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Spoilers Star Trek: Lower Decks 3x09 - "Trusted Sources"

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Having the same emitter and looking the same doesn't definitively mean it's the same weapon though.
Yes it does. This is lower decks we’re talking about.


I always figured it was "What the hell's...", like he was about to say, "What the hell's going on?", but he is overwhelmed at the moment and can't even finish the sentence. I know I sometimes have done that.
That makes more sense.
 
I can't help but think some of the writers and other Powers that Be are 'Parks where Recreation' fans

Firstly that mural was exactly like something Pawnee would have. And second the voice actress for Victoria Nuzé (Allison Beckett) had a recurring role on the show as local journalist Shauna Malwae-Tweep.

Now we need somebody on Delta shift to be named Gary.
 
Not definitively, but it's clear what the implication is. They fire the same effect from the same emitter, causing the same electric arcing across the target vessel, and said vessel has a noticeable dip in power levels.

Precisely. It looks the same, it's in the same spot, it has the same appearance, it does the same electric show, and it drained the energy levels on the Cerritos.

Walks like a duck, has webbed feet like a duck, quacks like duck, has feathers like a duck, in a pond like a duck, has a bill like duck. Guess what... it's a duck.
 
Something just occured to me, and I don't think this has been pointed out.

If I am correct, beuno in spanish means 'good', and amigo is 'friend'.

So having our admiral named Buenamigo feels like he should be a good friend, which clearly means he is not.

Adds fuel to the theories of him being the one who did the procedure on Rutherford and set up the Cerritos.
 
Something just occured to me, and I don't think this has been pointed out.

If I am correct, beuno in spanish means 'good', and amigo is 'friend'.

So having our admiral named Buenamigo feels like he should be a good friend, which clearly means he is not.

Adds fuel to the theories of him being the one who did the procedure on Rutherford and set up the Cerritos.

Looks like he has an Alamo replica on his shelf. Friends with Dr Bashir???
 
If ya spread the nacelles out further on the older ship, the two of them could be cousins. :techman:

I'm also minded of the SFU's San Martín-class (new) fast light cruiser. (In that universe, the NLF is designed to have a higher operational speed than its half-sibling, the Kearsarge-class new light cruiser - but at the cost of a reduced photon complement and an increased maintenance workload.)

Actually, if one assumes that the Franchise's Texas-class ships are each named after cities in that state, I wonder if either of the other two prototype hulls might turn out to be named for the city of Amarillo...
 
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Why would the LGBT community (or anyone, for that matter) have a problem with Mariner and Jennifer breaking up? Is it unrealistic that, given that level of distrust, a romantic relationship of any kind is over?
Way late to the party on this (and if people have addressed it, I apologize) but a lot of folks are understandably wary of media either doing flat out queerbaiting with no intention of making a gay couple canon or said gay character gets killed off as the cishet characters get happy endings.

I'd normally be on the side of skepticism here but it's not like we've been getting a shit ton of dates amongst the rest of the crew other than Rutherford's disasterous dates with Barnes and the brief snippets we get of T'Shaxs we get each season, so I don't think that's what's happening at all. It's just the pairing didn't work out the same as any other couple. I wish it got developed a wee bit more before it ended but I see nothing wrong with queer pairings being allowed to have the same kinda of arcs that straight ones are allowed to have.
 
Ah, but the Earth ship Enterprise NX-01 is probably not the same ship as the Federation Starfleet NX-01, since ‘NX’ is the class of the former while the Federation Starfleet ‘NX’ is a registry connotation for an experimental prototype (which the Enterprise technically was, but the show gave its registry a different context.) So there’s really no continuity error here. We can still assume that early Federation Starfleet had a USS Dauntless NX-01 which the NX-01-A was named after.

I could see that. Headcanon'd
 
Great episode. I loved that they brought back the Breen, one of my favorite villain species. Great fun to return to that drug planet from Season 1, wouldn't have thought they'd reference something from season 1 so heavily but it was a perfect one to pick up on years later. Nice unexpected twist at the end too.
 
Another solid episode, and just when it finds it's stride, the finish line rapidly approaches... Bummer.

The way they telegraphed Mariner's insistence on being interviewed left it just short of a twist, but the execution was spot on.

Loved the sledgehammer Buenamigo name...

I guess the finale of Lower Decks will line up with the premiere of the back nine (ten) of Prodigy season one.

One exits, another enters.
 
I guess the finale of Lower Decks will line up with the premiere of the back nine (ten) of Prodigy season one.

Really looking forward to the return of Prodigy. I just rewatched the first 9 episodes and I think I liked them more the second time around. There’s a great mystery building and I’m enjoying the ride.
 
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SNIP!

If they're both in the same system and the Breen are literally wiping out one half...doesn't that make you think the other half maybe might be in cohorts with the Breen? There's no reason why the Breen will be on one planet and not the other. It's like the Trisolarians hitting a colonized, terraformed Mars but leaving Earth alone (or the other way around).

I think it would had been a bit better if, admittedly, cliche if that civilization had either gone full fascist and warmongering and attacked the cerritos with stuff like primitive antimatter munitions or stuff they brought from the ferengi or slavers, like they've turned into a sort of Kongo or Dahomey Kingdom, an elite literally selling their lessers for material gain and support.

Like they're just stewing, waiting, the Cerritos comes down to an abandoned, war torn city with evidence of war and slavery and then some dictator pops up on a screen somewhere. Mwahhaha, the Federation! Time for our revenge!

One, we don't know WHEN the Breen arrived on Brekka, two, we might be dealing with a Breen expedition, and, two, the Breen may be taking it's time to establish its presence within that system. Certainly, there are a lot of unknowns to deal with, especially in a post-Dominion War environment, where the Breen had LOST the war. And, it's not the first time the Breen snuck up on a planet without people knowing it, especially since the Breen has energy dampening weapons.
 
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