Spoilers Star Trek: Lower Decks 2x03 - "We'll Always Have Tom Paris"
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So far the new season is batting an average of a 7. Not bad but I hope the episodes get better.
I liked this one but last week’s was certainly better. I honestly loved the copout with Shaxs because we’ve seen it before for sure and the non-explanation was even better. I also like putting Tendi and Mariner together. I hope that we get a Rutherford/Boimler team-up soon. Paris sounded off and his cameo COULD have been better. But I’ll put that on it being twenty years since VOY ended.
Oh… and “VOY!”
Oh… and “VOY!”
I went with a 7 this week as well.........hasn't really been outstanding for me. I did like the long game for the punchline with the Doctor this week........I saw it just seconds before she said it. Nice.
The Shaxs thing was jarring at first but then, hey, Star Trek explanations for the dead returning to life so that became amusing. Hey. Lieutenant Galloway returned in TOS and we never had even one second of explanation for it so why not Shaxs? 
I operate under the assumption that about half of this is an exaggeration of reality and I’d like to know the back story of what actually happened.
At a guess, Shaxs came back through some sort of Bajoran religious ritual assisted with technology. Maybe his soul was stored in Rutherford’s old cybernetic implant like a Vulcan katra, explaining why Rutherford was acting weird, and his body was recreated using transporter technology. Who knows?
Starfleet has probably figured out a way to deal with Orion sex pheremones by now. Tendi probably has them and has agreed to suppress them with a shot every month as a condition of serving on a Starfleet ship. Maybe the shot is wearing off or is counteracted by the presence of so many Orion men.
I find Mariner annoying. That is all.
I like that Dr T’Ana only wanted the box.
At a guess, Shaxs came back through some sort of Bajoran religious ritual assisted with technology. Maybe his soul was stored in Rutherford’s old cybernetic implant like a Vulcan katra, explaining why Rutherford was acting weird, and his body was recreated using transporter technology. Who knows?
Starfleet has probably figured out a way to deal with Orion sex pheremones by now. Tendi probably has them and has agreed to suppress them with a shot every month as a condition of serving on a Starfleet ship. Maybe the shot is wearing off or is counteracted by the presence of so many Orion men.
I find Mariner annoying. That is all.
I like that Dr T’Ana only wanted the box.
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It's the greatest title in all of Star Trek series history.
"Who Mourns for Morn(DS9)" would like to have a word with us.
That’s how the show runner intends it
That's probably why she was allowed into StarFleet and is an ensign now.
People @ StarFleet Academy saw past what the majority Stereo-Type is for her race and she's now part of StarFleet.
I thought it was pretty clear the intent was that not all Orions have the sex pheromones. Didn’t seem like Osyraa had them either.
I like that they didn’t give us the explanation for Shax because the joke was making fun of the trope.
My only problem with Mariner isn’t her personality so much as the rest of the cast are so happy to be her foil. It’s like Abbot, Costello, Mostello and Bostello. And it’s implied to me she selects her friends on that basis. People with weaker personalities who will enable her.
I’ve always thought Boimler would work better if he were a little less hapless and at least more effective and competent at being “Boring by the book guy”. So they could have a real repartee and not just Mariner walking over him.
See how she finally made friends with someone with as strong a personality as hers then was like “Hey get out of my table my enabler is back!”
I like that they didn’t give us the explanation for Shax because the joke was making fun of the trope.
My only problem with Mariner isn’t her personality so much as the rest of the cast are so happy to be her foil. It’s like Abbot, Costello, Mostello and Bostello. And it’s implied to me she selects her friends on that basis. People with weaker personalities who will enable her.
I’ve always thought Boimler would work better if he were a little less hapless and at least more effective and competent at being “Boring by the book guy”. So they could have a real repartee and not just Mariner walking over him.
See how she finally made friends with someone with as strong a personality as hers then was like “Hey get out of my table my enabler is back!”
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I think the reset button is hurting things given how obviously it is being used, sadly.
Also, seeing Boimler suffer is not actually ever funny.
Also, seeing Boimler suffer is not actually ever funny.
They have been using it for 55 years.......
His screams are pretty amazing.......
804 per Memory Alpha. 800 was There is a Tide... Unless you're discounting the movies, in which case this would be the 794th episode (and 784th, technically, if you discount the Short Trek shorts).
Then there's the question of two-parters. What counts, what doesn't. Is All Good Things... one episode or two? Should Such Sweet Sorrow be two episodes or one? Does all of DS9's final nine episodes really count as one story and therefore episode? I guess you can maybe come up with a way for this to be the 800th episode, but not easily.
I just go with Memory Alpha's count.
* 800 = There is a Tide...
* 700 = The Forgotten
* 600 = Muse
* 500 = Message in a Bottle
* 400 = Return to Grace
* 300 = Rivals
* 200 = Qpid
* 100 = How Sharper than a Serpent's Tooth
There are 814 Star Trek adventures including the 13 films. This is counting "The Cage" and all two-parters as two individual episodes. In most lists, for some odd reason they either don't count "The Cage" or count "The Menagerie" as a single entry (episode 16a and 16b).
