Spoilers Star Trek: Lower Decks 2x09 - "wej Duj"

[DEWLine]

Borg lower-deckers...talk about your cold close-outs.
Brrr.

 

[Sakonna]

I feel like they were one word away from that ship name joke being even better. "Welcome to the Pakled ship Pakled Ship"

I also particularly loved the long-suffering "Yes Rebner, we've met several times" from the Klingon captain right after.

God this show is amazing. They have gotten more drama, more exciting space battles, more surprising twists, and more suspense out of an arc with PAKLEDS than any season of Disco and Picard have managed to achieve with any of their outlandishly huge kill-all-sentient-life-in-the-galaxy antagonists.

And these are all secondary achievements on Lower Decks -- primarily, they've been making the Pakleds story funny!

It's becoming increasingly embarrassing for live action streaming Trek that, with massively greater amounts of screentime (and presumably a lot more money), they still cannot achieve 10% of what LD does.

 

[Aeolusdallas]

Gave this one a 9.

Gotta be the first time we've seen a "Live Long & Prosper" and the Vulcan salute used as an insult.

Plus, the BORG Lower Decks .. don't do chit.

Second time. Spock in 2009 Trek movie did it to the science council

 

[NCC-73515]

Disco and PIC started ok and then turned odd and less interesting.
LDS does the opposite, it gets better and better

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

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TrekYards has their review up.

For a Vulcan, She is a rampaging psycho lol

By Human standards, she's having a Childish Temper Tantrum.

 

[Aeolusdallas]

Either that Vulcan ship was really huge or the Cerritos is a very small ship

The Cerritos is a giant ship. Almost Galaxy sized but with a thinner saucer and a small engineering section, So that Vulcan cruiser was massive as are the Pakled Clumpships

 

[Sakonna]

I just realized "Q Who?" and "Samaritan Snare" were consecutive TNG episodes back in May '89.

Who knew that the Borg weren't the only iconic, enduring alien adversaries we were meeting that month?

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

The Cerritos is a giant ship.

Given its typical mission profile, I wonder why.

 

[F. King Daniel]

Here's the Cerritos at her official size. Surely they'd have space to give all crew proper quarters, rather than having Lower Decks sleep in a hallway? Or maybe she's got lots of unseen empty volume inside like the rear of the Enterprise saucer in Star Trek Beyond, or the hollow USS Discovery.

 

[Sakonna]

Surely they'd have space to give all crew proper quarters, rather than having Lower Decks sleep in a hallway? Or maybe she's got lots of unseen empty volume inside like the rear of the Enterprise saucer in Star Trek Beyond, or the hollow USS Discovery.

You nailed it. There is no room for the Lower Deckers to have quarters because they need all that empty, unused space outside the turbolifts for flashy fight scenes.

PRIORITIES

Maybe they could use Shari yn Yem's holo training pods as quarters. They're not much larger than a bunk, but everyone could experience their own holopod as a mansion more palatial than Chateau Picard.

 

[Orphalesion]

Here's the Cerritos at her official size. Surely they'd have space to give all crew proper quarters, rather than having Lower Decks sleep in a hallway? Or maybe she's got lots of unseen empty volume inside like the rear of the Enterprise saucer in Star Trek Beyond, or the hollow USS Discovery.

They needed that space for Catacean Ops. And all the other Ops Mariner points out in the first episode

 

[fireproof78]

I would imagine the space is utilize for raw storage, industrial replicators and other equipment utilized for following up in second contact type missions to support growing civilizations. I don't see how the bunks are an issue?

 

[Nerys Myk]

More room for Mariner's contraband.

 

[Tuskin38]

Oh and they said "Vulcan High Command" because nobody remembers that 3-part ENT episode that ended in it being disbanded.

They probably just reconstituted the High Command at some point after ENT.

The Vulcan High Command was re-established by the beginning of Discovery.

An assimilated Vulcan in Voyager also said they worked for the Vulcan High Command. I doubt they were assimilated in the 22nd Century. It's possible, but unlikely.

So it's probably Enterprise making the continuity error here, not the other shows heh.

 

[ExtremeSail]

unseen empty volume inside like the rear of the Enterprise saucer in Star Trek Beyond

Could you elaborate on this?

 

[KimMH]

They needed that space for Catacean Ops. And all the other Ops Mariner points out in the first episode

Oh no. We still haven’t seen it. It’s gonna be the ongoing show gag that we NEVER GET TO SEE IT

 

[thribs]

They managed to make a more interesting character in T’Lin in 20 minutes than Discovery and Picard have done in their whole seasons

 

[The Old Mixer]

This episode's portrayal of the Vulcans (which was quite good) reinforces my view that IDIC doesn't apply to Vulcans among themselves, it's their mantra for keeping sane in dealing with the rest of the universe.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Here's the Cerritos at her official size. Surely they'd have space to give all crew proper quarters, rather than having Lower Decks sleep in a hallway? Or maybe she's got lots of unseen empty volume inside like the rear of the Enterprise saucer in Star Trek Beyond, or the hollow USS Discovery.

I wonder how those sizes will hold up?

Spoiler: Spoiler for finale

 

[Charles Phipps]

This episode's portrayal of the Vulcans (which was quite good) reinforces my view that IDIC doesn't apply to Vulcans among themselves, it's their mantra for keeping sane in dealing with the rest of the universe.

A perhaps more cynical interpretation from this religious person is, "Vulcans follow Surak about as well as my areas fundamentalists follow Christ. Loudly and with great hypocrisy."

Alternatively: Klingons and Khaless.