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191. The Coffee Machine Cleaning Cycle of the Federation (LD 5.07 and 5.08)

36 min • 10 december 2024

Anika and Liz are briefly trapped on a world where months pass in the space of seconds, which gives us a lot of time to talk about how great Carol Freeman is.

Yes, we're talking about Star Trek: Lower Decks' "Fully Dilated" and "Upper Decks". We liked one of these episodes! Mostly!

"Fully Dilated" was a personal attack aimed at us
Why is Tendi so out of character this season?
The Boimler and Rutherford subplot felt like a throwback to TNG_S8, but what works as a 140-character tweet is less successful spread over 22 minutes of animated comedy
If you're going to put T'Lyn in the T'Pol role and then make boob jokes, they should be … funny
"Do you know how mid an episode has to be for Data to be our favourite part?"
We liked "Upper Decks" a lot!
But doctors withholding pain medication is not funny
Freeman continues to be the best captain