It's interesting you compare it to that episode, because I watched that one last year and was deeply puzzled to find it's widely praised and considered actually good. And I sort of have the same reaction to this one -- I enjoyed it a lot, and I think you could argue that Saru's solution was a justifiable gamble under the circumstances, but it's not as cut and dried heroic as a lot of people seem to think.

One of the writers has a background in anthropology, which I think really helped the worldbuilding, but I'd be eager to buy her a drink and find out more about the thinking behind the ending. Or maybe that's a storyline which will be revisited in the future.

(That's Bo Yeon Kim, who also drew on her family's experience under the Japanese occupation of Korea. I think it's notable that this wasn't written from a strictly American or even Anglophone perspective, though I'm still unpacking how.)