I could have done without the extended bit about Spock’s warp command. I wanted to grab Ortega’s shoulders and shout “Weren’t you listening? His Thing is that he gave the order concisely and clearly. And then you spent an endless amount of time on silly nonsense before executing the order.”

The scene of M’Benga and Chapel fighting off two dozen Klingons after injecting some unnamed super juice was also weirdly out of place. I don’t mind fisticuffs, but it was really stretching belief that these two could fight off that many Klingons by themselves, apparently with only one knife among the thirty of them? And not a single double fist hammer punch was thrown.

I liked Carol Kane’s character, and am intrigued by the mystery of her. And it was a weird choice to take the captain off the board completely for the first episode of the season, but this show has also demonstrated that it intends to give its whole ensemble a chance to shine, and this was a good way to do it. No doubt we’ll get plenty of Pike and Number One next week.