Review of Ad Astra Per Aspera

I liked this quite a lot, much better then Episode 1. Now this one is not near as good as TNGs The Drumhead (which the vulcan admiral seemed to go for) or The measure of a man, but pretty good nonetheless. Now there were moments where it went a bit too far into 'Federation/Starfleet is bad' territory, but the aforementioned two classic TNG episodes did similarly. However especialy the delivery of Neera was a bit on the nose, parallels to real world problems too direct. It is amazing how well this was handled in TNG. Also Neera comes across a bit to aggressive, but this was still ok. I can see that this episode might trigger some woke allergies in some people, but given the status of the franchise, this is one of the best eps in a long time and I think it balances classic Trek sensibilities for themes such as race and discrimination quite well with the more direct approach on those topics of today. Also I liked most of the acting including the non central cast. But they should have really refrained from the applause at the end. But thats the TNG fan in me missing more professional behaviour, still sometimes forgetting that this is before TOS...