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Spoilers Star Trek: Lower Decks 3x10 - "The Stars at Night"

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Mounting the rescue effort was basically an all-hands-on-deck situation, and Picard was promoted specifically to lead that effort. If he's already an admiral in Lower Decks season three, that means the effort has already begun, and it wasn't like the situation was under wraps--kinda difficult when you're mobilizing most of the fleet for a single task and trying to figure out a way to ramp up production of tons of specialized ships on top of that. I'm assuming the Cali-class isn't involved directly because someone has to keep the Federation running.

It does beg the question of why Command wanted to get rid of a whole class of ship, though. They really couldn't afford to and things will only get worse from here until the Mars incident.

I'm thinking Season Four will probably mention it.

That is yet to be confirmed on screen though - was just in the press pack - so they could adjust the specifics of it.
 
Question: was Picard a 1 pip or 2 pip Admiral before he resigned?

Because it's possible he was promoted to a higher admiral rank for the evacuation.

It's not the clearest resolution but it looks like he was a four-pip Admiral by 2385.

Admiral-Picard-2385.jpg
 
I hope this episode will put to rest the question of Mariner's lack of growth. And I loved how she just walked by Jennifer without even looking her way.
The other reunions at the end (particularly mother/daughter) made me tear up a little. I loved this episode so much. So much character growth throughout the season. And all coming full circle in this finale. 10/10

I kept thinking the Aledo was the Alito (I know, he's not from Texas), and, also wondered if the AI Texas class was kind of a dig at Texas re: some real world situations. Of course, this episode was made before certain current events had...occurred, so no, but it still made me laugh. (Don't hurt me Texans, some of my best friends are Texans, etc, etc.)
 
Watching Future's End, they establish LA fell into the ocean and became a coral reef.

So that's why LA isn't there.

I was gonna say...

There's quite a few controversies about Christopher Hitchens' articles on her since, among other things, he complained about the medical care available in her hospices based around the belief they should watch for profit insured First World institutions. He also made some dubious claims about worshiping suffering based around Catholicism when Theresa's own writings were very much about alleviating it.

But way way off topic.
 
Prodigy is a KIDS' show. There's no way in hell they'd go anywhere near this.
I don’t think they will, however they already have a planet whose population has been destroyed.

Mounting the rescue effort was basically an all-hands-on-deck situation, and Picard was promoted specifically to lead that effort.
afaik that information is from the countdown comics, which are not canon.
 
Again, that doesn't track.
In the future trek is supposed to be, being at the top or bottom shouldn't really exist.

If that were true, there would be no ranks, the Enterprise would not have been considered the "flagship of the fleet," and Picard would not have needed to remind Sisko in DS9's first episode that Starfleet officers do not always "have the luxury to serve in an ideal environment."

The Federation is a society where economic class, racism, religious and ethnic bigotry, cisheterosexism, misogyny, war, poverty, disease, and capitalism have been abolished. Starfleet, on the other hand, has always been a hierarchical organization where some posts are better than others.

It doesn't make sense that SF and UFP would discriminate against a whole design class and it's crew because of the mission profiles they do, because that kind of behaviour should have been left behind in the past.

"Discriminate?" Dude, nobody was being denied their constitutional rights or oppressed. Even the officers affected would simply have been transferred to new postings. Starfleet was considering getting rid of an old class of starships because there was a possibility a new class could do the job better. Starfleet has already done this canonically -- witness the forced retirement of the Constitution class in favor of the Excelsior class at the end of TUC.

Like I said, LD took liberties in how SF behaves, and I don't like the precedent it sets.

You just don't like thinking about the fact that Starfleet is still a hierarchical organization.
 
Um, Tendi does know that Vulcans kiss with their hands, right?

Tell that to Spock and T'Pring. ;)

Also, did anyone notice how T'Lyn's wearing a provisional rank insignia? (I love LD's attention to detail!)

Good catch!

That lines up with the novel The Last Best Hope. What's odd is how they've not mentioned the Romulan refugee crisis even in passing yet.

I don't think it's that odd. Lower Decks is a comedy, and I wouldn't expect it to hit on a subject that dark. The Federation is big enough that it's plausible the Cerritos would just never be in a position to deal with the refugee crisis. Also, LD is apparently being a bit leisurely and deliberately vague about the passage of time between seasons.

Mounting the rescue effort was basically an all-hands-on-deck situation, and Picard was promoted specifically to lead that effort. If he's already an admiral in Lower Decks season three, that means the effort has already begun, and it wasn't like the situation was under wraps--kinda difficult when you're mobilizing most of the fleet for a single task and trying to figure out a way to ramp up production of tons of specialized ships on top of that. I'm assuming the Cali-class isn't involved directly because someone has to keep the Federation running.

It does beg the question of why Command wanted to get rid of a whole class of ship, though. They really couldn't afford to and things will only get worse from here until the Mars incident.

Maybe their idea was specifically to decommission the California class and refit them all as mass civilian transports for the Rescue Fleet.
 
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