I just watched "Lower Decks" for the first time

[Infern0]

What a good episode it was too.

That Bajoran girl, I was thinking "she'd be good in trek-lit" and I was going to check if she was in any of the books, and then....

and I actually didn't see it coming, I thought the entire episode was based around the senior officers doing some sort of tricky test.

I didn't even think the cardassian was real, and then....

good episode 5/5

 

[Pemmer Harge]

Yeah, it's a great episode. Have you seen The First Duty from Season 5? Ensign Sito was actually introduced in that episode as one of Wesley's fellow pilots.

 

[Shatnertage]

Absolutely--it's a fantastic episode.

Wasn't there some wiggle room about whether Sito's actually dead?

 

[Infern0]

Absolutely--it's a fantastic episode.

Wasn't there some wiggle room about whether Sito's actually dead?

well, we never saw the body...

apparently they were going to bring her back for a DS9 episode but decided not to because it would "ruin the ending of lower decks"

but someone should bring her back for the novels, great potential for that character

 

[Gil T.Azell]

I like that episode, I found Shannon Fill hot as Ens. Sito Jaxa.

I felt sad that the character died.

 

[Smellincoffee]

Sito WAS a good character. I can't imagine anything pleasant happening to her if she were captured by the Cardassians, though.

Taurik appears in TrekLit -- he's still onboard the Enterprise in Losing the Peace.I think he's a lieutenant now. He also appeared in John Vornholt's Dominion War TNG books, one of which is Tunnel through the Stars.

 

[sbk1234]

If I'm not mistaken , the same actor who played Taurik also played the Vulcan Vaurik in Voy. I guess they didn't want to pay the whoever for rights for the character's name, so they renamed him. Would have been cool to see him, though.

 

[Gary7]

Definitely in my top 10 for TNG. I really enjoyed the shift of perspective. We didn't get enough of it...

 

[Unicron]

I've always found it "meh" myself, and I will admit some of that comes from the poor (IMO) ending. They spend most of the episode focusing on Sito's quest to redeem herself after "The First Duty," which is indeed very well done, but then she's sent on a "top secret" mission on which she apparently dies, thereby destroying that foundation. It's also strange to me that after denying the other junior officers details about the mission, given its covert nature, Picard would just announce Sito's seeming death in the open. I think the concept is good, but making this sort of ep is always tricky because you often have characters who aren't as remotely interesting as the regulars and might not even show up again.

 

[Canadave]

^ I love the ending, myself. It works really well because it plays against what you would expect of TNG—Sito redeems herself, is accepted as a Starfleet officer, etc., etc. That would have been too pat, and I applaud the writers for going the direction they did.

 

[Unicron]

I feel like she never got that far personally, and that's why the ending doesn't work for me. She was getting there, but she wasn't quite there outside of Picard and the other junior officers. * shrugs * Maybe if the story had actually been stretched out into two parts, and been able to give more depth into all of the junior characters, it would have worked better. I just think it wound up being a bit rushed altogether, and perhaps that was somewhat unavoidable.

 

[Solarbaby]

It's a nice alternative view of life onbaord. But it's over rated.

 

[Solarbaby]

It's a nice alternative view of life onbaord. But it's over rated.

 

[BenRoethig]

If I'm not mistaken , the same actor who played Taurik also played the Vulcan Vaurik in Voy. I guess they didn't want to pay the whoever for rights for the character's name, so they renamed him. Would have been cool to see him, though.

The characters are twins.

 

[Yeoman Randi]

If I'm not mistaken , the same actor who played Taurik also played the Vulcan Vaurik in Voy. I guess they didn't want to pay the whoever for rights for the character's name, so they renamed him. Would have been cool to see him, though.

Yep, same actor (played by Alexander Enberg) who is Jeri Taylor's son. I forgot who said it in a previous thread, but the actor played a different character due to rights (i believe).

I absolutely LOVE this ep and it is always on my favorites list. I watched it again over the xmas holiday (with my 26 yr old son who'd never seen it before) and we both cried at the end.

I really love seeing how the younger officers deal with being newbs on the ship.

 

[drazzz52923849]

I remember thinking how much of an ass riker was being the entire episode. Getting on the ensigns for saying aye aye instead of just aye. Really?

 

[Klingon Empire]

I thought episode was so enjoyable. I loved it when Sam tried to talk to Riker.

"My Grandfather was Canadian, are you one?"

"???"

"Canadian"

"Ah, no, I grew up in Alaska"

Aha, laughs abound.

 

[BillJ]

Watched this on WGN America last night, still as bland as the first time I saw it.

 

[sbk1234]

I thought episode was so enjoyable. I loved it when Sam tried to talk to Riker.

"My Grandfather was Canadian, are you one?"

"???"

"Canadian"

"Ah, no, I grew up in Alaska"

Aha, laughs abound.

To show my geekiness: After Sam says his Grandfather was Canadian, and asks, "are you one?" Riker asks, "A grandfather?"


Then after Riker answers he grew up in Alaska, I love Sam's embarrassed response: "Well, they both get a lot of snow."

I agree, Riker was a bit of an ass to Lavelle, but I guess that's the way most junior officers feel about the senior officers.

 

[Nick086]

Great episode, its to bad we didn't get to see Ensign Taurik or Lieutenant Lavelle in just one more episode after Lower Decks. Just to see how they were doing after the outcome of Sito's death.