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Tagged: Orions

· 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 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 Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Oct 17, 2020

The 32nd century isn’t so tough: Star Trek: Discovery “That Hope is You, Part 1”

Previously on Star Trek: Discovery’s first two seasons: It was all Michael Burnham, all the time, as she went from disgraced mutineer to a decorated officer to the key to saving all sentient life in the galaxy. Her ship…

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· by Tyler Peterson · Oct 9, 2020

Star Trek: Lower Decks “No Small Parts”

Previously on Star Trek: Lower Decks: Boimler found out that Mariner was Captain Fletcher’s daughter, a secret that both had kept under lock and key. This brings the show dangerously close to having a consequential plot development, and the…

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· by Tyler Peterson · Oct 2, 2020

Star Trek: Lower Decks “Crisis Point”

This week on Star Trek: Lower Decks: Ow, it hurts. Owww, mommy it hurts. Mariner is on a planet with a species of lizard people and a species of rat-like people who are oppressing the lizards and eating them…

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· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Jan 7, 2019

Star Trek: Short Treks “The Escape Artist”

And finally, we come to the last of the four Short Treks released on CBS All Access in anticipation of the second season premiere of Star Trek: Discovery. My initial viewing of “The Escape Artist” was honestly a bit…

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· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Feb 13, 2018

Star Trek: Discovery "Will You Take My Hand?"

Previously on Star Trek: Discovery: The Discovery traveled to the Mirror Universe and lost a captain but gained an empress, and Mirror Georgiou made no secret of how she considered Saru’s race to be nothing more than chattel. Tyler…

Tagged: Orions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The 32nd century isn’t so tough: Star Trek: Discovery “That Hope is You, Part 1”

Star Trek: Lower Decks “No Small Parts”

Star Trek: Lower Decks “Crisis Point”

Star Trek: Short Treks “The Escape Artist”

Star Trek: Discovery "Will You Take My Hand?"

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