Spoilers Star Trek: Lower Decks 4x01 - "Twovix"

[cooleddie74]

Also: this was hilarious.

The Michael Sullivan hologram missing his wife and the "Threshold" salamander animatronic figure in the Captain's chair on the bridge was just...the best.

 

[thribs]

An assimilated Salamander no less

 

[cooleddie74]

I half-expected Harry Kim to show up in a cameo...and still an Ensign.

 

[Oddish]

It's good to see Boimler finally get his hollow pip back, given how completely undeserved his previous rank-drop was. And Tendi too. And looks like Ransom's finally found a way to totally mess with Mariner. And kudos to LD writers for, despite the relentless silliness, having the sense to know that an ensign is supposed to make lieutenant.

I enjoyed those all those assorted creative Tuvix-mixtures, too.

 

[Gepard]

I'm a little disappointed that they dodged the Tuvix moral dilemma by turning everyone into a giant insensate blob. (My prediction midway through the episode was that Boimler would earn his promotion by using his experience with transporter duplication to separate the combined individuals while leaving the Twovixed entities intact.)

Otherwise, I laughed my ass off. I have a certain fondness for Voyager; it's not my favorite show but there's lot about it from the characters to the set design to the crazy ideas it would pump out that I have nostalgia for, and they paid wonderful homage to all of that. The Borgified salamander baby killed me.

 

[Jag2112]

Screencaps gallery now online:

https://www.cygnus-x1.net/links/lcars/sc-LD4-1.php

 

[Amaris]

The moment I saw the USS Voyager, I figured all of my VOY peeps squee'd. This was a fun episode and a great start to the new season.

 

[Oddish]

I half-expected Harry Kim to show up in a cameo...and still an Ensign.

He sort of did, with that figure of him... just think, no matter how many pips the real Harry gets on his collar, he'll be forever immortalized as an ensign in the Voyager museum.

 

[Saul]

Lots of references in this one!
Slightly disappointed that they didn't use the sound effects for Voyager's transporter and the nacelles going up as it went to warp.

Would there really need to be any waste removal on a holodeck? Wouldn't the matter be recycled?

 

[UssGlenn]

Would there really need to be any waste removal on a holodeck? Wouldn't the matter be recycled?

This has come up before. I theorized that as a safety mechanism the holodeck can't dissolve any matter it didn't create. That's how you stop it from killing people like they were afraid of in The Big Goodbye. The side affect is that it's instead physically collected, and thus must be removed manually.

 

[El Maestro]

I'm like only 10 minutes in in the first episode, and T'Lyn is already my favourite with her Vulcan one-liners. They're like **sooo** predictable but it makes it even funnier. She's like a Vulcan quip-narrator. Love it.

"His quarters? Do you think they're austere?" got big laughs from my wife and I...

 

[El Maestro]

An assimilated Salamander no less

Right, and they way it was "dude sitting" in the captain's chair was very funny....

 

[Markonian]

Squee!

 

[Burning Hearts of Qo'nos]

A lot of fun for VOY fans for sure. I especially loved that the Tuvok/Tuvix/Neelix diagram had Neelix doing that little jig he wanted Tuvok to do (and finally did to say goodbye to Neelix). THAT is a deep cut.

 

[Enterprise is Great]

Amusing episode gets an 8 from me. I loved all the Voyager Easter eggs and just like the DS9 episode it looked gorgeous.

We’ve had DS9 and now Voyager so it would be nice if they did an Enterprise episode. I’d have it retcon Trip’s death to fix that mistake.

 

[jackoverfull]

It started good and the promotions at the end felt very right, it was also interesting they touched the Tuvix topic and to see Voyager, however the episode was pretty much just a series of accidents happening one after the other, I feel it might be the weakest of LDS so far.

Also, Mariner is on back on board, no explanation given? I know she was back on Those Old Scientists already, but I just assumed that was set later in the season. Well, perhaps it will be addressed later.

6.

 

[Jedman67]

Hilarious. I don't think there really is any moral quandary.

 

[fireproof78]

It started good and the promotions at the end felt very right, it was also interesting they touched the Tuvix topic and to see Voyager, however the episode was pretty much just a series of accidents happening one after the other, I feel it might be the weakest of LDS so far.

Also, Mariner is on back on board, no explanation given? I know she was back on Those Old Scientists already, but I just assumed that was set later in the season. Well, perhaps it will be addressed later.

6.

Was she not supposed to be? Rewatching the last season and Captain Freeman gives her the "welcome back" speech.

She's even assigned to Ransom for mentoring.

 

[jackoverfull]

Was she not supposed to be? Rewatching the last season and Captain Freeman gives her the "welcome back" speech.

She's even assigned to Ransom for mentoring.

then I totally forgot that. My fault, the gaps between seasons are too long these days.

 

[fireproof78]

then I totally forgot that. My fault, the gaps between seasons are too long these days.

That's why I just finished a rewatch yesterday