what a shock.

My darling beloved pointed out that the esteemed Tim Lynch shares my opinion of Ensign Sato:

And, of course, Hoshi’s shirt gets snagged as she drops into the hallway, so she arrives at Reed’s quarters topless. Was that gratuitous? A bit, certainly, but I think it worked a lot better than some of its predecessors like the decon scene in Broken Bow or Trip in his underwear for half of Acquisition. Mostly, it was handled with a far lighter touch: it wasn’t lingered on, it wasn’t particularly leering, and Linda Park projected just the right mix of embarrassment and acute annoyance. Were I in a mood to object, I’d object far more to the fact that when Silik tortures T’Pol he strips her down to a tank top, whereas Reed’s later torture just involves getting smacked around a lot. That’s a significant double standard.

(Of course, that opinion is in no way shaded by the fact that I find Hoshi orders of magnitude more appealing visually than T’Pol. Not in the slightest. No, sirree.)

You tell ‘em, Tim.