Holopod Drill - Borg Encounter - Star Trek Lower Decks S2E8

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[@gailonebell2154]

"I beat the Borg Queen at chess and taught her empathy" this show really understands the true heart of Star Trek. Love it.

[@jonofpdx]

Picard would agree in the worst way.

[@irregularassassin6380]

@@glitch6140 A fantastic line with terrifying implications.

[@Jempai]

????????

[@patrickmcintyre7752]

This show would have never been made if the creators understood even the basics of trek

[@albireotheredguard1599]

They really don't, it does have it's moments though.

[@tektoastium7241]

The fact that this was meant to be an accurate simulation of the Borg AND IT WAS RIGGED shows Bradward at his best.

[@sanhcman666]

The hidden gigachad of the federation.

[@dylanehooverlibrarian7026]

it's extremely funny characterization too. Because Boimler is SO by the book, he automatically powers through the tests. They're designed by someone who's never faced the reality of life in Starfleet in space. Boimler's own by-the-book-ness is at once holding him back in his career AND makes him uniquely suited to facing this exact scenario. It affirm's Treks enduring ethos (diversity is good), illuminates this character (he's so confined by his by-the-book thinking it holds him back in the early seasons) AND it's hilarious. Lower Decks is my favorite modern Trek because it balances these elements so well. The Half Hour animated Sitcom isn't my favorite format (and seems like a strange format for something that's more formal in tone like Trek) but these writers really manage this well. I'm constantly delighted

[@Beerbottles123]

It's a reverse-Kobyashimaru which makes even more awesome. Boimler won a rigged simulation without cheating. Kirk would've been quite impressed.

[@weegar]

Love the fact that he was willing to run it as many times as it took to get a perfect score, only to loose it all to help out his ship.

[@epaminon6196]

He is an exemplary Starfleet officer, after all.

[@argentaegis]

Boimler doesn't get to have nice things. It's a show rule.

[@Igarappappa]

​@@argentaegis he was the hero of the day this was a win for him.

[@LickMyMusketBallsYankee]

Animal rapist eh? Shocker that this is the show's demographic

[@jefflemere4609]

@@Igarappappa No, the true win is getting promoted to Titan with a few things being better, promotion to captain, admiral or command of all of Starfleet, somehow managing to promoted to serve with Picard or Jane. Of course; the titan promotion; well, damn clone getting to remain on Titan while the real Boimler is back with Beckett and the others be similar to a demotion.

[@Forge17]

I can’t believe they actually got the original Borg Queen, Alice Krige, to voice the Borg Queen 😂

[@saphireroze001]

If they can get Jon Frakes and Maria Sirtis, i think they can get Alice Krige. Heck! George Tekei was in the last season.

[@UNLebanon]

I can. She is super nice in real life. Ironic considering the roles that she plays.

[@andruism7]

I love that the simulation actually included the full scenario of being assimilated. You'd think they'd end the program at some point. But hey, maybe they just wanted to make Boimler suffer, in which case mission accomplished.

[@Bloodlyshiva]

Surely such a thing would require major therapy afterwards, even as a simulation?

[@Astro4545]

@@Bloodlyshiva Oh yeah, it would be incredibly traumatic.

[@UltimateSpinDash]

I think the real issue is that he had spent so much time in the simulation at that point, without sleeping, eating or drinking, that his grasp on reality was starting to slip.

[@andruism7]

@@UltimateSpinDash yeah that's definitely why he behaves as he does after, but doesn't change that they actually programmed in the assimilation, hence why he has all the implants. You'd think the simulation would end upon being captured or something but Starfleet is clearly dedicated to the job.

[@shalomamigos]

I saw The Killing Game as a kid when it came out, and I didn't realize until recently rewatching it how terrifying B'Elanna Torres' holographic baby situation would be.

[@JohnPeacekeeper]

What I appreciate is that, the moment they explain the situation to him, the man does not hesitate to sacrifice his perfect run. He regrets it, sure, but there was no doubt he'd do it anyway.

[@jonathanvilario5402]

"I beat the Borg queen in Chess, and taught her empathy" the premise of this is fucking astromical

[@nickdziura7373]

Isn't that the plot of Picard season 2?

[@mcslender2965]

Too bad the Queen assimilated that anyway

[@JeanLucCaptain]

AH but DID YOU BEAT Grand Admiral Thrawn at CHISS? cannot be done LOLOLOL.

[@beastinthesky6774]

Tiny detail but... I love how at 1:29 he's carefully lowering down a couple borg babies, implying that in previous attempts he had crushed a couple while falling out of the vent, lol.

[@UnavailableAtTheMoment]

Thank you for that information. I can now no longer look at brad the same ever again.

[@VeraTheTabbynx]

Don't think he crushed them but shaken baby syndrome will f*ck ya up

[@tkalle1299]

The best part is that it didn’t result in a below passing grade

[@jameschou888]

TNG easter egg. They showed Borg Babies in the early episodes about the Borg and never again

[@ransom182]

Nah. Boims is always careful with Borg babies.

[@MexiSword]

Usually most tricky episodes with borg proves that the crew doesn't understand some basic understandings. I figured Bolimer would be in the same boat. But when he could not adjust the phaser frequency, I knew he really did read every book on them.

[@jocax188723]

That's actually Alice Krige (First Contact/Voyager) Borg Queen, lol Edit: First Contact/Voyager/LDS/Picard. Nice.

[@Argumemnon]

Yeah, pretty nice. Recognised her voice instantly.

[@devilpupbear09]

Resistance is FUTILE!

[@OzgeKatip]

Just FC and Lower Decks. Voyager's Borg Queen was Susanna Thompson.

[@jocax188723]

@@OzgeKatiptrue - however, Krige reprised the role for Endgame. So she was in all three. Edit: All four! Nice.

[@kelvinhow1965]

DATAA!!

[@jamesspring4610]

I've got admit: I never thought I'd hear the Borg Queen say "Eww!" 🤣🤣

[@helperdude8205]

him do need more water

[@DiRF]

@@helperdude8205 Your phrasing makes me think of "It time snu snu!"

[@Argumemnon]

I can't believe that Boimler, of all people, managed to beat the toughest of the simulations, with a perfect score. Fave episode so far.

[@manofcultura]

Boimler is basically a completionist.

[@armydillo1013]

He’s an extremely by the books kind of guy Follows protocol and reads up on everything. These are simulations, not real life. They’re based on information Star fleet has (books), and how Star fleet thinks you should handle these situations (protocol). Boimler may suck at handling real situations, but he’s perfect for this

[@chunt5584]

Also him knowing it is a simulation removed all the anxiety that hinder his decision making.

[@vexxama]

He’s very capable when he gets out of his own head and not worrying over the outcome. Plus he’s obsessed with success, with an infinite number of redos he’s basically speed running a Groundhog Day situation

[@sycho-tech5104]

Not only that, but no one cared. One of the only people to even get a Passing grade on a test designed to be nearly impossible to pass. Lands a Perfect score on what could arguably be the most Difficult of the test you could randomly get. And they still test him like trash.

[@enikata7349]

I find it interesting that the Borg in Lower Decks are a design mixture of how they first appeared in TNG and how they changed it up for First Contact and Voyager

[@fernadogonzalez2940]

Makes se se as most Borg are just walking corpses makes sense some “older” borg had different design as more modern ones

[@LickMyMusketBallsYankee]

@@fernadogonzalez2940 are they really walking corpses? In Voyager when they first encountered the borg and the derelict cube they beamed a dead one aboard for study. The doctor accidentally turned on the electronics causing it sit up and move its arms around. Doc noted that it was a basic programming feature of them and was just the autonomous systems moving what it could, but that was biologically dead and couldn't function as a drone.

[@recoil53]

@@LickMyMusketBallsYankee We also have Seven of Nine, who had spent most her life as a Borg. Remove most the implants and she (and Picard) were back to living human. In Voyager there was also the derelict cube with only adolescent Borg. The other organic crew were killed by a virus.

Boimler is super capable when he's not fearing for his life.

[@ImaPseudonym-go6oy]

He just needs confidence, and that comes with experience.

[@mrshadow4007]

This test was *actually* rigged. Yet Boimler beat it *over and over again* to get a perfect 100 and then quit.

[@ImaPseudonym-go6oy]

@mrshadow4007 I'd like to imagine Boimler taking a victory lap by telling her he beat her hardest, most brutal simulation like 25 times in a row in a different way each time, got a pefect scpre, then **deliberately** threw it just to fuck up her shitnoodle plan, went through actual assimilation and still made it to lunch and his duty shift on time.

[@alexb6234]

Kirk and Boimler...beating rigged tests!

[@thegrimmretails3777]

Know what's scary? Shari could have programmed the drill to simply end when Boimler was captured by the Borg with the implication that he was assimilated. Instead, she actually added all of the horrifying details of being assimilated.

[@jgvillan01]

If the computer can create a "character" that can defeat Data, then re-creating Borg assimilation techniques should be child's play.

[@thegrimmretails3777]

Yeah but to feel the implants inside of him? Meaning he felt nanoprobes entering his blood stream, the dislocation and removal of organs, and all of the discomfort and pain that every drone must go through up until their brain is officially connected to the collective. She programmed all those details in there to make sure the officer who failed the drill was suitably traumatized. No wonder she ran out of time to program the horses in Mariner's drill.

[@francisharkins]

@@thegrimmretails3777 Good way to traumatize the crew out of star fleet and hide the evidence of her actions in case anyone got suspicious and rated Shari out to superior officers. That or the dark possibility of offing yourself being better than being assimilated.

[@irregularassassin6380]

I think the more likely possibility is that she _neglected_ to remove some features when she copy-pasted a different Borg simulation through incompetence or negligence. That seems more in keeping with her personality.

[@irregularassassin6380]

@Minwon Jang Actually, by this point in canon, the Crew of Voyager had returned (the Cerritos crew even met Tom Paris), and I believe there were about five members aboard that ship who had first-hand experience with assimilation. If I remember correctly, they are Seven of Nine, Icheb, Cpt. Janeway, Lt. Tuvok, and Lt. Torres.

[@SpaceMan101South]

I actually kept thinking about this episode and about how Boimler would've been probably one of the most terrifying borg. He knew basically everything there is to know about all things Star Trek while being a character in Star Trek. It's like having the borg with the knowledge of a nerd from our world.

[@zigzackb2036]

I think my favorite is when he got out half a dozen drones, sent a distress signal, got picked up AND set a bomb to make the cube go boom!

[@roadwarrior144]

Borg: “Your skin is a mess!” Me: “Pot calling the kettle, lady.”

[@grifonecoronato]

Boimler strapped down before a leather clad woman telling him he needs to drink more water. Me, having watched a lot of kink educational videos on TikTok: “ha! I got that reference”

[@elonwhatever]

Can you explain it to my friend?

[@grifonecoronato]

​@@elonwhatever I'm probably going to explain it wrong, but I'll try... In the BDSM / Kink, Doms have a reputation for insisting that their subs stay hydrated. It's a part of aftercare, which is a super important element of kink in which the partners check in on each other after a scene, talk about what they enjoyed and what they'd rather do differently next time, and manage what's called "sub-drop", which is a hormone imbalance that can occur after intense scenes. The sub's brain literally releases almost its entire reserve of pleasure hormones oxytocin and dopamine, which feels euphoric in the moment, but will then leave the sub feeling weak and depressed until the brain has the time and nutrients necessary to replenish and stabilize those hormone levels again. Drinking water and staying hydrated helps to manage sub-drop. But subs -- particularly brats, which is a kind of sub that get satisfaction by defying their Dom's wishes -- also have a reputation of refusing to drink water as a matter of stubborn principle. So when the Borg Queen comments on Boymler's skin not being very hydrated, while he's strapped down, it echoes the stereotypical admonishing in D/s relationships.

[@elonwhatever]

@@grifonecoronato Well thank you for this explanation. I (I mean my friend) had literally no idea about this thing being a thing in BDSM subculture. Or that this scene was referencing that. I (my friend) thanks you

[@grifonecoronato]

@@elonwhatever no worries! It was a super niche joke that went over a lot of peoples heads, I’m willing to bet

[@andromidius]

@@elonwhatever This is a rare occurrence - someone being interested in a niche topic on the internet, getting a great thought out response and then being grateful. Also, I need to drink more water.

[@estebanpineros9409]

Man, this shows Boimler is probably one of the BEST personnel in the Cerritos, maybe even in all the California-Class ships. The entire crew was put through simulations which were tampered with to be practically undoable, and yet not only was he the only one to pass, he actually aced an impossible scenario. Neither the entirety of command, nor even Mariner who's been shown to be highly trained, came even close to matching him.

[@rorieb20]

I think the problem with Mariner is that she hates rules and authority so much that she destroys her own chances of passing the exams. She lost points in the terrain empire exam for literally trying to break the exam rules. Probably stems from her dad being an admiral and her mom being a captain

[@madcatmk1]

Love that they use one of Ron Jones's Borg themes from TNG.

[@cozycrimecorner]

How exactly did he manage to trigger the chess game?

[@RBAWintrow]

He reversed the polarity and rerouted 47% of the EPS manifolds.

[@kencf0618]

A strange game. The only winning move is not to play.

[@apolloabove6616]

Bounced a graviton beam off the main deflector dish.

[@Leviathis_Krade]

Boimler stole a heisenberg compensator from the shuttlepod bay and reconstituted the torture table into a tridimensional chess set, but the only problem was he had to cut it short due to trace non-linear particulate antimatter build up and jury-rigged an isolinear chip with a radiographic interface so he could manually detonate the borg cube while evading in warp.

[@joeschembrie9450]

Operating systems are always bundled with a free chess game.

[@IAsimov]

When I saw Boimler get assigned the Borg Encounter, at first I hummed the 'Lone Wolf' epilogue song from Halo Reach. And then, this madman turned out to defeat the Borg in full and save everyone in that simulation. To top it all off, he didn't hesitate to sacrifice his perfect run in order to save his crew and his ship. This man is one of Starfleet's absolute best.

[@TuxedAaron]

Yeah, this was definitely post Episode 7, where Boimler starts coming out of his shell. I mean, come on...a rigged BORG simulation? That's, like, some "Kobayashi Maru"- level shit! ^_^

[@brainflash1]

This is from Season 2.

[@TuxedAaron]

I never said it wasn't.

[@Drago_Whooves]

I would like to see Boimler handle the Kobayashi Maru, he might join the elite club of winners (and not win by cheating)

[@TuxedAaron]

@@Drago_Whooves This WAS a Kobayashi Maru scenario. The test was rigged to fail.

[@shoresean1237]

"Boimler, save the crew from the corrupt bureaucrat by keeping the sim going - and then we'll mock you for being assimilated."

[@daynechastant]

While the command crew still commended him for his efforts to save the ship from a bureaucrat villain.

[@noirangel6416]

I love how everytime Boimler leaves in the Escape Sphere he does a little Mario "Wahoo"! 😂😂😂

[@Geth-Who]

It's so fun watching people try to declare this the death knell of Star Trek 'cause it doesn't take itself seriously. Because naturally the franchise that brought us Amok Time, Saving Data With Gilbert And Sullivan, Accidental First Contact Vulcan Makeout, Beastie Boys Macross Tactic, et cetera, et cetera...absolutely needs to be taken as the most deadly serious thing ever.

[@ministryoflies1344]

Weirdly I think Lower Decks is the most Trek show there is ....so much more enjoyable to watch compared to Picard, Discovery and Strange New Worlds

[@Geth-Who]

@@ministryoflies1344 I think a lot of that is specifically because it doesn't take itself seriously. Trek's always been a little bit goofy, from Let's Put A Klingon In Sherwood Forest to Pine!Kirk Gets All The Vaccine Reaction Symptoms At The Worst Time, and this show laughs with us.

[@ministryoflies1344]

@@Geth-Who Even DS9 found humour in the darkest of places. The Sisko is the original space Jesus.

[@disnonn]

I think the difference is that Trek sometimes is goofy, but most of the older shows respected their characters even when having a bit of fun. Lower Decks' problem isn't the humor, it's the lack of respect for it's cast.

[@Geth-Who]

@@disnonn If these people can't handle the humour a cartoon can bring to the universe as a medium, it's their problem, not the show's. The worst fans always turn out to be the ones entitled enough to think their disapproval will magically make something unpopular.

[@JeanLucCaptain]

"how's that empathy?" "we assimilated it" 🤣 ya see that's the thing you give the Borg enough time THEY ALWAYS WIN.

[@khyrodon]

This is one of my favourite Boimler moments. He really showed his abilities and dedication here.

[@Tetsujinhanmaa]

So he did a speedrun of the Borg. Nice!.

[@brentc2411]

"I guess the Borg didn't take your appetite!" **cries** "They took away everything I was.."

[@benwasserman8223]

Actually what do the Borg eat? Do their ships have feeding tubes that supply the drones with liquid mush?

[@willardkestila6465]

@@benwasserman8223 as a person who has only really seen one or two star trek movies and one episode of the show, i'd wager a guess that the Borg install a sort of life support system into each unit in order to keep the biological components alive

[@mariorojas1338]

The Borg have internal systems that handle their biological needs, they just need to be "fed" energy (I presume electricity?). From the TNG episode, I, Borg, where the Enterprise gets a single Borg drone.

[@mariorojas1338]

OK just checked, Dr Crusher in that episode says: "The Borg don't ingest food. Their implants can synthetize any organic molecules their biological tissues require. What they need is energy."

[@AtenRa]

The newly empathetic Queen’s first advice is better skin care, I love it 😂

[@BinnyKing]

It's a bit of a running gag that outside the Ceritos (and most of the Federation Fleet), Boimler is a bit of an accidental stud. So the fact that the SIMULATED BORG QUEEN starts flirting with our boi kills me XD

[@rorieb20]

I know right. I mean just look at the workers on his family farm 😂 if he did not hate working on the farm so much he'd realize ever worker wants to be with him hahaha

[@Serpent042G]

Speedrunners in the 24th century have to be in really good shape to succeed.

[@ImaPseudonym-go6oy]

@Serpent042Gaming I don't think this is talked about enough. Boimler is shown as comic relief, but this show indicates his level of heth and physical fitness is actually pretty high. Like, "someone who treats exercise and fitness like an actual career" high. They all seem to be in great shape, in fact.

[@ImaPseudonym-go6oy]

"health," not "heth." Shit.

[@majorghoul9017]

He's actually doing pretty well in these

[@Kohl293]

If it weren’t for his anxiety he could defeat the collective all by himself.

[@Eldoski]

This is way more entertaining than it has a right to be.

[@alastairward2774]

Probably because there was about a second of Mariner, the character easily spoils the entire series for me.

[@AngelEmfrbl]

@@alastairward2774 How we feel about her is how Star Fleet feels, except we get to see some of the good points of her character. This is a sign of good writing,, because even we can see why she is a problem.

[@Utubesuperstar]

He’s a lot like the drill lady book smart without practical knowledge that’s probably why he did so well on a drill designed by someone else with only book smarts

[@willt3223]

oh he has a lot of pratical knowledge. he was on the titan for almost a year.

[@nicholasjohnston1970]

2:41 there’s the empathy he taught her

[@hoot2416]

"Adding me might result in a net negative for the collective." That's such a Boims thing to say. 😂😂😂😂

[@jhart6764]

Remember, Boimler was the guy who flurished under the no buffer time rule. Boimler may be by the book, but he is a skilled man.

[@MechaShadowV2]

Considering the borg are so slow running makes sense

[@francisharkins]

Are the Borg actually that slow? Least in new interpretations, thought alot of what the Borg is potrayed as is propaganda and limited knowledge.

[@JayJayM57]

@@francisharkins Yes they are that slow. They captured people by overwhelming them with numbers and lack of escape routes.

[@benwasserman8223]

I mean their logical assumption is that everyone will be assimilated eventually. Why rush something that’s inevitable?

[@hobomike6935]

I've always found it strange that the borg don't *beam people directly aboard* their cubes to assimilate them in isolated, confined jails and treatment rooms. they already have tractor beams that drain shields (which are the primary defense against transporter beams) you'd think they'd capture ships instead of slicing holes through their nacelles, assimilate the crew, and then once the biological/technological distinction belongs to the collective, they can utilize the borg-ified crew's knowledge to better understand and assimilate the ships and eventually the entire civilizations. as proven by Picard's assimilation, by taking over the crew you've got *everything* that crew member had; memories, secret codes/passwords that might let you infiltrate restricted areas, equipment and comprehension skills of that race's culture that can be used to better undermine them, etc. obviously this wouldn't work with a few species, such as Q, Changelings from the Dominion, species 8472, and the Dowud (in that case yeah they'd just have to start blasting) but it'd be worth a try for almost all the other alien powers we've seen in the show.

[@MechaShadowV2]

@@francisharkins well they seem to only walk at a strolls pace, but maybe that's because everyone only did a brisk walk to try and get away. I know one TNG episode said they couldn't keep Data's pace, but that was Data.

[@brydon5721]

Fast becoming my second favourite Trek after DS9.

[@PlayNiceFolks]

I kinda agree

[@brydon5721]

@@PlayNiceFolks Glad to know I'm not alone in my love for Lower Decks!

[@danhair]

This guy ran the Kobayashi Maru test 17 times. 17 TIMES!

[@CJusticeHappen21]

Question: Could the Holodeck replicate a Borg program so perfectly that it would actually assimilate its own original programming and take over the host vessel?

[@jamesbrice3267]

This must have happened at least once.

[@Joynsie]

"There is no Boimler, I am Excretus, of Borg" 😂😂😂

[@Turboy65]

This may be the best Lower Decks episode to date.

[@luisenriquegalicia490]

I love how even though the simulation was rigged to fail him boimler managed a perfect score through sheer determination

[@StagFiesta]

This ep shows that Boimler is actually a super competant Ensign, he still passed even first try. I love how Lower Decks doesnt have a group of idiots bad at their jobs, theyre idiots who are good at what they do, not perfect but theyre knowledged.

[@Nevertoleave]

The baby squishing his cheek is so cute

[@myriadmediamusings]

Makes me wonder how Boimler would've handled the other situations the other three were put into.

[@Southern-trout0]

Its really hard to lug around 2 additional bodies, only for a 1% increase in your score. That must have felt like a slap to the face.

[@garethspotfur1]

For all of his anxiety and self doubt, boimler really is awesome in the clinch. I think mariner is wrong, “bold boimler” will take this boy places.

[@andyt2k]

This is one of those scenes to remind you that Boimler isn't just a book nerd suck up, but a real badass

[@TheMattastic]

The Borg babies are so cute!

[@bennaambo2716]

the borg queen tells him to drink more water :D

[@atigerclaw]

Game completionist players in a nutshell:

[@joshgeorge]

Haha, the “empathy” foreshadowing Picard season 2?

[@alexdemoya2119]

“just keep borging” is a subtle nod to morbius

[@TheGreegles]

And then they Borged all over him. It was horrifying!

[@erisveseli]

This is like when everyone had timed work when the captain removed buffer time. He was the only one that did his job fast without any problems. He will totally become a captain

[@erichanastacio9695]

At least he didn't reprogrammed the simulation like James Tiberius Kirk did.

[@kellymoses8566]

Holodeck training simulations must be why Starfleet people are so competent.

[@dajunjiet]

The Borg encounter was an interactive "ride" at thr star trek experience, which used to be at the the Hilton in Las Vegas. I went once. To bad it's gone now.

[@DogwafflDan]

worked on it. Not my best job, but at least some good came from it.

[@lukegauci1159]

Collective: “We are the Borg! Resistance is futile!” Boimler: “whatever!”

[@TheCNYMike]

I've just taken up touch typing, and dealing with the first few lessons make me relate to Boimler going back and doing this over. In fact, the Borg might be easier to deal with!

[@rhodrage]

A shame for Boim that there were no Borg incursions between Voyager and Picard

[@SirMisterMr]

This is almost exactly like the intro level in the Strike Force videogame (sans babies and escaping), specially the beggining.

[@dogkungfu8510]

I can hear him shuffling around in there... 😂

[@theduke7539]

"AHH, You need to drink more water, your skin is a mess" no idea why I love that

[@captaintalon4485]

You know your skin care is bad when the Borg Queen has an emotional response to how you look

[@jimward89]

Borg drones Strengths -assimilation - Weakness - Swords Bullets H-EMP - Hyper electromagnetic pulse

[@Snowthree]

And now hay fever and acid reflux.

[@jimward89]

@@Snowthree thats new

[@juanrisa945]

2:38 Did she just called him ugly?

[@stephenkasper6081]

The only thing missing is him 100% speedrunning it while playing his violin

[@lhei_tayuun]

The franchise's self-parody show is more Star Trek than either the shambling husk that is now Discovery or the Star Trek™-flavored paste smoothie that is Picard.

[@dominicgordon4774]

This actually looks kinda funny. I may have to check it out

[@daynechastant]

Do so. It's like THE ORVILLE - finding humor in Star Trek without mocking the core of what it is to be a member of Starfleet...even in the lower decks.

[@tyrant-den884]

There are some very interesting things implied about the Holograms in this series that is not talked about enough.

[@alternative915]

Lower deck is able to taught the borg empathy better than Picard season 2 10 fold.

[@darthindomitus]

What I like about this specific scene, is that it shows Boimler is actually a highly skilled, intelligent, and competent Starfleet Officer. We can see through this scene that he really does have what it takes to be an exceptional Starfleet Captain. The only problem is, since Boimler knows he is in a simulation, there are no stakes. In the real world, with real consequences, Boimler panics, makes irrational decisions, and, quite frankly, he chokes. The only thing holding him back from being as accomplished as someone like Mariner is himself; his lack of confidence.

[@lyinarbaeldeth2456]

And that's something Mariner genuinely starts to care about and help him with as the characters develop!

[@rorieb20]

There was an episode where the captain made every crew member do their tasks in precisely 15 minutes. The pressure of having to do so much in such a short amount of time made everyone in the crew fail from fatigue..... EXCEPT Boimler 😂 he finishes all his tasks and requested more. Then when the crew got attacked by aliens he took them all out without even breaking a sweat By being so focused on the work he forgot all about his anxiety and it just shows how good he really is. Real captain material

[@darlalathan6143]

No wonder Jessie Gender likes this show so much, she cosplays it!

[@SmartSmears]

I guess everyone is getting this in their recommended at the same time

[@inurokuwarz]

Bomlier invented Speedrunning in this Universe.

[@CygnusLaboratorys2056]

Boimler would make a great Speedrunner

[@JosephDickson]

Leave it to Boimler to speed run the Borg. 😉

[@kellyrk2007]

Boim-cutus of Borg.

[@KristoferKeane]

Clearly Boimler will show up to save the day in the Picard S3 finale.

[@ShadeGrey]

Boimler resisted the Borg allllll day.

[@alexitrinune]

It was said boimler was stuck in the same situation with the Kobayashi Test an re did the test one too many times.

[@fredjasper7378]

Holy crap I have acid reflex and hayfever too

[@TonyBalDev]

GREAT GREAT EPISODE HAHAhahaa =)

[@surblechev278]

I mean, if anything, he could've 100%-ed it, said "Hit me," & do it all again w/ 100% every time until they're back

[@Peter_Turbo4]

The Borg cannot adapt to a solid punch

[@baileylarsen9439]

This me when don’t find all the collectibles in the level.

[@brll5733]

How is a holodeck able to assimilate someone? Like, a recreation program can casually simulate a billion people strong hive mind? And integrate a real human brain?

[@michalslatina8004]

I am Boimus of Borg. 👍😂😁

[@illustriouschin]

I wish the creators of this show were in command of the other Nutrek shows because they actually give a duck.

[@Tao_Tology]

Cry more.

[@danshive4017]

The hottest Boimler has ever been. Before the last one, anyway.

[@omicron6513]

This is me doing Leetcode problems...

[@MONSTERDR451]

hit me, let's go

[@LostMercenary99]

"HIT ME!"