Star Trek: Lower Decks

Didn't hate it.

"Fuck indeed!"

Sky snake. Somebody has been watching Raised By Wolves, maybe.

Huh. That was Jeffrey Combs, wasn't it?

The fuck?

Huh. So now an exocomp has canonically fucked a sentient bird.

That's ... interesting.

Eggxactly.

Alternate title for this episode: “Beak Performance”
I’ll be here all night, don’t forget to tip your bartender.

While I think it was a decent episode, I doubt people will be raven over it.

It looked almost exactly like the sky snake from Raised By Wolves. I was thinking the same thing.

Too bad Peanut Hamper was up to fowl play.

Anything Combs is in automatically sucks.

Change my mind.

Transformers Prime.

Loved this one. It's apparently quite divisive over on TBBS and the comments in Jammer's review but then HE rated it very highly primarily because it does what LDS is MEANT to do and be a Trek comedy.

If this was a regular Trek show, they'd have played Peanut saving the day and earning her place back on the Cerritos with her loving new husband entirely straight. But no, there ARE assholes in Starfleet and some folk NEVER learn their lesson or play by the rules of the Federation.

Actually, who wants to bet Pressman from TNG's Pegasus had some Peanut Hamper engineered heroics in his backstory but was only ever out for himself?

Still hotter than ENT's decon scenes tho

It's possible that this is one of those episodes that may be an acquired taste and I may come around on in the future.

It's definitely been the most polarizing episode of Trek since "Congenitor", but for far better reasons. I'd rather Trek swing for the fences and miss than to always go for bunts like Rick Berman did with Voyager and Enterprise.

Frankly, it's amazing any Trek series has gone three seasons without anything even remotely close to a miss, much less the show most fans were initially on the fence about.

Peanut Hamper should have been sent to the same cushy resort prison in New Zealand that Tom Paris was since they were both Starfleet officers and Federation citizens that fucked up, right? Seems unfair to stick her in a drawer with the other evil AI machines, since she's got a proper body and such.

But since LD takes places pre-PIC, you can headcanon that it was Commodore Oh making sure Peanut Hamper wasn't able to access what should be her full rights under the Federation legal system.

Did I want to smack Peanut Hamper several time over.

The Drookmani keeping receipts tho

I know it made for a good stinger at the end, but I've been thinking about that too and it's pretty fucked up.

Able-ist.

Pike post-radiation would like a beep with you.

Plus, there's no indication that she got anything even vaguely resembling due process (though I suppose it could have happened and just not been shown).

LD is back on form this week, definitely worth the wait

Without giving away spoilers, this was some of Jack Quaid's best acting in the series and in true LD fashion, they've blended irreverence with heartfelt character moments.

The ending is about what I expected and makes me wonders about how the hell this show is gonna start wrapping up these dangling threads they've been introducing this season.

Oh yeah, Badgey is still out there too, right? I thought we saw Rutherfords original implant float by Peanut Hamper intact last week.

I got really hyped when I saw the title of Ep 8 was Crisis Point II. The first one was so much fun.

And this ep did not disappoint... Did anyone else notice how this ep seemed to explore the criticism Star Trek films get from the fans? You had Boimler looking for a deep exploration of the human element while Tendi & Rutherford went for a more action packed route. This was just a huge chef's kiss of an ep.

I saw a comment elsewhere that Mariner is supposed to represent TOS while Boimler represents TNG. I suppose Rutherford and Tendi are DS9 and VOY?

OK, my guess?

Probably too hokey, but when the plaque revealed the name Kitty Hawk I was expecting Boimler to have a revelation that the meaning of life is exploration and striving ever onwards, since the Kitty Hawk represented a first for humanity. But very glad we got the man and the horse instead.

"The man"?!

What was the reasoning there -- is it that Mariner is a little more of a cowboy à la Jim Kirk?

I don't necessarily see Boimler, Rutherford and Tendi as representing different eras/series from each other, unless there's something I'm not thinking of.

Hmm, the Four still being in their holodeck uniforms outside of the holodeck itself.
Notably, when Mariner ducked out for her eval with Ransom, she reverted to her Cerritos/Cali-class uniform.

Also, the scene with The Man and the Horse, Boimler's in the Cerritos uniform as an Ensign, and the scene lacks the letterbox framing the previous scenes had. A hallucination?

Edit: I like the subtle difference between the Sovereign and Luna-class uniforms.

Also, Lt Stevens...

Mariner is the TOS-era rule-ignoring, cowboy type (she lampshades this herself), while Boimler is the slavishly rule-following, yet highly competent TNG type.

As for Rutherford and Tendi, Sisko and Janeway started out in engineering and science respectively. Rutherford and Sisko both have secret backstories they didn't know about, and Janeway and Tendi... are associated with criminals?