Star Trek: Lower Decks (2020-)  imdb rss

The support crew serving on one of Starfleet's least important ships, the U.S.S. Cerritos, have to keep up with their duties, often while the ship is being rocked by a multitude of sci-fi anomalies.

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Star Trek: Lower Decks: Old Friends, New Planets  Season 4, Episode 10

That's not how I would have called that match. [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Nov 2, 2023 at 8:50 AM - 23 comments

Star Trek: Lower Decks: The Inner Fight  Season 4, Episode 9

Mysterious Little Ship: now with 100% less mystery. [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Oct 26, 2023 at 9:36 AM - 24 comments

Star Trek: Lower Decks: Caves  Season 4, Episode 8

Cave missions: when you need to do a bottle episode but don't want it to seem like one, there's always the cave set. [pause] But LD is an animated series... it doesn't use--never mind. [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Oct 19, 2023 at 8:45 AM - 14 comments

Star Trek: Lower Decks: A Few Badgeys More  Season 4, Episode 7

Badgeys? Badgeys?!? We don’t need no stinkin’ Badgeys! [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Oct 12, 2023 at 9:12 AM - 8 comments

Star Trek: Lower Decks: Parth Ferengi's Heart Place  Season 4, Episode 6

Ferenginar, joining the Federation? Cerritos better hope that all that latinum doesn't flatten 'em. [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Oct 5, 2023 at 9:32 AM - 18 comments

Star Trek: Lower Decks: Empathalogical Fallacies  Season 4, Episode 5

Betazoid? More like Beta-annoyed, amirite? [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Sep 28, 2023 at 8:15 AM - 17 comments

Star Trek: Lower Decks: Something Borrowed, Something Green  Season 4, Episode 4

Tendi is summoned back to Orion for a wedding. Spoiler alert: not hers! Not that that makes it any easier, or less involving blades... [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Sep 21, 2023 at 8:52 AM - 27 comments

Star Trek: Lower Decks: In the Cradle of Vexilon  Season 4, Episode 3

Well, have you tried switching the world off and switching it back on again? [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Sep 14, 2023 at 8:06 AM - 21 comments

Star Trek: Lower Decks: I Have No Bones Yet I Must Flee  Season 4, Episode 2

It's hard to say what's worse: finding out that people can hear what you're doing in the holodeck, or Moopsy. [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Sep 8, 2023 at 9:21 AM - 14 comments

Star Trek: Lower Decks: Twovix  Season 4, Episode 1

The ordinary crew members of the USS Cerritos have been tasked with the mission of accompanying the recently refurbished USS Voyager to its new destination on Earth, where it will serve as a museum.
posted by Navelgazer on Sep 7, 2023 at 8:24 PM - 21 comments

Star Trek: Lower Decks: The Stars At Night  Season 3, Episode 10

Captain Freeman and the crew of the Cerritos race for their careers against the new, automated Texas-class vessel. Mariner questions who’s funding all of these archaeologists, anyway. [more inside]
posted by fifteen schnitzengruben is my limit on Oct 27, 2022 at 1:59 AM - 27 comments

Star Trek: Lower Decks: Trusted Sources  Season 3, Episode 9

Big new initiative for the California class, a reporter shows up to embed on their away mission, and Mariner tracks what seems to be about twenty gallons of blueberry pie filling throughout the ship. [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Oct 20, 2022 at 2:16 PM - 23 comments

Star Trek: Lower Decks: Crisis Point 2: Paradoxus  Season 3, Episode 8

A sequel to 2380's smash hit Crisis Point: The Rise of Vindicta, and this time... Boimler's directing! (I think that Boimler and Mariner have it in their contracts that they get equal time, or something.) [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Oct 13, 2022 at 9:11 AM - 12 comments

Star Trek: Lower Decks: A Mathematically Perfect Redemption  Season 3, Episode 7

AKA "The Littlest, Nastiest Robot" or "This Is Not Your Father's Redemption Arc" [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Oct 6, 2022 at 7:55 AM - 16 comments

Star Trek: Lower Decks: Hear All, Trust Nothing  Season 3, Episode 6

The crew finds out what they left behind at Deep Space Nine: a huge bar tab at Quark's. [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Sep 29, 2022 at 7:33 AM - 23 comments

Star Trek: Lower Decks: Reflections  Season 3, Episode 5

Mariner and Boimler work the Starfleet recruitment booth at an alien job fair, Rutherford challenges himself. [more inside]
posted by fifteen schnitzengruben is my limit on Sep 22, 2022 at 12:04 AM - 11 comments

Star Trek: Lower Decks: Room for Growth  Season 3, Episode 4

What happens in the holodeck, stays in the holodeck. What happens in the spa, stays in the spa. What happens in the Delta Shift party room... pfft, let the whole quadrant know. [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Sep 15, 2022 at 9:45 AM - 9 comments

Star Trek: Lower Decks: Mining the Mind's Mines  Season 3, Episode 3

Everybody's rockin'. [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Sep 8, 2022 at 12:07 PM - 12 comments

Star Trek: Lower Decks: The Least Dangerous Game  Season 3, Episode 2

Straddle the line in discord and rhyme, K'Ranch's on the hunt he's after you... [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Sep 1, 2022 at 9:18 AM - 19 comments

Star Trek: Lower Decks: Grounded  Season 3, Episode 1

[Season Premiere] AKA "Naked Came the Starship" [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Aug 25, 2022 at 8:30 AM - 26 comments

Star Trek: Lower Decks: First First Contact  Season 2, Episode 10

[Season finale] The ship takes it all off, baby. [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Oct 14, 2021 at 8:18 AM - 35 comments

Star Trek: Lower Decks: wej Duj  Season 2, Episode 9

What If... Other Ships From Other Planets Had Lower Decks? I Mean, We Kind Of Knew That They Did, But Maybe Not "Lower Decks" Lower Decks, If You Catch My Drift [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Oct 7, 2021 at 8:02 AM - 32 comments

Star Trek: Lower Decks: I, Excretus  Season 2, Episode 8

Don't worry about the title; probably not what you're thinking. Also: pesto. [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Sep 30, 2021 at 7:32 AM - 10 comments

Star Trek: Lower Decks: Where Pleasant Fountains Lie  Season 2, Episode 7

Jeffrey Combs is back, baby! Plus, the title is maybe the naughtiest in the franchise's history. [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Sep 23, 2021 at 7:36 AM - 19 comments

Star Trek: Lower Decks: The Spy Humongous  Season 2, Episode 6

We've had Die Hard on a starship (many, many times); now, here's Try Hard with a Vengeance! [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Sep 16, 2021 at 8:25 AM - 10 comments

Star Trek: Lower Decks: An Embarrassment of Dooplers  Season 2, Episode 5

Mariner and Boimler walk into a bar... [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Sep 9, 2021 at 8:23 AM - 18 comments

Star Trek: Lower Decks: Mugato, Gumato  Season 2, Episode 4

Everyone's favorite horny gorillas are back! Plus: is Mariner secretly an agent of [REDACTED, soon to have their own series]? [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Sep 2, 2021 at 7:11 AM - 13 comments

Star Trek: Lower Decks: We'll Always Have Tom Paris  Season 2, Episode 3

No points for guessing who's guesting this week. Tendi is helping someone who's itchy and scratchy, and Rutherford is in search of... answers. [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Aug 26, 2021 at 8:10 AM - 15 comments

Star Trek: Lower Decks: Kayshon, His Eyes Open  Season 2, Episode 2

Our Lower Deckers have trouble bonding with Ensign Jet Manhaver, who has been assigned Boimler's bunk and shift duties. Meanwhile, we get a glimpse of Boimler's life on the U.S.S. Titan, which is more intense than he thought it would be. [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Aug 19, 2021 at 7:30 AM - 17 comments

Star Trek: Lower Decks: Strange Energies  Season 2, Episode 1

Ransom takes a full load of strange energies straight to the cortex; complications ensue. [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Aug 12, 2021 at 7:03 AM - 10 comments

Star Trek: Lower Decks: No Small Parts  Season 1, Episode 10

And lo, there shall be a season finale-ing... who lives, who dies, who tells their story? [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Oct 8, 2020 at 7:19 AM - 36 comments

Star Trek: Lower Decks: Crisis Point  Season 1, Episode 9

At the end of the universe... lies the beginning of scenery chewing! [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Oct 1, 2020 at 6:59 AM - 28 comments

Star Trek: Lower Decks: Veritas  Season 1, Episode 8

AKA That One Trial Scene From Star Trek VI As A Whole Episode, although, shocking plot twist, [REDACTED] [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Sep 24, 2020 at 7:14 AM - 19 comments

Star Trek: Lower Decks: Much Ado About Boimler  Season 1, Episode 7

Did you have that friend from school who ended up doing a lot better than you did? Mariner's got one of those. (At least one, now, that we know of.) And we find out what happens to the weird science accident victims that Starfleet's miracle medicine can't fix... [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Sep 17, 2020 at 7:05 AM - 18 comments

Star Trek: Lower Decks: Terminal Provocations  Season 1, Episode 6

[Note: Fletcher didn't die on the way back to his home planet.] [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Sep 10, 2020 at 7:23 AM - 15 comments

Star Trek: Lower Decks: Cupid's Errant Arrow  Season 1, Episode 5

The preponderance of neural parasites in various science fiction settings is one that probably deserves a closer look, although funding for grant projects has been subtly but consistently discouraged by the Institute for the Study of Neural Parasites, At Least Theoretically, Although, Really, There Are Much Bigger Problems in the Galaxy, Like Supernovas and Stuff, and We're Not Saying That Because We Have Neural Parasites, Honest, We Checked Each Other For Them, That's Totally Legit (TIFTSONPALTARTAMBPITGLSASAWNSTBWHNPHWCEOFTTTL) [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Sep 3, 2020 at 7:37 AM - 13 comments

Star Trek: Lower Decks: Moist Vessel  Season 1, Episode 4

Worst Trek episode name ever? I mean, there have been several hundred episodes by now, but I can't think of one that even comes close. [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Aug 27, 2020 at 7:15 AM - 23 comments

Star Trek: Lower Decks: Temporal Edict  Season 1, Episode 3

A terrible, destructive force overwhelms the crew of the Cerritos. No, not that one. Nor that one. Way worse than that one. I mean, really bad. Also, Jack Ransom loses his shirt, and... [cue gladiatorial music from "Amok Time"][what? what do you mean, we can't use it? This is Trek! Futurama got to use it! Sheesh.] [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Aug 20, 2020 at 6:58 AM - 16 comments

Star Trek: Lower Decks: Envoys  Season 1, Episode 2

Boimler has a very important escort mission that he's done an awful lot of work to prepare for and that he absolutely can't mess up under any circumstances; then, he tells Mariner about it. Smooth move, purple hair! Also, Rutherford considers other jobs. [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Aug 13, 2020 at 7:47 AM - 15 comments

Star Trek: Lower Decks: Second Contact  Season 1, Episode 1

These are the voyages of the USS Cerritos... on an ongoing mission to do stuff around the galaxy that needs doing, to distribute agricultural supplies, to have really disturbing encounters with giant spider-things, to ignore that pesky insect bite that we got on the planet (because what could possibly go wrong?), to get drunk, to have parental issues, to deal with annoying cybernetic implants, to, uh [insert inspiring phrase here when I think of one] [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Aug 6, 2020 at 7:20 AM - 36 comments