He definitely improves as the series goes on. I think most of the hate comes from Season 1 where he’s a genius kid who knows more than all the senior staff of the flagship. He gets a lot better when his stories aren’t just him whining about how no one recognizes how much of a genius he is.
I found out recently that there are people who will watch shows and just fast forward to the next scene if they get bored.
This alternate Kirk was born in space and had never been to Earth, so “he was like a kid in a candy shop, and he got to really just sort of explore it and experience it and bask in it. And I loved that they wrote it that way.”
So is this a different alternate Kirk than the alternate Kirk who was in S1?
Are the SNW Klingons different enough to count as a unique aesthetic? I think they’re about as different from the TNG Klingons as the various movie Klingons are.
Minor nitpick in an otherwise really good episode, but it was weird how they put in flashbacks of Una’s testimony when Neera was reading the asylum law. That scene had literally just happened, did they make this episode expecting people to be on their phones half paying attention because there aren’t any explosions or something?