Space Koala’s back! May he watch over us all!
My sister’s Moopsy T-shirt came in today.
Well not every ep can be a winner.
I would have preferred if they had focused on either story A or story B rather than having two half-sized (mostly) unrelated episodes glued together.
You have something against having something against caves?
Look - I was once trapped in a sentient cave for a week - that’s a dark place that knows things!
I actually really liked this one. It piled Trek cliche on top of Trek cliche but didn’t feel like a cliche itself.
I also liked it as a nod to budget-saving bottle episodes and flashback episodes.
“Our comms work? F— you, cave!”
I really loved that the caves all basically looked the same and they all had a “flat ground.”
I also liked how every transition to a planet was exactly the same, just a different coloured sky.
To paraphrase a deep cut from a completely different sci-fi series, caves are cool. You could really, you know, be in a cave.
According to someone online every cave was an animated recreation of a cave set used in a live action episode of Trek. If true that is very funny.
I read it was referencing a specific cave set used over and over in TNG, Enterprise, Voyager and DS9.
I really liked this one for the weird creatures and sentient moss and feel good vibes.
There was no sentient moss.
They’re like boats. You can’t not “be” on a boat.
Season 4, Episode 9:
Nick Locarno is behind the mysterious ship? Whoa. Mariner knew Sito Jaxa? WHOA!
Well you can’t say it was a predictable twist.
Mariner was at Starfleet Academy with Wesley?
two great call backs that work great together!
Which totally screws up my mental timeline. I always assumed Lower Decks took place roughly 30 years after TNG, in other words the same amount of time that actually passed since TNG ended. But Mariner seems too young to have gone to the Academy with Sito Jaxa or fought in the Dominion War in that timeline.