under his breath, that it would have been more honorable for his brother to have been healed and to die in a real battle rather than being poisoned in a fight at some crap vendor on Krios.

As it is, Jay-Den did almost nothing in the episode. Other people do stuff for and to him. Thar give him the idea of going to the academy. Darem gets him to focus. One of his dads stops him from even trying to heal his brother. His family abandons him. He does nothing and I learn nothing about him.

Well, that's not quite true. I learned that he wants to kiss Darem, but is afraid to do it. I wholeheartedly support these two kissing. Sooner rather than later, please.

Klingons... Man, I have so much to more to say...