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Author: Tyler Peterson

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· by Tyler Peterson · Oct 15, 2021

Get the hull off me: Star Trek: Lower Decks “First First Contact”

It’s a brand new (star)day and the well-meaning slobs of the USS Cerritos are deployed to assist an Intrepid-class starship called the Archimedes, captained by one Sonya Gomez (an officer featured in two episodes of The Next Generation, now all…

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· by Tyler Peterson · Oct 8, 2021

Seein’ your officers: Star Trek: Lower Decks “wej Duj”

The title card of this week’s episode is written in the Klingon alphabet. Paramount+ helpfully transliterates the title on its menu as “wej Duj”. Oh, it says wej Duj, of course, how helpful. This week, the Cerritos is on a…

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· by Tyler Peterson · Oct 1, 2021

Hologram Yem, you’re my Pandronian: Star Trek: Lower Decks “I, Excretus”

It’s time again for Lower Decks, so let’s get low! Our quartet is repairing a satellite with the Cerritos a short distance away, taking in a view of a stunning nebula as they do so. “It’s times like this,” says…

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· by Tyler Peterson · Sep 24, 2021

Star Trek Sex: The Undeflowered Andy: Star Trek: Lower Decks “Where Pleasant Fountains Lie”

We open this week on a good old standby plot: a planet that got tricked by an evil supercomputer into having a century-long civil war. The computer in question, AGIMUS (voiced by Trek veteran Jeffrey Combs) is being shipped off…

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· by Tyler Peterson · Sep 17, 2021

Never go full Pakled: Star Trek: Lower Decks “The Spy Humongous”

Since the writers keep insisting on some semblance of a recurring plot arc, the Pakleds, the underwhelming villains from “No Small Parts”, are back again. Freeman has landed on Pakled Planet, and that’s really what the Pakleds call their planet,…

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· by Tyler Peterson · Sep 10, 2021

Model officers: Star Trek: Lower Decks “An Embarrassment of Dooplers”

No cold open this week. We jump right into Freeman’s captain’s log, where she narrates that she’s on a TOS-style state dinner with a species that has some bizarre characteristic they have to be very careful to accommodate. In this…

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· by Tyler Peterson · Sep 3, 2021

Domo arigato, Mister Mugato: Star Trek: Lower Decks “Mugato, Gumato”

The cold open occurs in the gym, a part of the ship so rarely seen in the Next Generation era that I had lowkey assumed that ships had gotten rid of them entirely in favor of holodecks. (I guess Starfleet…

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· by Tyler Peterson · Aug 27, 2021

Shaxs and awe: Star Trek: Lower Decks “We’ll Always Have Tom Paris”

This episode opens in the galley, where the recently-created Boimler 2 is ready to retake his undignified place as the ship’s Charlie Brown-esque whipping boy. Ransom explains to him that security measures have been tightened up in the wake of…

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· by Tyler Peterson · Aug 20, 2021

Darmok time: Star Trek: Lower Decks “Kayshon, His Eyes Open”

Just judging by the title alone, this episode is going to be an homage to the “Darmok” episode of The Next Generation, where our enterprising Enterprise crew encountered an alien species with a language consisting entirely of recontextualized references…

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· by Tyler Peterson · Aug 17, 2021

Timeline bling: Loki “For All Time. Always”

Previously: After trying and failing to ascertain the origins, leadership, and ultimate purpose of the Time Variance Authority by going through its ostensible leaders the Time-Keepers, Loki, Sylvie, and Mobius are reset and dumped into a big temporal void with…

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· by Tyler Peterson · Aug 13, 2021

Can’t keep a god man down: Star Trek: Lower Decks “Strange Energies”

For all you who may be new around here: I did not care for the first season of Star Trek: Lower Decks. And what with all the free time we’ve had this past year, I did a lot of…

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· by Tyler Peterson · Aug 10, 2021

Withnail and Lok-I: Loki “Journey into Mystery”

Previously: Loki and Sylvie are trying to spread the word among the TVA agents that they’re all mind-erased variants from extinct timelines pressed into TVA service. Sylvie’s nemesis, Judge Renslayer, seems to know something about this, as she’s been busy…

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· by Tyler Peterson · Jul 6, 2021

Staff meeting: Loki “The Nexus Event”

Previously on Loki: Loki and Sylvie, Loki’s gender-swapped alternate-timeline iteration, were a real mismatched pair, whose similarities in personality only accentuated their rivalry. Marooned in the future on a planet that loves another planet and is about to make some…

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· by Tyler Peterson · Jun 24, 2021

Strange ones on a train: Loki “Lamentis”

Previously: With the help of Protagonist Loki, the TVA managed to track down the Loki who’s been killing all their Minutepeople. And it’s a Lovely Lady Loki! But they weren’t able to foil Lady Loki’s plan to bomb the “Sacred…

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· by Tyler Peterson · Jun 16, 2021

Loki be a lady tonight: Loki “The Variant”

Previously on Loki: Loki, god of slash fic mischief, has escaped from his destined death via time travel shenanigans and immediately gotten himself arrested by the all-powerful Time Variance Authority, who police time travel shenanigans in the name of…

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· by Tyler Peterson · Jun 10, 2021

Lowkey Loki: Loki “Glorious Purpose”

“Wait a minute,” you may say, if you’ve been keeping up. “Isn’t this guy dead?” Yes indeed, the opening scene of Avengers: Infinity War saw the godly neck bones of Loki, Tom Hiddleston’s breakout semi-villain, going crack. And because he…

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· by Tyler Peterson · Apr 25, 2021

Black-tain America and the Winning Soldier: The Falcon and the Winter Soldier “One World, One People”

Previously: John Walker used the world’s last dose of super-serum to juice himself up to fight bad guys, but then lost his Captain America status for aggravated lack of chill. A shadowy unelected transnational council with its own military and…

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· by Tyler Peterson · Apr 19, 2021

Montage daydream The Falcon and the Winter Soldier “Truth”

Previously: Sam’s sister Sarah still can’t make her fishing boat payments, even though she has twice as many customers now. John Walker injected himself with some stolen super-soldier serum in order to serve more effectively as Captain America, but that…

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· by Tyler Peterson · Apr 10, 2021

Wakanda weak Captain America is this? The Falcon and the Winter Soldier “The Whole World is Watching”

Previously: The leader of the Flag-Smashers, Karli Morgenthau, is an anarcho-Thanosist terrorist with a Game of Thrones accent. Likes: bombs, stealing, being a super-soldier. Dislikes: governments, corporations, people other than her and her friends being super-soldiers. To track her down,…

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· by Tyler Peterson · Apr 3, 2021

The Madripoorian: The Falcon and the Winter Soldier “Power Broker”

Previously: Bucky and Sam were trying to remain in the superhero business in the wake of the naming of a new Captain America with unclear loyalties and an even unclearer agenda. He had something to do with the Global Repatriation…