Last night’s episode of Supergirl starts off with the mystery alien escaping the DEO facility where he was being held. The timing couldn’t be worse since J’onn J’onzz has gotten ready of his stockpile of Kryptonite and the President is coming to tour the DEO facility and sign her Alien Amnesty Act into a law. Meanwhile over at Catco, Jimmy Olsen is having a hard time reigning in a super aggressive Snapper who thinks that he’s the new boss and we’re introduced to Maggie Lawson who is a pro “good” alien science cop who’s all about equality.

We’re treated to none other than Lynda Carter, yes the OG Wonder Woman herself, the day after Wonder Woman Day became am actual thing instead of me rocking the tiara at home alone, playing the President. This treat is made all the more sweeter when coupled with the other bad ass ladies taking command over the small screen last night.

After Madam President is almost incinerated on stage by a rogue alien who is not too fond of the Alien Registration Act, Kara and Alex step up to save her and go hunting for the person responsible. After Winn discovers that the mystery alien isn’t form Krypton but, their rival planet Daxam, Kara is convinced that he’s the threat to the president. Alex goes on an alien hunt with Maggie who’s got all the ins with the alien community and after a trip to a dive bar, Maggie reveals to Alex that she’s a lesbian.

Meanwhile back at Catco, Kara in her human life is covering Lana Luthor who is all set to reveal her prototype alien detection device, after some tense conversation and friendly debate Kara destroys the device with her heat vision when Lana is not looking so that her secret isn’t discovered. Kara turns in her article to Snapper who is not too pleased at Kara’s reporting style.

In Kara’s super hero life, she finds the rogue alien, Mor-El and puts him in an alien time out at DEO headquarters. She’s forced to take a look at her own prejudices when another attack occurs and the true alien villain is revealed. It gives her perspective on why some humans feel how they feel and she channels it into a great article.

During the second attack on the president the Danvers sisters try and defeat the rogue alien who escapes and takes Maggie hostage. After they  track her down, there’s a huge boss battle style fight scene that ensues. Obviously, Supergirl kicks major ass and the threat is neutralized. Alex starts to rethink the way she feels about aliens who she’s not related to and Kara has a heart to heart with Mor-El to let him know she won’t be prejudging him and to tell him about the fate of both of their planets.

Jimmy finds a creative, but effective, way of cutting Snapper down to size and making it clear that he is the boss and Snapper works for him and Kara talks to Lana about how even though they don’t agree there can be some respect and understanding in their opposing positions. We also discover that Madam President is an alien herself and, I’m betting she’s a good one. I’m also hoping that this means we’ll be seeing more of her in future episodes this season. And, if that wasn’t enough awesome packed into one episode, they threw in a female bartender at the alien dive bar who like J’onn J’onzz is also a Martian. Making her the last daughter of Mars.

Overall this episode was amazing. We were treated to so many powerful, complex and fiery, nasty women that my head almost exploded from the girl power emanating out of my TV screen. The icing on the cake was the way the writers kept Maggie’s story line in tack and did it LGBT justice.They didn’t try and sensationalize it, or use it as a trope they made her a person first and that person just happened to be a lesbian. I loved that her lesbian status came up and, then they went right back to rogue alien hunting. Kind of like it happens in real life. There was no stigma or using her being a lesbian as a period at the end of every sentence or worse, making it the only thing she was. The writers have been killing it with diversity and their portrayal of minorities, women, LGBT and people of color since the show started and it’s one of the things that I love about Supergirl. We get complex characters, no tropes and no nonsense.

Overall Rating: 9.5