Some filler, good filling though. The pace is nice and steady, the content is at times predictable, but executed well, and the writing is as good as any Sci Fi series I've seen. Production is still top notch, I feel like if it was going to fall off at some point it would have been this episode. The plot of this episode is a "classic" one that nearly all of us that follow ST should be accustomed to and it was done well, though a bit of a dues ex machina to sum up the episodes conflict. Felt like a bit of an easy out, but still a solid episode. Still really enjoying the series, it shows so much promise.
My big issue... the male leads are vapid. Every compelling storyline up to this point has been focused on the female crew. The males are there to redshirt, screw up, or become incapacitated and wait for one of the many females to figure it out and save the day... The symbolism is not lost on me, I get it, role reversal from past ST and Sci-Fi series. Yet, still... three hours down and it's getting a bit old. I just don't understand why it has to be one extreme over the other, many series are able to pull of some semblance of balance.