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”
The Cerritos deviate to the infamous Starbase 80 to fix their navigational system or spend the next 700 years on impulse getting home. Captain Freeman is troubled knowing that her alternate dimension doppelganger was reassigned to their Starbase 80 as punishment for some failure of leadership. It inspires her to make sure this trip goes well. Unfortunately, the crew, including Boimler, gets infected by a mysterious disease. Mariner believes it was caused by “the curse of Starbase 80.” Continue reading Star Trek: Lower Decks S5, E5 – “Star Base 80?!”
In “A Farewell to Farms,” Mariner and Boimler travel to the Klingon homeworld, Qo’noS, where they look up Ma’ah, a once-honored Klingon warrior now living a mundane life on his family’s farm. They attempt to help him reclaim his lost … Continue reading Star Trek: Lower Decks S5, E4 – “A Farewell to Farms”
Mariner, T’Lyn, Tendi, and Rutherford embark on a mission to capture a nanite cluster menacing the Cosmic Duchess, a massive cruise starship. Unexpectedly, Jennifer joins them, seemingly unaware that she and Mariner broke up some time ago. At the same time, Boimler joins Ransom and Billups on an undercover assignment to retrieve an Admiral who has gone AWOL. The mission is impaired by Boimler’s fear that Ransom will put him in dangerous situations. Continue reading Star Trek: Lower Decks S5, E3 – “The Best Exotic Nanite Hotel.”
Star Trek: Lower Decks kicks off Season Five with a double-header. In “Dos Cerritos,” a spatial anomaly forces the Cerritos crew to come face-to-face with their faces when Mariner, Boimler, and Rutherford enter an alternate universe where they encounter their … Continue reading Star Trek: Lower Decks S5, E1 & E2 – “Dos Cerritos” & “Shades of Green”
“Old Friends, New Planets” is the perfect season finale to the best season of Lower Decks to date. The story was engaging, the action was thrilling, and the stakes were raised to a level that kept you on the edge … Continue reading Star Trek: Lower Decks S4, E10 – “Old Friends, New Planets”
“The Inner Fight” is one of the best – if not THE BEST EPISODE – of the series thus far. It is a rich mix of witty lines, tender emotional scenes, and hilarious slapstick surprises. The slow burn of the … Continue reading Star Trek: Lower Decks S4, E9 – “The Inner Fight”