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

Good point - the main reason I thought "early" rather than "late" was the fact that the deflector was blue-glowing plain, rather than the bronze-yellow of the Sovereign and Obena.

Making it a "post-Sovereign" design can work as well though.

 

The Stargazer is supposed to be the lead ship of a new class, and only just commissioned. So the Excelsior II is implied to be slightly older there.

The Ross class is very "Galaxy-Sovereign cross" - probably the immediate successor to the Galaxy class, using Sovereign-type design elements.

 

The latest episode of Wil Wheaton's Ready Room has a clip from the new season.

 

They've been doing this all along, haven't they?


Never really noticed until now.

 

so it can run 13 seasons until they run out of Trek movie posters! I am already picturing who is going to emerge menacingly from the delta shaped hole like Khan in the Into Darkness poster in the Lower Decks Season 12 poster.

Wish it was a little bit earlier in August, I'm thinking this will roll right into Prodigy season 1.5 (or is it technically season 2 now?)

 

That was a solid premiere.

A few things I liked

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The increasingly, ah, thirsty ladies of the Boimler rasin vinyard were great.

Wonderful to hear James Cromwell as Cochrane again.

I kinda loved that the resolution to Freeman's situation happened off-screen, helped along by Captain Frasier and Tuvok. And all Mariner did with her Search for Spock moment was kick-start an alien space bug orgy and get her butt handed to Ransom. That should be fun this season.

Poor Gavin.

But most importantly, what colour is Bradward's hair under the purple dye? I hope they drag that mystery out forever.

 

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Yah the reversals were great and the fact that a way cooler epic adventure happened while the Lower Deck-ers were screwing around with hologram Zephram Cochrane and lusty bugs is kind of hilarious. Also at Historical Bosemont people got to wear the weird looking Cochrane hats, and having Cromwell voice him as sort of a static hologram guide was kind of gold.

"He's like my grandpa!"
"He's everyone's grandpa!"

Not this episode yet but I already can't wait for the Strange New Worlds crossover episode

 

There's something awkward about being enough of a ST fan to have seen every episode of every single live-action and animated series at least once, but not enough to remember every single thing they've ever done, and it's really weird at times.

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The "Ketracel White-Hot" thing totally didn't ring any bells and it's the kind of thing I have to look up. I knew it had to be referencing something but didn't really remember any specific thing.

 

Yah why is the Crystaline Entity now involved yikes!

 

Excellent opening episode.

 

Yeah, that was good. Bozeman, Montana is both a tacky theme park and has a warp capable spaceship ride. That was hilarious.

@Darth_Duck I bet it turns out that Boimler’a hair is naturally purple, but there’s some weirdly specific reason why he uses purple hair dye that only Boimler would think of.

 

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James Cromwell does a great self-parody.

The off-screen trial was an inspired plot choice. I hope we never get the full story, but multiple random references that hint at how it went down.

 

That was one the part of the episode that I actually didn’t like. I get that Mariner is an ensign, and that there are limits on what she can know for security reasons, but her parents are a captain and an admiral and they basically don’t tell her anything? Really?

 

They did tell her, repeatedly. "Trust Starfleet, trust the system, truth and justice will prevail." And that's exactly what happened. Mariner might have found out more if she hadn't been out of contact, off on a wild goose chase.

 

I thought it was interesting that even Mariner says that her mother is being treated unfairly because she's a California-Class captain but also Mariner was in a bit of a mood that episode.

 

Yeah, but that was clearly too vague. He could have said something like, “the Cerritos’ logs have already exonerated Captain Freeman. The trial is purely a formality.” Marine, Boimler, Rutherford and Tendi could have been assigned to the team replating the Cerritos’ outer hull, as insurance against Mariner doing something stupid. However, there’s something important that was left out of the logs, so Tuvok’s investigation team has to go to the Cerritos to retrieve the data. However, Tuvok’s investigation is strictly need to know, so they’re taking a shuttle instead of beaming onto the ship. Unfortunately, they’re detected by Mariner, Boimler, Tendi and Rutherford, who’ve been left out of the loop because this is way above their security clearance. As a result, they think that Tuvok’s team is somehow connected to the Pakleds or the Klingons.They manage to get the drop on Tuvok, and wind up interfering with a Starfleet security investigation.