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Spoilers Star Trek: Lower Decks 4x10 - "Old Friends, New Planets"

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It was Rober Duncan McNeil who didn't sound like himself to me at all... he sounds almost completely different to me from his VOY days.

That's probably true. But having listened to McNeill every week on The Delta Flyers, Locarno sounded perfectly normal to me.
 
This too.
I suspect the Binars might be using a Dyson Swarm (or something like it) to power it.
It's plausible, one of many ways you could power it, but still, that's a CRAP TON of power required to maintain it.

Also that shield is the same one Q used in TNG pilot, is it not?
Similar in concept, but not in design.
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Q's was based more off a Rectangular Latice.

The Trynars were a Triangular Latice.

Plus, is it possible this type of shield can only be used on a Solar system scale (at least for now)?
I'm sure it can be scaled down; if you can scale it up to cover a Star System, it should be fairly easy to scale down.

And it may be impenetrable, but even if you throw a battleship at it, it causes a tiny hole which closes fairly quickly.
"Impenetrable" is always a debate-able term; everything seems impenetrable, until you apply enough energy to the problem.
Like Nick Locarno said, he wasn't expecting somebody to scarifice a entire massive BattleShip by chucking it at the shield.

Remember in ST:PIC S3, both sides threw massive objects at each other.
Captain Vadic threw a small starship at the USS Titan.
Riker threw a small asteriod at Vadic's ship.


Wesley sounded just right to me... more like a young version of himself - which would be consistent with TNG.
Wesley sounded fine, he seemed to play it pretty well.

It was Rober Duncan McNeil who didn't sound like himself to me at all... he sounds almost completely different to me from his VOY days.
For me it was Shannon Fill, she sounded really forced. But it's understandable, it's been many years since she's played this role and everybody's much older.

I'm surprised they couldn't get the actress who played Jean Hajar, or they seemingly didn't bother to.

Maybe Walker Brandt didn't want to do it?
 
I dunno. I liked Boimler doing just fine as Acting Captain, but much about the whole Locarno plot left me cold:

1. Come on—he was over-aggressive, but he was never an outright deluded villain as he is here. And where did he get the ship and its technology from, and find the resources to set this whole thing up?

2. Though some will disagree: Given how the beam transports a target’s crew but apparently leaves hull fragments behind — we saw them! — that exactly matches the only evidence we ever got of what happened to Sito, and I admit I’m very disappointed this episode didn’t retroactively change the ending of the original “Lower Decks”.

3. Starfleet has an official Ship Transfer Protocol??
 
That's probably true. But having listened to McNeill every week on The Delta Flyers, Locarno sounded perfectly normal to me.

I didn't have issues recognizing anyone else from their VOY days on Prodigy for example when they did their voice-overs.
But R.D.N definitely sounds completely different to me for some reason.
 
I didn't have issues recognizing anyone else from their VOY days on Prodigy for example when they did their voice-overs.
But R.D.N definitely sounds completely different to me for some reason.

I've noticed that when a lot of the live action actors voice their characters for LD a lot of them tend to over-stylize the affect. It seemed to me that's what RDM was doing. Frakes did it back in S1 too.
 
The show was only renewed in March, which means they wrote this ending with Tendi leaving without even knowing if they'd have a next season.
Unless this was one of those renewals that was done a while back but only officially announced later.

It takes place firmly in that universe in the late 24th century (I think?)
2381, possibly 2382 now.
 
The Steamrunner was named USS Passaro. Quite possibly named after the late Fabio Passaro, who did a lot of the CG models for Eaglemoss, including a new more detailed Steamrunner model. Though that's not the model they used here in Lower Dekcs.

There's also a Gagarin-Class USS Passaro named after him in Picard Season 3.
 
I dunno. I liked Boimler doing just fine as Acting Captain, but much about the whole Locarno plot left me cold:

1. Come on—he was over-aggressive, but he was never an outright deluded villain as he is here. And where did he get the ship and its technology from, and find the resources to set this whole thing up?
That's something for side stories in other media like Comics to cover.
Nick Locarno had 13 years to get to where he was at, at the start of the episodes.
ALOT can happen in 13 years.

2. Though some will disagree: Given how the beam transports a target’s crew but apparently leaves hull fragments behind — we saw them! — that exactly matches the only evidence we ever got of what happened to Sito, and I admit I’m very disappointed this episode didn’t retroactively change the ending of the original “Lower Decks”.
It seems to transport the ship as well, since all the missing ships showed up as part of "NOVA FLEET".
They must've left behind some hull fragments to fool those who would come to inspect the remnants.

3. Starfleet has an official Ship Transfer Protocol??
They've always had it, remember when Neelix left the ship near the end.
There is always a gathering of people to send them off.
 
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