Star Trek: Lower Decks

That, or the Man and/or the Horse is Boimlers spirit animal.

T'Ana mention he was clinically dead and Mariner says he was screaming about the Kitty Hawk, so... definitely a hallucination.

The bigger burn to Stevens is that Random doesn't consider him amongst his close friends

so.. was "Kitty Hawk" a shoutout to the Orville?

Excellent reference if so - I was half-expecting the moral to be that Boimler renewed his faith in the spirit of adventure and risk that the early aeronauts embodied. SO glad they didn't do anything that hokey.

This episode has unlimited fish. So, the Olive Garden in space, I guess.

I was hoping we'd get some Mumm-Ra in the next episode but it turns out WB owns the rights to Thundercats so that's out.

"Picard severed communication between the planets, and, uh, let's see ... oh, then he left."
"He left?"
"Yeah, that's, uh -- oof! That's how it went down."

A pretty on-the-nose lampooning of the TNG-era planet-of-the-week episodes.

I assume the episode will not just deal with Mariner's resignation, but also with what happened on Brekka and Ornara.

References:
- “Make them show you their government, just in case it’s secretly run by kids or or somebody pretending to be the devil.” Miri, Devil's Due
- Migleemo in command. Descent?
- Mariner running around doing archaeology. Gambit?

First-ever sighting of Scotch Tape aboard a Federation starship?

When Buenamigo told Freeman he was sending a reporter to the ship, I was totally expecting it to be Jake Sisko.

Pretty cool to see the Breen again.

I was thinking "And the Children Shall Lead."

Mariner is fucking obnoxious. I detest people like her in real life. Too bad there is about 0.0% chance she is gone forever.

She's coming to SNW, so....guess you'd better saw off your head, fry it in garlic, and eat it in protest, huh?

I believe it was meant to be a nod to the V'Ger reveal in TMP.

As for this week's episode, there's a lot to unpack but imma need them to stop referencing the worst goddamn episodes of ENT so damn much

Well, obvs, but why that choice is I think why Turkey is asking... Why not Pioneer or Concorde or any of the other famous things linked to aeronautics or exploration?

It's like looking in a mirror, eh?

nah... Mariner acts for a greater good, or at least to fill in the necessary gaps most of the time

And yet Boimler is right there with his dyed hair and pronouns and you say nothing.

A spoiled attention whore who expects the world to drop everything when they decide they need attention? Hardly.

He's pathetic, but at least he's easy to ignore.


Some lame douchenozzle: "Hurr hurr I know you are but what am I?"

Fun fact: Mike McMahan had plans to pair Boimler with Jet last season but the idea he tried to work on ultimately never came together (hence Jet's last name of Manhaver and why the two were seen together in the Naked Time simulation )

Computer: file under "self-awareness comma lack of"

It goes without saying that the admiral knew about the Breen all along and set Freeman up to fail and need rescuing, right?

And that the Texas class ships are almost certainly controlled by the evil AIs from the Daystrom Institute holding facility?

Only if you live your entire life online and are too diseased to ignore a message board post could you turn that back on me.

If I were a writer for Picard, I'd totally make the captain of the Enterprise-F turn out to be Mariner.

oh, we passed that point....

No, the captain of the F is a badass Andorian named Shon. If the Odyssey class is canon, then all of Star Trek online comes with it.

Oh, you're pulling the "I'm just a persona" shite?

Folk are usually more true to themselves when cloaked by anonymity and the lack of ability to reach through the screen and choke a bitch.

Are you going to proclaim this is all an act?

Or are you going to quibble over whether "spoiled" or "attention whore" is incorrect?

No, I'm saying I'm a terrible attention whore if I seek it in a medium where I am so easily ignored.

I'd settle for "Admiral" Mariner hailing Jean Luc to announce she's come to save his ass yet again, before Captain Shon tells his XO to stop trolling Picard and engage a tractor beam or something.

And then I wanna see Picard do his last onscreen facepalm while Riker laughs his ass off.

The Joker never got a laugh out of Batman either.

Diddums.