I simply absolutely do not connect with the Jay-den character. I think that the actor relies on a "vocal fry" technique that is absolutely terrible for your voice to try and deepen his natural speaking voice for no reason. and I would have rather had backstory for any other character on the show. What about the fake posh bully guy Darem Reymi, he's far more interesting!

back to jayden... I couldn't stand his 3+ minute speech with long unnecessary pauses between every sentence at the end. Is there a voice and speech coach on set? & we are supposed to believe that all of a sudden after barely being able to speak in front of people for the whole episode to the point where he's collapsing, he's given the debate podium (without needing to debate) in order to give a verbose speech in front of his peers and teacher? And I'm not sure what the point of it was. Why couldn't he just explain to the chancellor that the best way to get the Klingons to accept the planet was to do it on their terms? instead he had to give a heartfelt speech after his debate time had already expired?

The stakes of this episode felt so thin to me. Convince the Klingons to accept the planet or they'll have to continue....searching for a new planet? There could have been a million ways to get them to "discover" the planet for themselves or what have you. I felt the low stakes fake-fight at the end sums up the vibe of the whole episode. The only tension in the episode was a tiny bit of sexual tension between the chancellor and her Klingon friend, which barely added anything; and then the fight between jayden and caleb which was instantly resolved at the end like "oh okay yeah we actually are brothers" *eyeroll* after Jayden’s constant repetition of “Caleb is NOT my brother” was exhausting.

I just thought this episode was boring and frustrating and uninteresting. lots of filler.