Spoilers Star Trek: Lower Decks 1x09 - "Crisis Point"

[Phoenix219]

Only in the Mirror Universe. There's no evidence the Ba'ul actually eat Kelpiens.

Wasn't that a whole big deal that the first season was dealing with? Did I miss something? Weren't they taking Kelpiens en masse?

 

[XCV330]

Lt. Worf would like a word...(Rewatch TNG: Reunion)

That starfleet dude collecting jem hadar feeding tubes like trophies was well on his way too.
(Siege of AR 558)

 

[Tim Thomason]

his remixes are great.

His dark humor remixes (inspired by gazorra) dating to 2010 are great, and helped keep the TNG franchise alive for me during a dark time in televised Star Trek, he provides the only Middle Eastern voice for Star Trek fandom, even if I disagree with much of it, and he provides concise, well-reasoned summations for his conclusions even if I think they need to be rethought. And, yes, he uses humour in all his work (the remixes, the comparison videos, and the reviews) that rubs people the wrong way.

But apparently he's a "bastard" (an arcane word that I, as the son of two unmarried parents, do find offensive, but that's a personal issue), so we can just dismiss him out-of-hand and blacklist him like some sort of 1950s screenwriter.

 

[Kzinti]

(an arcane word that I, as the son of two unmarried parents, do find offensive, but that's a personal issue),

the unpleasant part is the one relevant here

 

[Oddish]

Technically, Tim Zombieson is correct. "Bastard" originally meant "child of unmarried parents". Of course, "gay" used to mean "happy", and I remember a time when "sick" meant "ill" and "dank" meant "wet and chilly". Languages evolve over time.

 

[NCC-73515]

His dark humor remixes (inspired by gazorra) dating to 2010 are great, and helped keep the TNG franchise alive for me during a dark time in televised Star Trek, he provides the only Middle Eastern voice for Star Trek fandom, even if I disagree with much of it, and he provides concise, well-reasoned summations for his conclusions even if I think they need to be rethought. And, yes, he uses humour in all his work (the remixes, the comparison videos, and the reviews) that rubs people the wrong way.

But apparently he's a "bastard" (an arcane word that I, as the son of two unmarried parents, do find offensive, but that's a personal issue), so we can just dismiss him out-of-hand and blacklist him like some sort of 1950s screenwriter.

Gazorra's were even better:

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I watched this one just after dental surgery, and it made me laugh so hard everything ripped open and I started bleeding again XD

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[PorthosShadow]

It would have been awesome had John Rhys-Davies returned to voice DaVinci.

I was thinking the same thing.

 

[Oddish]

I just watched both parts of Scorpion and I concur.

 

[137th Gebirg]

Seeing how the show runners have bent over backwards doing their research on this show, I’d be willing to bet they tried to get JRD but couldn’t, for whatever reason. Looking at his IMDB page, he has a large number of 2020 credits, including a series called Wizards, so his schedule probably couldn’t permit it. He certainly doesn’t seem to be retired.

 

[Oddish]

My favorite John Rhys Davies story concerns the LotR movies. After they were over, all eight of the other actors in the "fellowship" (Elijah Wood, Sean Astin, Sean Bean, etc) got a tattoo of the elvish word for "nine". Davies opted out... so his stunt double did it instead.

 

[SolarisOne]

The fandom menace strikes again.

It's getting reeeeeeeealy old at this point.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Wasn't that a whole big deal that the first season was dealing with? Did I miss something? Weren't they taking Kelpiens en masse?

The Ba'ul were taking Kelpiens, yes, but not necessarily eating them.

Spoiler

There is zero evidence that the Ba'ul were ever actually eating Kelpiens. Long ago, it was the Ba'ul who were originally the prey species - the Kelpiens were vicious and warlike, almost hunting the Ba'ul to extinction.

So the Ba'ul were harvesting all Kelpiens who showed signs of "the change" so that the Kelpiens could never pose a threat to the Ba'ul again.

Eating? No. Destroying? Yes.

 

[Noname Given]

The Ba'ul were taking Kelpiens, yes, but not necessarily eating them.

Spoiler

There is zero evidence that the Ba'ul were ever actually eating Kelpiens. Long ago, it was the Ba'ul who were originally the prey species - the Kelpiens were vicious and warlike, almost hunting the Ba'ul to extinction.

So the Ba'ul were harvesting all Kelpiens who showed signs of "the change" so that the Kelpiens could never pose a threat to the Ba'ul again.

Eating? No. Destroying? Yes.

Spoiler

Well, they could have adopted the belief that by eating their enemy they would gain some of their power. IE - There's no evidence that they didn't eat kelpians either.

 

[Super Grover]

He's in a weird, unique spot, as he dislikes Discovery and Picard, but likes Lower Decks.

Sounds like an ok guy to me.

 

[JamesBondJR]

Sounds like an ok guy to me.

lol count me in =]

 

[Qonundrum]

That episode was probably the best episode of the season. What a tribute to the movies, and we actually got character progression leading into the finale. I loved the Tribute to TMP with the flyby, the Tribute to ST II and III with Vintica rising in the Genesis device, and the ending with the tribute to Star Trek VI and the sign off. Once the poll is available I might give this episode a 9 or 10.

The flyby was interesting and, more interestingly, felt just as long as TMP's despite being shorter in length... and has the same general effect after multiple viewings (at least in terms of inducing REM sleep). At least, in 1979, that scale of f/x was new and not a parody of, and the live action original - in terms of looks - will trounce cel animation every time. That aside, it was cool to see. But I suspect the FF button will get worn out on subsequent viewings.

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

In the "Lower Dectionary" featurette on music, it is mentioned that the music "doesn't know it's a comedy." There's a long tradition of that. Consider how many Mel Brooks films are scored (in particular, think of Frankie Laine "singing his heart out" for Blazing Saddles, completely unaware that it was a comedy). And of course, Elmer Bernstein's Airplane! score. (Then again, much of the humor of Airplane! comes from the entire cast [with the exception of Stephen Stucker] playing it as if they had no clue that it was a comedy.)

 

[Oddish]

Then again, much of the humor of Airplane! comes from the entire cast [with the exception of Stephen Stucker] playing it as if they had no clue that it was a comedy.

Leslie Nielsen has practically made a career of that.

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

Leslie Nielsen has practically made a career of that.

Yes. A second career. I find myself thinking of Dracula: Dead and Loving It.

Of course, he had been clowning around on-set for years, with his artificial farts.

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

I accept [Geordi's] motivation for creating Holo-Leah. She probably would have as well.

She was pissed at first, but ultimately, she did, once she got to know him (TNG: "Galaxy's Child").