Oh Badgy... | Lower Decks | S1 Ep 6 | Terminal Provocations | Reaction | Get... LOW

[@gaz-l621]

This episode is where I think the writers and cast 'found' Boimler and Mariner. By having them both on the same side against a third party it got rid of a lot of the more grating aspects of their earlier relationship in favour of what feels more like an actual relationship of equals. And Mariner's line about how she'd never put other people in danger just to flaunt the rules is also kind of key

[@MrJerks93]

Hard agree. I think it took a few outings to get the relationship and Boimler right. Here they are presented as equals and they work like mismatched buddy cops.

[@Sephiroth144]

EQUALS? She's his cha'DIch

[@bthsr7113]

"You got this Badgey! Wait, what am I doing!?" Love Tendi. She's just so sweet.

[@jaroslavdzurilla5103]

Fix-it Felix Jr. from Wreck-it Ralph is voiced by the same voice actor as Badgey. It feels wrong.

[@chrishotovec4163]

This episode has one of my favorite lines: “I would never put someone in danger! *erhmm* except sometimes maybe Boimler!” I love it so much

[@bemasaberwyn55]

"YOU DON'T TALK ABOUT MY DAD"

[@Sephiroth144]

Honestly, everything with Shaxs and the Drukmani captain is gold IMnsHO "Please let me fire on their warp core- I HAVE BEEN VERY GOOD THIS MONTH!" or the whole "We can talk about this!" "F*** YOU!" bit

[@wendyheatherwood]

Fun fact, Fletcher has been in every episode of the show up to this point other than the first one. He totally feels like one of those minor crew members who show up in TNG for the one episode where they're plot relevant and then disappear forever, but he's always been there doing unimportant things in the background. My headcanon for why we don't see him in episode 1 is because he hid in a storage closet the moment the outbreak started.

[@Drakoni23]

Also love that. It's a win-win. One one hand you get more continuity and the crew really feels like it's the same crew on the same smaller ship. On the other hand it makes no sense for them to draw all new background characters for each episode. So you reuse the ones you've already animated, saving time and money, while getting continuity for free.

[@patrickhogarth4182]

In the episode Caves, during Tendi's flashback to her first day on the Cerritos, you can see Fletcher sitting in the bar. It's a fun little detail.

[@Redfern42]

I nearly busted a gut when Kat's eyes bulged upon seeing T'Ana and Shaxs kiss! 🤗 Surely you're not objecting, hmm?! 😉

[@HDimagination]

It is absolutely real star trek, and it only gets more so as it goes along. Some of the later seasons have some of my favoite moments in ALL trek.

[@bemasaberwyn55]

I love this show

[@Glisern]

Yea I'm surprised how well they've done it. IMO Lower Decks feels more Star Trek than Discovery does.

[@danielwhyatt3278]

@@GlisernOh I TOTALLY hear that.

[@Sephiroth144]

The last two episodes of Season 2 are freaking phenomenal (and not a two-parter, for those who don't know)

[@HDimagination]

@@Sephiroth144 absolutely the episodes I was talking about!

[@I.Lostalim]

Today's lesson - if you have a problematic crew member, make them Riker's problem and let the oroblem resolve itself 😆 This show is so much better than it has any right to be, loving your reactions to it 💙

[@caffeinedelusions]

The more I think about it, the more convinced I am that Paula could do a SPOT ON Tendi performance.

[@Drakoni23]

This is the magic of Lower Decks. Yes, they are a comedy show and make fun of every Star Trek trope. But don't we all? Evil AIs, Holodeck and Transporter shenanigans, Kirk speaches, long shots flying around the main ship, the Riker maneuver. At it's core this show is a love letter to Star Trek with a lot of heart, made by a Star Trek fan. Some of the references are super obscure but all part of the universe. And while in the first season it feels like they rely more on references, the further we get, the more the show stands on its own legs.

[@JoeThornhill]

I think I just figured out who's voicing Boimler! Is it the same guy who's voicing fucking SUPERMAN?!?

[@willadeefriesland5107]

Badgey. Isn't he good? Gee, hope he comes back...😉

[@cruelangel8689]

My impression was all the fans that weren't going to give this series a chance were thinking it was going to be a parody and making fun of their beloved franchise, when as you said- it's a comedy. When i see those that claim there hasn't been ANY good Trek shows in the streaming era, my first reaction is "they must not watch Lower Decks (and now Strange New Worlds)".

[@NilMortifey]

Yeah, definitely the "not my trek" group is so non self-aware that they're parroting the same things the TOS fans were saying about TNG and yet here we are.

[@Leafsdude]

Badgy is legit something that would have given me nightmares when I was, like, 10. lol In my late 30s, he's a hoot.

[@MrEvers]

I feel you gals would really like The Orville too, it's also basically "comedy Star Trek", people expected slapstick with some scifi, but it turned out to be proper scifi with comedy elements

[@Paris.mcdonough]

Yeah need to watch star trek strange new worlds because they do a lower decks crossover and it's a great show in general

[@TheAtkey]

I need to watch that show I've only watched the crossover episode and I don't think I missed anything or anything was spoiled, I would love to see you two watch it between season's 3 and 4 of Lower Decks which is when it took place. Like you did with Get Warped watching a few TOS episodes between TNG seasons.

[@Paris.mcdonough]

You won't regret it ,I love it

[@travisboyle285]

​@@TheAtkey... also wouldn't mind a couple Star Trek The Animated Series in between seasons. Like Yesteryear

[@TheAtkey]

@@travisboyle285 Definitely Yesteryear.

[@CaptainQ2607]

Lower decks, lower decks, lower decks ❤

[@keithleonard6354]

Badgey cosplay out there is AMAZING!

[@bemasaberwyn55]

IKR

[@TheChickenlittle11]

I don’t know if I can look at the delta symbol the same way ever again

[@PeterWritingThings]

Love that this came out today, I'm at a con as Boimler, and I have a Chu Chu t-shirt for the after party =D

[@bemasaberwyn55]

Hey Paula, it's Clippy's demented cousin😂😂

[@TheRhuen]

Had to have a faulty Holodeck episode, its Star Trek law.

[@Vectorspace000]

One thing that to me, makes Lower Decks seem like quintessential Star Trek. When it came out, it was the first time we'd had classic adventure-of-the-week trek since the end of Enterprise in 2005. (And since ENT season 3 was a whole-season serialised story, and 4 was mostly multi-episode stories, technically it would have been the end of season 2 in 2003)

[@bemasaberwyn55]

So fun fact the Drookmani captain is played by JG Hertzler who played a Klingon general in deep space nine. I quote this episode so much. Also the first convention in the city I live in after this episode aired, people were wearing Chu Chu shirts. Also......DELTA SHIFT

[@Vectorspace000]

General Martok, significant reoccurring character

[@Lordoftheapes79]

Hertzler has played many characters over the years. I think he's done as many, if not more than Jeffery Combs. General Martok is definitely the one he's most known for tho.

[@garethspotfur1]

My primary experience with jack brayer was wander over yonder, and wreck it Ralph. The voice actor of such relentlessly cheerful character playing badgey the psycho was so damn fun,

[@stmcde1701]

I'm sorry did Kat just casually let out "My friend is a writer on Discovery"?

[@bemasaberwyn55]

RIGHT

[@KatAlysha]

Hehehe... maybe 😉🤭

[@mikemeggison5084]

Re: Captain's yacht. That was supposed to be Picard's personal shuttle. It was a little flying saucer that popped out the bottom of the Enterprise saucer. They used it for the energy transfer beam emitter instead. It was in the Okuda blueprints, and neeeever got used. LD loves to canonize weird little forgotten things like that.

[@bemasaberwyn55]

Wasn't the one on the enterprise d named the cousteau?

[@ShasOFish]

Like the rubber ducky room

[@mikemeggison5084]

@@bemasaberwyn55 Calypso.

[@Vectorspace000]

Voyager had one, called the Aeroshuttle. It's that shape on the underside of the primary hull. Test footage of it detaching and flying can be found with a quick Google. But they never used it. Only once (so far, as at when this episode came out) has a captain's yacht been seen in use - the Enterprise E's in Star Trek Insurrection

[@MikeJF85]

Captain's Gigs are a thing on navy ship, or were up until about a decade ago. The ones on Star Trek are mostly meant to be the diplomatic shuttle for VIPs, able to ferry them around with staterooms and all, and are also available for the needs of the Captain. Ships that have to do Contact stuff have them (like cerritos's Second Contact stuff). Voyager had its own support ship, the Aeroshuttle, but that was meant to be a planetary science shuttle, not really the same purpose as the captain's yacht.

[@StarkRG]

The two animated shows, Lower Decks, and Prodigy, are my distant favourites of the current batch of shows. They are, in fact, numbers 3 and 4 in my overall rating

[@sword_of_light]

This is the most Star Trek thing on the air right now - Strange New Worlds comes close, it really has that TOS groove. But Lower Decks has that essential Star Trek element - hope. It's a parody, but it wouldn't work if the characters weren't true to the ideals of the Federation - that idea of Roddenberry's that humanity would eventually rise above the petty squabbles of money and resources. That said, this also feels like the least idealized Star Trek - there are still petty squabbles, because people are still people.

[@Skeezer66]

It would be weird to me if people didn't think this as canon Trek. While it's animated, we already had the cartoon version of classic Trek from the 70's. That show was more grounded in 'reality' while this one is more 'cartoony', but both adhere to essential Star Trek themes. In this story, people would be court martialed out, not 'fired', but no Trek is perfect!

[@paulwatson9486]

You two should have a discussion on who you think the first Star Trek non Lower Decks crewman will make an appearance.

[@dagga07]

Hi Gals just wanted to say good job on the video. i came here from your Red Dwarf reviews! all the star trek shows and films are all canon, because timey wimey multiversey! Also have you Guys watched any Strange new worlds yet? if you like lower decks i think you will like strange new worlds take on some of the classic trek lore!

[@this.is.a.username]

The Orville: The Animated Series.

[@R.J.Memnohc]

i think fletcher is probably a take on mcduff from that tng episode where they all got brainwashed into almost starting a war

[@reilen4359]

These don't come out fast enough, dang.

[@Scandic45]

J. G. Hertzler as the Scavenger captain is an amazing easter egg for us who see DS9 as the best Trek show, LD is #3 for me

[@archeryguy1701]

I think the reason it works so well is that it isn't a parody, it's just funny Star Trek. Star Trek is in on the jokes instead of being the butt of all the jokes. I think my biggest fear going into the show is that it was just going to be making fun of Star Trek the whole time, and it's never felt that way to me. 5 seasons of this is not going to be nearly enough.

[@qfrb97]

After multiple re-watches I have concluded that the Strange New Worlds/Lower Decks crossover is one of the top 10 episodes in all of Sci-Fi. That means that for you to properly enjoy it you'll have to watch Strange New Worlds, and even possibly Discovery. So, you'll have to get working on that.

[@travisboyle285]

Sadly Discovery will probably bring the trolls out of the woodwork.

[@qfrb97]

@@travisboyle285 So what, I'm not a big fam myself, but they'll only have to get through season 2 to understand SNW. SNW I do like.

[@WGL]

I got to say we all ship Rutherford and Tendi

[@legostargalactica]

When this first came out I was super excited. This is what I’d wanted for years, a Star Trek parody that was actually in the Star Trek universe. And it was SO MUCH BETTER than I could have ever dreamed.

[@bthsr7113]

The secret sauce is that it is deeply in love with Trek. It mocks in gentle jest and love! It is not self-impressed and solely concerned with tearing down that which has already been known and joked at, without ever actually building anything of its own. Lower Decks may offer feedback, but out of consideration, and it goes on to build things of its own on the existing framework.

[@kellykarjola5524]

The man references in Lower Decks, are from TNG, DS9 and Voyager... Those 3 take place during the 24th century are those 3 are connected to each other..

[@williamozier918]

I'm sorry I keep leaving the same comment but; I love this show, legit Trek. I think the worldbuilding is perfect.

[@KatAlysha]

Truly never stop because it is perfect and we also love it so much!!

[@knitcrochettiger361]

Kat, Paula, are you going to review Star Trek Strange New Worlds....you don't have to wait until after you're finished with Lower Decks....ST SNW has to be the best NEW Trek series so far

[@glennwhittaker197]

Hiya GG get DECKED 😂😹 The great thing about a “cartoon” version of something is you can put in gory violence & expletives & it’s just funny because it’s a CARTOON! Being able to say what you really want to say without offending most people must be refreshing, imagine what just happened in this episode actually happening in any of the Star Trek franchises 😮 Live long and prosper 🖖🏻 🇬🇧🤝🏻🇺🇸

[@knitcrochettiger361]

the security Office is Shax...he is listed as the 3rd Bajoran to join Star Fleet....remember it was established on Deep Space Nine when Nog joined Star Flreet, a person of race that is not a member world of the Federation must have an officer sponsor them in the Academy....both Shax and Tendi had to be sponsored, but we don't know the officer that sponsored them

[@gordonanderson4999]

This is the best Star Trek..... I love the rest but Lower Decks, is purer bliss... Almost perfection 99.9999999999 %

[@Binary79]

Even though I was rewatching the episode I also couldn't remember if Fletcher was an actual crew member or a parasite or alien entity or something.

[@jimhoyt5]

I'm wondering how/when you are going to do the crossover episode with Strange New Worlds. Are you going to wait until you are doing Strange New Worlds or just insert it while you are doing Lower Decks?

[@will7355]

I love how ineffective the profanity bleeping is on this show. You can usually hear the beginning and end of the word. 😂

[@Jazzhands3701]

Please react to inside no.9!

[@Vectorspace000]

#SaveStarTrekLowerDecks

[@alexrobinson8029]

The show gets better!

[@CasualKing21]

I forgot how Rick and Morty S1 was, jfc.

[@crawdadnc479]

So glad y'all are reacting to this show. It keeps getting funnier.

[@OpinionsNoOneCaresAbout]

Aw...I missed the Starbase 80 bit.

[@stmcde1701]

I just want to say i love for you two that you are doing this while also doing BSG. Its definitely a good palette cleanser

[@Rocinanteal]

It only gets better as the seasons progress.

[@antarfodoh]

Every time I rewatch this series, I'm struck by how ridiculous it is, while still being some of the Star Trekkiest Star Trek that ever Star Trekked!

[@bemasaberwyn55]

Damn Starbase 80

[@frankwales]

My sammich!

[@bemasaberwyn55]

​@frankwales 😂😂

[@frankwales]

IMHO, Lower Decks is one of the *most* Star Trek of Star Treks, something I hope you'll come to appreciate more as the show goes on. There are a load of amazing stories coming up that are among the best episodes of Trek that I've seen, and I can't wait for your reactions to them. (And, for the avoidance of doubt, I've seen _all_ of official Trek.) I disagree that it's a parody, however, as I consider parodies to be denigrating or otherwise punching down on their source material, whereas LD _reveres_ Star Trek while making a comedy about it.

[@librarianists]

While I agree with your points overall, I don't think that parody *necessarily* denigrates or punches down-something I'd more likely ascribe to satire's penchant to ridicule. For example, _Galaxy Quest_ is a pitch perfect parody that clearly loves its source material. Perhaps it veers closer to homage, but it's definitely poking fun at some of Trek's-and fandom's-conventions. (As it were.)

[@caffeinedelusions]

Spirit! Community!

[@Filbi]

Badgey is the greatest Star Trek villain since Khan, or possibly Janeway

[@silkunraveled]

🖤

[@gruumy]

You should give Strange new worlds a shot, think you will love that also

[@albertmartinez2539]

One particular episode for sure! 😉

[@sergioaccioly5219]

Oopsie (17'30")... or moopsie? You'll get the joke some 30 episodes from now. I just couldn't resist, sorry. And don't get me starte on the Holodeck programs. Robin Hood? Mark Twain? Seriously?

[@anicetune]

I didn't enjoy this episode. It just didn't make me laugh like the others. I usually love over-the-top, fast-paced , quick-talking stupidity, but this episode was just slightly over the bar of being too childish for me.

[@thomashobbes8786]

I think I’ve said this before (NOT a spoiler!) but in the latest season of LD, be sure to watch some Strange New Worlds first so you can fully experience the LD-SNW crossover. 🎉🎉🎉

[@brianadkins3880]

2:14 What a cute laugh, Paula! Um, did Bendy even HAVE a neck!? lol Have noticed you dropped the ending where you two were out doing stuff. I was just wanting something new. You Gals should film yourselves out doing other things. Maybe one about attending a ST convention?

[@TheMsLourdes]

Not to spoiler you, (Its not a plot spoiler) but when you get a few seasons in, you'll have to watch at least one episode of Strange New Worlds... (Lower decks crossover). I'd say spoiler, but not really spoiling anything.

[@captainchrisdorn1847]

There's actually a mobile app game for Star Trek Lower Decks, and Badgey is the bad guy.

[@julioverne579]

Mark Twain was in the holodeck. It was the real Twain in that time travel episode with those soul sucking aliens.

[@ezridax8480]

I don't know if anyone else already mentioned it, but there is a cross-over between Star Trek lower decks and Star Trek strange new worlds. It shows Boimler and Mariner in live action

[@mrvoltar]

I think it's Strange New Worlds that Kat's talking about and I'm eager for you guys to at least watch that episode at some point. I kinda think that the Wej Duj episode is the most Star Trek episode of anything ever and It (the show) develops some of that TNG between-serial-and-episodic thing.

[@caffeinedelusions]

Oh, right. The steamed bananas error code.

[@GKahla]

Lower Decks has me wanting to re-watch some of the middle Trek series I missed out on. Badgey is emotionally unstable. But that can be debugged. Maybe.

[@Thecramps1982]

I love this episode. Y'all things are happening. Jump, dive or drive or swim.

[@MarcusCrawford-mq2wl]

As there has already been an official Dr Who/Next Generation cross over. Admit you want a Red Dwarf/Lower decks crossover

[@jonathanross149]

Clippy's revenge. It looks like you are editing a video.

[@andrewmarks2636]

I always think this is someone's home star trek rpg game made into a cartoon.

[@mconnaghan]

Another quality terminally provocative cat video!

[@Ansible1000]

So weird hearing Wander’s voice making such brutal threats.

[@bemasaberwyn55]

Fix It Felix Jr

[@gavinator354]

happy Friday y'all :D

[@IsiahBradley]

[SINGS:"....It's 'Lower Deck Gals..."] Thanks as always!!!! Wow, ep6 already!!!!

[@brendanfalvy1281]

Gettin low low low low

[@booth9666]

yes in the future episodes there is a crossover episode not tellin which one cheers gals happy solstice

[@johnnydee6335]

I don't like modern star trek (just my opinion) However, I DO like Lower Decks, but I don't consider it "star trek" so much as a satirical comedy based on star trek

[@SebastianWeinberg]

13:37 - *“I think she did that on purpose. Get him out of lower decks.”- “Oh yeah!”* Making the "Peter Principle" work for _you!_