"A consultant arrives on the U.S.S. Cerritos to run drills that require the lower deckers and bridge crew to swap duties." - TrekMovie.com
Spoilers Star Trek: Lower Decks 2x08 - "I, Excretus"
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"A consultant arrives on the U.S.S. Cerritos to run drills that require the lower deckers and bridge crew to swap duties." - TrekMovie.com
Boxing Day.
You know, nothing good ever happens when the consultants show up at your work.
If they haven't fixed that Enterprise refit Constitution-class MSD with the crazy warp core from the trailer I'm gonna riot.
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That bold line is a Turbolift not the Warp core.
(yeah, I see that it seems to connect to the crystal but it's probably not a centerline drawing)
The actual core is the faint line that runs straight up & down.
Also, the end of the bold line doesn't connect to where the conduits run up the pylons, it's like 3 or 4 decks below.
(yeah, I see that it seems to connect to the crystal but it's probably not a centerline drawing)
The actual core is the faint line that runs straight up & down.
Also, the end of the bold line doesn't connect to where the conduits run up the pylons, it's like 3 or 4 decks below.
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That's not how western animation works, they wouldn't have touched it between trailer and now lmao.If they haven't fixed that Enterprise refit Constitution-class MSD with the crazy warp core from the trailer I'm gonna riot.
Also that's a turbolift, not the warp core.
It bugs me more that it's an ENT style computer UI
That episode was amazing. It was fun, it featured everyone on the ship and the ship itself, and They got Alice Krige back as the Borg Queen. Best episode of the season.
Did they take the episode down? I was most of the way through it, got a connectivity issue. Then kept getting an error message while trying to restart it. Now it's not even listed.
ETA: OK, finally got it back.
ETA: OK, finally got it back.
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MY INITIAL THOUGHTS:
1. I actually like Freeman abandoning the Ensigns here is what finally gets Starfleet to think she's a horrible captain if the latter part of the episode is to be believed. Her other decisions may show she has a terrible personality but this is just NEGLIGENCE.
2. The fact she's more a corporate team builder than drill sergeant is both very Starfleet and a sign she's evil. This is a TAS alien I could have done without. It's even more immersion breaking than the Dopplers.
3. Mariner going off mission is actually a sign she's terrible at her job. Does she have 24th century ADD like me?
4. Of course Boimler is better at these simulations than everyone else.
5. I'm 99% sure that Starfleet actually wouldn't allow euthanasia, let alone demand it.
6. Rutherford not having gloves or is Rutherford FORGETTING his gloves? I'm thinking the latter but maybe it was the former.
7. Mariner is hyper aggressive and makes sudden movements all the time. Of course horses hate her.
8. OF COURSE the tests are rigged. That explains Tendi's and Rutherford's.
9. I think the episode would have been better if Freeman had revealed that they hadn't endangered the ship but put the Drill Instructor on the holodeck--showing she can't tell the real thing from a fake.
10. I'm inclined to think that Boimler has reason to sue Starfleet for including assimilation in their simulation. But props that saving the Borg babies is part of his score.
1. I actually like Freeman abandoning the Ensigns here is what finally gets Starfleet to think she's a horrible captain if the latter part of the episode is to be believed. Her other decisions may show she has a terrible personality but this is just NEGLIGENCE.
2. The fact she's more a corporate team builder than drill sergeant is both very Starfleet and a sign she's evil. This is a TAS alien I could have done without. It's even more immersion breaking than the Dopplers.
3. Mariner going off mission is actually a sign she's terrible at her job. Does she have 24th century ADD like me?
4. Of course Boimler is better at these simulations than everyone else.
5. I'm 99% sure that Starfleet actually wouldn't allow euthanasia, let alone demand it.
6. Rutherford not having gloves or is Rutherford FORGETTING his gloves? I'm thinking the latter but maybe it was the former.
7. Mariner is hyper aggressive and makes sudden movements all the time. Of course horses hate her.
8. OF COURSE the tests are rigged. That explains Tendi's and Rutherford's.
9. I think the episode would have been better if Freeman had revealed that they hadn't endangered the ship but put the Drill Instructor on the holodeck--showing she can't tell the real thing from a fake.
10. I'm inclined to think that Boimler has reason to sue Starfleet for including assimilation in their simulation. But props that saving the Borg babies is part of his score.
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If they haven't fixed that Enterprise refit Constitution-class MSD with the crazy warp core from the trailer I'm gonna riot.
Oh, I dunno - this looks like the best interpretation of what we saw in TMP so far!
The lower of the two vertical bits would be what we see at the engineering set - it can't be much further forward than that. The upper horizontal bit would clear the torpedo bay area, and then the final stretch would hit the blue dome doodad, delivering power to the impulse system or whatnot.
And "delivering power" would be what's going on there, this never having been a "warp core" (those are big armored spheres belowdecks at that time) but a "plasma conduit" instead (and we see the set piece persisting in that role in the 24th century).
Although if you squint enough, you can see the actual core there, a bit forward of the lower vertical stretch. Which means this is a very odd turbolift, to hit the ceiling of the saucer like that...
Looking very much forward to hearing the technobabble associated with Rutherford's apparent accessing of the Emergency Dilithium Fondling Room here.
Timo Saloniemi
What a wonderful satire. HF, I couldn't stop laughing through the Klingon death test and the Borg scenario. And Naked Time. And why are all these boxes hexagons. I'm not sure that there was a real plot, but I don’t care.
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Poor Boimler, getting the shitty end of the stick.
Loved it! This was my favorite episode of the entire series. I laughed several times and it was just so much fun from start to finish. We got recreations from different TOS and TNG episodes. I loved that Boimler, being the true starfleet nerd, actually did better and better each time, saving more and more Borg and teaching the Queen empathy. He actually got 100% before they made him stay longer.
That was a brilliant way to do a full on Easter egg episode. From the second I saw the list of training exercises I knew it was gonna be good.
Maybe it's just my dirty mind but I thought naked time was hilarious also horny Borg queen and horny mirror people.
I always enjoy the running gag that things like crystaline entities are just meh every day stuff for Starfleet.
The only disappointment is we didn't get the full cinematic ship escaping space dock scene
Maybe it's just my dirty mind but I thought naked time was hilarious also horny Borg queen and horny mirror people.
I always enjoy the running gag that things like crystaline entities are just meh every day stuff for Starfleet.
The only disappointment is we didn't get the full cinematic ship escaping space dock scene
It's probably recency bias, but this feels like my favourite episode of the series so far.
The training simulations were a great way to do call backs, and I love that they used a mix of bigger and smaller episodes (if you had given me the basic plot of this episode and told me to brainstorm, I think it's fair to say that "Ethics" and "Spectre of the Gun" would not have been on my list). Shari Yn Yem's nefarious motives was a great twist on similar characters.
The moral of the story was heavy-handed but effective and I'm curious to see how it bleeds into the rest of the season.
The training simulations were a great way to do call backs, and I love that they used a mix of bigger and smaller episodes (if you had given me the basic plot of this episode and told me to brainstorm, I think it's fair to say that "Ethics" and "Spectre of the Gun" would not have been on my list). Shari Yn Yem's nefarious motives was a great twist on similar characters.
The moral of the story was heavy-handed but effective and I'm curious to see how it bleeds into the rest of the season.
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