Spoilers Star Trek: Lower Decks 4x03 - "In the Cradle of Vexilon"

[mithril]

Which just happened to be fused with another Tan Ru? Unlikely.

maybe it is just another Tan Ru? we don't really know what that probe looked like, and surely the species that launched it would have sent up several in different directions.could even have been a standard design for them used for a bunch of probes of different missions.
and we know it was Tan Ru that had the repair system, so it would make sense that it preserved its look, even while incorporating the earth probe's computer hardware (and programming)

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Even if there were more Tan Rus, it is massively unlikely that one of them just happened to bump into another Nomad.

Besides, we can be reasonably sure there was only ever one Nomad anyway.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Even if there were more Tan Rus, it is massively unlikely that one of them just happened to bump into another Nomad.

Besides, we can be reasonably sure there was only ever one Nomad anyway.

Maybe being on second contact means you have to haul out crap left over from a first contact.

 

[cooleddie74]

Could have been a replica of Nomad. Some locations don't have originals since there's just one left and it's already in a museum (assuming it still exists at all, which in this case the item in question was destroyed in a huge explosion in 2267) or they have a copy made that's viritually indistinguishable from the real thing. So I can buy that it's a Nomad prop fabricated for the purposes of display and, well, somebody thought it was the real deal.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

IIRC one of the plans for ENT’s Season 5 was for the Enterprise to encounter the pre-Nomad Tan Ru.. That would have been cool.

I mean, if nothing else, I’m curious to know who BUILT the damn thing!

 

[fireproof78]

Could have been a replica of Nomad. Some locations don't have originals since there's just one left and it's already in a museum (assuming it still exists at all, which in this case the item in question was destroyed in a huge explosion in 2267) or they have a copy made that's viritually indistinguishable from the real thing. So I can buy that it's a Nomad prop fabricated for the purposes of display and, well, somebody thought it was the real deal.

Along with several "historical documents."

 

[The Wormhole]

I know I shouldn't be, but I actually am surprised we've managed an in-depth discussion over what was just meant to be a silly little easter egg.

 

[Nerys Myk]

I know I shouldn't be, but I actually am surprised we've managed an in-depth discussion over what was just meant to be a silly little easter egg.

Have you met us?

 

[fireproof78]

Easter Egg is code for please analyze to death.

 

[David cgc]

Even if there were more Tan Rus, it is massively unlikely that one of them just happened to bump into another Nomad.

Why would it have to? There was nothing visible of Nomad in the Nomad/Tan Ru hybrid, unless you're being really generous/condemnatory to the TOS art department and assume that they tried to make the drawing look like the prop and failed. The casing could've been entirely from Tan Ru, and may be a standard design from wherever it came from.

 

[James Cole]

Just finished watching the episode and damn that was definitely a TWIN PEAKS tie in.

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

I liked it. I've been Boimler, at times, and it's given me great respect for those who can teach, and teach well.

I liked Chula (could the uncredited kid who voiced the kid in the game simply have been archival sound track from "Move Along Home?"), and the foul-mouthed Betazoid gift box. Then again, I actually liked "Move Along Home." That episode was, I think, intended to be funny, and having the stakes abruptly lowered (more like the bottom falling out of the stakes, when the participants literally fell out of the game) certainly fits in with the theory that Asimov propounded, between jokes, in his classic Treasury of Humor.

I didn't like Dirk, or the hazing, and especially didn't like the idea of Ransom being complicit in it.

And for those who didn't get the Twin Peaks reference, you have my sympathy. Neither did I. And even after looking it up on M-A (which had ANOTHER browser-trapped redirecting ad, although at least this one didn't pretend to be a virus scan; you might want to block the "parents-smh.life" domain), and then doing a Google search on "Twin Peaks Red Room," I still don't get it, but at least I know why I don't get it, and that I'm glad I don't.

I think I'm going to pull my tape of "Move Along Home" tonight. And take a look, to see if this episode has a commentary track.

 

[Therin of Andor]

The Koala was speaking backwards, apparently it said ‘it’s not your time yet Bradward’

Boimler's Koala cosplay! by Ian McLean, on Flickr

 

[Therin of Andor]

Boimler's Koala cosplay! by Ian McLean, on Flickr

"Now that's using your (spare) head."