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Spoilers Star Trek: Lower Decks 3x04 - "Room for Growth"

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Another 7 for me. While S3 isn't blowing me away at the moment, I'm still enjoying all of the character interaction, and smile more often than that.

Firstly, I never even began to imagine how thrilled I would be at T'Ana and Shaxs having a romantic bank heist time together in their black-and-white simulation. :lol:

I loved the references to Masks with Freeman and her crew having to clean up the mess left behind. And on Dove, "She hasn't been recently possessed by any ancient artifacts, has she?" :D
 
I like how they handled the whole de-stress machine scene, how the Edosian realised straight away it would put her (and her industry) out of business, whilst the Cerritos crew patted each other on the back and went on their merry way. I thought that was very current - yeah bye bye yeah get-rid-of-it!
 
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Saw this pointed out on Reddit

"The comment about the Carlsbad + bold Boimler + tendi not doing her training with migleemo makes me wonder if this Ep was originally meant to be Ep 3"

Interesting theory.
 
That was fun, I get what people mean about it coasting slightly, but the early episodes in the season have been superseded by the latter half episodes in both previous seasons so I'm expecting it to get better, and I still loved it, as always the show can get by on characters and heart alone (glad the Dove wasn't some kind of evil trap also!)

Loved Shax and T'Ana's holodeck program!
 
Saw this pointed out on Reddit

"The comment about the Carlsbad + bold Boimler + tendi not doing her training with migleemo makes me wonder if this Ep was originally meant to be Ep 3"

Interesting theory.

That would also feed into them feeling threatened by the Carlsbad's lower deckers, given they've just been stiffed by their own Delta Shift.
 
Very random comment here, but is it logged somewhere when someone disables the holodeck safeties? You'd think it would be given the inherant risks, but then again I suppose that report is most likely to go to Shax anyway but...

I do remember a Voyager episode where Torres was indulging in increasingly dangerous activities, I can't recall if the computer flagged this though.
 
Very random comment here, but is it logged somewhere when someone disables the holodeck safeties? You'd think it would be given the inherant risks, but then again I suppose that report is most likely to go to Shax anyway but...

I do remember a Voyager episode where Torres was indulging in increasingly dangerous activities, I can't recall if the computer flagged this though.
Back in TNG's "Descent" it took two senior officers to remove the safeties. One would think that would get logged and sent up the chain of command, but perhaps Starfleet simply assumes officers can exhibit self control, like the lack of security on the comm system in "Neutral Zone."
 
Firstly, I never even began to imagine how thrilled I would be at T'Ana and Shaxs having a romantic bank heist time together in their black-and-white simulation. :lol:
isn’t it odd for two aliens to run a human program, though? Of course it’s something Voyager would totally do…

Very random comment here, but is it logged somewhere when someone disables the holodeck safeties? You'd think it would be given the inherant risks, but then again I suppose that report is most likely to go to Shax anyway but...
you expect Starfleet to take security seriously?

I do remember a Voyager episode where Torres was indulging in increasingly dangerous activities, I can't recall if the computer flagged this though
I think Tom just walked in on her with the securities off and b’elanna about to die.

Back in TNG's "Descent" it took two senior officers to remove the safeties. One would think that would get logged and sent up the chain of command, but perhaps Starfleet simply assumes officers can exhibit self control, like the lack of security on the comm system in "Neutral Zone."
on the D you also needed two officers to activate the self-destruct device, on Voyager (and, interestingly, on the E) the captain could blow up the ship on her on.
Thinking of it, you needed *three* officers to blow up the 1701…perhaps the furthest into the future the less Starfleet cares? I mean, by 2399 a retired admiral can blow up someone else’s ship!
 
hinking of it, you needed *three* officers to blow up the 1701…perhaps the furthest into the future the less Starfleet cares? I mean, by 2399 a retired admiral can blow up someone else’s ship!
Well, they're supposed to be evolved humans who wouldn't blow stuff up without a very good reason.
 
Well, people still keep cats as pets in this era (Data but this ep mentions kittens too so the practice hasn't gone away since NEM) so perhaps someone told T'Ana they had cats called Bonnie and Clyde and after they hauled her off them and healed the scratch marks, she went and looked up the history?
 
Back in TNG's "Descent" it took two senior officers to remove the safeties. One would think that would get logged and sent up the chain of command, but perhaps Starfleet simply assumes officers can exhibit self control, like the lack of security on the comm system in "Neutral Zone."
Holodeck safeties, like much else in Star Trek, are never consistently depicted. The thing in Descent about two senior officers needed was subsequently ignored. Often times, all was needed was one person, and they didn't even need to be a senior officer. Sometimes an authorization code is required, others the computer immediately complies with the request.
I do remember a Voyager episode where Torres was indulging in increasingly dangerous activities, I can't recall if the computer flagged this though.
Sort of. That is, because she injured herself at one point in the episode, Janeway looked into the holodeck and saw it was running without the safeties. Not sure if there is otherwise an alert that would get sent to security or whatever notifying "Lt Torres has disabled holodeck safeties, 15:25."
 
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