I feel with this episode the series is finally picking up the pace. the previous episodes felt a bit slow to me

Annotations for 1x06 are up at: https://startrek.website/post/30326603

The more I think about it, the more I feel like the decision to add these aliens to the story was a good one. It gives Khan someone to be tyrannical toward, since his cultist followers don’t really give him a reason to do monstrous things.