Spoilers Star Trek: Lower Decks 4x02 - "I Have No Bones Yet I Must Flee"
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Smiley or Jennifer sharing some history books?
I am very interested to find out who or what that ship is.
I've a feeling it'll be someone we've seen before but probably a very very obscure someone.
As soon as Starfleet got the schematics of the Multidimensional transporter, you can bet they immediately sent a team over for reconnaissance. And I'm sure they brought back a full historical record with them.
I mean, Quark went to the MU for business opportunities. Merchandising seems on point.
Anyone notice in both episodes they’ve not drawn any faces of any past trek characters?
Boimler’s action figures were blank faced, Una’s face was always covered on the poster, and the pictures of Tuvok, Neelix and Tuvix last episode had no faces.
They had no issue doing it before in previous seasons
Boimler’s action figures were blank faced, Una’s face was always covered on the poster, and the pictures of Tuvok, Neelix and Tuvix last episode had no faces.
They had no issue doing it before in previous seasons
I liked this one marginally better than the season opener. The humor wasn't as reliant on callbacks to earlier Trek series. It was also genuinely funnier, with a few laugh-out-loud moments for me.
At the same time, the character focus here was also strong, with Mariner given a mini-arc resolving tension she had over her promotion (a hanging thread from last episode) and Rutherford's amusing attempts to also become a Lt. Junior Grade.
I did have a few quibbles here and there. I felt like Boimler's travails looking for a new room were kind of a waste. Also, while I had no issue with the introduction of a character-less "nemesis" for Rutherford, the ensign who accompanied Ransom and Mariner was...pointless. Like he had no point other than to say he crapped his pants twice. I was waiting for the twist that he was the saboteur, which of course never came.
Still, a great, genuinely funny episode.
At the same time, the character focus here was also strong, with Mariner given a mini-arc resolving tension she had over her promotion (a hanging thread from last episode) and Rutherford's amusing attempts to also become a Lt. Junior Grade.
I did have a few quibbles here and there. I felt like Boimler's travails looking for a new room were kind of a waste. Also, while I had no issue with the introduction of a character-less "nemesis" for Rutherford, the ensign who accompanied Ransom and Mariner was...pointless. Like he had no point other than to say he crapped his pants twice. I was waiting for the twist that he was the saboteur, which of course never came.
Still, a great, genuinely funny episode.
8 for me. Good but not quite as good as the premiere IMO. The episode felt like it had too many plots going on. It seemed to jump around a lot.
Would a drawing of a face somehow activate royalties? Would it count as an appearance? Also, I thought the royalties only counted for appearances by characters created by a non-staff script writer. All the characters mentioned were created for pilot episodes.
Actors have a lot of pull when it comes to the use of their likeness so yes it can activate royalties depending on contracts and stipulations.
Likeness rights are a separate kettle of fish (and they might depend specifically on each actor's individual contract whether they need to approve depictions of themselves; word is that's part of the reason why ENT appearances in comic books are fairly rare, Bakula is supposedly very particular about how he's drawn). It's odd that it would only come up now, maybe someone's agent complained, or they couldn't get the rights researched and it was safer to just blank out everyone, or one or two actors objected so they removed all the background faces for consistency...
One looked like TOS movies Spock and I think the other one was Data with a phase rifle from First Contact?
Actors own their likenesses. If you look at my profile pic, the black guy with an afro is Sulu -- the earliest Trek comics didn't have the likeness rights for Takei or Nichelle Nichols and had to change the characters' appearances.
There was a famous case when Alien3 came out. The producers had used a dummy that looked like Michael Biehn for Hicks's corpse, but they hadn't cleared it with Biehn. Allegedly he got more for not being in Alien3 than for his part in Aliens.
I liked this episode a lot but this is a LOT of homages to Seinfeld in one episode. So much so that it became a bit distracting.
So the big bad for the season (and the mystery ship) is.....
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