The bridge crew.
Have we seen an ep where Ensign First-Acting-Job got told the ins-and-outs of how Neelix died and got resurrected by Seven's nanoprobes? Or whether everyone on the new Enterprise-A knew the lowdown on the katra/Genesis thing?
Spoilers Star Trek: Lower Decks 2x03 - "We'll Always Have Tom Paris"
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The bridge crew.
Have we seen an ep where Ensign First-Acting-Job got told the ins-and-outs of how Neelix died and got resurrected by Seven's nanoprobes? Or whether everyone on the new Enterprise-A knew the lowdown on the katra/Genesis thing?
Seriously, you're fucking scaring me right now.
Are these the end times? Is the black cloud of penis-demons about to descend?
This was a great episode. I gave it a 9, one higher than last weeks episode, which I also rated one higher than the season premier. The jokes really landed well on this episode, and I was chuckling along for the entire episodes and got most of the references to past series.
I have only seen Voyager once, and can't exactly remember how he sounded. I love Boimler and how he always gets into trouble and survives. The bonsai tree lunch was very funny for me for some reason.
This season has really landed on me, and I hope I can get a 10 at some point. I really want to get a joke that really makes me burst into laugh, though I admit I'm not easily amused.
I have only seen Voyager once, and can't exactly remember how he sounded. I love Boimler and how he always gets into trouble and survives. The bonsai tree lunch was very funny for me for some reason.
This season has really landed on me, and I hope I can get a 10 at some point. I really want to get a joke that really makes me burst into laugh, though I admit I'm not easily amused.
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Nurse Chapel was never a senior officer or a bridge crew member, but was aware of all the TOS main character 'resurrections' from stuff like "The Changeling" (Scotty); "The Enterprise Incident" (Kirk) - so yeah sorry but for me part of the trope would be all the nameless faceless redshirts that come back without any explanation to ANYONE <--- That's the trope for the last 55 years.
For all the ones that have come back where the senior staff and the audience has got a explanation, said explanation has never been all that scary/horrible. Far fetched at times, yes, but never 'scary'.
So again, IF you're going to riff a long standing Trek trope, riff it right.
My view is that the Lower Deckers don't know what's going on is not nearly as funny as the show thinks it is and was kind of played out in Veritas.
A lot of the character voices on Marvel's "What If" don't "sound" right to me at all, even when they've been voiced by the actual actors. It's a thing.
Well, that's not the stated intent by the writers, which was VERY clear. And that isn't actually a trope anywhere but in your own mind. So it wouldn't make much of a good joke.
Nurse Chapel was also a (relatively) major character and also the ship's NURSE, so, yeah, she would know about the lives and deaths of the crew. Ensign Ricky, though, on deck 21 in the phaser upgrade department, wouldn't.
This is getting ridiculous.
A lot of the character voices on Marvel's "What If" don't "sound" right to me at all, even when they've been voiced by the actual actors. It's a thing.
It's the premise of the show, though, so.....
I sort of get the criticism. I think it's an odd joke to do now because up until this point, even though they are Lower Deck'ers, they seem to be well-aware of what's happening on the ship at all times. Mariner and Boimler have actively worked on the bridge, so, they see what's going on.
I could understand if that was something from the first batch of season 1 episodes.
They could have a battle of the bands, like at
I'm guessing Shaxs' return was a nod to Mr. Leslie in TOS who died in one episode but kept appearing in the background of future episodes. He has a story too, I'm sure.
Mariner served with Worf on DS9??
The cat/box gag made me smile.
Otherwise, watchable but meh.
Mariner served with Worf on DS9??
The cat/box gag made me smile.
Otherwise, watchable but meh.
I wouldn't say ignorance of the main threat is. I would say the senior staff not knowing about the Lower Decks is more.
I don't know which is a better name for my hypothetical Trek metal band:
Klingon Acid Punk or Boimler Effect.
"Buffer Time" is my band name.
It does occur to me that "Lower Decks," beyond being a comedy show and a love letter, is... kind of a time capsule for the coming generations of Trek fandom. There are so many jokes in so many episodes that would have made me guffaw instead of just chuckle if I was encountering this kind of material for the first time. And the referential game is so far off the charts that I really do have to wonder if they took the "historical documents" bit in Galaxy Quest to heart.
LD is the deluxe Hungry Man TV dinner of Trek content. Just enough of a variety of flavors and textures to satisfy but never enough to think you just ate at the best place around.
And Hungry Man TV dinners can be awesome.
And Hungry Man TV dinners can be awesome.
precisely: as it’s much cheaper to have your regular composer write something that reminds of a popular piece than to actually acquire the copyright to the original composition it’s often done when you need to save a bit on the budget. This clearly wouldn’t have worked on Picard, where the nostalgia of the voyager and TNG themes was considered important and they had more money to spend anyway.
Speaking of cameos, how come no one is campaigning to bring Shatner on board a way or another?!
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It's actually a nod to the half dozen or so major character resurrections across Trek history that the episode specifically calls out.
Dear god, why is everyone looking for hidden meanings when the show literally screams the point right at you?
