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

[Charles Phipps]

I had a friend who made military dioramas so yes, they'd have plenty of "bad guys" in the battles he replicated.

EDIT: Thinking about it some more, I could also see Worf totally endorsing featuring Jadzia as part of a playset for a military outpost. And he would consider Ezri her legacy surviving. How would Ezri feel about it all?

Ezri's biggest redeeming quality in writing was her blunt honesty, "I think this is a shameless cash grab by Quark."

Mind you, Quark played with action figures as an adult [much like many Star Trek fans] so I don't actually think it's weird he'd have a toy line.

 

[fireproof78]

This is a very interesting point. Deep Space 9 being a recent place of import, I can kind of understand it, but would those historical figures include Dukats (DS9 having been reoccupied)? Mass murderers notable from the last decade?

My dad still has plastic army men that are clearly Nazi Germany soldiers and officers from the brand Marx. Marauder Task Force is current producing a line that is German, Russian, British, Japanese and American from World War 2. Yes, I see the villains, or bad guys, being produced.

 

[Charles Phipps]

My dad still has plastic army men that are clearly Nazi Germany soldiers and officers from the brand Marx. Marauder Task Force is current producing a line that is German, Russian, British, Japanese and American from World War 2. Yes, I see the villains, or bad guys, being produced.

Well you need people for the tiny Federation soldiers to phaser.

I'm assuming there's Borg toys too even if Picard doesn't want them as part of his First Contact model.

 

[Mike McDevitt]

M/3/Green’s people spotted again! The Nasat bouncer and waiter (after 4 decades with no sign of the ostensibly risk-averse pillbugs onscreen) may imply Starbase 25 orbits their homeworld?

 

[Noname Given]

M/3/Green’s people spotted again! The Nasat bouncer and waiter (after 4 decades with no sign of the ostensibly risk-averse pillbugs onscreen) may imply Starbase 25 orbits their homeworld?

I think they were just doubling down on Easter eggs from the TAS episode"Jihad" because the two aliens in the nest knocked out of the tree by Mariner were members of the villain of that episode's race.

 

[DEWLine]

Quark's probable answer to Ezri? "Damn right! You won't shame ME."

 

[Tim Thomason]

I think they were just doubling down on Easter eggs from the TAS episode"Jihad" because the two aliens in the nest knocked out of the tree by Mariner were members of the villain of that episode's race.

Were they Skorr or Aurelians? Memory Alpha has them as Aurelians, and I think the feathers on their wings more resemble the Aurelian style, but it's hard to tell.

 

[Paul755]

“Your pah is weak and it disgusts me”

what a fun episode. Loved the car chase, the Kirk and Spock reference and the Dooplers.

I also loved how super accurate the Cerritos model was “there is Mariner pushing around Boimler”

 

[cooleddie74]

Okona was the DJ at the Captain's party. Noice.

 

[cooleddie74]

A solid 9. My favorite episode thus far of the new season.

 

[Paul755]

It’s real close to my favorite too. Right there with ep2.

 

[Noname Given]

Were they Skorr or Aurelians? Memory Alpha has them as Aurelians, and I think the feathers on their wings more resemble the Aurelian style, but it's hard to tell.

I thought they were Skorr because the top tips when the wings were folded seemed to pointed (like the Skorr images they have online as I probably haven't watched that TAS episode in years ).

 

[Charles Phipps]

Okona was the DJ at the Captain's party. Noice.

I actually regret he was a minor role because Okona, like the Pakleds or Fajo, seems like something they could make an entire episode out of.

 

[Charles Phipps]

Since it was brought up higher in the thread, I actually hope Tendi and Rutherford don't end up together.

My headcanon right now is Tendi is asexual - in part because that helps subvert expectations regarding the "sexiness" of Orions. She may like Rutherford as a friend, and even semi-romantically, but has no desire to "be" with him.

I think Tendi is in for Rutherford but it'd be an interesting twist that he doesn't have any feelings for her romantically. It subverts the "nerd and hot girl" archetype even when said hot girl is a nerd herself.

 

[oldtrekkie]

I laughed my ass off with this episode. But what really made this episode for me is the Mariner/Boimler relationship. I like the character work on this show between all the characters.

Also, Spirk is canon! Space Husbands 4 life. (Of course, Kirk's been pansexual since 1979 when Roddenberry gives it a passing mention in the TMP novelization.)

Spirk? Were these two combined in a transporter accident?

 

[fireproof78]

I think Tendi is in for Rutherford but it'd be an interesting twist that he doesn't have any feelings for her romantically. It subverts the "nerd and hot girl" archetype even when said hot girl is a nerd herself.

Be nice if they acknowledge it and then move on.

 

[Paul755]

So all this is building up to see Quark himself by the end of the season right?

 

[jackoverfull]

And I hadn't caught it was a Quark brand. Seems strange he would endorse something like that, since Jadzia was a close friend of his

well, keep in mind that the ferengi tradition of honouring their dead is to literally cut their remains into pieces and sell them for profit.

 

[thribs]

We all know Boilmer is going to end up with Jennifer.

 

[Charles Phipps]

well, keep in mind that the ferengi tradition of honouring their dead is to literally cut their remains into pieces and sell them for profit.

I imagine Armin doing a monologue about how Jadzia would be honored and want to help her friend Quark.