Spoilers Star Trek: Lower Decks 4x02 - "I Have No Bones Yet I Must Flee"

To clarify, the reason he was never allowed to direct an episode is because he never went through any director's training, not even the streamlined version that was created specifically to work around an actor's schedule for the actors who were interested in becoming directors which every other Trek actor turned director partook in.

Yes, he actually blamed Berman of racism for that reason in interviews and at conventions until Robert Duncan McNeil stepped forward and revealed it was Garrett Wang's less than professional work ethic as an actor and his refusal to do the director training which were the reasons why he didn't ever direct an episode.

Though even if RDM hadn't said anything, the racism accusation falls apart completely when you factor in that among Voyager's actors who became directors was Tim Russ. And in the other Berman era shows there was LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Avery Brooks and Alexander Siddig. And that's before you factor in the numerous non-white directors the Trek shows in general had in the 90s, even Voyager.

 

I don’t know if it’s true but I can sympathise: I’ve been in several productions and, thanks to my big feet, I always end up in boots that are two or three sizes too small, the pain is real. And my parts have involved one or two days top, imagine this situation six days a week for years!

 

Episode 2

Oh dear, those poor stereotypical Romulans!

Maybe them and the Klingons are mealy stored somewhere.

Ransom and Shaks working out... is it me or is Shaks quite..... buttoned up?

Nice call backs in the moving scene - is that a Tom Paris plate and Tendi's dog I see?

Cool long shot of the bunks - I am hoping we do not go back.

That room sucks there Boimler. Don't they have filters on those windows?

Feel sorry for that ensign.

Livik? - guess everyone needs a nemesis!

Tucker tubes heh?

Moopsy!

Mariner prompted a dozen times? I guess something major must have happened to her in the past - Dominion War PTSD?

Rutherford gets his pip!

It was all the Humans fault after all!

Character growth for Mariner and Ransom - cool!

I think Boimler and Rutherford will end up filling that room with some amazing stuff.

Also who builds a room that big and does not put actual beds in?

I guess Tendi and Mariner are also sharing?

Not a bad one, I liked the character work in this one.

 

They're nothing alike.

 

I wonder who's behind the alien spacecraft that destroyed Subcommander Vrek's ship (and the Che'Ta' in the previous ep)...

Edit: A VERTICAL STARSHIP! Yaaaay!

 

The thing that gets me about the Vertibird (Aelignne) being so easily destroyed, I don't think it was quite so clear how massive Probert designed that ship to be, relative to a D'Deridex or Galaxy class. I mean, this thing is a monster!


The ship attacking all these others doesn't look too terribly large, based on the scale of the windows. Whatever it is, it's tapping into almost V'Ger-level power to melt these battlewagons into slag.

 

Even though they used the VertiBird's design, I didn't get the sense that it was supposed to be silly huge like the original.

 

Moopsy!

 

Indeed.

 

Nice to see some character development for Ransom.

 

Since you included the image from the Ships of the Line calendar there, that reminds me, it always bothered me how they set that image up. Yeah, I get it. they wanted to show off the scale of the ship, but damn it, you either hang the calendar the traditional way and it makes the image look horizontal, or you hang the calendar to make the ship look vertical and you're unable to read what day it is.

Sorry, just a silly first world problem that always nagged at me.

 

Definitely with you on that one. In fact, I think that particular picture garnered some negative attention for that very reason (cool picture, but, yeah, should never have been portrait-oriented). Not 100% sure, but I think that was the last one to do that. They also had weird calendar grid start and stop days early on, which made them useless as actual calendars. They eventually fixed that one too.

 

Oh, yeah, I remember that. It went of for a while, like four or five years. Ah, SotL calendars, I love them, but sometimes they make some absolutely confounding decisions with them. Like the year they abandoned the "landscape format" they usually do the calendars as and did it in the traditional calendar format. Oh, the way fandom revolted over that...

 

I don't think the version in Lower Decks is that big based off the windows. It also just didn't *feel* big.

 

True, it does appear as if it was scaled-down; basically a vertical D'deridex.

 

I guess you could say Moopsy was... bad to the bone-

 

Cue George Thorogood...

 

Nicely played.

 

I still want a pet Moopsy. So CUTE!!

 

A pet Moopsy would make an effective 'guard dog'.