Star Trek: Lower Decks: A Farewell to Farms
November 7, 2024 7:04 PM - Season 5, Episode 4 - Subscribe
Dr. Migleemo cooks up some hot dishes while Mariner prefers hers served cold.
Memory Alpha's work goes beyond umami:
- Ma'ah was introduced in "wej Duj" and was featured in last season's season arc.
- Migleemo's home planet's name, Klowahka, is pronounced "cloaca."
- K'Elarra, the Klingon woman who was interested in Ma'ah until she realized that he fraternized with humans, was voice-acted by Mary Chieffo, who played L'Rell in the first two seasons of Star Trek: Discovery.
- Painstiks were introduced in TNG's "The Icarus Factor."
"This was clearly his Targ! Hire a targ groomer dude, you’re just f**king with us!"
"I'm allowed to f**k with you! This weakling killed my brother!"
"Oh, a weakling killed your brother? I guess your brother must have sucked!"
- Mariner and Bargh
Poster's Log:
Fun episode, both of them leaning heavily on the Planet of Hats trope; the Klingon hat is exceedingly well-known by now, but they still have fun with it, with everything having a spike or a tusk on it, and rituals within rituals. The opening credits being a bucolic Klingon farm scene was sublimely hilarious, and so was Malor as a completely non-aggro hick. Conversely, we knew nothing about Migleemo's world, Klowahka, so having their hat being foodies was likewise a gas. I was guessing that the gustatory equivalent of the Yankee Candle effect might be behind the bad reviews, although I didn't foresee the creative use of guano being how Migs got out of Bland Food Jail. And the season plot advances; who's making the rifts? Was it Agatha All Along?
Poster's Log, supplemental: MA lists one of the props in the background as "Kahless' fornication helmet." They really do have a ritual for everything. Also, Boimler says "stop being a qoH!"; the word means "fool", but it's pronounced, ah, like a word that means "rooster."
Memory Alpha's work goes beyond umami:
- Ma'ah was introduced in "wej Duj" and was featured in last season's season arc.
- Migleemo's home planet's name, Klowahka, is pronounced "cloaca."
- K'Elarra, the Klingon woman who was interested in Ma'ah until she realized that he fraternized with humans, was voice-acted by Mary Chieffo, who played L'Rell in the first two seasons of Star Trek: Discovery.
- Painstiks were introduced in TNG's "The Icarus Factor."
"This was clearly his Targ! Hire a targ groomer dude, you’re just f**king with us!"
"I'm allowed to f**k with you! This weakling killed my brother!"
"Oh, a weakling killed your brother? I guess your brother must have sucked!"
- Mariner and Bargh
Poster's Log:
Fun episode, both of them leaning heavily on the Planet of Hats trope; the Klingon hat is exceedingly well-known by now, but they still have fun with it, with everything having a spike or a tusk on it, and rituals within rituals. The opening credits being a bucolic Klingon farm scene was sublimely hilarious, and so was Malor as a completely non-aggro hick. Conversely, we knew nothing about Migleemo's world, Klowahka, so having their hat being foodies was likewise a gas. I was guessing that the gustatory equivalent of the Yankee Candle effect might be behind the bad reviews, although I didn't foresee the creative use of guano being how Migs got out of Bland Food Jail. And the season plot advances; who's making the rifts? Was it Agatha All Along?
Poster's Log, supplemental: MA lists one of the props in the background as "Kahless' fornication helmet." They really do have a ritual for everything. Also, Boimler says "stop being a qoH!"; the word means "fool", but it's pronounced, ah, like a word that means "rooster."
Am I the only one who didn’t know how bloodwine is made?
posted by Fish, fish, are you doing your duty? at 7:30 AM on November 8 [1 favorite]
posted by Fish, fish, are you doing your duty? at 7:30 AM on November 8 [1 favorite]
I appreciated that, on the planet of the hats, they made Ma'ah into a farmer by... giving him a hat. (Who makes Klingon farmer hats? Are there Klingon milliners, or do they make their own hats, in battle?)
I'm not sure if the band at the Warrior Pit ("It is a chain!") was supposed to be Klingon Acid Punk (I was getting more of a Psychedelic Klingon Zydeco vibe) but the horns on the squeezebox were fucking metal. More of that band, please. Also, the look on Ma'ah's face while K'Elarra was throttling him on the bar. And of course Brimbo.
I'd been kind of lukewarm on this season so far, but this one knocked it out of the park.
You experience bij!
posted by phooky at 7:46 AM on November 8
I'm not sure if the band at the Warrior Pit ("It is a chain!") was supposed to be Klingon Acid Punk (I was getting more of a Psychedelic Klingon Zydeco vibe) but the horns on the squeezebox were fucking metal. More of that band, please. Also, the look on Ma'ah's face while K'Elarra was throttling him on the bar. And of course Brimbo.
I'd been kind of lukewarm on this season so far, but this one knocked it out of the park.
You experience bij!
posted by phooky at 7:46 AM on November 8
As pointed out on this YouTube channel, there LOTS of parallels between Ma'ah and Martok.
Fifteen generations of Martok's family had served the Empire as warriors, but Martok's father had hopes that Martok could become an officer. It took some doing, but Martok was able to take the entrance exam, and passed.posted by 1970s Antihero at 7:54 AM on November 8 [2 favorites]
However, when he went before the Oversight Council, which was normally considered to be a simple formality, his application was rejected. Kor, Dahar master, felt that it was inappropriate for a man without noble blood to become an officer in the Klingon forces. With the "mark of Kor" on his record, Martok could not enlist even as a common soldier and was forced to become a civilian laborer. He served under General ShiVang aboard his flagship from 2345 to 2350, where he spent his days "cleaning the officers' mess".
Am I correct in reading Ma'ah and Malor as bickering brothers on their family's bloodwine farm being a reference to Jean-Luc and Robert Picard at their vineyard estate?
posted by Parasite Unseen at 9:05 AM on November 8 [10 favorites]
posted by Parasite Unseen at 9:05 AM on November 8 [10 favorites]
"Experience Bij!!"
"No, you experience Bij!"
This was my favorite.
posted by Lord_Pall at 12:35 PM on November 8 [4 favorites]
Boimler now has a mustache.
I felt that was important to note.
I wonder if the anomalies are going to be somehow tied to Captain Mariner at Starbase 80 in the alternative universe.
One of my favorite moments was watching the worms for gahg being harvested. It made so much sense, but really kind of represented how horrible it could be to be a serpent (?) worm farmer, sitting in the mud and sprinkling water and having to grab handfuls of worms. I appreciated the insight into something Klingon that wasn't explicitly warrior/military, because that really has to be the majority of the Klingon society. A society made up of just warriors can't sustain itself, it needs farmers, it needs craftspeople, and so on.
And of course Boimler would know all the arcane rituals.
posted by Atreides at 2:18 PM on November 8 [3 favorites]
I felt that was important to note.
I wonder if the anomalies are going to be somehow tied to Captain Mariner at Starbase 80 in the alternative universe.
One of my favorite moments was watching the worms for gahg being harvested. It made so much sense, but really kind of represented how horrible it could be to be a serpent (?) worm farmer, sitting in the mud and sprinkling water and having to grab handfuls of worms. I appreciated the insight into something Klingon that wasn't explicitly warrior/military, because that really has to be the majority of the Klingon society. A society made up of just warriors can't sustain itself, it needs farmers, it needs craftspeople, and so on.
And of course Boimler would know all the arcane rituals.
posted by Atreides at 2:18 PM on November 8 [3 favorites]
Am I the only one who didn’t know how bloodwine is made?
AFAIK, it's never been shown or even described, so no.
posted by Halloween Jack at 2:35 PM on November 8 [3 favorites]
AFAIK, it's never been shown or even described, so no.
posted by Halloween Jack at 2:35 PM on November 8 [3 favorites]
Did anyone else hear "brother" sometimes like Randy "Macho Man" Savage?
posted by Pronoiac at 8:57 PM on November 8 [4 favorites]
posted by Pronoiac at 8:57 PM on November 8 [4 favorites]
Lower Decks is the best trek since TNG.
I will miss the main four characters when it's done.
posted by Marticus at 4:53 AM on November 9 [5 favorites]
I will miss the main four characters when it's done.
posted by Marticus at 4:53 AM on November 9 [5 favorites]
It will be a wasted opportunity if William Boimler doesn’t make an appearance in the Section 31 movie. (Admittedly technically not one of the main four but I’ll take my crossovers where I can get them.)
posted by Fish, fish, are you doing your duty? at 9:14 PM on November 9 [3 favorites]
posted by Fish, fish, are you doing your duty? at 9:14 PM on November 9 [3 favorites]
> "Am I correct in reading Ma'ah and Malor as bickering brothers on their family's bloodwine farm being a reference to Jean-Luc and Robert Picard at their vineyard estate?"
Yes.
posted by kyrademon at 2:07 AM on November 10
Yes.
posted by kyrademon at 2:07 AM on November 10
Ma'ah and Malor as bickering brothers on their family's bloodwine farm being a reference to Jean-Luc and Robert Picard
There's that, but there's also the associative reference back up to Boimler and his family's raisin farm.
Best line again goes to Mariner: "What crawled into her boob window and died?"
posted by ChurchHatesTucker at 9:14 PM on November 10 [2 favorites]
There's that, but there's also the associative reference back up to Boimler and his family's raisin farm.
Best line again goes to Mariner: "What crawled into her boob window and died?"
posted by ChurchHatesTucker at 9:14 PM on November 10 [2 favorites]
TrekMovie.com went into just the Klingon Eater eggs in the ep, and agrees with the farm similarities to Boimler's and Picard's.
posted by Pronoiac at 6:45 AM on November 11 [1 favorite]
posted by Pronoiac at 6:45 AM on November 11 [1 favorite]
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posted by Halloween Jack at 4:38 AM on November 8