Spoilers Star Trek: Lower Decks 2x10 - "First First Contact"

It's a podcast. Nothing personal.

 

The format for their podcast is fun. He is a seasoned fan and Andy has never seen Tng and they approach each episode as TV writers, and the podcast itself is charmingly slapped together without a lot of editing and they are argumentative, dorky bffs. It's the only podcast I actually listen to because they don't take themselves seriously at all. I think people were put off by how enthusiastic he was on TV, and came off as like... a cringy nerd. He hated himself on the show too

 

I think you should do a podcast. You could call it "0TheWormholeSpeaks"

 

I would listen to this podcast.

 

That sounds horrible.

 

Ugh, this showed up in my recommendations and I was depressed to see how many angry idiots in the comments seriously think that LD took the idea from some random RLM video. This kind of thing always makes me think of the story David Gerrold told on the TAS DVD audio commentary about the kid who erroneously believed he'd given him the idea for "More Tribbles, More Troubles" and thought he deserved a credit on the episode. Of course, if that happened today, a bunch of these YouTubers would probably be unquestioningly taking that kid's side.

 

People who write comments scare me.

 

FTFY

 

To be fair, that hologram was talking about his own ship, and also he was completely insane. I'm guessing his calculations shouldn't be taken as 100% reliable.

 

He might have also been referring to "Life Support" as everything that keeps humans alive that holograms don't need.

Things like "Artificial Gravity" and "Inertial Dampeners" and "Non-Physical Radiation Shielding".

 

I knew the gag w/ the crew at the end was still coming and it still made me laugh way too much

I think this episode had a lot of great jokes, the references weren't intrusive, the crew working together was very trekkian, the beluga vibes were very funny, and I'm glad they're resolving the Mariner/Jen gag that way

 

The more time goes by since this episode aired, the more I've started to think of it as one of the best episodes of Star Trek ever produced.

 

I know this is old, but reading this thread is funny. Seeing the trolls that are mad a black girl is the lead of the show and it's nothing they can do about it always gives be a good laugh, thank you.

 

Didn't care for the cliffhanger ending.

 

But cliffhanger season endings are a Star Trek tradition!

 

They still suck.

 

Cliffhangers are awesome. I love "and now the conclusion."

 

Majel voiced all the cliffhanger and two- or three-part intros until ENT when Scott Bakula, I believe, took over recording them for his series' multi-part stories.

 

Well, naturally. Number One hadn't programmed her voice into Starfleet's computer interface yet in the 22nd century.