DrScottie

In true John Oliver fashion, he highlighted Latvia with the caption of Estonia.

I agree that he didn't have Rob Lowe's look aside from the spiked hair, but what he did have was a similar vocal cadence to the way Rob Lowe speaks on the show.

It is a very big deal, no question. It's possible she is alive. After all, the Enterprise saw a debris field and conveniently intercepted a Cardassian report about her escape attempt, but not a body. We know that the Cardassians are experts in faking these things. Like Garak said at the end of "In the Pale Moonlight" about the Senator's exploding shuttle, what conclusion would you draw? We'll find out if that's the case. Given he was name dropped too in the episode, maybe Tom Riker is with her also after he was sent to the Cardassian labor camp.

Yes, he does. The reference to the Dancing Doctor. Gates McFadden herself is a very talented choreographer This was around the time that Beverly and Jean-Luc's son Jack would have been born. She went off the grid for a while around then. I'm not sure if they knew of the events of the last season of Picard when they were writing this. Speaking of Lower Decks, there was the callback to the original TNG Lower Decks episode with Sito Jaxa being a friend of Mariner's whose presumed death at the hands of the Cardassians would shape the rest of Beckett's career. Of course, Nick Locarno was the head of the same squadron with Sito (and Wesley Crusher) where Cadel Albert died after the stunt maneuver. Since they overlapped, it seems like Beckett Mariner was at the Academy between the late 2360s and the early 2370s. I agree, but that's a very low bar to cross. I'm glad Ma'ah is still around as I didn't think they would have killed him off so abruptly. I'm sure he'll play an important role in the season finale too.

According to Memory Alpha, it derives from the name of the British comedy horror miniseries Garth Marenghi's Darkplace. Never heard of it. Eighth rule of Acquisition FTW: "Small print equals large risk."

Oh, it's all just sign on the line, no problems. What a naïve moron. Did he know anything about the Ferengi? They didn't mention his name in the episode, but I think it was Admiral Vassery from season 1. Thank goodness for Captain Freeman to save the day (and a good part of the Federation). At least her husband seems like one of the few good ones in StarFleet. I missed T'Lyn in this episode. She might have known that the Vulcan team easily beat the Grand Negus and the Niners. Her take on the ball game would have been interesting to hear. Maybe she could have helped Mariner with her struggles too or dragged Boimler away from the addictive TV.

T',Lyn has been fantastic this season. It was a nice gesture to toss the record she had been making. Besides, if anybody asks why the report wasn't filed, a high-ranking member of Orion nobility requested that it not be released. We've had Klingons, Romulans, and now Orions. Considering it went after Ma'ah's ship, I'm concerned that the Vulcan ship T'Lyn had served on will be next. I certainly hope not.

Nothing since he was resurrected on that Defiant class ship by Section 31 at the end of Crisis Point II. He along with Section 31, Badgey, or Peanut Hamper could be involved that ship that took out the Romulan and Klingon ships earlier this season.

This may have been his second one. In the season 2 finale, when he went to Cetacean Ops to press the release valve underwater to free up the last hull panel on the ship, he wasn't breathing after the whales brought him to the surface. After Tendi successfully performs CPR on him and he wakes up, he mentions that he saw a koala. T'Lyn is a fantastic addition to the show.

She got a first name, Marie, so that can't possibly be good. I think she's a goner too. Overall, I really enjoyed it. While the cast as a whole was great, Celia was absolutely amazing this whole episode and I really wish Nichelle Nichols were still around so she could have seen it.

I am hearing David Schwimmer's voice coming out of Spock saying "We were on a break!" She keeps her husband's testicles in a meditation lamp. I feel bad for Stonn. Yellow and Blue sounded like that robovoice that tells you your prescription is ready to be picked up. Press 1 for more options. With a yellow and a blue, I was expecting a green one also.

Did La'an convince Pelia to join the StarFleet engineering corps like Scotty helped Dr. Nichols invent transparent aluminum or Marty McFly played Johnny B. Goode to Chuck Berry's cousin? Darn you, predestination paradox. It looked like she left the gun in Khan's room before she left. I know he's still a kid at that point, but that just seems like a bad idea considering who he is. Maybe again she was destined to do that. The title is from MacBeth's soliloquy that ends with "it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."

What about Napoleon as the winner of the Battle of Waterloo? They couldn't remember the Duke of Wellington if they wanted to.

That was a line from Chain of Command, Part 2 when Captain Picard relieves Captain Jellico after he was rescued from Gul Madred (There are...FOUR...lights!). Hence it was Captain Picard, not Admiral. It was great seeing them back at their stations including Geordi at the Conn which is where he was at the start of the show in season 1 of TNG. When the original Enterprise was stolen by Kirk and his bridge crew in Star Trek III, it was clear that they didn't need that many people aboard to get from Earth to the Genesis Planet. Of course, I'm not sure how damage control would be handled in a fight with everyone on the bridge. Perhaps Geordi's drones would help with that too or emergency holograms that aren't interfaced with StarFleet's mainframe. I hope not since I have gained a lot of respect for the man over the course of a season, but considering he addressed Seven properly and transferred command to her with what appears to be his dying breath, I suspect that he's done.

Nothing like the transitive property FTW. Great to hear Kuiil mentioned again. He was a fantastic character and a master at repairs. It is clear his name still carries much well-deserved respect. I have spoken.

On the opposite end of the alphabet, it's like a clue asking the band last alphabetically, which would be ZZ Top. It was in my head too. Second verse, same as the first!

Ken mentioned the city after talking about the correct Emperor. Why did Constantinople get the works? That's nobody's business but the Turks. Yeah, I don't remember that from 8 mm, and that was by Schumacher. I could see guessing Hugo since that does fit the story, but that was Scorsese, not Spielberg.

After a slow start, I have come to really enjoy Prodigy and look forward to what next season brings as they go to save Chakotay. Jumping through space time to save StarFleet, getting picked up after crashing next to the Golden Gate Bridge, and then be subjected to a trial seems straight out of Star Trek IV, but I'll take it. ITA. She was great. I suppose we'll find out next season. I like Gwen and Dal as a young couple.

So the backstories are essentially Wreck it Ralph where a so-called "Monster" in Red decides that they don't want to be the bad one anymore and faces consequences for it, Passengers where someone gets woken up from stasis after a sleeper spaceship receives critical damage and needs to repair it or everyone dies, and The Martian where an astronaut is stranded when the fellow astronauts leave without them. What's different is the next step is them being sold into slavery. Nonetheless, I did enjoy the episode and now we know why Jankom Pog refers to himself in the third person so often.

It was him. I'm not seeing anything in Memory Beta that would have referenced how he might have gotten out there. It is interesting because this was an imitative culture like the Iotians from "A Piece of the Action" where the people took their cues from the book pertaining to mobsters in the 1920. Also, the Thermians of Galaxy Quest consider the show "historical documents" and modeled their society after it. That was great seeing the Enderprizians take on the roles of the original series crew in such dramatic fashion. I do wonder what will happen after the Metamurfosis is finished. What will Murf look like?

Thanks for the clarification. I was unaware that the two differed.

How long has it been? Isn’t this supposed to be just after Nemesis? So 5 or 6 years after the war by now. That's about right. This season of Lower Decks is in 2382 now according to Memory Alpha and the Dominion War ended in 2375. DS9 itself ended in 1999 so while it's been 7 years for the characters, 23 years have gone by for the actors. We are approaching the 30th anniversary of the first episode of DS9 in January.

It was nice to see the Mistress of the Winter Constellations return. You never know when having someone with Orion piracy experience might come in handy. Playing the theme to DS9 was just a thing of beauty even though I saw that in the trailer for this season already. All the scenes on Deep Space 9 were great too. Meanwhile, it was good to see that Jen and Beckett are still a thing and that Jen likes her in part because she doesn't put up with nonsense and can do what needs to be done regardless of how it might look. Extinguishing the candles and being stunned is far preferable to suffocating due to lack of oxygen especially as all of Jen's friends were panicked. As Huey Lewis put it: "strong, sudden and cruel sometimes, but it might just save your life. That's the power of love." In the show's continuing tradition of getting voice acting from Star Trek legends, both Nana Visitor and Armin Shimerman were back as Kira and Quark.

In honor of the new Celebrity Jeopardy airing last night, "S" Words are words that began with the letter S, not swords.

As soon as I realized who it was, I yelled out: "Kahwi LEONARD BERNSTEIN" like "It's the End of the World as We Know It." If that boy in the kid's tournament was marked wrong for misspelling the Emancipation Proclamation, that chicken scrawl of what looked more like the Emancipatinn Prinkmiln shouldn't count. I can see Emancipation, but that's not even close to Proclamation. I agree he should have lost.