i love Lower Decks! the recent run of eps have been very weird /freeform storywise but i’m not mad at it
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 21 October 2023 20:37 (seven months ago) link
Maybe you should try your hand at this Lower Decks quiz then: https://learnedleague.com/oneday.php?4910
― Smike and Pmith (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 21 October 2023 20:46 (seven months ago) link
i got 7 out of 10! :)
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 21 October 2023 22:03 (seven months ago) link
👍
― Smike and Pmith (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 21 October 2023 22:06 (seven months ago) link
The last few episodes have felt like a Lower Decks quiz tbrr (but I've enjoyed them!)
― Andrew Farrell, Saturday, 21 October 2023 22:25 (seven months ago) link
Latest episode was the best in a while imo. That backstory was really unexpected, and I’m glad Ma’ah is still alive, hope he becomes a recurring character
― Duane Barry, Thursday, 26 October 2023 23:05 (seven months ago) link
I didnt twig who exactly Sito was when Mariner mentioned her but as soon as the other guy spoke, I realised it was Paris and then that whole TNG storyline with Wesley came back to me. Cleverly done!
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Saturday, 28 October 2023 11:24 (seven months ago) link
The "service" I use to stream this show mixed up the latest episode with the Frasier reboot and for a few minutes I thought this is going to be the weirdest crossover yet.
― Philip Nunez, Saturday, 28 October 2023 13:24 (seven months ago) link
agree this episode was one of the best mcmahan himself wrote it, hence the absolute nerdery of it lol
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 28 October 2023 16:35 (seven months ago) link
I've seen people say that this is their first Trek but my lord I don't know how much they could get out of this episode! And it clears up at least two longstanding unresolved mysteries: Locarno and Paris are NOT literally the same person, and Tom Riker is apparently still alive.
Well done for the Mariner stuff too, in putting a touching twist on her recent death wish.
Teach me to tap dance Dr. Crusher...
― Iguodalai Lama (Leee), Saturday, 28 October 2023 19:59 (seven months ago) link
<3
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 28 October 2023 20:57 (seven months ago) link
i don't think you need to know the backstory to get something out of this! it's a little odd that marriner's death wish only comes out/is explored in episode 39, but hey that's television
time for a new spinoff series! On stardate 48467.3 a Maquis terrorist was sentenced to life imprisonment on Lazon II for a crime he absolutely committed. This man eventually escaped a maximum-security stockade to the Bajoran underground. Today, still wanted by the Cardassian government, he survives as a soldier of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help -- and if you can find him -- maybe you can hire . . . TOM RIKER.
― mookieproof, Saturday, 28 October 2023 21:15 (seven months ago) link
It was only a matter of time before Lower Decks did a crossover with... lower decks. I wonder if this is vindication for the writer of the original lower decks episode who got shafted out of Locarno money because of Voyager's cynical "this Tom Paris guy, he's totally different from Nicky, well only different enough so we don't have to pay $5 an episode."
― Philip Nunez, Saturday, 28 October 2023 21:23 (seven months ago) link
In fairness Trayce, she only appeared in two TNG episodes!
I re-watched "wej Duj" just a while ago, such a great ep
― Duane Barry, Saturday, 28 October 2023 22:04 (seven months ago) link
I gotta say the Marriner backstory and hotshot-pilot-but not-Tom-Paris thing both fell a little flat for me - I don’t really remember the former at all and have a dim memory of the latter.
Mostly this show does a great job with making the callbacks fun if you get them but not crucial for understanding.
Without any knowledge of the Sito character that bit just felt like clunky telling-not-showing exposition… and the reveal of the season bad guy was similarly a bit underwhelming… treated like a reveal but a bit of a shrug if you don’t have the knowledge.
Not actually complaining, I couldn’t stay mad at this show. But was notable, mainly cos it is usually very deft with that stuff.
― meat and two vdgg (emsworth), Sunday, 29 October 2023 00:53 (seven months ago) link
Lol wow there is already a Mariner/Sito fanfic on AO3.
― Iguodalai Lama (Leee), Sunday, 29 October 2023 04:20 (seven months ago) link
sorry for non-use of spoiler tags above, i think i felt it was a “check in when you’ve seen the ep” vibe but see everyone else is being far more discreet - hope nobody had their experience messed up
― meat and two vdgg (emsworth), Sunday, 29 October 2023 06:38 (seven months ago) link
I wonder if this is vindication for the writer of the original lower decks episode who got shafted out of Locarno money because of Voyager's cynical "this Tom Paris guy, he's totally different from Nicky, well only different enough so we don't have to pay $5 an episode." - different guys, Locarno was in Cito's previous episode (the writers of which were made madder by the lower decks episode, because it game Sito a redemption, while Locarno's irredeemable nature was the "reason" given for why they had to create a new character)
― Andrew Farrell, Sunday, 29 October 2023 21:39 (seven months ago) link
Ferenghi putting a paywall on a bomb = chef's kiss.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Wednesday, 8 November 2023 02:08 (seven months ago) link
I truly don't enjoy being Debbie Downer on all the Star Trek stuff but while I really love that Lower Decks getting more ambitious I found both the resolution of this and Freeman's big "going against Starfleet" moment very unTrek.
I'm never going to be sympathetic to a storyline where the villain is the person pointing out the system is rotten, but even within that: it's made clear Locarno is an egotistical asshole, ok, but he's not even launching an attack on anyone, just staking out a territory for his group and using a deterrent - we don't even get to see any potential inhabitants he might be colonizing. I appreciate Mariner does everything possible for him not to get killed, but it still feels like there should've been at least a little "both sides"ing suggesting that maybe some of these young officers of various regimes, some of them p absolutist, might have a point? And the big "fuck yeah, she's going against starfleet" moment is severely undercut by Starfleet's actual concerns being that people might die.
I had a good time an' all, don't get me wrong.
― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 8 November 2023 10:58 (seven months ago) link
I think the thumb is already on the scales there tbh - Locarno is the guy who leads kids astray.
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 8 November 2023 14:35 (seven months ago) link
Lower Decks seems more about being fan commentary about Trek than earnestly inhabiting it which oddly out of all the nu-Trek series, the cancelled kids show seemed to be the most serious (and successful!) about carrying the optimistic humanism of Trek/Federation banner.
Also, was Wil Wheaton deliberately doing a Morty impression as Cadet Crusher?
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 8 November 2023 17:35 (seven months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sHSDkxivvo
― Rimbaud: First Blood (Leee), Tuesday, 14 November 2023 00:16 (seven months ago) link
Talking loud and fast is just an animation thing, apparently!
Frakes asked me, “Do you change your voices for the animated show?” And I was like, “No, we yell and we talk fast and it’s just how animation works.” You don’t have your face and body to emote with so you have to do so much more, there’s just so much more energy and effort that has to go into your voice.
https://trekmovie.com/2023/11/29/interview-tawny-newsome-on-mariners-growth-in-lower-decks-season-5-wants-more-star-trek-crossovers/
― Rimbaud: First Blood (Leee), Monday, 4 December 2023 21:04 (six months ago) link
Seeing how Tawny Newsome delivered rapid-fire Mariner dialogue was one of the things I was curious about the live-action episode.
Also, that quote sound a lot like the story Kristen Schaal related about when Kevin Kline showed up for the first time to record his lines on Bob’s Burgers and was talking about doing a vocal warm-up or prep. Schaal and Eugene Mirman just responded “what? No! We just yell at scream at each other!”
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Monday, 4 December 2023 22:45 (six months ago) link
fifth season will be its last
― mookieproof, Friday, 12 April 2024 20:16 (two months ago) link
Ugh, sad.
― Andrew Marvell Cinematic Universe (Leee), Friday, 12 April 2024 23:24 (two months ago) link
bummertown usa
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 13 April 2024 02:14 (two months ago) link