Star Trek: Lower Decks

Tendi has a wedding scene?

I'm fairly certain that is two separate episodes.

Eww.

Boimler is like ... Mariner's pet.

But the show has been teasing Rutherford/Tendi for so long that it has to happen sometime, right?

NGL, I used to have that reaction to the ship earlier on too, but I feel like the show has done a few too many jokes about Mariner being confronted by people who think Boimler is her boyfriend to be a coincidence I dunno, I've warmed up to it this season.

OTOH, McMahan had also stated that he didn't want to put a focus on romance between the leads (as was apparent by the lack of screentime given to the MariJen story), so who knows?

Me, I'd be happy if they just have drunk sex and never talk about it again or their kid from the future appears, indicating they will get together at some point in the future.

Prediction: Tendi/Rutherford get hitched, Boiler/Mariner have drunk sex, Freeman finds out and gets pissed off until their kid drops in from the future, and Freeman is mollified.

How about none of the above?

Star Trek rarely does romances or weddings well, so best to steer clear of any and all of that bullshit.

Or ... what if the romance ends up being between Rutherford and T'Lyn? Since Tendi is assigned to be T'Lyn's mentor, there could be some good tension there.

Mind you, the vast majority of the truly backassward ones were done under Rick Berman's watch.

The canon romance in modern Trek--all two of them worth noting--have been either milquetoast or a bit underdeveloped (like everything else in Picard, so hardly unique to Seven/Raffi), but nothing as absolutely offensive as C/7. I feel like LD's writers on their worst day are more competent than VOY's on a good day so they probably wouldn't cock it up THAT much.

The best-written romances in Trek are probably Sisko/Kasidy and Miles/Keiko. Probably not a coincidence that in both cases, one character was introduced entirely for the purpose of being the other's love interest. Less challenging to write than if you have to show it gradually developing over time.

She was kind of hot in Alien Nation.

Wait, what??
*Covers her hair with my thumb, and recognizes the nose*
Oh, holy shit! I never knew!

People like Keiko?

I never had a problem with her but a LOT of people seem to find her to be a bit of a nag, so seeing that pairing as the best of Trek romance was....a surprise.

'Course, it's very slim picking but for my money, I'd go with Tom and B'Elanna, which was mid AF but generally made one another better people and didn't have eco-terrorism/incel behavior in their background and didn't come at the last minute of the finale

That said, I hope Spirk becomes canon the next time TOS is rebooted.

I'm surprised you went with Spirk and not with -- oh. OH.

Nah, I hope that if they reboot TOS Spock hooks up with Mork, so we can call the couple Spork.

I thought their relationship was one of the more realistic ones.

And, really, Keiko had a right to feel the way she did. One day she has a great career, on the cutting edge of exploration as a scientist on one of the most prestigious ships in the fleet. Then her husband gets a promotion, she has to move her daughter to a space station with criminals running around all over the place, and her career comes grinding to a halt. Sure, she went into it with her eyes open, but it's only human for her to be resentful.

Of the relationships where both parties were major characters before they hooked up, definitely. I never really got Dax/Worf. Hard to say much about Ezri/Bashir because there just wasn't that much of it. Rom/Leeta was sort of "hey, we're just going to inform you that these two people are into each other instead of letting you see it develop." C/7 was on crack. Trip/T'Pol could have worked in the hands of more competent writers/showrunners. Worf/Troi came out of nowhere. Picard/Crusher and Riker/Troi were just kind of blah.

I'm a little slow at the moment...what is the ecoterroism/incel background a reference to?

I kinda like most of the romances in DS9...Sisko/Cassidy, Kira/Odo, Worf/Jadzia, Garak/Bashir...

Garak/Bashir

Worf/Ezri. He was such a dick (or two) and she just took it, mostly.

Oh yeah, I just did the math, and LD season 4 catches up to season 1 Prodigy.
They have to show Chakotay take off in the Protostar, or Janeway on the Equinox, or...something.

The show as it ended was confirmed to be 17 years after the drug plant TNG episode of season one so it's still squarely at 2381 here.

Unless you're referring to the timeline of Chakotay's disappearance?

Goddammit, Mike McMahon!
Make a season equal a year like everyone else!

Given the nature of the show, it makes sense it's not a 1:1 season. It'd be a bit ridiculous if they were all still ensigns at the end of seven years.

What show would even consider doing that?

"How many torpedoes do we have?"
"-42, Captain."
"Very good, fire torpedoes."

LD renewed out to season 5.
No concrete release date for season 4.

https://trekmovie.com/2023/03/28/br...decks-renewed-summer-release-dates-announced/

I assume it'll be out in August like it always has been

Hopefully the lack of no immediate replacement for DSC can mean season 5 gets 12 episodes instead of ten.

Maybe they could work in a Michael Burnham cameo!

Burnham-....and if you so much as speak my name aloud, your timeline will be erased, and you'll all be replaced by squid-Terminators.

Mariner- White writers?

Burnham- You know it.

I don’t think it’s a “white writers” thing. When you don’t have an imagination, you get stories like Michael Burnham and Andor. Neither character had to be written off. Just needed a bit of imagination.

Surprised no one else slapped this together after the DS9 crossover aired.
Kept waiting for it, so I guess I have to take it into my own hands.

ENT-D, Voyager, and Cerritos docked at DS9 for size comparison.
I imagined Cerritos as a rearranged Galaxy, but it's teeny-weeny. More like a rearranged Excelsior.