I want to like this story a lot more than I ended up doing.

Colonization through storytelling, using 'soft power' to shape a culture to your own desires, brilliant, I absolutely love it. I also love that this story makes use of it's cast really well, splitting everyone up on their own so they can each play their own part in helping take down Divine Intervention here.

But this just doesnt' feel like Stranded anymore, it feels like an 8th Doctor story. I was loving the paired down nature of that first stranded set, I'd listen to a full season of that, and we're just not going back to that setting at all anymore?

Also you're doing a full story on colonisation.... where are Zakia and Aisha? On the one hand, narratively I can understand not bringing them on this mission, but a framing device with them at least. You have two characters of Indian decent living in the UK, and you do a story all about colonisation, and then don't use it as an opportunity to reflect on British atrocities, or just do literally anything with them, that's just a missed opportunity.