Spoilers Star Trek: Lower Decks 1x08 - "Veritas"

[Muji]

I gave it a 9. Most episodes I just chuckle at the funny bits but this episode gave me some good laughs.

I loved how the secret Starfleet team had their eyes blacked out. It just made me laugh the whole time they were on.

1) I feel totally the same way. This one was actually funny-funny, not just humorous-funny.
2) Your name is brilliant. I love it.

 

[thribs]

who got discharged? My impression that Fletcher was just reassigned because he screwed up on the assignment he was on. Hence, "fired" from his position. Dr Crusher once referred to being fired in the TNG episode Suspicions.

I don’t know. People were just discussing on whether firing is the correct term. In the military it’s known as a discharge.
What happened to Fletcher is known as a transfer.

 

[BillJ]

I almost feel bad for Q after Mariner told him off. He just wanted to play for fun. Not anything serious like he would've presented Picard with.

“Qpid”

 

[The Old Mixer]

So she could have subconsciously caused the guards to let, well, their guard down, making it easier for them to be taken out.

That wouldn't explain the moves that she exhibited.

 

[137th Gebirg]

I don’t know. People were just discussing on whether firing is the correct term. In the military it’s known as a discharge.
What happened to Fletcher is known as a transfer.

To be specific when it comes to military parlance, dishonorable discharge means getting fired. Honorable discharge means you’ve served your time and you left on good terms. There are 5 types total. Discharge is just a general term for leaving service. It comes with caveats.

 

[Charles Phipps]

Court martial =/ "getting fired." It's never been referred as such a thing and several times, even over minor errors, they talked about getting fired as if they're lackeys in some part-time job.

In real life, my army buddies use "fired" as a euphemism for both court martial and getting reassigned to Antarctica.

Court martial is what officers say.

 

[valkyrie013]

10! Was nearly crying laughing the whole time!

 

[Kzinti]

that was a pretty funny episode also i really like the design of these alien

 

[JirinPanthosa]

This was a good one. The whole trial setup, the flashing and the gorn wedding. Q and his inscrutible game.

 

[Nerys Myk]

So.... since when is getting "fired" from Starfleet a thing?

Your Trek Fu is weak.

Scotty, you're my Chief Engineer. You know everything about that ship there is to know. More than the men who designed it. If you can't get those warp engines working, you're fired./QUOTE]

 

[fireproof78]

Your Trek Fu is weak.

See, this is Star Trek. We cannot allow modern colloquialisms in to it otherwise it will weaken the product in the long run, resulting in total collapse.

Is that what you want?! Do YOU! DO YOU WANT TOTAL COLLAPSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?

 

[BillJ]

Is that what you want?! Do YOU! DO YOU WANT TOTAL COLLAPSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?

Yes. Bring on the anarchy.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Khan has magic blood that can reverse death in tribbles AND humans exposed to lethal levels of radiation.

You dishonor fandom with your weak Trek Fu

MCCOY: Heartbeat now thirty, dropping fast. It's a heart flutter. He's dying.
MARLA: Do something, Captain.
KIRK: Can we?
SCOTT: It'd take an hour to figure it out.
KIRK: What happens if we get him out of there?
MCCOY: He'll die in seconds if we don't.

Captain's log, supplemental. Alongside the SS Botany Bay for ten hours now. A boarding party of engineering and medical specialists are now completing their examination of the mysterious vessel. Attempts to revive other sleepers await our success or failure with the casualty already beamed over. Doctor McCoy is frankly amazed at his physical and recuperative power.

KIRK: Bones?
MCCOY: He'll live.
KIRK: My compliments.
MCCOY: No, I'm good, but not that good. There's something inside this man that refuses to accept death. Look at that. Even as he is now, his heart valve action has twice the power of yours and mine. Lung efficiency is fifty percent better.

And

(Everyone comes to see Kirk in his body bag. McCoy sits at his desk, then the dead tribble chirps and moves. He checks its vital signs.)
MCCOY: Get me a cryo tube, now!
MCCOY: Get this guy out of the cryo tube. Keep him in an induced coma. We're gonna put Kirk inside. It's our only chance to preserve his brain function.
CAROL: How much of Khan's blood is left?
MCCOY: None. Enterprise to Spock. Spock!
MCCOY: Activate the cryogenic sequence. McCoy to bridge. I can't reach Spock. I need Khan alive. You get that son of a bitch back on board right now! I think he can save Kirk.

MCCOY: Oh, don't be so melodramatic. You were barely dead. it was the transfusion that really took its toll. You were out cold for two weeks.
KIRK: Transfusion?
MCCOY: Your cells were heavily irradiated. We had no choice.
KIRK: Khan?
MCCOY: Once we caught him, I synthesised a serum from his superblood. Tell me, are you feeling homicidal? Power mad? Despotic?
KIRK: No more than usual. How'd you catch him?

 

[137th Gebirg]

Mariner’s holo-movie for next week has LENS FLARES!

JJ would be proud.

 

[The Old Mixer]

Yes. Bring on the anarchy.

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[thribs]

To be specific when it comes to military parlance, dishonorable discharge means getting fired. Honorable discharge means you’ve served your time and you left on good terms. There are 5 types total. Discharge is just a general term for leaving service. It comes with caveats.

And a section 8 is everyone’s favourite.

 

[thribs]

Notice that Brad shouts Drumhead and the end of his rant. A reference to the type of trial and episode.

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

I like how Mariner is a “Kirk guy” while Brad is Picard.

Once you think about it, makes alot of sense as to why they act the way they do.

 

[Charles Phipps]

Once you think about it, makes alot of sense as to why they act the way they do.

Khan isn't badass! He's a sneaky sneaky person!

I'm with Boimler.

 

[The Librarian]

I don’t know. People were just discussing on whether firing is the correct term. In the military it’s known as a discharge.
What happened to Fletcher is known as a transfer.

Yes, and a transfer can be getting fired. Whenever you see someone getting 'fired' in the military for running their ship into something, they're not getting discharged immediately, they're being removed from their current post.