After a passably entertaining preceding episode, "World Enough and Time", featuring fan-favorite (and famously gay) George Takei dressed like Mongol barbarian, the two-parter "Blood and Fire" flogs flaccid all the reasons why this early example of an "SJW" smuggled-narratives script was prudently rejected during the ST:TNG run when it was offered then.
This is "Star Trek". It's a science-fiction show with spaceships and laser-battles, not "Days of Our Lives"-meets-"The Crying Game". --If you don't know that, you're making stuff for the wrong audience. (The episode goes into "creature feature" mode about five before the end, and really: you could skip straight to that point...or just watch the "recap" preceding Part Two, and not miss one thing.)
This is "Star Trek". It's a science-fiction show with spaceships and laser-battles, not "Days of Our Lives"-meets-"The Crying Game". --If you don't know that, you're making stuff for the wrong audience. (The episode goes into "creature feature" mode about five before the end, and really: you could skip straight to that point...or just watch the "recap" preceding Part Two, and not miss one thing.)