I just watched that episode of Enterprise, is that better or worse than transparent aluminium?
Well, one of them is violating the ordinary Prime Directive and the other is violating the Temporal Prime Directive. Time travel shenanigans are arguably worse.
Did vulcan’s have the ‘Prime Directive’ at that time?
And I like Scotty’s answer - ‘How do we know he didn’t invent the thing?’
Latest a bit of a let down after the excellence of last week.
Yeah, Upper Decks wasn’t great.
I don’t know, I enjoyed watching Shaxs fight his inner demons. I thought he had a pah-wraith at first when the red-eyed ghost showed up.
I had been away a few weeks so I just caught up the last few episodes.
In the cubes and spheres episode I loved when someone yelled out, “They’re not even creative!” when they each joined to form a giant cube and sphere.
The time shift episode was a lot of fun. It’s nice to see nerdy Tendii (albeit an obsessed one). And T’Lyn is the best Vulcan character since Tuvok.
I am not sure what they are doing with Boimler. He seems to be backsliding to his first season self after he kind of grew past it.
The Upper decks episode was probably a B- or C+ in execution but I did like how it came full circle around considering the very concept of this show came from a final season TNG episode called “Lower Decks”.
5x09 was an excellent episode.
William Boimler’s great rant from the episode:
Because they’re probably a hacky evil version of someone we all know! A reverse Picard or a Borgified Kirk or, f**k it, I don’t know, human Worf! That’s all the multiverse is, just lazy, derivative remixes!
Well that felt like the most fan fictiony fan fiction that ever fan ficted.
There’s a recent Star Trek line of comics that has basically mixed and matched all the characters together (with as best as I could tell no explanation). For example they have Data and Paris and Crusher serving under Captain Sisko. This episode felt like that but in a good way. Like someone playing with their action figures.
I laughed at the meta commentary on the over use of Multiverses. I LOVED LOVED LOVED that the cause of all this was not a villain but another, different type of Star Fleet. And it was unbelievably amazing that they got every single voice back to do their character. Except of course Curzon since the only talking Curzon we ever saw was Odo and Rene Auberjonois RIP 
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Looking forward to next week.
Forgot to add that I loved the meta joke when Kim said, “Whoa there are more than two dimensions?!”
If you want to be a nerdy nitpicker technically their universe has 3 dimensions the way ours has 4 because of time but then the joke doesn’t work at all.
In the closing credits they should have listed all of them only by their first names.
My favorite exchange:
“Why have we been arguing?”
“Because arguing is fun.”
“NO IT ISN’T!”
It’s good to see a reality where Bashir and Garak get together. I laughed mightily.
Obviously the reason they got the voice actors back is that those were willing to do it. I don’t know what happened behind the scenes, maybe they were all first choice but maybe the original script idea had Cochrane and Kira, but James Cromwell and Nana Visitor said no. In any case the script would be adapted for only those characters whose actors chose to reprise their roles.
Or to quote my fanfic-loving wife: “I am so happy right now.”
To show how little shipping comes to mind for me, it never once occured to me that those two were couple material.
From what I’ve been told, they’re probably the most popular Trek ship after Kirk/Spock.
What’s the least popular, Polaski/Barkley?
Tuvix.