Spoilers Star Trek: Lower Decks 2x08 - "I, Excretus"

Seeing the "couple crystalline entities getting frisky", would have been fun.

 

It's not like the Crystalline Entity is that complex a digital model. No, I'm not bragging that I could model it accurately, but somebody like @Donny could whip out that thing in an hour or less.

 

I appreciate the faith you have in my abilities. But there is hardly any modeling project I spend under an hour on unless it’s a small simple prop. I’ve never been known for speed. The crystalline entity would probably require a few at the very least. And I’d spend at least a couple hours on research before even beginning. Quality comes at a time cost.

 

Didn't CBS say that all the original CGI files from TNG to ENT were lost or destroyed?

Isn't that why Eaglemoss had to pretty much create their own when they first started making the diecast starships.
I remember one of the EM guys saying that at a convention a couple of years back.

I know Doug Drexler said his files were all lost when one of his hard drives died.

 

We're talking about TNG Remastered, not the original.

 

Yeah, but that Jorg tweet mentions the "original files".

 

Could probs do it really quickly via something tree-generatery. Use The Grove 3D for the branches, then cull the polycount and... y'know... all the leaves... before applying a glassy glowy iridescent material.

 

This week, I went with 9. I was lauching all the way through, both in hilariousness and absurdity of this episode. Star Trek to show orgy was not exactly something I ever anticipated happening, but now it did, and it was fun as hell.

I also enjoyed how the crew began working together better by the end if the episode, dealing with seemingly dangerous situations like it was nothing. Poor Boimler though, he deserves do much more. He really should make it into a captain one day, perhaps even making a cameo in Picard or something.

Another fun episode behind, two more to go

 

I think 1 is a stretch. The computer not recognizing Boimler seems more like a one-of joke. If it was because he's not a full on human, it seems like the problem with non-recognition would continue. It's likewise simpler that the Borg Queen was just joking rather than making some meta-commentary about how Boimler is not whole. But I guess we'll see in a couple weeks if there's a payoff.

I think Freeman's flaws as a captain have been pretty well on display throughout the series. She's impatient, eager for glory, thin-skinned about getting dissed, unable or unwilling to figure things out with Mariner, and often falls in the try-hard category.

 

Seeing Counselor Birdman as a BDSM slave in the Mirror Universe is the funniest thing I've seen all season. Yes, even funnier than the masturbating Mugato.

 

Regarding the nudity, I want to point out that, being a holopod simulation, it's entirely possible the censor bars are in the actual program, and not just added for our 21st century viewing pleasure, so Mariner may very well have seen the same thing we did and no Starfleet nudes were casually revealed.

Not saying this is the case, just pointing out the possibility.

 

Seeing Bradward doing a full spread-eagle literally had me ROFL. I'm not even kidding.

 

That's the pose of someone about to recieve. Not judging just sayin'...

 

“STUPID SEXY SHAXS!”

 

wasn't the crew's reaction to barclays's holo recreations kinda clear?

do you really see no difference between nudity and pornography?

 

And it's got Teri Hatcher

 

It just has never even been hinted on, so I see no evidence.

Plus, I always found the "4 sexes" explanation for Data's line about Andorian weddings pretty lame and, if two of the sexes look female and two look male...then what's even the point of having four?

Though if any Star Trek show would reference it, it would probably be Lower Decks, for a quick laugh.

 

That's probably a reference to mirror-Saru being a slave in DSC season 1, but what bothered me more about that holopod sim is that the Federation knows for certain that the Empire is no more from Sisko's reports, and has known for better than a decade at this point, so... why does this sim exist? What's the point in drilling junior officers in dealing with threats that simply don't exist anymore? I think Ms. Splits-into-three-parts was having some voyeuristic fun writing pointless sims that Mariner etc would've had no chance in.

 

To make them more alien I assume. The novels do explain how it all works. They really did think it through there.
It also makes them a race that’s it’s impossible to cross breed with another race. Only Aenars are compatible