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Spoilers Star Trek: Lower Decks 2x03 - "We'll Always Have Tom Paris"

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I'm waiting for the storyline where she decides to retire from Starfleet. Then she decides she wants back in. Then she decides she wants back out. Then she decides she wants back in again.
IF they do that, I would imagine it would possibly be a flashback to her days on DS-9.
If working there during the Dominion War didn't stress her out nothing will.
I wonder how many ships she had shot out under her?
 
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If they're going by the principles of either "The Enemy Within" or "Second Chances," then neither Boimler is "real" while the other is a clone. In "Enemy," each duplicate had essential aspects of the whole being. In "Second Chances," each was an equally valid continuation of the original Will Riker; it's just that the one that got off the planet was the one whose adventures we'd been following for years.

As the duplicate Boimlers behave differently, and the Cerritos didn't recognize one of them, I suspect they're going for an "Enemy Within" angle.
 
I was actually referring to Doctor T'Ana. You know? The cat wants in? Then the cat wants out? Then the cat wants back in again?

"Well, for a cat who swore she'd never return to the Starfleet..."

"Just a moment, Captain - I'll explain what happened. Your REVERED Admiral Mariner used a little-known, seldom-used, reserve activation claws..."

*Emergency transport! Computer, add coat!!*
 
As the duplicate Boimlers behave differently, and the Cerritos didn't recognize one of them, I suspect they're going for an "Enemy Within" angle.

Whilst TOS never delved that deeply into security on the Enterprise, there was no indication that the computer didn't accept either of the two halves of Kirk as "the real deal". Certainly the on-screen Kirks had no issue with the doors and turbolifts, even if Shatner might have walked into the odd door if the stagehand was too slow...
 
It's odd that there's a security requirement to use the automatic doors at all. Never seemed to be an issue before with any guest characters friendly or malevolent. So what's the computer doing, scanning people at the DNA level to make sure they're authorized to use the doors?
 
Those kinds of doors would have come in handy when both versions of Lazarus were skulking around Kirk's Enterprise on TOS and both of them were getting into sensitive areas of the ship containing advanced technology.
 
It's odd that there's a security requirement to use the automatic doors at all. Never seemed to be an issue before with any guest characters friendly or malevolent. So what's the computer doing, scanning people at the DNA level to make sure they're authorized to use the doors?

Well we see why it's a bad idea here.
 
Red Dwarf has used similar security protocols before for dramatic effect - The Inquisitor and Fathers and Suns.

There's a certain logical sense - it locks out intruders and stowaways automatically... and all it would take for invited guests to be added to the system is the Trek equivalent of a Bluetooth pairing, which could be automated by the transporter or shuttle docking procedure. OK if their DNA is altered beyond a certain amount they would be inconvenienced, but that might work to slow down DNA-based issues like the devolution thingy or Geordi turning into the UV alien (who still had full computer access).

But the danger of "unpersoning" is too great and also a tad Big Brother-ish.
 
It's odd that there's a security requirement to use the automatic doors at all. Never seemed to be an issue before with any guest characters friendly or malevolent. So what's the computer doing, scanning people at the DNA level to make sure they're authorized to use the doors?
They mentioned it's additional security because of the Pakled threat (what a combination of words XD)
 
But Tawny Newsome is 38 and the characters were reportedly cast so they could be played by their voice actors in live action, meaning we can’t have a serious age discrepancy. Jack Quaid is 29.

Actors in their 20s routinely play characters in their teens. Also, I saw Tawny in Space Force and she looks in her 20s.

I left my heart
on Starbase Earhart

You are a terrible person. :lol:

Soooo.... Has anyone written a fanfic about the "Mistress Of The Winter Constellations"?

It's for, ehm, a research...:shifty:

Hmm... I haven't written fanfic in ages, but that is tempting... :evil:

"Well, for a cat who swore she'd never return to the Starfleet..."

"Just a moment, Captain - I'll explain what happened. Your REVERED Admiral Mariner used a little-known, seldom-used, reserve activation claws..."

*Emergency transport! Computer, add coat!!*
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Those kinds of doors would have come in handy when both versions of Lazarus were skulking around Kirk's Enterprise on TOS and both of them were getting into sensitive areas of the ship containing advanced technology.

Good point. Maybe that's why they added this kind of security.

They mentioned it's additional security because of the Pakled threat (what a combination of words XD)

Right? I keep going "Pakleds are a *threat*? The race that Data wondered how they'd ever mastered the rudiments of space travel?" Yeah. Something else is going on there.
 
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