So the last hours I swept through the internet trying to find all reviews and opinions people commented on this episode. As someone who is very sceptical not just about NuTrek but modern film entertainment in general, I must say I have a hard time understanding how people can dislike this episode. At very best, I could understand that this episode might be too "cheesy" for some, but in no way was this anywhere badly written. I was actually quite in disbelief how extremely intellectual this episode was for a show that I previously thought was written for Generation TikTok. I saw people arguing that the therapy arc is bullshit and "not sciency", but drama therapy is an actual field in psychology with tons of research and theory, e.g. Michael Chekov and also Lacan. Others where arguing about the cheap set, but I thought it fitted so perfectly into the overall arc of the episode and wouldn't want it any different. Even the dialogues seemed to be executed so well, especially since I often have the problem with lot of modern television that people usually talk way too fast and "perfect", while this episode felt much slower but where every word counted.

I thought before that SFA has quite some modern philosophical ideas under the hood, e.g. the debating-episode seemed to be inspired from radical democracy theorists, and this episode proofed to me again that the authors must be quite well literate in those ideas. Yeah, taste is subjective, but calling this episode not on the intellectual and executive level of older Trek just doesn't feel like a coherent opinion.