That was a better episode! I enjoyed this one.
I have realised I’m often unclear whether they’re on the ship or in the San Francisco building. Some of the scenes on the ship today were in rooms I thought were in San Francisco in previous episodes. Clearly they are not since the ship was on a training cruise nowhere near San Francisco.
I like that the bridge is crewed by actual Starfleet officers not cadets. I assume the ship has its regular complement of crew (a few hundred?) — and a couple dozen cadets?