Spoilers Star Trek: Lower Decks 2x04 - "Mugato, Gumato"

[Oddish]

You clearly don't.

Serious Trek.

Nope
Nope
Nope
Nope

Odds of me changing my opinion in light of those scintillatingly insightful remarks: 0.0000000%

 

[Nerys Myk]

Odds of me changing my opinion in light of those scintillatingly insightful remarks: 0.0000000%

I think my response was proportional.

 

[Oddish]

I think my response was proportional.

Maybe it was. But it didn't defend your viewpoint.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Maybe it was. But it didn't defend your viewpoint.

Wasn't worth the effort.

 

[Oddish]

Then why go through the effort of typing "Nope" four times?

 

[Nerys Myk]

Then why go through the effort of typing "Nope" four times?

Four letters Easy Peasy

 

[BillJ]

Then why go through the effort of typing "Nope" four times?

Easy to type it once, then cut and paste it the other three times.
...the other three times.
...the other three times.
...the other three times.

 

[Oddish]

That's almost more work than just typing "Nope" four times. You have to actually move your hand from the keyboard over to the mouse and move it around.

 

[Michael]

Guys, give it a rest. As riveting as your back and forth is, let‘s return to actually discussing the show rather than whatever the hell this has become, alright?

 

[Oddish]

I had a sniping contest go about 150 posts once; it was loads of fun (both doing it and rereading it afterward). But very well, because you have that awesome LD Riker avatar...

I just rewatched it, and I'm not totally convinced that Mariner isn't actually a secret agent. Lethal in combat, unlimited source of contraband weapons, and clever enough to win a game despite supposedly never playing it... yeah. She's Mary Sue meets Chuck Norris. And if she's not in Section 31 already, they either don't know about her yet or they're scared she'll take over.

 

[Gepard]

And if she's not in Section 31 already, they either don't know about her yet or they're scared she'll take over.

There's your Section 31 spin-off.

 

[Oddish]

Too bad Sloane is dead. Imagine him and Mariner teamed up.

 

[Therin of Andor]

Tellerites can't be from Australia?

Who knows. He probably grew up in Australia.

Grol also has an Australian accent.


Grol and Tackee in "Starfleet Blankety Blanks" by Ian McLean, on Flickr

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I'm sure there are Tellerites from Earth

In DSC's "People of Earth", there are.

(When the inspection team from Earth boards Discovery early in that ep, one of them is a Tellarite.)

 

[BK613]

Why? Earth and Tellar are both members of the Federation. I'm sure there are Tellerites from Earth, Tellerites from Mars, humans from Tellar, humans and Tellerites and Vulcans and Bolians and others from other Federation home worlds or random colony worlds or born and raised largely among ships/space stations.

One of things in this show's favor, the dismantling of the planets of hats.

 

[Charles Phipps]

I choose to believe the one with the horn was Ensign Janos.

 

[Tim Thomason]

Very true. "Lower Decks" is actually more of a parody fanfiction than a serious Trek story. Otherwise, Boimler would be a section 8 and Mariner would be in the brig. And her mom would probably have been relieved of command.

Having written quite a few similar parody fics, I know the signs.

It's not fan fiction by (most) reasonable definitions. It's professionally created Star Trek under the purview of CBS, and advertised accordingly. I have conflicting ideas on whether it qualifies as parody. Parodical, certainly, but probably not straight up parody, since it isn't really using pastiches (outside of Ransom, maybe), and is going out of its way to have internal consistency with the Star Trek universe as previously presented.

Boimler couldn't receive a Section 8, for a number of reasons. First of all, Section 8 discharges were removed before the 2000s when the US Army updated its separation procedures (and also, Boimler isn't US Army). But also, Boimler has been consistently shown to be incredibly qualified and capable throughout Season 2, and these qualities were certainly known beforehand. If Barclay wasn't "Section 8", then Boimler isn't.

I think four-star Admiral Freeman is the answer to the Mariner and Captain Freeman conundrums. It's very likely that Mariner suffers from some serious PTSD, and her time on the Cerritos is a form of decompression imposed by her parents.

 

[Oddish]

But also, Boimler has been consistently shown to be incredibly qualified and capable throughout Season 2, and these qualities were certainly known beforehand. If Barclay wasn't "Section 8", then Boimler isn't.

I expect his time with Riker had a lot to do with that.

 

[Charles Phipps]

Boimler is a kiss ass, not incompetent. He's never been actually.

How well would you do with a giant spider?

 

[jackoverfull]

I expect his time with Riker had a lot to do with that.

yes, on the Titan he was forced to use every little bit of his abilities, which in turn made him grow up as becoming more confident.