Is that also the first 32nd Century Klingon we’ve seen?

‘Space Babies’ was a classic RTD dumpster fire. It felt like a first draft and the exposition dump at the beginning was very badly done. The script editor should have pushed back hard on this one.

‘The Devil’s Chord’ was better although hamstrung by the fact that they couldn’t afford the rights to any Beatles music.

Ncuti and Millie have quickly established themselves and I’m looking forward to seeing what the rest of the season brings.

Generally Doctor Who gets into a quagmire when it starts mining the backstory for story ideas. Too much of it and the show becomes unwatchable. Chibnall didn’t appear to have many plans for it beyond introducing Jo Martin’s Doctor so it’s hard to understand why it was brought up in the first place.

That said RTD seems to have found an interesting take on it with the orphan angle and seems to have used it as a soft continuity reset of the backstory. With the new “happy go lucky” Doctor that we have in the 15th and the fact that we are back to being the “last of the time lords” (at least for the moment) I think it’s going to hard to explore the abuse angle in any depth without bringing the angst back.

I think ‘The Devil in the Dark’ from the Original Series would be a good option. As would “Lift Us Where Suffering Cannot Reach” from Strange New Worlds.