Star Trek: Lower Decks (animated series)

TheValeyard · 25-08-2021 06:19PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117802231#Comment_117802231

Spock, his eyebrow raised. - that is very interesting

corkie · 26-08-2021 04:56PM

This was animated before posting here? https://giphy.com/gifs/funny-cat-kitty-1lxkNQ5SDqkEYociFG

Slydice · 26-08-2021 09:20PM

2.3: That was freakin hilarious! Who doesn't listen to Klingon Acid Punk! 😁

I must've rewatched the shuttle go **dink** into the shields like 15 times!! 😂

So many references! So much nostalgia! Aaaaaaah 🙂

breezy1985 · 26-08-2021 10:43PM

Its always Christmas in the Nexus

odyssey06 · 27-08-2021 08:52AM

Can't really search the thread, the new episodes seem to drop Fridays on amazon prime UK but anyone know what time?

Evade · 27-08-2021 10:40AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117809629#Comment_117809629

It's up now so 1100 or 1130.

Evade · 27-08-2021 11:12AM

So is Mariner going back to being an insufferable screw up? She's like Homer's definition of beer "the cause of, and solution to, all of ~~life's~~ the main characters' problems" Lots more nice references this episode.

I'm adding another new Tamarian phase

Mariner, plan in motion - an impending crisis

Rutherford's visions of how Shax came back were funny and Tom's "KAZON!" got a laugh.

CastorTroy · 27-08-2021 11:32AM

So will everyone start calling it "Voy" now?

AMKC · 27-08-2021 06:54PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117810342#Comment_117810342

Let's hope not. It's just lazy. I certainly will not call it that.

I loved the first scene with Boimler at the replicator trying to get food and then the ship not liking him at all lol. I thought that could be a reference too maybe that the ship is alive or a characther too.

I doubt Tom Paris would much care for a challanger class ship after all he flew an Intrepid class so he must be either desperate or bored lol. I suppose it could be like taking a Toyota IQ out or a Smart car cute but funky.

breezy1985 · 27-08-2021 07:06PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117812603#Comment_117812603

Practically everyone calls it VOY on fan forums which is where the joke comes from. All Trek up to LD had a 3 letter abbreviation

27-08-2021 07:27PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117812654#Comment_117812654

What will we call Those Old Scientists of the original Star Trek?

flazio · 27-08-2021 07:49PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117812654#Comment_117812654

Yeah, you type TOS, TAS, TNG etc. But when speaking with our voices we'd say "Original Series, Next Generation", etc. OK we might say DS9 rather than Deep Space Nine but other than that everything gets their full names generally

breezy1985 · 27-08-2021 08:51PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117812802#Comment_117812802

I wasn't sure AMKC knew that because they seemed pretty angry about the joke

breezy1985 · 27-08-2021 08:51PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117812727#Comment_117812727

OST for "Original Star Trek" 😀

AMKC · 27-08-2021 09:02PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117813035#Comment_117813035

No not angry. I just think it's lazy.

TheValeyard · 27-08-2021 10:10PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117800936#Comment_117800936

Shaxs :) :) :)

pixelburp · 28-08-2021 09:09AM

I loved that episode, that was more like the heights of Season 1. The character stuff between Tendi and Mariner really hummed; using that staple of comedy ensembles, with a match-up between two characters you realise never actually interacted meaningfully. It's a broken record but the character writing is so good.

And for once, the comedy worked for me. I've cribbed that the one flaw in the show is its comedic chops have been very lazy, or a bit bland. This week had me laughing out loud at various points. Poor Boimler's woes for one, but the force-field punchline was just *chef's kiss* It was a fun use of Tom Paris too.

Maybe, maybe if I had one criticism is that sometimes the Easter Eggs get a little much. But then it rarely grinds the stories to a halt either so it's not a big quibble.

Evade · 28-08-2021 01:40PM

I think a lot of the Easter Eggs are really only for those up to their neck in Star Trek trivia, more casual fans would miss them entirely. If you didn't know about Starbase Earheart or the Nausicans in the bar there you'd think it's just a rough bar that could be found anywhere in the galaxy.

breezy1985 · 28-08-2021 02:21PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117815054#Comment_117815054

You wouldn't need to be up to your neck to know about the Nausicaans. Pretty famous bit of TNG that anyone other than casual movie fans would surely recognize

Evade · 28-08-2021 03:24PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117815215#Comment_117815215

If you've only watched TNG once or twice, like a casual fan, you might not recognise it or at least not until it was pointed out.

As a bit of a survey, without googling, does anyone not know about the Nausicans at Earhart?

breezy1985 · 28-08-2021 03:27PM

I didn't know the station was called Earhart but I definitely knew that "human play domjot"

pixelburp · 28-08-2021 03:34PM

To say again, tis just a quibble and like I said doesn't grind the stories to a halt. It's the best kind of Easter egg where the casual viewer won't be left confused, the fan instead chuckling. Just the sheer volume of nods can be exhausting!

I had to laugh doubly for this episode; usually my wife is off doing something else while I watch this, fairly disinterested; today I caught her outright laughing at the episode, pulled into the Mariner/Tendy stuff too. The forcefield *thunk* had her in stitches.

28-08-2021 04:26PM

One thing about Mariner is that she, as an intentional **** up, knows that she is screwing her career but is not one to sabotage others intentionally.

She'll throw herself on the grenade willingly if she sees her actions are affecting others

corkie · 02-09-2021 02:49PM

"So, there you have it. The Mugato is also the Mugatu... and also a Gumato. All of these spellings are now canonically correct, and any Trekkie (or Trekker) debate about the matter has been settled."

https://www.inverse.com/entertainment/lower-decks-just-changed-star-trek-canon-for-its-most-iconic-monster-mugato

CastorTroy · 02-09-2021 07:05PM

Think they used a few more names for them throughout the episode.

And you can't convince me that Mariner isn't Black Ops

AMKC · 02-09-2021 10:32PM

Just watching it now. Loved the teaser lol especially with what Shaxs say lol.

Was Marineer doing the knife finger thing a compliment to Alien?

I like the way they sneered Discovery there by her saying she was section 31 and not even hiding it lol

AMKC · 02-09-2021 10:54PM

That was an excellent episode I loved it. Best yet.

Slydice · 03-09-2021 12:18AM

2.4: That was fun!🙂

I think I liked the side quest most

with Tendi chasing the Doctor all over the place.

AMKC · 03-09-2021 07:21AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117840332#Comment_117840332

Ye that was hilarious lol. I had a fair idea it was him even before she discovered it was him. Still there sick Bay seems a bit chaotic.

03-09-2021 08:37AM

It's absolutely criminal that a half hour, over the top, comedy show is spiritually and storywise the successor to Trek.

Star Trek: Lower Decks (animated series)

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