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Trying for the second time to watch the second-last episode of season 3 of Strange New Worlds. Last time I hit a wall right about the time it became clear it was just a low-effort remake of Enemy Mine. This time I'm not even that far in and the asteroid-like moon with Earth-normal gravity and ⏩

⏩ atmosphere is already annoying me, even before we find out that the moon's orbit takes it into the atmosphere of its primary, which has so many things wrong with it that I may weep. Never mind. Grit teeth. If I can't manage it, I'll read the plot synopsis and skip to the next episode.

Ugh. Well, thank the gods that's over. I don't get the praise I'm seeing for that episode: it was a poorly-acted plotless sequence of cliches all wrapped up with the biggest Star Trek cliche of all, the omnipotent glowing super-aliens.