Timeline bling: Loki “For All Time. Always”
Previously: After trying and failing to ascertain the origins, leadership, and ultimate purpose of the Time Variance Authority by going through its ostensible leaders the Time-Keepers, Loki, Sylvie,...
View ArticleDarmok time: Star Trek: Lower Decks “Kayshon, His Eyes Open”
Just judging by the title alone, this episode is going to be an homage to the “Darmok” episode of The Next Generation, where our enterprising Enterprise crew encountered an alien species with a...
View ArticleShaxs and awe: Star Trek: Lower Decks “We’ll Always Have Tom Paris”
This episode opens in the galley, where the recently-created Boimler 2 is ready to retake his undignified place as the ship’s Charlie Brown-esque whipping boy. Ransom explains to him that security...
View ArticleDomo arigato, Mister Mugato: Star Trek: Lower Decks “Mugato, Gumato”
The cold open occurs in the gym, a part of the ship so rarely seen in the Next Generation era that I had lowkey assumed that ships had gotten rid of them entirely in favor of holodecks. (I guess...
View ArticleModel officers: Star Trek: Lower Decks “An Embarrassment of Dooplers”
No cold open this week. We jump right into Freeman’s captain’s log, where she narrates that she’s on a TOS-style state dinner with a species that has some bizarre characteristic they have to be very...
View ArticleNever go full Pakled: Star Trek: Lower Decks “The Spy Humongous”
Since the writers keep insisting on some semblance of a recurring plot arc, the Pakleds, the underwhelming villains from “No Small Parts”, are back again. Freeman has landed on Pakled Planet, and...
View ArticleStar Trek Sex: The Undeflowered Andy: Star Trek: Lower Decks “Where Pleasant...
We open this week on a good old standby plot: a planet that got tricked by an evil supercomputer into having a century-long civil war. The computer in question, AGIMUS (voiced by Trek veteran Jeffrey...
View ArticleHologram Yem, you’re my Pandronian: Star Trek: Lower Decks “I, Excretus”
It’s time again for Lower Decks, so let’s get low! Our quartet is repairing a satellite with the Cerritos a short distance away, taking in a view of a stunning nebula as they do so. “It’s times like...
View ArticleSeein’ your officers: Star Trek: Lower Decks “wej Duj”
The title card of this week’s episode is written in the Klingon alphabet. Paramount+ helpfully transliterates the title on its menu as “wej Duj”. Oh, it says wej Duj, of course, how helpful. This week,...
View ArticleGet the hull off me: Star Trek: Lower Decks “First First Contact”
It’s a brand new (star)day and the well-meaning slobs of the USS Cerritos are deployed to assist an Intrepid-class starship called the Archimedes, captained by one Sonya Gomez (an officer featured in...
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