You are a very literal person, aren't you dear?
Spoilers Strange New Worlds Episode 7 - Those Old Scientists
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As I said before, I haven't been able to watch S2 so far, but i think it would be wise for the naysayers to remember the comedy episodes of the X-Files and how little sense most of them made regarding the canon of that show 
As I said before, I haven't been able to watch S2 so far, but i think it would be wise for the naysayers to remember the comedy episodes of the X-Files and how little sense most of them made regarding the canon of that show
Youre right. Remember the Genie episode? I believe most of the comedy eps were self contained.
Hopefully it wont get to that point. Lol
So this is the proverbial straw huh? TOS, TAS, TNG, DS9, VOY, ENT, DISCO, PIC, LD and PRO - they all managed to avoid the jump?
SPIRIT FOLK.
Good lord.
Bhoimler (whatever it is) acknowledged he came from a cartoon!
I could be wrong. Lets hope so.
My expectations for this could not have been higher, and this satisfied them completely. What an incredible home run. I add it to my list of instant classics of the modern era ("If Memory Serves", "The Last Generation", "wej Duj", "First First Contact" are the others that spring to mind).
It was especially sweet coming on the heels of last week, which was a textbook example of how NOT to do a big guest star story. Kirk in "Lost In Translation" smothered the SNW characters and ruined that episode.
By contrast, Boimler and Mariner were dominant presences here, but they are constantly used to bring interesting things out of the SNW characters. I couldn't believe how many of the running subplots Boimler and Mariner seemed to meaningfully impact. I would have been satisfied with just a fun side adventure in the mode of "Trials And Tribble-ations", and this managed to be that, plus meaningful emotional heft.
Brilliant! The odds against this succeeding were so high, and they cleared all the obstacles with such grace it felt effortless.
It was especially sweet coming on the heels of last week, which was a textbook example of how NOT to do a big guest star story. Kirk in "Lost In Translation" smothered the SNW characters and ruined that episode.
By contrast, Boimler and Mariner were dominant presences here, but they are constantly used to bring interesting things out of the SNW characters. I couldn't believe how many of the running subplots Boimler and Mariner seemed to meaningfully impact. I would have been satisfied with just a fun side adventure in the mode of "Trials And Tribble-ations", and this managed to be that, plus meaningful emotional heft.
Brilliant! The odds against this succeeding were so high, and they cleared all the obstacles with such grace it felt effortless.
Mariner and Boimler told almost all SNW characters way too much about their futures. I would have preferred if they acted a bit more normally around the SNW characters and were only goofing around full LD style when they were alone. Like in the brig for instance.They should've been thrown in.
It was really funny though.
But it keeps bugging me that Mariner and Boimler's futurespoilery yapping may have influenced multiple characters' career paths way too much. Could've worked as a hilarious episode without this.
Better to not think about it, too many grandfather paradoxes.
**Compartmentalize** ... **compartmentalize**
I think some things, like Spock/Chapel and even Uhura would’ve and could’ve happened anyway. To me the only thing they really changed was Pike.
Boimler mentioned how realistic the away team looked when he first came through the portal - a clear reference to their non-cartoon appearance.
The audacity of these writers.
so…an 8?
A wink to the audience. Followed by a holodeck gag.
lower decks has been part of canon since it premiered.
we literally know next to nothing about academy.
no he didn’t. Because in-universe he or his “world” have never been cartoons. They are real people presented as cartoons for a show.
Watching it yet again, he answers the "no one's ever heard of part" with a line about historians, but it doesn't really segue naturally to the "excited for some random portal" part because she moves on to talking about how it won't do anything.
I guess I can parse the discussion, but it just feels... like out of order or something. Like she should be replying to him about the portal not doing anything. But this is just a random nitpick at this point. lol
But it worked well in the context of the ep.
Not everyone is loving and adoring every aspect of this episode simply because it contains Lower Decks. The audacity!