Spoilers Star Trek: Lower Decks 4x07 - "A Few Badgeys More"

[DaveyNY]

No sex or romance at all.

Some cartoonish zapping, and the same "ship destroyed" thing. A badge creature's neck is broken.

Not really broken, just double bent.

 

[Wingcommanderdarkwolf01]

8.5/10
Grapplers are cool.
Lieutenant La'an Noonien-Singh
USS Enterprise 2260.

 

[Markonian]

I am fan of "same thing, palette swap", so having more of Badgey but in different colors won me over for this character.
Goodgey being silver means they resemble the Cerritos-era combadge. The set of three - gold Badgey, silver Goodgey and bronze Logicky - also plays of the three division metal-based colors from the Discovery era.

 

[valkyrie013]

Should have been 2 episodes. Was rushed. Enjoyed it overall.

 

[F. King Daniel]

What if Badgey's feminine side was separated?

Spoiler: nsfw

Vadgey

 

[Ogrebear]

Episode 7 time....

I feel sorry for the Drookmani!

Well Badgey being the bad guy looks correct....

"A Few Badgey's more" - replicating himself?

The Bynars - poor sods?

Grapplers!

Peanut Hamper - oh gods no...

Nice that Tendi stays happy even when given an assignment that's a bit.... sus...

No sign of Atlantis on that shot of Earth!

AI therapy?

Dodgy, dodgy AI's.....

Or maybe the mystery ship isn't Badgey's then... or its a good holo projector.

AGIMUS going blue. That is cool.

Go Rutherford go!

Hugs forever!

Wireless upgrade! Who let's these nutter have network access?

Can't go a season without the Cerritos getting smashed up!

Goodgie? Ah the classic split personality plot!

Tendi likes sand!

Like how Tendi can get out out of the force fields.

Betrayed AGIMUS? Surprise!

Logic puzzle!

More splitting- Logic-y!

"That is illogical!"

That was a quick conquest....

Peanut Hamper went home?

Ah..... AI love.

Uploading into Subspace!

Time to ascend Badgey? Koala time?

And there its is!

Happy AI ending...?

So the ships are being stolen and stored? Sooooo why all the debris? Am more confused now.

Terrified faces!

Glad Peanut Hamper and Badgey's stories are now, hopefully, finally ended.

Just had a thought - Brad has to live with Sam's pet AI... heh

I do have to wonder why Starfleet did not shut down AI research much, much sooner....

OK that was a better episode than I thought it would be when I saw Peanut Hamper.

Good episode, messed with expectations.

 

[gweeps]

The episode is downgraded for no T'Lyn for the second time in a row.

I know, right? An 8 instead of a 9.

Great to see the Q getting a mention again, although this does take place before Picard.

 

[cooleddie74]

8 out of 10.

It was nice seeing Daystrom with a full working staff and armed security and not just the downsized shell of itself it will be in Season 1 of PIC 18 years later. Also: Goodgey. I mean, come on.

 

[fireproof78]

Oddly, the most interesting element of this episode is the fact that it reverses a lot of longstanding Star Trek prejudices and treatment of AI in the setting dating back to "Measure of a Man." Basically, the Federation does not have a great history with the treatment of artificial beings as people and I'm not sure this episode really gels with the Federation that refuses to recognize the Doctor's humanity (save as an artist), the future Picard banning of all synths, and the attempted kindapping of Lal.

However, that's probably a good thing.

In this version of the Federation, all of the various "evil AI" of which Peanut Hamper is certainly an example are not put away in storage forever but apparently actually have parole hearings as well as reformative therapy sessions. Which also is very different as a take on "prisons in the 24th century" as while TOS had the idea the Federation had largely moved beyond prisons as punishment, other shows had Tom Paris breaking rocks during the VOY pilot and Burnham serving a lifetime punishment for mutiny (which i pointless for a rehabilitation-based restorative justice model).

It doesn't fit with continuity that AI will be not treated as people after the Mars attack and banned but works VERY well with Star Trek's ideals as they should be practiced.

Why should the Federation get it right every time?

They are still prone to overreacting.

 

[Kraig]

I hope Badgey enjoys the Black Mountain. Gave it a 10 for all the evil A.I.s at Daystrom Institute and of course for all the Badgeys.

 

[cooleddie74]

Even sentient holograms see the Koala. There's hope for us all...

 

[Tuskin38]

Sooooo why all the debris?

So people don't go looking for them. They leave debris behind so they just assume the ships were destroyed.

 

[Turtletrekker]

So people don't go looking for them. They leave debris behind so they just assume the ships were destroyed.

Exactly. It's the same tactic the Romulan Commander used all the way back in Balance of Terror, when he ordered all the debris and bodies to be ejected into space, to give the appearance of a destroyed ship.

 

[UssGlenn]

Exactly. It's the same tactic the Romulan Commander used all the way back in Balance of Terror, when he ordered all the debris and bodies to be ejected into space, to give the appearance of a destroyed ship.

its a classic tactic of submarine warfare, so no surprise it shows up in the episode.

 

[Elias Vaughn]

Needed more T'Lyn.

Or ANY T'Lyn.

 

[jackoverfull]

Tom Paris breaking rocks during the VOY pilot and

no, he was just held into what looked like a vacation resort.

 

[Tosk]

no, he was just held into what looked like a vacation resort.

I mean, they had him doing physical labor...

 

[jackoverfull]

I mean, they had him doing physical labor...

I don’t think so.

 

[Tosk]

I don’t think so.

Him 'n his chain gang are putting something together (or repairing it) when Janeway approaches him. Paris even mentions it in dialogue, "I'm already doing a job for the Federation."

 

[Oddish]

Not my favorite LD episode... it seems like the saga of all these crazy evil AI's kind of ended on a whimper.