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Spoilers Star Trek: Lower Decks 1x05 - "Cupid's Errant Arrow"

Rate the episode...

  • 10 - Lieutenant

    Votes: 17 13.7%
  • 9

    Votes: 38 30.6%
  • 8

    Votes: 34 27.4%
  • 7

    Votes: 13 10.5%
  • 6

    Votes: 11 8.9%
  • 5

    Votes: 6 4.8%
  • 4

    Votes: 3 2.4%
  • 3

    Votes: 1 0.8%
  • 2

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • 1 - Ensign

    Votes: 1 0.8%

  • Total voters
    124
Trip may well be the most famous Starfleet engineer of the 22nd century. The guy did basically build with his own hands and maintain the first Warp 5 engine in the fleet during the 10 years it was in active service and his experiences with a warp drive in deep space no doubt filled engineering texts at Starfleet Academy for decades if not generations to come.
 
That was a sweet little episode. Once again while I enjoyed it, there really weren't any points I laughed out loud.

I feel like they toned down the "ridiculous" quotient a lot from the previous episode. I like that everyone onboard the Cerritos comes across as competent here - if not always emotionally mature.

The Tendi/Rutherford B plot was really endearing, but as with the second episode, I don't understand why a fancy tricorder is such a big deal. Can't the replicator poop that stuff out as soon as a design is put in?
I guess the replicator can only do standard tools
 
Jennifer might be just a human name, sort of like Hosato "George" Takei was given a Western name shortly after birth.

I'm pretty sure it is a human name.

*rimshot*

BTW, am I the only one who felt that they did go with Barb and Mariner going on a date? Poor Boimler.

I guess the replicator can only do standard tools

Voyager always had them unable to replicate something. Anyway there's a difference between Post-Scarcity no food or hunger versus Post-Scacity, no Catscan machine.
 
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Honestly, this was the biggest fun I had with the show to a date. I was afraid it will be like that South Park episode where boys correctly guessed Chef is marrying succubus, but it was actually closed in a nice and creative way as was the moon plot. Also, finally, the contrast between Star Trek escapist extravaganza and Lower Decks everyday life of ensigns felt totally organic!
 
This came up in another thread. Boimler saying they are the same age doesn't necessarily make it so. Plus, it's common to think of other people being in your age group when they are actually a couple of years younger or older than you. My guess is that Boimler is like 20 to 22 and Mariner is 25 to 27.
I've used "people our age" while talking to people ~10 years younger, and the look they gave me seemed to mean they're offended XD

My subscription is running out and I was just going to let it end and renew it when Discovery started back up, of course I can't do that now. Nope. :lol:
Same here, I was considering cancelling mine after the disaster last week, but Mariner was not annoying this time and I loved the entire episode. Best so far!

Decades back, when I was working fast food, a girl who'd never seen a urinal before had to clean the restrooms, and was asking about the special hand sink in the men's room...
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The best part was how, despite it being stupid-looking (to us), Brinson later admitted that he looked sexy.
He looks sexy no matter what he wears or doesn't wear

Anyone have images or the trailer itself for next weeks episode?
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It could be like on Enterprise when Archer fought alien nazis. I just assume the guy they were assassinating (or "stopping by any means necessary") was a time traveler attempting to take Hitler's place or expand on his programs. It could be also that Docent doesn't know the full extent of the mission, and that was just his after-the-fact takeaway.
Maybe it never happened because they were successful, and no one ever knew who it was, cause they were erased from existence XD
 
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That style I could see somebody mistaking for a sink. Individual, wall-mounted, porcelain jobs with pull-down flush handles...not so much.
 
Well, this show continues to confound. Two bad episodes, two (mostly) good episodes and now this one, which was straight up the middle. Neither good, nor bad. Mildly amusing in spots, mildly annoying in others.

The part I actually enjoyed most was the C story with the moon. I like the idea of the captain being frustrated and condescended to by other captains, there should have been more of that, it should be a running bit in the show. But the other captain just disappears here for no reason. There should have been a rivalry in the LAST episode to establish why the Tellarite captain made the stupid mistake that he did.

Anyway....like I said, this episode was just average through and through.

The name-dropping of existing characters and events remains extremely annoying and unfunny.

The good news is, my free month on CBSAA is about to expire, so you'll all be deprived of my amazing insights going forward. That is, until I get another free coupon.

LLAP, suckas.
 
Name dropping is fine depending on how it's used. Trip Tucker sprinkles works, O'Brien being the most important character in Starfleet history works, the episode where Mariner just named off a bunch of characters in a row didn't work.
 
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