I gotta say after this episode, you may be able to just remove the Pershing stuff altogether as well. Did he really add anything? Most his scenes involved the awful New Rebuplic and everything with him and Kane don’t appear to be going anywhere. Kane felt more like she was there just to reintroduce Gideon back to the plot.
Hopefully next episode we will see something that made all their scenes worth the time spent with them. But I’m kind of doubting it.