Lower Decks 3x01 - 'Grounded' ~~ { ** Spoilers Within ** }

Wait, what? This has started? WTF am I doing working???!!!

The one thing I was kinda disappointed in was the Gavin bit at the end. Was expecting to meet him again in a future episode after he had become leader of a pre-warp planet or something.

One of my favourite movie scores. That and TWOK are the only two Star Trek ones that are up there with Star Wars.

That was alright. Bit too much going on maybe.

A good episode. Good idea and worked well. Nothing special, nothing bad, but worked well. Did like the First Contact callbacks and couple other Easter eggs?

Liked how they brought back Captain Batesmen, good to see he settled in well in the future. Batesmen and Tuvok on the same team, nice.

Admiral Jellico... well, f*ck that guy.

Am I the only one who’s a little disappointed that they caught «Captain Gavan» so early on? I was hoping he’d be a running joke for the season :P But, I guess you can only get so far on a Warp 1 Missile.

Yea, that was very enjoyable. Awesome how they managed to combine First Contact and STIII. I was delighted with the tacky First Contact amusement park they built at Bozeman. Geordie’s description of the place in First Contact would make you assume it would be a tasteful National Landmark, but their subvention of this was just hilarious :)

I was also getting a kick out of the scene with Bolmer bluntly deflecting the advances of the vineyard women. It was a stupid joke, but I kind of enjoyed it. Are vineyard women really into Starfleet officers or something? Maybe Bolmer is part Deltan?

I did like the touch where Cochrane's hat was sold as a souvenir. Cromwell still sounds good for 82 too.

I enjoyed that a lot. I don't know if it's me getting used to the rapid speech of the characters or if it slowed down slightly but I had no problem this time (Old old man 😀).

I didn't really cop the whole Laris thing. I just thought it was a funny joke about him being totally oblivious. Thought all the callbacks were great. From the first reveal of Boimler harking back to "All Good Things" to the Wesley-stile civvies Rutherford was wearing (As well as the stuff like "Sisko's" etc). The music call back to "First Contact" was also great, yeah.

Loved the extremely dramatic investigation/resolution of the Captain's situation. Thought that was very funny. Reminded me of an episode of Buffy which concentrated on Xander and some drama he had going on with some vampires. In the background you were hearing references to some super-dramatic end-of-the-world type storyline that was never mentioned again.

So yeah, really liked this.

Good episode, but felt a little cut down tbh.

I find it hilarious after all the work the lower deckers did, the big boys solved it all easily in the background :D

Decent episode but it didn't really kick into gear until they got to Bozeman. Some nice in jokes though they're starting to lay them on a bit thick. The 'ketracel white' hot sauce is a good joke in itself but they literally shove the bottle in the viewers face to make sure you get the joke. I was surprised at how quickly the captain Freeman storyline was wrapped up but I suppose that's the joke of Mariner not trusting Starfleet. I was afraid we were slipping back into the obnoxious Mariner of S1 but they dodged that in the closing moments of the episode.