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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
Once again I'm gonna say 8. I thoroughly enjoyed the episode. Loved Mariner's obsession. Loved the parasite reveal.
Loved the subplot with Tendi and Rutherford. And the stuff with he fish aliens was entertaining too.

Particularly enjoyed the reference to the Edo.
And the way they played with the cliches of the "jealous boyfriend" plot.
And unlike in DS9 were Kyra spent a whole, painful, episode trying to talk this one old guy to move from his moon...Freeman, upon finding out that the one fish guy and his wife were the only inhabitants of their moon, just told him to screw himself and went ahead with the plan.
Loved that.
That DS9 episode is pretty good! (Not great.) Plus there was the whole enormous difference between needing to displace one war survivor for a energy project that could be turned on whenever vs having to immediately destroy a moon to save an entire planet. Different speeds for different purposes.
 
That DS9 episode is pretty good! (Not great.) Plus there was the whole enormous difference between needing to displace one war survivor for a energy project that could be turned on whenever vs having to immediately destroy a moon to save an entire planet. Different speeds for different purposes.

Well, he was actually a guy who sat out the war on his farm.
 
They clearly didn’t work in “The Naked Time”. :whistle:

Spock: "Instruments register only those things they're designed to register..."

TOS S1 - "The Naked Time"

My one question regarding this whole episode is:

If the parasite was infecting Boimler for a month, and the pheromones made him attractive to every female he came across; why was Barb the only female really so affected?
 
Spock: "Instruments register only those things they're designed to register..."

TOS S1 - "The Naked Time"

My one question regarding this whole episode is:

If the parasite was infecting Boimler for a month, and the pheromones made him attractive to every female he came across; why was Barb the only female really so affected?
 
The parasite reproduces by making its host chemically irrestible to potential mates, according to our heroes. That doesn't mean that the parasite necessarily is all about reproduction or turns on the pheromones constantly or for just any potential mate. It could be that it became fixated on Barb in particular (which jibes with its statement that "it was always me, Barb!" and still wanting to take Barb to dinner) and either had Boimler emit Barb-specific pheromones or pheromones while only when Barb was around.

I think we are supposed to think that there was at some level more than pheromones going on for real. Remember, Boimler and Barb had not been in each other's presence for the month that they had been dating. I suppose it's possible that he was sending her things with pheromones on it during the month. And presumably, given Boimler's talk about how long it had been since he had had a lover, Boimler and Barb had not done the dirty deed yet.

(Mods, looks like I prematurely posted. Please delete the previous one. Thanks in advance!)
 
Spock: "Instruments register only those things they're designed to register..."

TOS S1 - "The Naked Time"

Like Spock said in “The Naked Time”, instruments can only pick up what they’re designed to pick up. Same with the transporter biofilter. The two critters so far likely have something about them that the transporter doesn’t recognize as harmful.

That’s a mouthful of Trek-style bolognium.

Beat you to it. :p
 
Not seeing an issue. After three hundred years, there are bound to be crossovers in names.
And I suppose Mariner, just like her voice actor is erratic and confuses crew members a lot. Or is like that medical officer in DS9 who thought Bashir was Andorian, not Arab.
 
In Where No Man has Gone Before, Kirk was essentially called a nerd by Gary

"Man, I remember you back at the Academy...a stack of books with legs."

Yep. A bookworm and a nerd so dedicated to his duty and classes he didn't have time for fun, at least at the time Gary first met him.
 
TOS never said a thing about the transporter using a "bio-filter". In "The Naked Time" they did use a never-seen-again decontamination sequence on the pad after the landing party beamed up, but it didn't work.
 
Born in the Little Andor area of Boston. Named after her mom's best friend. After a couple centuries of intermingling these things are gonna happen. Except with the Vulcans because they have big ol' sticks up their butts.
Actually Spock is an old family name on Amanda's side. Her mother was Dutch. Sarek let it slide because it sounded Vulcan. ;)
 
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