Yeah, it’s thematically appropriate for Star Trek, and a solid episode by just about every other metric. And Star Trek has never exactly been hard sci-fi, so I mostly don’t let it bother me.
On the other hand, having lived through the “teach the controversy” nonsense, I do get just a little more bothered when they get evolution wrong than I do when they mess up something else.
Yeah, it’s thematically appropriate for Star Trek, and a solid episode by just about every other metric. And Star Trek has never exactly been hard sci-fi, so I mostly don’t let it bother me.
On the other hand, having lived through the “teach the controversy” nonsense, I do get just a little more bothered when they get evolution wrong than I do when they mess up something else.