The storyline was interesting and the acting is becoming more sharp and in-focus with each episode. That said, this episode truly missed the mark with plot holes so massive I can't believe the writers and actors didn't storm out in protest.
Spoiler!!! Ed gals for and has been dating a new crew member we were introduced to several episodes before. After one romantic night in his quarters, they decide to take a trip to a nearby vacation planet. Disaster ensues as the Krill attack, capture Ed and we find out Janel is actually a Krill from Season 1 that Ed met and captured after killing her brother.
First space is big, I mean really big so it would be beyond lottery odds to met the same person again.
Second, we learn that she escaped from the Union. Given the Union is at war with the Krill and know almost absolutely nothing about them (see season 1), it would seem that maximum effort to imprison a high valued combatant was not applied. She somehow "escaped" and looking nothing like any other lifeform, secured transportation, making her way back to a region of space where her kind did not immediately destroy her transport.
She then gets a top secret assignment to capture a ship's captain. Remember it was her collaboration with humans that allowed the Union to destroy their super weapon, kill everyone on board, and capture key technology...the Krill must be very forgiving.
She undergoes a painful procedure to look human...something beyond the Union's capabilities. It also allows her to operate in bright like, perhaps a trainer they could share with the rest of the Krill species so clicking a dimmer switch to its highest setting doesn't melt them to death...a clear weakness.
Janel boards a Union vessel from a star base with a full record. This means the Krill have already hacked the Union's data and it's cyber threat detection as her record goes unchallenged. She is also keenly aware of ship's systems, language, and protocols...amazing for someone a year ago that had never met a human.
We then get to her transformation back to a Krill. It only takes hours, at best, and she seems perfectly fine with the change.
Finally at the end she is captured and released (a good decision given how easily she escaped the last time). In the goodbye exchange she seems to have softened her stance against her capture that has taken so much from her and her deeply held religious beliefs.
Love the show but this one was poorly written and over stretched the imagination.
Spoiler!!! Ed gals for and has been dating a new crew member we were introduced to several episodes before. After one romantic night in his quarters, they decide to take a trip to a nearby vacation planet. Disaster ensues as the Krill attack, capture Ed and we find out Janel is actually a Krill from Season 1 that Ed met and captured after killing her brother.
First space is big, I mean really big so it would be beyond lottery odds to met the same person again.
Second, we learn that she escaped from the Union. Given the Union is at war with the Krill and know almost absolutely nothing about them (see season 1), it would seem that maximum effort to imprison a high valued combatant was not applied. She somehow "escaped" and looking nothing like any other lifeform, secured transportation, making her way back to a region of space where her kind did not immediately destroy her transport.
She then gets a top secret assignment to capture a ship's captain. Remember it was her collaboration with humans that allowed the Union to destroy their super weapon, kill everyone on board, and capture key technology...the Krill must be very forgiving.
She undergoes a painful procedure to look human...something beyond the Union's capabilities. It also allows her to operate in bright like, perhaps a trainer they could share with the rest of the Krill species so clicking a dimmer switch to its highest setting doesn't melt them to death...a clear weakness.
Janel boards a Union vessel from a star base with a full record. This means the Krill have already hacked the Union's data and it's cyber threat detection as her record goes unchallenged. She is also keenly aware of ship's systems, language, and protocols...amazing for someone a year ago that had never met a human.
We then get to her transformation back to a Krill. It only takes hours, at best, and she seems perfectly fine with the change.
Finally at the end she is captured and released (a good decision given how easily she escaped the last time). In the goodbye exchange she seems to have softened her stance against her capture that has taken so much from her and her deeply held religious beliefs.
Love the show but this one was poorly written and over stretched the imagination.