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We got horror last week, now we got stoner comedy this week. And kicked us off with a Jurassic Park episode. They really are running the gambit with film genres.
I love that they're experimenting, but I also would really appreciate some traditional Star Trek of seeing professionals being professional. I just want some of that Andy Weir style competence porn!
After reading some of the comments, I'm now going to watch the Hangover. As I had compared this episode to Dude, Where's my Car, but that movie jumps the shark and goes in to absurdity. Which, to be fair, is very appropriate for the genre. They didn't get that extreme with this episode, but I also wouldn't have been surprised if they did.
I don't know if I liked this episode, which makes me believe I'll like it a lot more later after I let it sink in a bit and think about what they were trying to do.
On retrospective, I really like the development of Ortega. We've seen her rebuild a motorcycle in her quarters. We've seen her jury rig a universal translator in Terrarium. So her revealing she's made that she didn't become an engineer makes a lot of sense, and taking it out on Scotty.
That's solid character development that has been building over multiple episodes. I appreciate the slow burn and foreshadowing.