StillPaisleyCat

Thanks as always.

This episode will take a few watches to catch all the jam-packed Orion details.

Oh, I completely misunderstood the promotional copy for the comic then. It sounded like the EP for the animated videos was the lead for the comics.

In that case, I will give the preview a view. IDW has delivered some good comedic Trek content.

The videos have made me completely disinterested in even looking at the preview first issue comic.

I don’t want to reward the behaviour in any way. One viewing per very short Trek is all they will get from me.

Paramount can gauge the success from how much repeated viewing these the narrow slice of the mostly American male population of an age to have loved 90s humour. Maybe they think it’s got high overlap with Berman-era fans. I’m dubious but data will tell the story.

I hesitated to watch this one.

The humour is very 90s colonic irrigation level and sensibility.

This one did make me smile at one point though.

To see Riker, who would bravely take on fresh gagh to show openness to other cultural expectations, find the limit of his tolerances, is amusing.

I just wish the humour got beyond school age.

4k physical media to future proof your collection is a great choice.

Some of these truly sound to be remastered versions, built from the original source art.

Fascinating approach.

A strange, new to us viewers, world.

And the Orion homeworld this week!

Lower Decks keeps bringing it.

I’m all here for the Lower Decks production design team’s determination to ensure that Orion comes across as a diverse planet, with different climatic regions and levels of urbanization.

I also think it’s fantastic that the Orions as a people have a broad range of skin tones and hair colours.

I’d like to see more of this in other major humanoid (and feliniod) alien species across the franchise.

Will do as well.

For me it has occurred when I am setting up a comment and copying a link from another tab to add. I’ve had at least a couple of comments that I’ve lost and had to re-enter.

The long hamster wheel to load communities has been reduced over the past week, but still much less smooth than on the previous server for me.

I wish Hallmark would have a better balance between promoting and featuring new shows and dial back having yet another 1701 TOS or TAS era model.

Given that Data’s connection to Spot was a significant plot/character point in Picard season three, I can get behind this one.

The Bagey one is however the only truly fresh collector’s item that profiles a currently running show.

However, they completely lost the window with our kids to get them interested in collecting. They would have loved a Discovery or more positive Lower Decks ornament a couple of years back. There was nothing.

Now, they’ve moved on to other fandoms that actually had stuff to collect. They each still have their favourite Eaglemoss Voyager and 1701-D ship models prominently on display in their rooms, but other franchises have crowded out interest in Star Trek.

As I have mentioned previously, Jon Van Citters and the CBS side really need to take a lesson from colleagues in the Paramount Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles team who have moved TMMT from niche collectibles back to main stream tie-ins that are worth 10 times the value of their new movie.

Am I really the only one here getting T’Pol-Trip-like Vulcan-Human romantic tension from T’Lyn towards Boimler?

The B’lyn / T’boimler / Boilyn ship is getting a lot of chatter elsewhere.

Normally, I’m not into such speculation but with the number of failed Vulcan- Human romances in the franchise despite the success of other inter species relationships, this seems exactly the kind of thing Lower Decks would target for humorous remedy.

Besides even for an ‘out of control’ overly emotional Vulcan, T’Lyn was far too distraught and physically close to Boimler when he was being revived.

Loved the episode. My take is that we’ll get to see every classic junior management mistake from our Lower Deckers this season, fit to personality.

Boimler’s admission of discomfort sending others into danger may have been part of his motivation. The classic micromanager bad behaviour of not trusting subordinates with risks, and doing everything himself was pretty much what I’d expected of Boimler though. He had a hard time learning to trust and rely on peers, why would he be different with subordinates?

Lower Decks may become another Star Trek (after TNG) to be cited in leadership training.