Spoilers Star Trek: Lower Decks 2x05 - "An Embarrassment of Dooplers"

[oldtrekkie]

In those days starfleet didn't have any ships - Kirk's was the only ship in the entire quadrant!...

Even later... In Generations the Enterprise B was the only ship available...

 

[matthunter]

As Odo pointed out -- a couple of ferengi taking over the ship, wouldn't happen on DS9.

No, but a couple of mercs (let in by Quark) managed to capture the station in Invasive Procedures, because Sisko saw fit to evacuate 99% of the crew due to a plasma storm and apparently didn't consider that such might be inviting trouble.

 

[cooleddie74]

Starfleet is basically the most expensive clothing or electronics store in the world. And it gets robbed blind at least once every year and tries to pretend it never happens.

 

[Commander Troi]

Starfleet is basically the most expensive clothing or electronics store in the world. And it gets robbed blind at least once every year and tries to pretend it never happens.

So it's Circuit City? No, they're out of business... Best Buy!

 

[cooleddie74]

Either way the manager says "no one ever gets out here with unpaid merchandise or the cash register."

 

[lightspeedbear]

I watched this episode last night and it was probably my favourite one of the whole series. A series I've been a bit hard on in the past. I really enjoyed it, funny, the story was fairly unique, and the last few moments with the crew interacting were especially great. Give me that kind of heart and camaraderie any day over yet another easter egg.

 

[Vulture]

Ok, so I see I hadn't voted on this one yet, somehow I missed it.

Upon many rewatches, I'm watching tonight on my twice a week watch-through of Season 2 leading up to the big premiere of Season 3.

I give this episode 7 Andys#STTNC
It was a weaker one of the Season, however I gotta grade on a curve of any ep of LOW is better than any other show on TV.
It's a classic Trek tale. You could see this situation happen to Kirk n company back in the day. Same fun cheesiness of the duplers
the car chase was fun.
Data bubble bath was trying too hard.
.the guinan wannabe is fun.
But this ep leans a little too Family Guy storytelling for my liking.
Big ups for #Okona

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

Much better than "We'll Always Have Tom Paris."

Then again, simultaneous root canal work and hemorrhoid surgery would be better than "We'll Always Have Tom Paris."

But seriously, I liked it.

Is it just me, or do the "Easter Eggs Special Features" in the Season 2 DVD set seem to focus on Easter eggs that are neither especially hard to notice (like the planet-killer model hanging in the bar, that got only a split second of screen time), nor especially significant? They seem more like they take a single Easter egg, one that is relatively obvious, relatively insignificant, but VERY merchantable in terms of pitching DVD sets of other ST series.

 

[Weyoun 251]

Much better than "We'll Always Have Tom Paris."

Then again, simultaneous root canal work and hemorrhoid surgery would be better than "We'll Always Have Tom Paris."

But seriously, I liked it.

Is it just me, or do the "Easter Eggs Special Features" in the Season 2 DVD set seem to focus on Easter eggs that are neither especially hard to notice (like the planet-killer model hanging in the bar, that got only a split second of screen time), nor especially significant? They seem more like they take a single Easter egg, one that is relatively obvious, relatively insignificant, but VERY merchantable in terms of pitching DVD sets of other ST series.

Ring ring...ring ring.."hi, how are you today? I'm capitalism and I'd love to speak to you about our beliefs"

Jokes aside, that does seem a bit shitty - you'd think they'd do dvd features for hardcore fans as, let's be honest, how many civvies are buying dvds these days?

 

[fireproof78]

Is it just me, or do the "Easter Eggs Special Features" in the Season 2 DVD set seem to focus on Easter eggs that are neither especially hard to notice (like the planet-killer model hanging in the bar, that got only a split second of screen time), nor especially significant? They seem more like they take a single Easter egg, one that is relatively obvious, relatively insignificant, but VERY merchantable in terms of pitching DVD sets of other ST series.

Reminds me of listening to the commentary tracks of the Star Wars prequels.

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

Spaceballs, the breakfast cereal! Spaceballs the flamethrower! Spaceballs the doll . . . May The Schwartz be with you!

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

Listened to the commentary track last night. Interesting. I'm rather surprised that more of the Easter eggs weren't pointed out.

After the discussion of the music in the first "party" scene, I went back and re-watched that scene. Of course it wasn't any kind of riff on the TOS open/close music; it was a jazzed-up version of the second Polovtsian Dance, from Borodin's Prince Igor. Which of course became the tune for "Stranger in Paradise," in the musical, Kismet (which was in fact entirely based on the music of Borodin, and if I remember right, it got Borodin a very posthumous Tony). And I should think that anybody who was watching late-afternoon or early-evening strip-syndicated TV around 1970 or so would instantly recognize it from a rather longish commercial with an elderly spokesman with a cultured British accent, pitching a boxed-set of classical masterpieces whose themes were used for show-tunes or popular songs (something to the effect of "You might recognize this as 'Stranger in Paradise' . . . ")

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

This evening, it occurred to me that when Mariner and Boimler showed up at the party, they gave a whole new meaning to the phrase, "mess dress uniform."

 

[F. King Daniel]

I've just realised, "Doopler" = "duplicator"

 

[Qonundrum]

A rather sweet episode, but that I find it hard to imagine Kirk doing that in a bar. That’s what teenagers do.

Plenty of teenagers never did that?

 

[Qonundrum]

I love this episode. Full critique later, but the first thing that came to my mind was another crossover that might be fun:

Well, you know what one character might say: