Amph "Warp Me!" - Star Trek: Lower Decks [Paramount+ Animated Series]

Started watching the show last night and just finished it this morning. I had low expectations, but thankfully the show exceeded them by a fair margin. I didn't like Mariner much at all throughout the season, but where it left off at the end I'm hoping she's toned down somewhat. I'm all for a character that bends the rules, but too often she went from maverick to just plain rude for absolutely no reason. Thankfully Boimler, Rutherford and Tendi were really great so it helped cover it up somewhat.

In regards to the finale...

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Seeing the Titan (and looking the same as she has in the novels and STO) was great, especially when she flies in all guns blazing and the TNG theme blaring. Great stuff. Hopefully we'll see more of her in S2, but I have a feeling Boimler will find his way back to the Cerritos all too soon.

 

Yeah, too-much-Mariner was a problem in the first couple of episodes -- it's already starting to tone-down by Ep 2, and then Ep 3 I think is where the show starts firing on all cylinders.

 

It's possible that Bevery's sex candle ghost adventures were a part of official Starfleet record since it was an alien with malicious deadly intent, although the log might have redacted some of the more salacious sex candle ghost aspects.

One thing I noticed in a middle episode of Lower Decks is when the ship has the alien attracted to it and flew away inside the other California class ship, to me it looked like another life form like the Farpoint entity, and it grew again out of an energy source.

 

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They've been hinting at something?

I must have missed that. Honestly I though the Cali's special gimmick was that their old peices of junk.

That's pretty much my take as well.

And Riker keeps trying to get other peaple to care, but nobody does becuase they all think Archer was a boring dude (diplomacy is lame! Kirk beat up Gorn, saved Earth all the time and got all the babes!) who tried to make up wild stories about secret agents from the future and alien Nazis to make himself appear cooler.

I'm just going to assume that either Riker blabbed to Mariner while in the process of hooking her up with contraband and Mariner blabbed to everyone else or the lower decks crew of the Enterprise (ironicly is'nt the TNG episode Lower Decks the episode right after Sub Rosa?) spread gossip through the fleet.

I'm pretty sure that's exactly what it was

 

Well, I'm sure once the ship is added to STO we'll find out what it is

(given that the whole idea behind the Cali is that it differs slightly based on the three Starfleet specializations and Starfleet in STO - at least when I last played the game - had your character chose one of those specializations, it might make sense to have it be the new defualt starter ship for the Federation in place of the Miranda).

 

Lower Decks is coming to Amazon Prime outside of North America on January 22nd.

https://www.startrek.com/news/star-...n-prime-in-multiple-international-territories

I think my favourite episode may just be ep 7, Much Ado About Boimer. The Farm. The Dog. "Freaks fight back!" "But it made Boimer weird!"

 

New Season in August!



"Freaks fight back! Freaks fight back!"
"Is what they were all chanting. We were all doing it. In unison!"

 

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The Twitter linked worked, thanks!

And that was an excellent trailer.

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Shaxs' replacement is a Tamarian? Brilliant idea. Looking forward to how they're going to communicate.

 

Sweet

I liked the first season.
Weird how so many Trek purists give it hate, it's a comedy it's not meant to be proper Trek.

 

Discovery really should have been set away from the TOS era from the start, it works much better when it isn't tied to that stuff because it can't be accused of ruining any of it.
Either that or set it in the JJ Trek timeline, then the show can do whatever it wants.

Lower Decks is a love letter to Trek, so many great references. These stupid arguments about how the characters would never have passed Starfleet Academy behaving as they do is just taking it way too seriously.

 

"Oh, my sweet Shax!"

 

Season 2 premiere was super fun

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Ransom goes Uber Gary Mitchell. "How did they stop Gary Mitchell?" "Kirk smushed him with a boulder!" (The doctor coming in with a boulder on a forklift was gold) Tendi gets really over protective and runs after Rutherford. Mariner has a Cardassian prison cardio workout program and holodeck Boimler cries that the Cardassians "Keep showing me lights!"

 

Yeah, this was great.

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At first I thought they were going to subvert the omnipotent super being trope by having Freeman give Ransom what he wants, which would have been creative, but Mariner kicking him in the crotch a bunch times was .

Also, I love that Mariner’s workout program is a super intense Cardassian prison break program.

 

Super fun solution in episode 2

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Boimler got Thomas Riker style transporter cloned so Boimler goes back to the Cerritos and also stays on the Titan as well. I dug how Boimler summed up his experiences on the Titan as super intense serialized action adventure with mind blowing twists.

Anyway also The Collector returns ("They all tried to collect Data!") and the Pakleds are even dumber than usual that one of them can't figure out how to use a saw. Riker mentions that they seem to be supplied by an outside source for their tech upgrades so I would just guess Romulans but hopefully it's a more deep cut unexpected source.