Spoilers Episode 7 Preview Pictures and Synopsis

[Tuskin38]

http://blog.trekcore.com/2020/09/star-trek-lower-decks-107-images-much-ado-about-boimler/

In this new episode, Ensign Boimler (Jack Quaid) goes through a tough time after being affected by a transporter malfunction caused by Ensign Rutherford’s (Eugene Cordero) repairs, while Ensign Tendi (Noel Wells) creates a genetically engineered new pet.

Meanwhile, Ensign Mariner (Tawny Newsome) must work with visiting Captain Amina Ramsey (Toks Olagund) who temporarily takes over the USS Cerritos — a friend from Starfleet Academy who has climbed the ranks while Mariner remains in the lower decks.

This should be the episode with the Edosian, based on the 'This Season On' trailer. If those shots were connected.

 

[Turtletrekker]

This article lists Vanessa Marshall from Star Wars Rebels (among many others and Maurice Lamarche from Pinky and the Brain (among many others) as guest voices.

https://trekmovie.com/2020/09/14/pr...2lFuyVsQSonENpwdazQh2fLt42sKjirwR3QZ99XvhFsFo

 

[Tuskin38]

Jennifer Hale plays the dog. So I guess it must speak at some point, or makes sounds where they need a human.

She also voices an officer.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

Is that Lt. the same race as Jaylah?

 

[CorporalClegg]

So is the dog a Shepard?

 

[PPatters]

Is that Lt. the same race as Jaylah?

Perhaps, or maybe Rigelian.

 

[Tim Thomason]

Perhaps, or maybe Rigelian.

Definitely more in common with a Rigelian than Jaylah, as it has the distinctive Rigelian markings above his eyes and the lines are less decorative than Jaylah's. Neither Jaylah nor the Rigelians had such yellow eyes though, and his ears aren't pointed. We never saw Rigelian ears in Enterprise, but I always thought they might be pointed to match the Vulcanoid ancestry implied by TOS.

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

I love Toks Olagundoye

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toks_Olagundoye

This is going to be fun.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

Perhaps, or maybe Rigelian.

Definitely more in common with a Rigelian than Jaylah, as it has the distinctive Rigelian markings above his eyes and the lines are less decorative than Jaylah's. Neither Jaylah nor the Rigelians had such yellow eyes though, and his ears aren't pointed. We never saw Rigelian ears in Enterprise, but I always thought they might be pointed to match the Vulcanoid ancestry implied by TOS.

Rigelians had totally dropped out of my brain, thanks. Could be and I hope they make a mention either way.

 

[BillJ]

Is that Lt. the same race as Jaylah?


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Looks like Garrus from Mass Effect.

 

[Mark_Nguyen]

Definitely looks more like an ENT-era Rigelian. @Mike McDevitt made the connection long before I could.

I'm not convinced the firey red lieutenant on the left is a Trill; her spots aren't like what we see on Ensign Barnes. Incidentally, these picture captions via TrekMovie continue this series' habit of giving secondary aliens very human names. Here we have lieutenants Warren, Pratchett and Durga as a Trill (?), Rigelian and Vulcan; we've also had Vendome, Barnes, an Andorian apparently named Jennifer, etc.

Mark

 

[Tim Thomason]

Definitely looks more like an ENT-era Rigelian. @Mike McDevitt made the connection long before I could.

I'm not convinced the firey red lieutenant on the left is a Trill; her spots aren't like what we see on Ensign Barnes. Incidentally, these picture captions via TrekMovie continue this series' habit of giving secondary aliens very human names. Here we have lieutenants Warren, Pratchett and Durga as a Trill (?), Rigelian and Vulcan; we've also had Vendome, Barnes, an Andorian apparently named Jennifer, etc.

Mark

The spots don't seem to continue down her neck and sides, like Dax and Barnes, which could mean she's a Kriosian/Valtese which only had visible spots on their face.

The exaggerated nature of the spots, unlike the subtle freckling on the Kriosians and Trill, I chalk up to an animation quirk (like how the proportions of humanoids in general are way off, especially eyes and heads and whatnot), and they're "really" the same as in other shows. Maybe they're differentiated from Barnes's spots in order to push that she's not Trill.

The name "Ottessa Warren" given by Trekcore does look like an alien name (Ottessa) combined with a human name (Warren). Maybe she’s married to a Warren. All Kriosians (if that's what she is) have one-word names, and Ottessa is sort of similar to the Kriosian name Kaitaama.

I have no explanation for the Rigelian "Drew Pratchett". We never had a Rigelian name in canon, so maybe they're unpronounceable like Vulcan (given) names, and he adopted Drew as a nickname or close proximity. And Pratchett could be a married name as well.

Tawny said "Jennifer" was an adlib mistake in the recording booth, and she didn't know it was going to be an Andorian, but I think McMahan is playing games with names. Purposefully pushing the multicultural aspect of the Federation into aliens, similar to how Discovery played with our expectations with their multicultural names (Lorca for a southern American, Georgiou for an East Asian).

 

[Timo]

..Of course, LDS isn't a written medium, by and large: the "real" names of these folks might have three apostrophes each, despite the pronunciations.

Timo Saloniemi

 

[F. King Daniel]

In a United Federation where aliens intermingle and crossbreed, I can 100% see an Andorian named Jennifer or an emotional Vulcan named Buddy.

 

[The Wormhole]

I demand we learn Jennifer's full name, as done by the novel's Andorian naming conventions, where she's something like Jennifer Sh'volin.

 

[Tim Thomason]

I demand we learn Jennifer's full name, as done by the novel's Andorian naming conventions, where she's something like Jennifer Sh'volin.

It's going to be more like Thravajenniferresch sh'Voliin.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

Whatever translates to "great grand-daughter of Shran" will work

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I demand we learn Jennifer's full name, as done by the novel's Andorian naming conventions, where she's something like Jennifer Sh'volin.

I'm suspecting Mariner just called her "Jennifer" as an insult.

Then again, what does Mariner ever say that isn't?

 

[DaveyNY]

Mariner just said it in a sarcastic human way .... it's actually Shan 'E 'far.

 

[Charles Phipps]

I want the dog to be a permanent cast member.