Spoilers Star Trek: Lower Decks 1x03 - "Temporal Edict"

[rhllot]

I give it a 10 it is the first time I do it but the kirk fu always makes me laugh a lot!

 

[Kelso]

This episode was fun enough... though it was my least favorite episode so far. I'd rather they find humor without making the crew a bunch of incompetents.

I watch with Amazon Prime which apparently put up last week's episode again for this week.

Yeah, that was annoying. It's fixed now, though.

 

[rhllot]

This week’s episode fell flat for me. It had some decent laughs, and once again Mariner gets all the great lines. But the message of the entire episode about rules is muddled, especially for a pseudo-military outfit.

It felt like they were going for some commentary on the stupidity of being overly productive and the workplace pressure to constantly hustle/perform, but it just didn’t land. Too bad, because there is something to be said about having downtime and how it’s beneficial. And how working yourself to death is terrible for your well being.

Of course, like TNG, LOWER DECKS is more office/workplace drama/comedy than space military drama like TOS.

which is good, the fleet is not supposed to be a military organization, it is a diplomatic, exploration and scientific research organization and defense is secondary.

 

[ThreeEdgedSword]

I think this episode dissuades the whole "Mariner is a Mary Sue" BS argument.

*snort* She's a female protagonist who doesn't defer to men (or anyone really), so no.

 

[Bad Thoughts]

*snort* She's a female protagonist who doesn't defer to men (or anyone really), so no.

She threatens my masculinity --> Mary Sue!

 

[Cyrus]

trekmovie, trekcore reviews:
https://trekmovie.com/2020/08/20/review-star-trek-lower-decks-loses-track-of-time-in-temporal-edict/

https://blog.trekcore.com/2020/08/star-trek-lower-decks-review-temporal-edict/

 

[rhllot]

She threatens my masculinity --> Mary Sue!

and also she is black!

 

[Campe]

and also she is black!

Well, holy shit! Might as well just make rumors about canceling the show because she's a woman AND black. Oh, better say Kurtzman is fired too. Just to be sure.

 

[Crewman6]

Curious what O’Brien did to be the most important Starfleet Officer

So you've never watched TNG or DS9? Weird.

 

[thribs]

So you've never watched TNG or DS9? Weird.

He wasn’t anything special in those.

 

[Bad Thoughts]

Well, holy shit! Might as well just make rumors about canceling the show because she's a woman AND black. Oh, better say Kurtzman is fired too. Just to be sure.

I have it on good authority (somewhere in the "chan" part of the internet) that Lower Decks was pre-cancelled in 2008, but in a face saving move, eight seasons have been ordered, while Kurtzman is being promoted in a disciplinary action, becoming head of Paramount programming. We will be saved from Mary Sues!

 

[fireproof78]

which is good, the fleet is not supposed to be a military organization, it is a diplomatic, exploration and scientific research organization and defense is secondary.

Oh, boy. This new subforum is getting all the hot topic discussions.

Where's the Starfleet is not a Military Jar and the No Money jar?

 

[DaveyNY]

OK ... this episode is a 9.
Just because I LoL'd at the Hissy-Fit Cat Dr.

 

[Bad Thoughts]

He wasn’t anything special in those.

He held back Bashir from trying to take down Section 31, which allowed Bashir to bring back the cure for the Changeling's disease. Subsequently, Odo was able to heal the Female Changeling, who then ordered the Jem'hadar to stand down, rather than slaughter the Cardassian population.

 

[Charles Phipps]

Oh, not a fan of the Ransom/Mariner ship. That brings it down a bit for me.

His inner Riker is feeling some uncomfortable Ro-ness.

 

[thribs]

He held back Bashir from trying to take down Section 31, which allowed Bashir to bring back the cure for the Changeling's disease. Subsequently, Odo was able to heal the Female Changeling, who then ordered the Jem'hadar to stand down, rather than slaughter the Cardassian population.

I don’t think that would be on the record. Certainly not statue worthy.
Maybe Discovery will answer it

 

[Bad Thoughts]

I don’t think that would be on the record. Certainly not statue worthy.
Maybe Discovery will answer it

The statue is a joke.

 

[thribs]

The statue is a joke.

I thought everything was canon in this.

 

[Bad Thoughts]

I thought everything was canon in this.

Canon is not continuity.

 

[NCC-73515]

If you need to take things literally and factual, we could simply have seen a secluded sect that worships O'Brien.