Spoilers Star Trek: Lower Decks 1x06 - "Terminal Provocations"

I was very surprised about Tana and shaxs!

 

I feel like this episode is an apology for all the previous episodes of incompetence and stupidity by having Fletcher be all the horrible things that the other two are accused of being. It was weird seeing Mariner go "We're STARFLEET!" which seems a little early giving the sheer amount of disdain she shows for everything.

The Drochmani seem to be the ape-villains from Halo.

Also, Rutherford, if he was getting tired out on the stairs--why did you go to HOTH (Rura Penthe?) where you're just as cold?

 

Honestly I didn't enjoy this week's episode much. I might be in a bad head space because this week has been kicking my ass with the start of my son's virtual schooling. But even though there were plenty of cute moments this week, I didn't feel like each of the parts really made a concrete whole. Maybe it's because the A/B plots were both given equal weight this week, but thematically they had little in common.

 

Loved it, 9/10. Badgie was hilarious. Was hoping for a Riker cameo, or at least a canon rendering of the Titan.

Missed the Lethal Weapon reference, though.

I'll take memberberries over sour grapes any day, but you do you.

 

If Badgie doesn't become someone's customized desktop popup to ask if you need help I'm going to be so disappointed in our fanbase.

 

I regret it didn't end with, "Hey Badgie! COMPUTER - DELETE PROGRAM!"

 

9.

Can’t wait for The Wrath of Badgie!

 

9 for me.

The best so far. Both connecting to canon AND hilarious. It gave us a TOS-style science or cargo ship along with a homicidal holodeck avatar with a cartoon design.

 

Interestingly, Mike McMahon said during the panel that he feels like Lower Decks is the last TNG series.

 

Some Trek fans will never be happy.

Discovery: The Klingons are different. The tech is different. It violates canon!

Lower Decks: It's too much canon!

 

No one is complaining about that. He was saying some of the references are a tad too forced.

 

Oh, yeah. Also, don't forget "Too episodic!"

 

This is my first 9. Solid episode.

 

My first 9 for this show. It was incredibly funny. They even made the Tandi/Rutherford B plot just as entertaining as the A plot, if not more so! Also we got to see the woman with the VISOR from the first episode again, running to catch the Choo-Choo Dance.

Starbase 80 is apparently a real dump, I smell a Lower Decks spin-off.

 

I wonder if Badgie is going to pop up again like moriarty.

 

At this point it’s like how Family Guy would have little, “this is like the time I...” and then people picked up on that and made fun of it. Can this show go ONE episode without a member berry?

 

I don't/didn't watch Family Guy but am familiar with that joke they went to.. Often. Very often to the point of being a joke.

That's sort of the direction I'm coming from here, that the references are too often, too much and too illogical. I mean... Imitating the sounds of the ship's engines and they all happen be to be ships that had TV series and ships these guys (in all logic) have never been on? (And when in reality the sound was likely the exact same rumble inserted in post production as I doubt the show runners altered the ship sounds for Voyager because it had a different engine type.)

Then there's just the constant references to things, like last week when Mariner mentioned the aliens from "Justice" as being Brad's girlfriend as a "sexy people in rompers who kill you for walking on the grass!" It's just reaching a point of silliness to keep throwing these berries out there to get a tiny "I remember that!" Squee out of people.

I'm not impressed or marveled by these tiny little references. Give me characters and story.

If I want to remember these tiny little things, I'll go watch those shows/episodes.

On this episode specifically?

The series remains cruising in a "Meh" lane for me. A 5. Nothing about this series is stunning me and impressing me, and while there's many aspects that annoy or irritate me it's not quite enough to get me to dislike it. The two aspects of the show (the good and the bad) are kind of pushing against one another to leave me with a "Meh."

They need to break up the pairings a little though, I mean it's hard to even see Brad/Mariner and Tendi/Rutherford as really being more than people who sleep in the same section of hallway, and not friends as we've not seen any real interaction between the two pairs. Let's mix it up some!

 

What did it for me was a line to the affect of, “What is this, Kirk in the 2260’s?” I mean, really? It’s just so cringy and kind of embarrassing. This isn’t something I’d ever have someone watch to get into Trek. That’s why I keep saying that this is a show that cadets in Starfleet watch and not “actual” events taking place after Voyager.

I know it’s a comedy and not meant to be taken seriously but comedy has to be grounded in some seriousness. This show is laughing at Star Trek and not with it.