I might also add that Ma’ah’s family career is very similar to Boimler’s in some aspects, staying in line with how in Wej Duj he was supposed to be a Klingon analog of Boimler.
“Life forms. You precious little lifeforms. You tiny little lifeforms. Where are you?”
- Lt. Cmdr Data, Star Trek: Generations
I might also add that Ma’ah’s family career is very similar to Boimler’s in some aspects, staying in line with how in Wej Duj he was supposed to be a Klingon analog of Boimler.
I think those highlights might just be shading. It feels like a bit of a stretch to say the captain is just Mariner-ing her cuffs, though.
I love that Ma’ah is Klingon Boimler down to the sun hat and the harvesting of something.
Besides, we all know that beards cannot grow in space.
I just noticed that Captain Tersal has a classic TNG uniform. I wonder what that means for her timeline. Did Tersal also come from 2382 (just her timeline kept the TNG uniforms), has the ship been in service a long time without a uniform change, or is the Endeavour from a few years in the past?
I just realized that alternate Boimler is dying his beard as well.
I think I meant to put TWOK, for Wrath of Khan. TOK was an IB class I took in high school, so my brain defaulted to that.
An update: According to S2 E10 Sanctuary, the guy below the Ferengi (not shown in this screenshot) is stated to be Plix Tixiplik, who had previously shown up in TNG, further affirming them being previous Trek actors.
It only gets better (Except for A Mathematically Perfect Redemption). I will warn you the early part of season 1 is probably carried by reference humor, whereas the rest of the series begins to hold up on its own in addition to the quality reference humor.
Also, you know the Borg are horrifying when they’re even putting up a fight with Apollo.
I think for Dos Cerritos the B plot with Tendi carried the episode. I honestly felt like they missed the classic Lower Decks balance of seriousness and humor on the A plot and played it slightly too straight in a way that made it seem too much like a run-of-the mill multiverse episode. The two T’Lyns jokes were fun, though.
Shades of Green also did great with the Tendi plot, and the overthrow of capitalism part was enjoyable enough.
Now the big question is: Will Boimler single-handedly cause Starfleet to create a multiversal prime directive after that PADD makes him do something spectacularly wrong? 😈 (Though I guess based on PRO events, probably not.)
And the Tholian web!
Or as Worf once put it, “We don’t discuss that with outsiders.”
I wonder what the timeline change will be for Dos Cerritos.
A plausible one in my opinion is Captain Freeman doesn’t survive the Pakled attack in the season 1 finale and Rutherford gets more severely injured. The ship is in chaos, and Mariner snaps, takes control, applies some Mariner magic to overcome the situation, and gets a field promotion. Either Boimler has died or stays on the Titan. (WAIT. I didn’t notice bearded Boimler the first watch.)
Another less likely one is maybe it’s a First Splinter timeline Cerritos
Personally, I’m the biggest fan of the seasons 3 and 4 posters.
I find Kobayashi is around where it starts to pick up. I’d say just watch the rest of season 1 before deciding if you want to continue, but at the very least, if you’re worried about wasting your time, to episode 11 (frames the plot for the rest of the season) or episode 13 (the most classically Trek episode of the season, honestly).
Unfortunately, Jankom Pog never goes away, but somewhere in late season 1, he gets less useless at least and earns the right to be more annoying that Neelix. Also, if you’ve been finding Rok an annoying helpless child up to this point, she becomes a much better character (probably the most useful crew member) after episode 8 through a slightly O’Brien-esque process.
Season 2 is great and worth having watched season 1 (not to say season 1 is bad, but season 2 is way better).
Honestly, in most cases, studios should just guarantee 3 seasons because that’s how long it takes to really find if a show will actually get any sort of following.
To be honest, I feel like streamers keep trying to gun for a The Office or Last Airbender level hit, but don’t realize that those shows wouldn’t have survived today under the current metric by which they evaluate a show’s success. They ignore the whole point of streaming: a show should have more time to find success - potential fans will get to it when they get to it.
I agree. DS9 season one honestly wasn’t too bad (obviously not SNW season 1 caliber), though mainly because it didn’t have a weird blackface episode.
After more research, there’s different frames than the one Memory Alpha has for Captain Tersal that confirm that at least the upper part of the uniform is a normal TNG uniform and the highlights were just lightning. The cuffs are different, but that could be personal choice - she is the captain after all.
Actually kind of disappointing - they could have thrown in the abandoned uniforms for Generations as sort of a nod to the inspiration for the LD uniforms.