This episode started out okay. The premise itself wasn't bad. But the whole thing gets so incredibly stupid in the last 20 minutes that it makes me want to shut it off out of second hand embarrassment. Even the acting is worse than most other episodes.
It's not just that the episode is a little sexist, it's also just extremely cringey and poorly written, from "Data, go command this entire ship by yourself pl0x!" to "but sir, we have 48 minutes exactly to make it to save the day, I mean, 47 minutes!" to "you must not kill, you can't stop evolution!" to "BINGO, I found teh cure for VIRUS!!!11", the whole thing just gets dumber and dumber.
Probably best just to skip this episode, and certainly don't watch it again on re-watches.
It's not just that the episode is a little sexist, it's also just extremely cringey and poorly written, from "Data, go command this entire ship by yourself pl0x!" to "but sir, we have 48 minutes exactly to make it to save the day, I mean, 47 minutes!" to "you must not kill, you can't stop evolution!" to "BINGO, I found teh cure for VIRUS!!!11", the whole thing just gets dumber and dumber.
Probably best just to skip this episode, and certainly don't watch it again on re-watches.