Spoilers Star Trek: Lower Decks 5x09 - "Fissure Quest"

[thribs]

I'm just glad poor Harry finally got a promotion. Not that the jokes will stop, but still.

Jokes never made sense anyway since we see him as a captain in Endgame

 

[Weyoun 251]

Holy fucking shit!!!

2 minutes in and we have Will Boimler, T'Pol, Curzon, Garak, and hologram Bashir as his husband!!

And 12 seconds later a crew of Kims! Including at least one with Lt or better pips (@Oddish must be losing his shit right now!!)

Marinerford is class too!

Will Boimler is far more 'pleasant' than I thought he'd be and I'm down for that.

The Beagle - reference to Porthos?

10/10 no matter what happens

 

[Professor Moriarty]

My only regret is that I can’t give this episode an 11.

I absolutely love that we finally get to see Elim and Julian as a couple… I tip my hat to Andrew Robinson and Alexander Siddig for their terrific performances. I hope that Garrett Wang had fun with his performance… it sure sounds like he did!

But oh my God. They got the incomparable Alfre Woodard to come back as Lily Sloan?! How are they going to top that?!

By getting the goddess herself, Jolene (Blalock), to return as t’Pol. NO FREAKING WAY!!

NOW how will they top THAT?!

 

[Professor Moriarty]

p.s. t’Pol agreeing that Archer was a Starfleet nerd… chef’s kiss

 

[Will_Carter]

The Beagle - reference to Porthos?

Likely a reference to the ship Charles Darwin's expedition to the Galapagos was on. the HMS Beagle.

 

[Hawku]

"Damn you, two-pipped Kim!"

 

[Weyoun 251]

Likely a reference to the ship Charles Darwin's expedition to the Galapagos was on. the HMS Beagle.

Great shout

 

[JonnyQuest037]

NOW how will they top THAT?!

Patrick Stewart? Avery Brooks? William Shatner? Heck, even Scott Bakula would be cool. Let him take over some other Trek show's finale.

 

[PlainSimpleJoel]

That was awesome. So much awesomeness. Sad there is only 1 episode left.

 

[Farscape One]

I just finished watching this... I'm on such a STAR TREK high at the moment. I can't even write a little review yet until I collect myself.

I don't even know how to begin. But I will say it's my favorite of the season... which beat out another one I called favorite, "Fully Dilated".

 

[IMC Headquarters]

Bjo Trimble might get a wave...

A certain Wesley Someone might make sense of things for Boimler.

Even Gary Mitchell might redeem himself.

And, of course, Robert Picardo is fanning his blushes with his NDA.

All is possible....

 

[aquova]

My prediction for the final episode is that they're going to want to go out on a high and get the biggest returning name they can get. I'm going to be waiting for William Shatner to show up as Kirk, or perhaps barring that, Chris Pine

 

[IMC Headquarters]

Perhaps I should have said, "Opening Quantum Fissure!" when I took this picture last year...

 

[tomalak301]

The stabbing part isn't what made Captain JLP the man he was, it's the risk he took in standing up for his SF Academy friends to the Nausicaans in the Bar and the risks he was willing to endure (including potential death)
The consequence was him getting stabbed, but he managed to survive it and he become "Bold" in his youth. That's what allowed a young JLP to take command of the StarGazer when it was attacked by unknown aliens (Later to be discovered that they were the Ferengi) and to create the Picard Manuever. A Manuever that gets cemented in StarFleet tactical history.

So where is the line between taking bold risks and being stupid? I get what you are saying and there is a lot of it that I agree with, but my whole thing is one thing shouldn't shape your entire life. Why couldn't he avoid the fight but show another instance of being bold, like taking over the Stargazer? I guess I just didn't like the episode implying that because you made a choice at one point in your life, that would lead to making similar choices in other parts of your life. Life is full of choices, sometimes you make dumb ones and sometimes you make great ones. You just hope the great ones outweigh the bad ones.

 

[Caretaker]

Now I really do want an animated continuation of Enterprise.

 

[Ray Hardgrit]

The only way they can top Garak and Bashir for fan service in the finale... alt universe married Kirk and Spock.

I'm the one that gave this episode a 7, but I thought I was being kind! Not that it's a bad episode, in fact it's my second favourite of the season and I appreciated that it had an actual story driving the characters' actions instead of them getting an idea in their head and doing something dumb... but it didn't have much of a story.

Also I lied about it not being about a character getting fixated on an idea and doing something dumb, as Harry Kim nearly destroyed the entire multiverse because he was annoyed that other Kims hadn't been promoted yet. I mean, wtf? I gave Disco crap for its absurd multiverse-threatening story, so I'm afraid that I'll have to deduct points from Lower Decks as well.

And the whole Section 31 thing is just confusing at this point. So they promoted Boimler to captain after like 3 years and gave him his own black Defiant straight out of that Shatner novel in order to deal with the rifts? A captain... in Section 31? And why is Section 31 dealing with rifts, shouldn't they be busy murdering politicians or committing genocide or something? This is 100% a job for Starfleet. It really does feel like the Trek shows were encouraged to build hype for the upcoming movie by showing Section 31 in a positive light.

 

[NCC-73515]

Likely a reference to the ship Charles Darwin's expedition to the Galapagos was on. the HMS Beagle.

I had an online RPG set on the Akira-class USS Beagle named after Darwin's some 15 years ago

One of the worst mistakes TNG ever made. There is risk adverse and then there is stupidity. Not wanting to be stabbed in the heart shouldn't punish you with mediocrity for the rest of your life.

But Tapestry implied that because Picard avoided getting stabbed, he would go on to be mediocre, almost like the reason why he was captain in the first place was because of him being stabbed. I get the point of it being a point in time reveals a tapestry unfurled, but I wish the episode had included that point and they really didn't. It basically said that that moment was so important in Picard's life that he was always going to be that way and there was no room for change.

"That Picard never had a brush with death, never came face to face with his own mortality, never realised how fragile life is or how important each moment must be. So his life never came into focus. He drifted for much of his career, with no plan or agenda, going from one assignment to the next, never seizing the opportunities that presented themselves. He never lead the away team on Milika Three to save the ambassador, or take charge of the Stargazer's Bridge when its Captain was killed. And no one ever offered him a command. He learned to play it safe. And he never, ever got noticed by anyone."

It's similar to what Q advised Picard was the true meaning of exploration in AGT; "Not mapping stars and studying nebulae, but charting the unknowable possibilities of existence."

Great point, what a mindblowing connection!

T'Pol would be 293 years old (2088-2381), so she's not particularly plausible on the surface either.

I'm assuming either time travel or universes where the whole universe kicked off later or slower, maybe due to different planet/galactic rotation/universe expansion speeds creating a relativistic time dilation relative to our universe.

I think Sliders had an episode where they saw Quinn as a kid due to the Earth having a slightly different rotational speed in that universe. Same principle.

I expected her to look more like in E^2 as well

Reminder, they didn't know this was going to be the last season when they wrote it. Maybe it would have been different if they knew before writing started.

Apparently they did manage to add 8 more minutes to the finale, but that's it.

I'm still hoping those additional scenes involve live action with all the main cast played by their voice actors...

 

[Frontis]

Very good episode, I enjoyed it.
Had to laugh about all the Kims.
Also liked Curzon Dax and the Bashir- Garak couple.

 

[Nerys Myk]

My prediction for the final episode is that they're going to want to go out on a high and get the biggest returning name they can get. I'm going to be waiting for William Shatner to show up as Kirk, or perhaps barring that, Chris Pine

 

[Tuskin38]

I'm still hoping those additional scenes involve live action with all the main cast played by their voice actors...

I find that very unlikely. That would be far above their budget