# Star Trek Lower Decks **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** tv-shows-scripted, star-trek-paramount\ **Created:** [July 14, 2020, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-lower-decks/915340 "2020-07-14T21:53:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 20
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2022, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-lower-decks/915340/383 "2022-10-04T19:05:53Z")
She was Mistress of the Winter Constellations or Mistress of the North Wind or something along those likes. ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2022, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-lower-decks/915340/384 "2022-10-04T19:28:07Z")
Mistress of the Winter Constellations ---
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2022, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-lower-decks/915340/385 "2022-10-04T20:51:18Z")
You must be right. The Mistress of the North Wind was a [Theban priestess of the 19th Dynasty](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henutmehyt), not a space pirate. ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2022, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-lower-decks/915340/386 "2022-10-06T22:27:33Z")
I love the fact that there’s a Self-Aware Megalomaniacal Computer Storage warehouse in this series. It does solve a lot of problems. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2022, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-lower-decks/915340/387 "2022-10-06T22:31:15Z")
I thought it was about the worst episode so far, but that was a nice touch at the end. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2022, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-lower-decks/915340/388 "2022-10-07T01:02:24Z")
The Peanut Hamper episode just landed with a thud for me. It reminded me of the first handful of episodes where I found Mariner insufferable. PH wasn’t funny to me. Just mean and unpleasant to watch. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2022, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-lower-decks/915340/389 "2022-10-07T02:27:49Z")
I feel they stretched the joke too thin. If this were an A-plot with some standard Mariner and Boimler hijinks as the B-plot I think it would have worked better. ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2022, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-lower-decks/915340/390 "2022-10-07T03:42:08Z")
But she had a good point about the name “Sky-Snake”. My universal translator can’t make your language less stupid! ---
**Author:** ![Nonsuch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nonsuch/32/2922_2.png) [@Nonsuch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nonsuch)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2022, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-lower-decks/915340/391 "2022-10-07T22:19:03Z")
Yeah, I think the showrunners really overestimate the appeal of Peanut Hamper. There can be value in a character who’s just kind of an unrepentant bitch (especially when everyone in Starfleet is so virtuous) but don’t hang an entire story on her. Kudos to the show for not shying away from birdman-on-exocomp sex though. ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2022, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-lower-decks/915340/392 "2022-10-07T22:59:14Z")
Anyone else disappointed they teased us with Dr Migleemo, but didn’t even give him a single line of dialog? It felt like an odd choice given the plotlube. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2022, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-lower-decks/915340/393 "2022-10-09T00:13:25Z")
Another episode like that and I’m tuning out for good. Thought I was watching a _Robot Chicken_ Bitch Pudding reject epi. ---
**Author:** ![Pavelb1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/439d5e/32.png) [@Pavelb1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pavelb1)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2022, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-lower-decks/915340/394 "2022-10-10T02:38:04Z")
Even a Robot Chicken Bitch Pudding reject episode would be good…that said Im only on S1E4 Just stopped in to say I love how the theme is a combination of TNG-Then TAS-Then Galaxy Quest. Makes perfect sense. Also I commented on the Trek inaccuracy thread how a lot of what the crew does doesn’t make much sense…hilariously, its Lower Decks that makes a lot of sense. ---
**Author:** ![DWMarch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwmarch/32/1010_2.png) [@DWMarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DWMarch)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2022, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-lower-decks/915340/395 "2022-10-10T04:07:24Z")
> [@Pavelb1](#): > > hilariously, its Lower Decks that makes a lot of sense. They’ve explained some stuff that no other show would dare to suggest. Why don’t we see that awesome technology again that we just saw last week? Well, in the case of Lower Decks, it would mean the crew of the spa ship would have to get real jobs so they kicked it out an airlock! ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2022, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-lower-decks/915340/396 "2022-10-12T15:42:03Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > Another episode like that and I’m tuning out for good. I thought it was the best episode of the season so far, and one of the best of the series. The rug pull at the end when they play the message back was fucking _superb_. And I don’t think I’ve laughed as hard at any joke in the series as I did at the exocomp-birdman sex scenes, except maybe at the Boimler’s asshole scene from the episode with the corrupt exam proctor. ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2022, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-lower-decks/915340/397 "2022-10-13T22:24:19Z")
This week’s episode totally made up for that bitch of a Peanut Hamper last week. It was a treat seeing Captain Sulu again. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2022, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-lower-decks/915340/398 "2022-10-14T15:55:03Z")
I laughed out loud several times during the episode. “We don’t want any… _witnesses_.” ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2022, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-lower-decks/915340/399 "2022-10-14T20:46:18Z")
I had to actively rewind/replay several times due to laughter… ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2022, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-lower-decks/915340/400 "2022-10-14T20:51:38Z")
The V’ger callback was a hoot. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2022, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-lower-decks/915340/401 "2022-10-14T22:13:28Z")
I saw it pointed out online that in one scene Mariner steps over the letter box bar (they used a different aspect ratio for the “movie” scenes). I wish I had noticed that because it’s hilarious. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2022, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-lower-decks/915340/402 "2022-10-15T04:48:36Z")
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