So, yes, this.

if one/both of your new roommates is a child you assume responsibility of that child

The Enterprise goes back in time and doesn’t prevent a genocide, but Anika and Liz would like to go back in time to prevent this episode from ever being made. Oh, did the fourth season premiere of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds displease us? It sure did! 

“Don’t overthink it!”

This episode provides more evidence for our argument that Pike is bad at his job

Words we use to describe this episode: “nonsense”, “dreadful”, “terrible”, “morally broken”, “anti Star Trek“, “almost clever”

Why does SNW want us to hate La’an? 

Leaning into the biological determinism with this Kha’an arc

The Martians and Spock are totally incurious about each other, because this is The Least Curious Star Trek

No fate but what we make.

I think part of what annoys me so much about the SNW S4 premiere is how much it's getting praised on /r/startrek. So much "This is what Star Trek is supposed to be!" They talk about how it's full of exploration and a compelling villain and just the right amount of camp. And it's like, I compare it to how much a show like Starfleet Academy is reviled for having "bad writing" and you dig a bit deeper and the bad writing is anything from "this doesn't meet my tastes" to bad faith arguments about canon to actual bigotry.

But of course SNW doesn't get that same level of scrutiny. SNW doesn't get called out for having a writing style that feels like it's written for the people who are dividing their attention between their phone and the show or having the crew disembark the shuttle with phasers drawn and then having La'an shoot at a creature she can't even see let alone know if it's sentient.

Anyway, here's a more point by point of the things that I didn't like about the episode:

They start on a cowboy planet. This is never explained. La'an does look cute in her cowgirl getup though and her flirt with Spock is admittedly, adorable.

Pike more or less Jim's the camera and says "Well you wanted to explore Strange New Worlds, now here's your chance."

The antagonist of the episode is never once questioned in her motives. Which, to be fair, she's very up front about wanting to murder her enemies, but it's the why she wants to murder her enemies that should've been questioned. She presents her war as a war of defense and while Pike does try to encourage her to talk it out, at the end of the episode he explicitly states "I would have [also committed genocide] if I were in her position." Like, you should really be questioning what her position is a bit more my guy.

Pike then goes from being complacent in two genocides and the ecological ruining of an entire planet to joking about seeing dinosaurs pretty quickly. Now, from his point of view it might've been weeks between the two events but from our point of view it was a few minutes.

First of all, Sheepstealer did nothing wrong. I mean, he did many things wrong, but it wasn’t his fault! You can’t just take a feral dragon into a war zone and expect him to understand concepts like “allies” and “please don’t set our allies’ ships on fire” right away! He’s doing his best! You could argue that this is actually Rhaena’s fault, and she did choose to bring her new feral dragon into said war zone, however, I would argue that she is barely an adult and has spent her entire life being brainwashed to believe that riding dragons into battle is a good idea and will in no way end in disaster. In short, those ships were destroyed and people and dragons were killed because of systemic forces.