So very on brand for Naussicans.

Definitely a missed up! Excellent, useless information that poor uhura struggled so hard to figure out.

100% I noticed this too. Needed an up for sure 😂😂

Such a build up, and then, nothing. It was so Lower Decks, I loved that bit as well!

@@bartcouprie4986 It is beautiful writing - a perfect tiny joke, left for you to eventually remember.

Totally missed this one

I think it didn't because it got an up in the episode of Lower Decks where it was first mentioned (I forget which ep sorry)

@@TonySamedi Season 1, Episode 10; coined by Ransom

Maybe also "That old ship"? (I'll run and hide now)

Well, shit, man. We can't stay here all day!

Tawny Newsome is just as good, if not better.

I loved that when he did the Boimler scream he actually opens up his mouth huge like his animated counterpart.

@@IronheartvsMiles not dismissing Tawny at all, I loved her as well. But during the Ready Room episode, Jack discussed how he went back and watched Lower Decks to figure out how to bring visual queues from the animation into his live action performance. That’s all I was highlighting.

@@brandonmadigan7523 The three great screamers of Star Trek: Chekov, Quark, and Boimler! 🤣

Jack Quaid plays a Star Trek character that is made for people that don't like Star Trek not to mention he's a complete cuck.

Yes! That's true! A retcon done right! Kudos to the writers AND to Mr Frakes for SUPERB directing!!

Agreed!

@@woahdudeitsme9742you mean, “Indeed.” 🤨

I'd call this another up for Ortegas & Uhura, but I totally agree.

Missed that one. Very funny

Sounds like UP no#82 to me!!!

I literally teared up during this scene and was coming on here to comment about it. Then I saw your comment so, well said and I agree it's my dilithium up!

@@MrSoccerdad68 Ditto

Yep...that started the tears and they didn't stop for the rest of the episode

Are those different from latinum ups?

@@Ducky69247 its for one of those rare moments where latinum is no longer enough to encapsulate the greatness of one scene

There's another little Mariner moment that I think gets missed from very early on. When Boimler gets portal'd (because of COURSE he does) watch Mariner. She's only a step behind him (and still on her feet which is impressive in and of itself considering Boimler gets pulled in horizontally) and dashes in just as it turns off. No thought to her own safety, just focused on saving her friend.

She's a great friend to him. She loves him.

"Pike as the exasperated dad dealing with two chaotic space kids" is the perfect description for this episode!

I have never seen lower decks but this is my favorite episode of stranger things new worlds if not the entire Trek universe.

@@busterandloulou you should really watch Lower Decks. It's pretty hilarious and a good Trek series.

I loved the fan service because it added to the story. Too much fan service for the sake of fan service with no connection to the plot can be annoying (Picard season 3, I'm looking at you). The fan service here was part of the plot and worked so well.

@@jaydirt316 - The fan service definitely added so much to the story, particularly when it came to Pike and Una’s own stories, and brought them full circle, in a real sense. One of the problems I had with Picard’s third season is that there was too much fan service put in for the sake of fan service, and none of it made the story richer or provided enough deep character development to the characters that we grew to know and love. But in “Those Old Scientists”, the fan service was incorporated into the story so well, and it added greater depth to Pike’s awareness of the sacrifice he’ll make, and the knowledge that it won’t be in vain; that people will remember him for doing so, and see him as truly heroic is something he needed. Then, Una learned that she would also make a powerful, positive contribution to Starfleet by inspiring future generations to join the ranks and travel to the stars, and when she finds out about this, she’s genuinely touched by it. BTW… I’ve seen all 4 seasons of Lower Decks, and I love it!

That was a gem moment. To me, it was the scene that gives the, There's hope for our future .

And it's also a great joke/reference -- as Rebecca Romijn WAS on a lot of pinup posters in the 90s.

Definitely my trillium up.

That callback was everything.

Yes! It was so nice to see her get emotional when she realized after all she went through, Starfleet was going to use HER as the poster girl/woman.

Well said. I seriously cannot believe what I just watched.

Oh, you're "floored" are you? 🤦

I agree. Especially with Mariner, I noticed that the actors made everything *slightly* subtler to be a bit more watchable and natural, but kept so much of the spirit of Lower Decks!

Agreed! This could have (should have?) been a disaster because of the mix of seemingly incompatible styles, but they made it work. Maybe it's because Boimler is kind of like Reginald Barclay (remember Barclay meeting Cochrane?).

Beautiful work from the writers, actors, Frakes, and McMahon.

Mine was when Pike said that it would be officially recorded that Orion SCIENTISTS found the portal. The Orion captain was almost in tears when he said, "...that's all I ever wanted."

Oh my gosh thank you for pointing that out for me. I had already forgotten about Unas past. That’s wonderful. Thank you again

@@kregadeth5562 of course! The writing has been great and has been genuinely touching. I found this so thoughtful.

I noticed that this episode brought Una and Pike’s stories a surprising level of depth. Una thought that being an Illyrian made her an outcast from Starfleet, but knowing that she’ll become *the* face of Starfleet recruitment gave her a sense of validation, while Pike learning that his birthday will be a major holiday, and people will dress up as him for Halloween gives him hope that his upcoming sacrifice won’t be in vain.

Yeah, I choked up hearing that she was so respected. She deserves it.

Spock's smile for me always conjures up for me the various devil references from TOS. From the land of endless night come I/ An alien from afar / Spewn forth upon your pleasant sphere /.So much like yozlu, set so un-alike.

Yes…it was almost as if they needed the “Jaws” theme playing…Dunt duh dunt duh…as they panned in. Hilarious!!

🤣🤣so true🤣🤣☺️☺️👍

I love this idea

now it's my headcanon too, love this

Headcanon aside, I couldn't help but wonder if Boimler is the reason Spock and Chapel never end up together. He planted the seeds of doubt in them.

I think captain's day goes back to the age of sail, but I might be wrong. In any case, traditions, set holiday dates, and celebrations are incredibly imporant for morale regardless of whether the crew is in the middle of the ocean or the great cosmic fuckall.

I wonder why Boimler didn't say anything weird about Laan's name.

Great catch!!

And they set it up like it was the end with Boimler’s “meeting all of you has been one of the greatest experiences of my life” speech. Plus the music clearly suggests it’s the end . . .

That should have been another up

didn't catch that.... awesome.

Wow didn't realize that!

Did you see The Cage? Spock only smiled ONCE, he did not laugh or joke around.

@@theodorehaverson5079 - He also shouts when the women are transported off the ship without the men. This episode of SNW helps to explain this discrepancy between the original pilot and what they chose to do with the character for the rest of the show.

@@RictusHolloweye Spock also smiled at Kirk while they were playing chess at the beginning of the second pilot, "Where No Man Has Gone Before".

The little sinister sting with Creepy Spock Smile was just chef's kiss addition to the comedy of it.

I suspect it's a little more than that. Assuming this happens between S3 and S4 of Lower Decks Mariner is coming off the entire crew instantly assuming she landed them in trouble and her mom throws her off the ship. While things are at least a bit better between them by the end of the season there's a significant chance that things could have gone badly wrong and they'd never have the chance to fix things. In that moment with Pike Mariner probably sees where her own relationships could end up if things don't keep improving.

Excellent.

Yes to this! She busts his chops for being a fanboy, but is truly excited for him when he has a dream come true moment and it’s just so sweet. The actors all did an amazing job.

Yes! Came here to point this out. HUGE up for me.

OK I admit it so did I 😢

Star trek destroys Racism ...trekkies I trust 😊

@@TheBad63 Count me in

It was the perfect conclusion to Una's genetic engineering arc, she can move forwards now

Thats some good acting skills, when they do that to you.

This is the first time I have seen him in a more comedy role and he kills it.

@@emilylewis5373 Well he's in The Boys but that's more dark comedy.

@@Itility_Peace_Of_Mind He's also Superman in one of the best recent interpretations of the character. Man has a lot of great range.

@@emilylewis5373 well keep in mind that he does comedy with Boimer on Lower Decks.. all he had to do here was to mimic Boimer's animated physical comedy.

He's really in so many things, scream, the boys, star trek

And the director. A script can be ruined if the director doesn't get it. Jonathan Frakes was the perfect director for this episode.

Which can explain a lot of the strangeness in it that don't quite fit. It reminds me of a comedy fanfic of Voyager to explain some of it's more surreal and, well, off parts with it being Neelix's fault due to talaxian pheremones being a psychedelic for a lot of species...just that most species in the Delta Quadrant had adapted to it due to the old Talaxian trade empire...

I like to think that it implies that the main characters of lower decks are constantly high off their rockers lol

@@sheevpalpatine2231😂😂😂

@@AzraelThanatos I take it that the events of Lower Decks are all exaggerated. Either by holodeck, fantasy, or the ensigns' perspectives.

Nichelle famously gushed over Zoe Saldaña's portrayal. She would have loved Celia Rose-Gooding.

They need to keep themselves humble. Their lucky and blessed to take over the role.

Totally didn't miss that. The entire episode was fan service in so many ways. Boimler and Mariner geeking out about this crew... SNW crew geeking out over Enterprise's crew... fans geeking out over EVERY crew... It's like the 4th wall had a 5th wall behind IT.

Since we are at 4th wall breaking: To me, it was just as much Mariner fanboying about Uhura, as it was Tawny Newsome praising Nichelle Nichols and her influence on all the black actresses, that followed her trail.

@@petertrudelljr Geordi was a fanboy of Zefram Cochran. Every timeline crew has Starfleet people in the past that they looked up to as inspiration.

Yup, while he has accepted his future (since he saw the consequenses of it from his alternate future self in season 1), he did not know that anything about him would survive beyond that. Knowing his birthday is a holliday. Hell, just Boimler "knowning" about him a century later was probably enough. And yeah, Boimler pointing out the detail of Pike missing his dad also applies to everyone Pike knows regarding himself is in my opinion just such beautiful storytelling. The writers are nailing SNW and Star Trek. sure, they seamingly brake canon every know and then, but come on, we can't be held back by stuf that was put on screen between 60 and 20 years ago today.

If we do get any more crossovers like this (which.... yes please?) I'd love to see them go the other way with the SNW crew visiting the LD crew in live action. Call it some quantum entanglement thingy as a result of using a dodgy time portal. Now, I'll admit, in my fannish mind this is primarily an excuse to get Ortega behind the helm of a recently stol.... uh, borrowed Defiant but can you imagine Mariner taking Pike aside at the end of the episode as they're circling the fleet museum in the Cerritos and pointing out the 1701-A as "the most important ship in Starfleet history" and how he's a key part of her legacy? Yeah, it's a cheat as it should be the original but can be handwaved by not telling Pike details for obvious time traveller reasons. Hell if you really want to hammer the point home have the camera keep panning across to the D in the next bay over to show that history won't forget the name....

I wish a scene was added where Boimler or Mariner tell Pike that the chair is not the end and he goes back to Talos IV to be with Vina. But I'm thinking Starfleet classified that aspect to keep everyone from going to Talos IV.

@@lkgrave4959 Yeah, they probably don't know that. Or they do, but well.... They didn't exactly know what to say once they realised he knew about the chair.

Great insight 😊

If that is the case, I'm willing to bet that -- at some point -- Pike says something in front of Chapel about making sacrifices so that Spock can be what he is destined, and does not realize that he's giving advice to Chapel as much as he's reflecting on his own life path.

Him being emotional also fixes him smiling and laughing in The Menagerie.

Dammit Boimler, you had to go and screw that up! Spock❤️Chapel forever.

Yeah, it was really interesting how they have moved the Spock love story forward in a way that feels really cool and natural.

I just love those 2 together, if eny 1 comes up with a name for them let me know.💕💕❤❤

While SNW has funny moments, this episode was a full comedy whose genius was that it still felt like a SNW episode. The comedy is natural and never felt forced.

@@tiacho2893 Comedy is harder than most would think. Timing, skill and reading the audience are all required for comedy to work properly. Luckily, Star Trek fans are fairly easy to understand most of the time, so we as the audience were catered to in this episode. Jonathan Frakes has the experience using skill and timing to pull off comedy. This episode is a gem and will stand up with my other favorites like 'The Trouble with Tribbles', 'Trials and Tribbilations', 'The Best of Both Worlds 1&2' and 'Devil in the Dark'.

In my own opinion? This episode will stand with such greats as 'The Trouble with Tribbles' and 'Devil in the Dark' (my favorite Star Trek episode of all time) along with 'the Best of Both Worlds' 1&2. There have been MANY good Star Trek episodes, even in otherwise not so well remembered series. THIS will stand with those greats. I have watched it twice so far and am watching it again!

Then in those 55 years you've never watched Star Trek. Some poorly written comedy combined with sickening TOS worship is one of the "top episodes in franchise history"?

​@@JohnnyWednesdayTo paraphrase a great reviewer. Lighten up! 😉

It's something that always strikes me whenever I hear someone describing a "silly comedy". There's a lot of people who look down on it, but the relationship the audience builds with comic characters leaves them much more open to being poked in the feels in the unexpected serious moments. 😁

@@EthanKristopherHartley I know what you mean. Comedy is harder than many think. Bad humor takes no effort at all, but is often more insulting than comedic. Good humor taken effort, skill and timing and even with all of those, it can fall flat. THIS episode managed to keep from falling flat. Not everyone will appreciate the comedy, because not everyone finds humor in the same things. There are many today who ONLY find humor in causing pain, either emotional or physical. I find that quite sad, but i have no right to dictate to THEM what THEY should find humorous any more than THEY have right to dictate such to ME.

This was the SNW version of the “Trouble With Tribbles “ episode in TOS. Then the DS9 version “More Trouble With Tribbles.” Lighthearted with a minor serious tone.

​@@diamondjim7560Wasn't the DS9 episode called " Trials and tribble-ations " not " More trouble with tribbles "

@@parasaurus2 You’re probably right. I did a quick google search for the name. They got it wrong.

"Are my eyes huge? they feel huge..." absolutely BROKE me...

I don't know you, but I'm delighted that your surgery went well. They say laughter is the best medicine, so this episode should have you up and on your feet again in no time. Live long and prosper.

Ad astra per Apsara! Una would be so proud of you! I wish you a speedy recovery. LLAP 🖖🏼David Groves.

I guess now you can go to the final frontier. R.I.P.

Well, now you have to hang on for the musical episode, then the next season...then......who knows...

@@darthramious1639 yo bro he lives

Why infamy if it was exceptional?

@@nel1962 Because I'm bad at english

Absolutely agree. I've never seen a cross-over so seamless before. Definitely a master class in "exceptional television". As you said they took the finest parts, and without missing a beat were 100% faithful to the characters and vibe of each, neither of which were diminished or ignored. Brilliantly done.

I tried to watch Lower Decks after this but it was hard cuz even w captions on the dialogue flies by so fast

Agreed. Loved the opening sequence too. Animating the title Sequence of SNW was awesome.

Trials and tribulations is the name of the episode you're referring to also one of my personal favorites

Jadzia also loved the uniforms as well...... And had the hots for Kirk.

Best laugh cry I’ve ever had 😂, laughing one nano second before then a punch in the chest.

I'm prolly fixing to get hated for this but where did that come from

@@Mel6701 Current season, episode two

Comedies get you to let your guard down to kick you right in the feels. The never-know-how-many-birthdays scene was another one like that.

@@Mel6701 The quote is from the second episode of season two, in which Number One is on trial. It is a Latin phrase that is the motto of the state of Kansas: "to the stars through difficulties." It is used prominently in that episode. Best to just point to it and say, it's worth the time to see that episode. It's really good writing.

This is an interesting comment. :) My Wife and I tried watching LD... 4 episodes worth. We definitely didn't care for it. Naturally, my expectations for this episode were a bit jaded... but because SNW has been SO GOOD, we both figured that maybe this will be "OK" after all. :) Then, when I saw "Directed by Johnathan Frakes" in the opening credits, I said to my Wife, "Look! Johnathan Frakes directed it! That means it WILL be good!" ...and it was BETTER than good, it was awesome! :) Perfectly "blended". :)

​@@morning1500hey, I don't like LD either, specifically Mariner, don't like the character or the actress so this was actually a suckky episode for me. I liked Jack Quaid's appearance, because he is very likeable, but I'm not inspired to check out LD again.

Seamless has been a word I've used a lot in describing the episode.

It also retconned a few things INTO CANON... not an easy thing to do, but this episode did. Spock's emotions being one of those things. Well done! Oh, and it was directed by Johnathan Frakes. LATINUM UP just for THAT!!!

@@morning1500 That was one of the things I thought also. They put to rest a lot of 'the canon sky is falling' critiques. There is no question, that this crossover was written by those who themselves are fans that love the franchise. At the very least understand the importance it holds for fans.

Yesteryear was the best time episode in Star Trek franchise. In fact it’s in my top ten best episodes of all of Star Trek….

Finishing Enterprise in animation could be perfect. We could get season 5 AND 6&7.

I have to admit, I caught myself ALSO saying "NO" at the same time as Pike did!

"You guys arent bad but please don't come back" is such a mood lmfao.

As stated in “Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow”, the Department of Temporal Investigations does not yet exist in 2259. There is no department to report this too. On a separate note, I wonder if Episode 3 was one of the seventeen recorded temporal violations committed by Kirk.

How did I miss that?! Ok… must rewatch now!

I probably rewatched that one moment a dozen times. She CRUSHED it. Crushed it in this episode. Amazing.

I loved that. It was so visual.

Absolutely loved that and the tender way Boimler encouraged Pike to let the people who love him now have those moments with him. In all the hilarity, this moment was quietly great. Also, I was glad to see Pelia and Boimler together. She's so long-lived, she could cross over into their show.

It was a very smooth transition from cartoon to live action

Yes! It was so great seeing them in live action! Trek is awesome!

You're completely spot on! There's SO MUCH going on in this episode and they're so aware of those little human moments. It's also a shared moment because they've both got the same problem. Pike literally knows what it's like to meet someone you *know* is going to suffer a horrible tragedy through no real fault of their own and to have to keep your mouth shut lest you ruin everything so bad you have to time crystal yourself a "DO NOT DO THIS!" message while looking fly AF in a monster maroon. Humans bond over this kind of stuff. Regarding ​@jdmoncada8205's comment about Pelia: I said the same thing to my spouse during that scene! So it works for lore AND character as she's so gosh-dang odd that she'd perfectly fit in with the wacky tone of that show for a cameo.

Honestly, my favourite part of the episode, where there was so much fun, it was a lovely, human moment.

I was waiting for that too. But not only does it imply that Pelia met Cary Grant, but Carol Kane, who plays Pelia, actually did know Cary Grant.

The "Spock effect" has worked

I want Pelia to show up in Lower Decks now.

Ugh thank you. I knew that was a real quote, but couldn't place it.

@@shaunm2691 I want a Pelia series! I'm LOVING her character and cannot get enough of her. If you'd told me two years ago that a highlight of STAR TREK would be Carol Kane as an engineer, I might have thought you crazy. Her enigmatic nature and exoticness is just WONDERFUL!

I like to believe she was the one interviewing Grant when he said it.

Fun fact Carol Kane (Pelia) knew Cary Grant. It should have been thumb up

Disappointed it wasn't done to look like TAS would have been hilarious.

They are honestly now my favourite uniforms after Star Trek II Wrath of Khan. They just work so well.

@@christopherpackham732 Nothing beats the First Contact ones for me, but these are up there.

Me too. I stopped at the transporter room scene, knowing that it coming to a close. Started rewatching immediately from the start. I had never done that for any show before and I was just as much entertained if not more, the second time around!

Personally, not British enough. I just stood in line for it. 🤓

Watched it 3 times same day

Re-watching it again tonight. Thank you Sean for being such a fan. I love to see that joy in your face and smile. There is a part of you in all of us watching your review. This is such a great time to be a Star Trek fan.

Excellent info. Thank you! 🙂❤️

There is an older source with a similar idea. Librarian here, in 1989 I catalogued a bunch of books of history of the French Revolution and Empire. Napoleon told his companions (at St. Helena, maybe?) that, when he was a very young artillery captain he was very scared in battle, but he had to present himself as fearless for the sake of his men and his command. After a time, the fear disappeared. There are testimonies of people who knew him saying that he didn't even duck when cannonballs were flying all over the battlefield, so it appears he was telling the truth that time. ✌

I think she Really knew him, if you know what I mean!

Thank you. I noticed the quotation marks on the captions. I was think of looking it up.

I caught that too. Thanks for mentioning it!

100%

Absolutely!!

Live action section 31 show, with Boimer's transporter twin.

@@rakaydosdraj8405 Lt. William Boimler, special agent. Yeah, I could totally get behind a live-action show like that. ❤ 😍

Fun thought: the Cerritos is almost double the length of the SNW Enterprise. So in theory we could have a live action crossover see the Big E jumping forward in time into the middle of trouble and our favourite utility ship pulling an Enterprise E save as the first nod to exactly when and where the SNW crew have ended up....

Pike acknowledged it also. It was really thoughtful of Spock to give him that salute.

I agree. The idea of making a crossover between an animated show and a life action show to begin with - has that ever been done before? Certainly never to this level of perfection. And thank you for making Mariner and Boimler look so much like their voice actors, making this possible.

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You know... I agree! I am not a fan of Lower Decks. I did give it a try, tho. So, I didn't have very high hopes for this. I figured, "Well, it *IS* SNW, how bad can it be?" Lo and behold, I was laughing a LOT more than I thought, it was actually BRILLIANT, not goofy, and I agree with Sean's record-setting UP's for this one. :) Definitely WELL DONE!

It sounds corny, but I agree completely. It was the unexpected gift that I needed so badly. I cried, I laughed, and it’s been the highlight of my week. Pure joy in a dark time

@@culturecanvas777 Nope - a fellow STAR TREK fan who, like me had a wonderful positive reaction to a glorious, joy-filled episode.

Boimler traveled so far back in time, that even the episode came out a week earlier!

YES!! My Wife and I watched it twice when it first dropped... and then again just yesterday. It's truly a GRAND SLAM of an episode!! Neither of us care for LD at all. We've watched a total of 4 or 5. NOPE. So, we weren't sure how this would be... and were VERY PLEASANTLY surprised!! :) Then, right after this, we re-watched Ad Astra Per Aspera. For a "non-action" episode, that one is STILL "edge of the seat" compelling! SUPERB!

I 100% agree!

I don't think it's even close to TNG. JMO

​@@dentoncrimesceneno it's so much better. TNG is a snooze fest

I couldn't agree more.

@@dentoncrimescene You'd be one of those 'Fan's' in the late 80's early 90's going TNG isn't as good as TOS...

Sean completely lost his objectivity and went into fanboy mode.. :)

Babs nailed it for sure.

Love the term "retro foreshadowing"!

I thought the Federation didn’t make First Contact with the Cardassians until the early-24th Century?

@@jackhosier8498 They might have had information about the language from a third party, or a member of the federation without having, as a Federation made contact with them. That's how I'm explaining away that they had that information.

@@jackhosier8498 We know a famous Cardassian author was exiled to Vulcan and met with one of the previous Dax hosts. Not confirmed when exactly but the episode made it sound like a long time before the 2370s so probably pre-24th century

The problem with that scene is that it references Bajorans, Cardassians, and Nausicans all of whom had first contact with the Federation over a hundred years AFTER the time of Pike. At that time there were less than a dozen alien civilizations with which the Federation has made contact.

ha id love that to just be a random scene in the next season

And Frankes directing was, as always, on point.

​@@QuintusAntonious autocorrect hard at work?

It was Mariner that said it.

Lol yes

Definitely one of my favorite Star Trek episodes!

How about "The Pegasus Project" from SG1?

Horonium, Nadquada 😂

Also reminds me of my single favourite Star Trek DS9 Episode: Trials and Tribble-ations, a mixing of TOS (Those Old Scientists era) and the DS9 crew, that was 100% a fan love letter episode, and this one blew it out of the water.

Numero Una*

I wanted to point out that the one thing about the exchange about her being a "pin-up girl" was a missed "Up". Rebecca Romijn started out as one of the most famous supermodels of the 90s and WAS on posters that were "pinned up". I thought she was hot then, but she is far far hotter now!

@@Ducky69247 Numero Úna

Should be Numera Una, right? I think that’s how Spanish grammar works

@@artembentsionov But Italian doesn't.

Yes, along with his 'DISAPPEARED IN THIS AREA APROXIMATELY EIGHTEEN YEARS AGO". Way back in the 1980s, I was always maintaining that Spock's controlled emotions were an anomaly, and were not typical of 'normal' Vulcans at all, that Spock was massively overcompensating for the mismatch between his human and Vulcan heritage, not because he was a Vulcan trying to work with humans. Nobody believed me, but these past few episodes have vindicated that.

@@quantisedspace7047 I absolutly agree, and seeing those episodes exploring Spock emotions and all, makes me think something major is gonna happen that will make him backtrack fast and I'm very curious what it could be

Well, I had to turn it off, it stunk.

Not to mention the amused smirk in the episode "Mudd's Women." Nimoy said that he truly tapped into the character of Spock during "The Corbomite Maneuver" with the one word: "...Fascinating."

Nice catch, I knew I'd heard Starbase Earhart somewhere, but didn't make that link.

​@@jamesbuchanan4414I thought it was a ref to VOY:The 37s. By the time of LD, has Voyager returned home to debrief Earth as to her abduction into the Delta Q ?

@@quantisedspace7047 Nah, it was a TNG throwback reference. Starbase Earhart was where a freshly minted Ensign Jean Luc Picard got himself shish kebab'd by a Naussican he beat playing on a rigged dom-jot table. It's the reason he had the replacement heart long before the nifty android body.

​@@quantisedspace7047it's definitely a TNG reference, but yes Voyager has returned home by the Lower Decks era. Lower Decks is set after Nemsis.

That turbo lift scene with Nurse Chapel totally explains how she is towards Spock on TOS. It isn't an unrequited love, it is her stepping aside so Spock can fulfill his destiny to all he touched in the universe.

Only been two times for me (back to back) heading back for a third after I finish reading comments. lol

As much as I enjoy both shows, when they announced this crossover I was terrified it was a potential shark jumper. When the animated SNW opening sequence began to run, I knew we were in good hands.

Take an Up

Just smiled? Then walked away thinking, 'wow, that guy's a bit nuts'? Or did he actually say words to you?

Did he smile like Spock did?

​@theblackwidower We actually did the professional photo then stood in the que to get his signature on my husband's garden gnome, we got to chat for about 5 minutes. My husband made him laugh with a comment about his podcast with Michael Rosenbaum. Frakes was king of the Con. And I made Terry Matalas tear up when I told him how much the 3rd season of picard ment to me.

​@@darkelfling65God no his smile qnd that twinkle in his eyes still makes me giggle like a school girl

As generational crossovers go, it almost makes up for "These Are the Voyages" ...Almost.

True that my friend. We need to have one SNW happen to go LD and how cool would it be. Or have the full cast from LD go over to SNW with both ships side by side.

Maybe if Boimler and Mariner actually got to _do_ something. In reality, they were just there, and everyone else was working to solve the problem. Except for the NX part, they did not really contribute all that much. Solid episode, for sure, but it could have been better.

​@@lucemiserlohnBoimler did the jury rigging fo example, and did equal work to Spock

@@lucemiserlohn I mean it fits into them being lower decks, the whole point of LD is that the ship is their home and sometimes stuff happens that they learn about afterwards, so they just go through their life on the Enterprise the same as they did on the Cerritos, Boimler is engaged into the progress of getting home and Mariner kinda tags along as per usual, because she is enjoying that, in my opinion not enough, and it also keeps the crew of the Enterprise to be the bridge crew that always works something out, and they do especially with the little help of Boimler and Mariner. It really speaks to a whole another question about the starflate regulation on breaks, that mandates officers taking breaks, to have more life and work balance, to come up with solutions. Itfits into Star Trek's whole message of brighter future and something we can all aspire be. This episode was packed full of beautifull things that I could talk about

​​@@lucemiserlohnBoimler contributed: he successfully convinced that the Orion ship was a peaceful science vessel.

Yes! I wanted an "up" for the microwave ping

The ping cracked me up. It was so "Lower Decks"

Correct me if I'm wrong but wouldn't Bejor have been under Cardassian occupation in this era? Real nice deep cut there.

This is Spock's Pon Farr year so letting emotions run wild goes with that.

Deep cut! High-quality Cetacean Observation!

That was my trellium down.

And we were all trekgasming with them every step of the way. I throughly enjoyed reliving the episode with these fellow nerds.