Spoilers Star Trek: Lower Decks 2x06 - "The Spy Humongous"

Well, it's Halloween. Everyone is entitled to one good scare.

 

Gotta admit, those Pakleds are unexpectedly hilarious.

 

They're clearly inspired from Tor Johnson's Lobo in The Unearthly.

 

TIME FOR GO TO ENTERPRISE!!!

 

Steve Rogers: "I get that reference."

 

The episode title is fantastic.

The artwork is sumptuous.

Mistaking Mariner as Janeway is in-character.

The spy being a total dip made up for a lot. Right down to the T-shirt being a perfect parody. The camera flash blinding scene had me laughing a bit more.

Somehow, I was expecting a bit more as this felt like a "filler" when I also got the vibe it's setting the stage for a later episode.

7/10

 

Freeman.

 

Watched it this past weekend. Unfortunately, the Pakleds are getting more than a little bit tiresome.

 

I think you mean Free-man! mwahahaha

 

Speaking of this one

 

I've seen speculation connecting his lineage to both the world of Batman (Dick GRAYSON) and Sherlock Holmes (an ancestor of mine once said...).

Anyways, just watched this again yesterday. Watching them a year apart, its almost like they are new episodes again. Afterward, I went on youtube to explain the Armus joke to a friend, and played some TNG S1 clips. Its crazy how different the first season feels to the later ones. I loved the TOS style planet staging, and could imagine almost word for word the same episode happening with the TOS cast. The music was amazing, it was moody, dark.... definitely prefer early TNG and this kind of reaffirmed that.

Great episode, though - tons of growth for Boimler.

 

I always thought Spock was talking about Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Although it also sounds like a very Vulcan thing to say, so one of Sarek's ancestors could also have said it.

In any case, Holmes hinself is obviously a fictional character even in the Trekverse, so I don't see how Spock could have possibly meant him...

 

Meyer is a Holmes buff. Wrote the Seven Percent Solution. He probably meant Holmes. That TNG had Holmes as a fictional character probably never entered the picture.