In the series finale, creator Mike McMahan and director Megan Lloyd craft a fitting ending to the season five arc and the adventures of this particular crew of the USS Cerritos. Continue reading Star Trek: Lower Decks S5, E10 – “The New Next Generation”
In the penultimate episode of Star Trek: Lower Decks, we get a cornucopia of surprises and plot twists that don’t disappoint. “Fissure Quest” is the best, most imaginative, and most entertaining episode of Season Five. We are confronted with the … Continue reading Star Trek: Lower Decks S5, E9 – “Fissure Quest”
“Upper Decks” highlights a classic The Next Generation approach by presenting a series of vignettes focusing on the daily lives of key bridge crew members aboard the Cerritos, specifically, Captain Freeman, Commander Ransom, Lieutenant Shax, Commander Billups, and Dr. T’Ana. The anthology episode treats its viewers to a variety of familiar sci-fi tropes, including an alien invasion, encounters with space cows, a unique one-man show performance, a crew member experiencing devolution, witnessing a birthing ceremony, engineering mishaps, Bajoran trauma, and more. Continue reading Star Trek: Lower Decks S5, E8 – “Upper Decks”
It’s two reviews in one! In “Of Gods and Angles,” Mariner teams up with a troubled ensign while the Cerritos is holding peace talks between two civilizations. Then, with “Fully Dilated,” an undercover mission to a pre-warp society where the planetary core creates a spacetime differential resulting in time dilation. For every second on the Cerritos, a week will pass for the away team on the surface. Continue reading Star Trek: Lower Decks S5, E6 & E7 – “Of Gods and Angles” and “Fully Dilated”