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Spoilers Star Trek: Lower Decks 5x10 - "The New Next Generation"

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A fitting send off, but it just underscores that this show still has so much to give and should not be ending. I propose a follow-up series, Other Decks, travelling through the multiverse and showing us all the alternate realities we haven't even glimpsed.
Deep Slide Nine.

The Terran Cerritos had some Warship Voyager weapon fins, the pod on the bridge is from the Luna Class

the Terran badge is the TNG era one from the Comics/STO, but it's mirrored like DSC
Didn't that show up in PRO S2 as well?

I think that was just a way to show off the DSC Klingon look, not the producers admitting it all took place in an alternate timeline. Paramount's been banging the Prime timeline/all the series are in the same continuity drum since 2017, so unless that's changed without announcement then those are just DSC Klingons from that specific quantum reality.
I took is as a LDS-style tongue in cheek comment on how different the Disco Klingons were, just like they pointed out how a 31 badge makes very little sense :D

Did anyone else mishear the female Klingon’s name as Grilka from Deep Space Nine?
Yes, I got confused for a moment :D
 
I'm pretty sure all of the thousands of Ds in Parallels looked the same on the outside.
The wave effect changing ships and Klingons reminded me of how the Krenim time waves changed ships in Year of Hell :D
The Cerritos variants we see here weren't prime Sovereign/Miranda/Freedom classes, since they kept the Cali nacelles.
The alt-Freedom looks much better than the prime Freedom, with 2 pylons and a proper deflector section.
 
9/10

They stuck the landing for the most part.

CONS: Carol giving the Klingons the shield freq's, trusting that fake Admiral message,the out of nowhere conflict between Tendi and T'Lynn, Rutherford acting totally out of character and all of a sudden hating the Cerritos, when did Mariner learn how to dam up a multiverse river?

PROs: Pretty much the rest. Seeing the alt ships and alt DISCO and proto-Klingons was fun. Freeman trusting her crew implicitly was a very good captain like thing finally! Starfleet admins were smart for a change and grasped the situation. The Enterprise-E cameo. SB80 redemption! "Engage the core!"

I am really bummed this is the end. LD was a great, fun, show. I also feel we are at the beginning of the end for P+. If they won't even support a relatively cheap to produce animated series where does that leave Trek in a year or so? I'd be surprised if SNW makes it past S4 and other than the Starfleet Academy series few seem excited for not much seems to be coming down the Trek pipeline.
 
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There were a few characters in this episode that I think were modelled after people who worked on the show. They felt too.. detailed? Like modelled after a real person instead of just being background stock.
 
My theory on the different appearances of the Klingons is based on the idea that there is a "Temporal Cold War", where various factions muck up the timeline to their advantage, as established in Season 2 of SNW. So, in order, the Klingons developed from Proto-Klingons to DISC Klingons to TOS Klingons to TMP Klingons and finally to TNG Klingons. We're not looking at just different types of Klingons; we're looking at the evolutions (literal and figuratively) of the Klingons. But because the timeline is being mucked up IN-universe, we, as the audience, see the discrepancies literally out of order. So, any Klingon's physical appearance is what they have always looked like, from a certain point of view. And, as alluded to by these different quantum realities, which all exist within the same timeline (think of strands of a very large rope, with each strand being on a different schedule of time). So, a DISC Klingon's appearance could easily be around the year 2360s in one reality, where that same appearance could exist circa 2460s. It's just that such appearance, and its subsequent evolution, have their own time-table of occurring. Another theory of mind is that rather than seeing branching timelines as a tree, see the timelines as a railroad yard, with some tracks branching off before merging again. JMO.
 
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There were a few characters in this episode that I think were modelled after people who worked on the show. They felt too.. detailed? Like modelled after a real person instead of just being background stock.
Maybe that's the "real" additional 8 minutes they added to the episode - equivalent to the screentime Titmouse reanimated to give everyone cameos.
 
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