Spoilers Star Trek: Lower Decks 2x07 - "Where Pleasant Fountains Lie"

[Seven of Five]

After last week's 7, we've crept back up to an 8. Again still only laughing a few times, but the character focus is back to really good again.

Combs was awesome as the mad computer, even if the homage to 2001 was slightly obvious.

Tendi had a bittersweet moment when she thought Rutherford had died. I hope crazy kids work things out and get together as they're cute in their scenes together.

Boimler managing to trick the computer and Mariner, was a great fist-bump moment.

 

[Starkers]

That was fun, especially Boimler outwitting an evil computer and Mariner. I didn't realise Combs was in it beforehand and spent the entire episode trying to place the voice! (I'm turning in my com badge and my phaser forthwith...and the backup)

As people have said it's amazing how they can make an A and B story work in just 20 odd minutes!

 

[Aeolusdallas]

I got impression that their whole society was based around having as much sex as possible.

That or having sex makes you an adult and therefore time to be King

 

[DEWLine]

Boimler solved Tendi's problem last week by deliberately leaning into his past, and now this. This is indeed Captain-level thinking.

 

[DaveyNY]

Boimler solved Tendi's problem last week by deliberately leaning into his past, and now this. This is indeed Captain-level thinking.

He's probably an Admiral by the time of "PICARD".
And I wouldn't be surprised if he also resigned his commission in support of Jean-Luc after the Romulan Home-world debacle.

 

[DEWLine]

Some day, we might learn the answer to that question re: Boimler and his thoughts and actions re: Romulus. Not sure if that'll be any time soon.

 

[KimMH]

This one was okay, but really not my cup of tea. I gave it a 4/10.
2 of those are for Jeffrey Combs, who is always awesome.

I appreciate the enthusiasm for this episode but gave it a 6; my lowest so far. I don’t much relate to privileged guy has mommy issues. I was glad that Boimler gets to stretch and utilize all that great info in his head. The main four will be more satisfying to watch as equal peers than the hierarchy that was forming.

 

[DaveyNY]

I appreciate the enthusiasm for this episode but gave it a 6; my lowest so far. I don’t much relate to privileged guy has mommy issues. I was glad that Boimler gets to stretch and utilize all that great info in his head. The main four will be more satisfying to watch as equal peers than the hierarchy that was forming.

While his mother is very annoying, he is an adult and managed to handle her in so much as he left to join Star Fleet, even against her wishes.
I believe that his main motivation was that he just didn't want to be the King and engineering became his passion.

 

[seigezunt]

Another episode that gave me a "cripes!" moment for watching it with my kid, LOL. Not a complaint, that's on me.

I'll need to watch it again. I feel like it didn't hit as funny as previous episodes, but I was distracted during the viewing as I was making dinner.

 

[Mike McDevitt]

A human-derived star-nation independent of the Federation, governing itself as though a riff on the SCA. Makes me wonder how long ago Hysperia started out. Certainly, they must be as old as the colonies in the Alpha Centauri system...?

Like Betazed, they may be Federation with unusual customs. I am curious about the dragons, too- is Hysperia potentially near Berengaria, another world with dragons? At the very least, if the (slower?) Cerritos shuttle is involved, it suggests but doesn't guarantee that Hysperia is not that far from Okinawa.

 

[KimMH]

While his mother is very annoying, he is an adult and managed to handle her in so much as he left to join Star Fleet, even against her wishes.
I believe that his main motivation was that he just didn't want to be the King and engineering became his passion.

Thank you for your opinion

 

[matthunter]

At the very least, if the (slower?) Cerritos shuttle is involved, it suggests but doesn't guarantee that Hysperia is not that far from Okinawa.

Or indeed the rest of Earth.

 

[cooleddie74]

Vulcan is only 17 light years from Earth and yet still seemed like such a distant and remote world in the series produced prior to ENT.

 

[Charles Phipps]

Vulcan is only 17 light years from Earth and yet still seemed like such a distant and remote world in the series produced prior to ENT.

I always advise myself to not try to understand Star Trek distances. The writers hate it as much as I do.

 

[cooleddie74]

"80 hours to Qo'noS" with mid-22nd century warp drive still bothers some fans.

 

[Ometiklan]

I just rewatched the episode and from the dialog about their navy and protecting the planet, Hysperia seems to be outside of the Federation, even if it was colonized by humans (though that might be an assumption that Billips is human based on appearance).

 

[DEWLine]

If the Monarchy of Hysperia was scratch-built by humans, mid-to-late 22nd Century...

*looks to the map*

 

[Saul]

Not really a funny episode but I like the structure at least and the evil computer concept.

 

[Charles Phipps]

"80 hours to Qo'noS" with mid-22nd century warp drive still bothers some fans.

You just have to use the space winds, shoals, and subspace anomalies! Hi hi ho!

 

[DEWLine]

*looks at Star Charts' reference to "subspace shortcuts", specifically noting the "four days to Qo'noS" bit in connection to that*