User Reviews

This was so far best Lower Decks episode ! Hower if you haven't seen TNG, DS9 and VOY you would not get most of the jokes because this ep was Star Trek reference gold mine! I love that LD is set in a best Star Trek era - TNG and its visualy accurate !

This show can be quite alright when it doesn't keep insisting how awesome and kick ass Mariner is. For me this was the best episode of the show so far. There was a lot going on but it stayed coherent and it had good pacing. Mariner is still an annoying character, but she didn't feel overpowered in this one. It also helps that the male characters weren't constantly being humiliated by Mariner just to prove how awesome she is.

The initial problems I have with this show is, it's is making fun OF Trek Tropes rather than putting the characters in situations that are funny. This seemed to course correct by the end of the 1st season so I continued to watch.

My second problem is that everyone on the ship acts the fool and totally not something you would ever see in Star Trek. Why can't the command crew be the 'serious' ones. Many of the Greatest commedy teams and show of all time always featured the one (or 2) characters that played it 'straight and serious' and the lower deck characters could play the fools. There is no need to make everyone the fool as the comedy doesn't land as well.

I feel so many 'fans' are taken in by the tons of Fanservice throw at them in the form of references to the older shows. This creates that feeling of nostalgia that causes fans to feel warm and funny for the show, but its a smoke scream for just silly missbehaving horrible characters who should have been courtmartialed years ago.

Finally a note on this particular episode, which actually was not bad for a change, was the return of Shaxs. This is supposed to be a trope on bridge crew dying and mysteriously returning without explaination, but THIS HAS NEVER HAPPENED IN STAR TREK!

I want to like this show but the writing is very poor.

What is the actual story?