This retelling of a story that could potentially have been played with a far darker, more thrilling, and ultimately more interesting horror angle is completely squandered, and marred by the continuing reinforcement of the fact that these writers know nothing about a how military ship is, or should be run.
Besides Uhura's insubordination by ignoring strict rest orders from a superior officer, she goes on to strike yet another superior officer, then seemingly continues on this track by showing up on the bridge and acting completely out of sorts. The first incident alone should signal a major red flag to any superior officer worth his salt, and yet she is allowed to continue on active duty without treatment or confinement. Then M'Benga allows her to leave sickbay, at Kirk's urging, to chase down an apparently dangerous madman despite the fact that the ship has security personnel dedicated to this very purpose. She is given a weapon, despite the fact that she continues to show symptoms, then left to her own devices to return to sickbay.
She then comes across Ramon, calls this in and again goes against protocol and strict orders from her superior officer and confronts him herself, leading to the complete destruction of the port nacelle and Ramon's death.
Pike continues to act like a friend, despite being the Captain of the entire ship, Kirk bears his soul to person he's spoken to only once before over a 30 second FaceTime call.
Uhura continues to act irrationally, admits to suffering from PTSD, and Kirk just comforts her instead of taking her back to sickbay for confinement and treatment, if not complete sedation, then is again allowed to continue active duty, again against all protocol and orders.
Pike, for some unknown reason-somehow forgetting his rank, title, position, training and authority as Captain-allows Uhura to dictate a course of action that could not only cost lives, but will ultimately destroy an entire Starfleet installation, costing valuable resources, and no doubt disrupting their plans for the entire sector! Then he offers to take the blame for entire incident and joke about it, then allows her to go back on active duty without any repercussion. Kirk even suggests she may get rewarded for entire fiasco.
It is incredible how, yet again, a protected class character is written to take no accountability, or responsibility for anything short of the perceived success of the entire mission, despite the fact that none of the mission goals were ever met. In fact this would be classed as a complete disaster worthy of court martial for the entire senior crew.
Let's recap: Two lives were lost, the ship was critically damaged, an installation with strategic importance was destroyed, and plans for the entire sector were no doubt ruined.
Star Trek writing is beyond redeemable at this point.
Perhaps the one good thing I can say about the entire production is that the design (set, costume, etc.) is at least decent.
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