Spoilers Star Trek: Lower Decks 2x01 - "Strange Energies"

It is my mission in adult life to name a future daughter "Jadzia"

 

I gave it an 8.

It had some very funny moments, but I feel they missed out on a better appendage joke - they could have had Ransom's head pop off and go to orbit at some point sure; but they should have had him start enlarging his hand (and making it green too); given all the other TOS 'god-like being' Easter eggs they had in the episode. But yeah, finally stopping him completely by putting him under a rock was a nice touch.

(Although I don't think anyone in a live Trek series ever vomitted up 'strange energies before, so that was new.)

 

I was off-put by the way Barnes pronounces "Symbiont". Moreso than I should be. It REALLY bugged me.

 

Perhaps her parents wanted to give her an exotic alien name.

 

From her parents' POV, "Jennifer" might count as "exotic".
More to learn about Andorians and their corners of the universe, right?

 

Jennifer was adopted by four humans, engaged in a romantic relationship, who co-parent her.

 

There is also the chance her mother just liked human names

 

They told us in season 1

 

As much as I love animated Riker and the Titan (so far), unless they plan on doing a spin-off I hope they limit how much we see of them.

it has a real chance to overshadow the main characters.

 

The Saurian on DSC is named Linus. And we still don't have an in-universe reason why.

 

I wonder if his friends a the academy ever called him "Linus the Lizard." Not particularly clever, but that kinda goes in line with Starfleet officer humor.

 

Jennifer's parents were BTTF fans.

 

That's heavy!!

 

Most likely.

At Federation Headquarters in DSC ("Die Trying", et al) there are human characters with alien names, so it makes sense that the reverse would also apply.

 

Jenny from the Block of Ice


also there's those Pointy Ear people who keep culturally appropriating ancient Roman names.

 

I voted 9... but on reflection, a solid 8.

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Have to dock it a smidge b/c it's a little disappointing that the main story turned out to revolve around resetting the character dynamic between Mariner and her mom on the Cerritos. It would have been nice if they'd let the characters actually evolve.

That said, it was a pretty amusing nod to Gary Mitchell's outing on TOS (and to the often slap-dash nature of Star Trek "science fiction stuff" in general). Tendi's B-plot made her seem... a little frighteningly unhinged, I guess, but it was good for a chuckle; getting to see Ransom's massive disembodied head out the windows as Tendi and Rutherford have their heart to heart was a nice touch. And our little glimpse of Boimler's terrifying new career at the end made me smile, I wonder if we'll be seeing more of the Titan next episode (which apparently is set to serve up some Tamarian funsies to judge by the title, looking forward to that).

 

Mariner calls the Cardassian prison escape Cardio XD