[Game] Make a Lower Decks-esque reference joke

A simple enough game.

Imagine you're the writers of the show and come up with a short gag for the show based on Star Trek or its universe.

Example 1#:

Mariner [to Boimler]: Section 31 is bad! They're like Nazi cosplayers! John Gill was probably a member.

Example 2#:

Mariner: *breaks up a fight between a blue-haired white andorian and a blue-skinned white Andorian* Stop it! Let this be your last battlefield!

The only rule is it has to has to be short and devoid of character development.

 

*Mariner running through a cornfield* The only thing that would make this worse is running in to a Klingon and a farmer!

 

And you see a farmer with a Plasma Long Gun pointing the Muzzle of the barrel right at you.

 

^^^
That would be a Klingot...

 

Admiral delivering speech, with Mariner in the audience.
Mariner: Ugh, this is longer than Jennifer's tonsillectomy.

 

Boimler quietly riding the turbolift, starts singing to himself to pass the time: "It's been a long road getting from there to here. It's been a long time but my time is finally here..."

 

Q: Where do Lower Decks ensigns throw their dirty uniforms?
A: Into the Peanut Hamper.

Proof that I should not try to crack jokes.

 

They should make a very blatant ST: Picard or Disco S3 era reference, followed by "which I wouldn't know anything about since it hasn't happened yet" and carry on like it's nothing.

 

I'm hoping for something the other way around. I hope in Disco S3, there's a reference to Chief O'Brien as being Starfleet's greatest.

 

Mariner “I’m working on a new holoseries, a comedy set in a totally fictional universe about a man and his ex wife running a ship called the Orville!”

Boimler *Scoff* “Yeah real original.”

 

Mariner: "Then I'll call it 'Farscape'."
Boimer: "Never heard of it."

With all due credit to Stargate: SG-1.

 

Boimler (on the Titan, chatting with the ops officer): Do you ever just wish you could fly at Warp 10 and see what it's like to Tom-Paris your way through infinite points in space-time simultaneously?

Ops (indifferent): No.

Boimler: Really?! I mean, how amazing would it be to occupy every point in space all at once? To see the past, present, and future at the same time? How could you not at least be curious?

Ops: Not into the whole "turning into a salamander" thing. Especially the tongue part. Bleh! (Gags and shudders)

Boimler: Worth it.

 

Movie night. The Godfather. The Sonny Corleone scene plays.

Mariner: "Caaaaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnnn!!!!!!!!"

 

The Cerritos is on an emergency mission to deliver a symbiont back to Trill. Before they leave starbase, Rutherford spots Barnes running to the transporter room. She says to him: “I’m gonna hide on the base for a few days until this mission is over. I don’t want to end up all Ezri Dax if something goes wrong”

 

A legitimate worry, actually. I do wonder what the policy on Trill is if a symbiont needs to be placed in a host, but no compatible one is available. They would understand the ramifications better than Starfleet would. And while "Field of Fire" explored this rather clumsily, it's very conceivable that a joining like Ezri to Dax could have created a Joran-like individual.

 

Mariner: "Fine, Babylon 5 it is. Suck it!"

 

(INT. CETACEAN OPS. DAY)

CAPTAIN FREEMAN: The Cerritos has been selected to host the Xindi Aquatic Ambassador this week. I don't need to remind you of the importance of keeping on good terms with those people, do I? Reconfigure your hydro tubes and make sure there's a fresh minnow on the pillow every morning. Understood?

(FREEMAN LEAVES)

CETACEAN OPS #1: The Aquatics? (CENSORED). Five sentient species on that planet and only one invented the bathroom.
CETACEAN OPS #2: They are not using mine.

 

LOWER DECKS SEASON 21, SERIES FINALE, LAST COUPLE MINUTES OF THE SHOW...

A young purple skinned green haired alien ensign enters the bridge. Boimler, still wearing a solitary ensign's pip on his collar, is at the helm.

FREEMAN: "Ah, Ensign Xanax. Take your station."

Ensign Xanax does, and almost sits on a small wooden box. She opens it, and finds a hollow pip inside.

FREEMAN: "Allow me." (sticks the pip to Xanax's collar) "As captain of this ship, I promote you to the rank of lieutenant, with all privileges and responsibilities therein."

XANAX: "Thank you, captain."

BOIMLER: "I didn't notice a little box on my chair."

FREEMAN (exasperated): "Well, Boimler, why don't you try looking under it?"

Boimler looks under his chair... and finds a little box. It's ancient, dusty, moldy, and covered with cobwebs. He blows the dust off and sneezes, then opens it and finds a hollow pip inside.

BOIMLER: "How long ago...?"

FREEMAN: "Right after you returned from the Titan. I thought it was bull*BLEEP* that you got demoted when you didn't do anything wrong, so I decided to give you your old rank back. You must have knocked the box on the floor when you took your station that morning."

BOIMLER (wails): "You mean... I could have been promoted twenty years ago?!"

FREEMAN: "That's... about right."

Cut to an exterior shot of the Cerritos, and we hear Boimler's voice...

BOIMLER: "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!"

Roll credits.

 

BOIMLER (ON INTERCOM): Boimler to the bridge! Red Alert! Red Alert! I found a Tribble on Deck 8! Evacuate the ship!

FREEMAN: A Tribble?! (CENSORED) All hands, this is the captain! Initiate Cabot Protocol One! Abandon ship! Move your asses people! Ensign Boimler? Can you confirm it’s a Tribble?

BOIMLER: Well, it’s round, furry, and moving on its own accord like it’s looking for food or a warm lap to cuddle on. Of course it’s a Tribble! Any moment now it’s going to start popping out little Tribbles that’ll pop out little Tribbles of their own, and the next thing we’ll know is we’re going to crash on an alien world and start an interstellar war!!!

FREEMAN: How’d it get here? They’re all banned in Federation space. MOVE! MOVE! MOVE!

DR. T’ANA: Deck 8? Show it to me, Ensign!

BOIMLER (BREATHLESSLY COMPLIES): Trust me, it’s a Tribble! Oh, WHERE IS THAT ESCAPE SLIDE?!

DR. T’ANA (INSPECTING PADD IMAGE): Thought so. Cancel the Cabot Protocol! It’s only my hairball.

BOIMLER: Why is it moving?!

DR. T’ANA: (CENSORED) I’ve got to de-worm myself again.

 

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