Ups & Downs From Star Trek: Lower Decks 3.4 - Room For Growth

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[@zedoniverse]

The body of the "officer" in the Swamp room, is actually a Doopler that never rejoined with the others. from "An Embarrassment of Dooplers" ;)

[@chrisXeroforney]

I was just coming to say this, it's even got the ears. Well spotted!

[@kev30631]

Must have missed that. That is gross.

[@tsurugikage]

So since it was the body of the diplomat, does that make this go from a trellium down to an up?

[@andrewskinner-demps2637]

Yep! Sure is!

[@DiYelSy]

Same here. Came here for this.

[@CrimsonCateye]

"Was this woman recently possessed by an alien entity?" is literally said when Freeman goes total stress. They give a reason for heightened stress

[@arklestudios]

She also says "months worth of stress."

[@Nergalsama01]

It's like sometimes they are desperate to come up with downs...

[@raffi_veiga]

Exactly what I was going to comment. An unfair down. 😕

[@Tele-dude]

There are times I wonder if we are watching the same episode.

[@comandantegorrion7271]

@@Nergalsama01 Yeah, there were a few times when they were going over prodigy that I think they were being unnecessarily harsh, too

[@Sagitarria]

Tendi being resistant to hallucinogens is probably consistent with the history of Orion's being immune to their own pheromones as well as their use of hallucinogens for interigation in the far future

[@bemasaberwyn55]

Bloody hell I didn't even think of that

[@Sagitarria]

Female orions at least

[@Asbiorne]

"Mariner is her daughter - pretty stressful." -- That's an up from me, just for the sheer understatement!

[@josephholyfield4867]

The skeleton is from the duplicator episode. Where the alien would duplicate when they were stressed out. It is not from Starfleet. So many of them duplicated one or two must have gotten lost

[@RasseruS]

Also, how someone get confused as that being a officer uniform? Clearly the duplicator wearing that outfit.

[@Gambit2051]

Also, they specifically point out that it was the Stress of the Arrest, being Captain, AND the Possession that caused her to break. The recent possession also seemed to be of the primary concern of the doctor.

[@rmdodsonbills]

Yes, and also, apparently this was the latest in a string of possessions. That'll stress you out!

[@Anduril74871]

Her engineering staff wasn't the sole cause. They just happened to be the straw that broke the camel's back.

[@ArchOfWinter]

I love that little bit with Kayshon gardening. Just a few lines of Tamarian while taking care of the flowers and makes me wonder what those metaphor means in context!

[@carlosponte2939]

I think Sean missed the point of Freeman getting really really stressed by people who refuse to to relax. I thought the irony was hilarious

[@darena12]

The baryon sweep would have also killed every plant in that room, so it’s safe to say that the Cerritos has not undergone a sweep, or that room is somehow protected from them.

[@FJF1085]

They could have put in diverters. Enterprise had an arboretum too. So either they had to move all that stuff or put in diverters. Eye of the Beholder. The skeleton was only in Troi’s vision, what was actually there was cellular residue.

[@jonarse]

The skeleton in Eye of the Beholder was only there during Troi's hallucination, when they scanned the wall back in reality, they only found some cellular residue.

[@TrensGemini]

"We’re only going to be lower deckers for so long. In no time, Tendi’s going to be a bridge officer. I’ll probably get drummed out of Starfleet for calling Ransom a piece of sh*t. And Boimler, you’ll be dead because of the whole BEING BOLD thing." - favorite quotes of the episode. Would you like to try “Lower Decks' Comic Mini-Series”? It have a vampire and Enterprise NX-01 in it.

[@Kjasi]

I dunno Sean... "Join the Maquis" could be a euphemism for "die" since the Maquis were "all wiped out" by the Jem'Hadar.

[@cowsagainstcapitalism347]

It's "Go the way of the buffalo" for the 2380s.

[@roffel06]

Ooh, that's clever!

[@ussenterprisenxo1]

I thought some survived and was rescued by sisko

[@ericlooewe]

This aged differently than expected

[@KeenanCasey]

So my only feedback would be for the down on the straw that broke the Captains back when she snapped and went black band. The points you made were very valid of things that could have been listed as a joke. I do feel it was very well played out and is very much a common thing that causes people to finally snap and lose their head is rarely the highly stressful things but a minor thing especially when you are trying to help someone or a group of someones that their resistance just becomes a breaking point.

[@matthewbarry4464]

There's a quote that essentially says it's not the normal stressors that'll get you, it's the broken shoestring when you're not expecting it.

[@ugochukwuanadyk6954]

Yeah I wanted to post a similar comment. She could have been suppressing all the stress she had from her passed experience until they made her to snap.

[@MostlyPonies1]

Yeah in the episode they said it was the result of months of stress.

[@DOOMocrat]

The dialog even says this is month's worth coming out.

[@arklestudios]

That is very true. It's what the phrase "the straw that broke the camel's back" basically means. It's actually something of a time honored tradition in comedy for a character to have gone through a metric ton of stressful situations and come through mostly okay, only for one very minor inconvenience to just set them off on a destructive rampage.

[@GalactusOG]

All UPs for me. I just enjoy all this new Trek and DGAF what internet people think.

[@billduncan5662]

Hell yeah!

[@Cdr2002]

Awesome, love ya

[@shamsham1229]

It’s not gonna last forever so I am intent on enjoying every second of every show. To hell with the naysayers.

[@TypicallyWhat]

100% agree

[@kev30631]

I don't enjoy all of it. I don't consider myself a shill . I try to keep it real . But I do enjoy lower decks which is what we're talking about.

[@gordarcher9748]

The klingon going overtime is also a call back to DS9 and the introduction to Koloth(?) when he went overtime in the holosuite continously fighting some famous Klingon battle.

[@recoil53]

Some Klingon battle? It was the Battle of Klach D'kel Brakt!

[@gordarcher9748]

@@recoil53 Yes.. It's sad to say that my knowledge of obscure star trek trivia is not up to snuff.

[@The_Str4nger]

that dummy in the klingon room also looked like one of the aliens from Worf's holodeck training program

[@gmac64]

It was Kor in the holosuite and this was one of the best DS9 episodes out there. Blood Oath, (S2-E19). They brought 3 klingons from TOS together in full Klingon makeup (Kang, Koloth and Kor). Love this episode.

[@KnightRaymund]

"Shut off the power." "He'll kill you!" "No, he said he'll kill you - shut it off."

[@jonminick5740]

The whole engineers working while on shore leave is a call back to TOS. When Scotty was reviewing technical manuals!!!

[@alanforefanart2020]

I loved it that the Delta team were subtle opposites of the Beta team. Delta Boimler’s hair goes down instead of up, Delta Tendi is reddish instead of green, and Delta Rutherford has an eye patch.

[@LordDarthHarry]

2 things about the skeleton. The Skeleton in the TNG episode was part of Troi's vision. As others pointed out already. The one in this episode is not a crew member. It's one of the Dooplers.

[@nexik680]

Looks like not all of them formed back.

[@robh5409]

It's a Doopler. Makes sense since they overrun the ship.

[@TheBntimmins]

But the organic residue where the skeleton was at was real. Don't know if that part is shielded (because who in their right mind would be in that part of the room anyway).

[@boko06]

5:37 Tbf, the show explicitly said that the engineers brought out all of the stress that she's repressed, causing her to explode and get a black band

[@israeljovanovich3336]

You missed the joke -- it wasn't an officer's body in the swamp -- it was one of the Dooplers!

[@glenncrider2566]

The line "Engineers, all of them are god damn Geordie LaForge's" got the biggest laugh from me. This should have been a latinum up.

[@JonathanHippert]

part of boimler's "shortcut" took them through what looked a lot like the "warp core" that kirk realigned in the kelvin timeline and I think it turned out to be the inside of the deflector dish and it got nary a mention

[@DrewTauber]

Didn't they mention at the beginning of "Starship Mine" that it's not common for a ship to need one so soon into its service, but the Enterprise had logged more mission hours than the average ship that they had to do it early? Maybe the Cerritos is a decade away from needing its first sweep? Also, I thought the zero-g scene was a reference to the "sweet spot" on every ship that Travis mentions in the Enterprise pilot.

[@mherndon]

Also starship mine mentions that Enterprise needed a high power sweep than normal.

[@keit99]

Yes starship mine mentions (at least in the german version) that the enterprise had more active duty in 5 years than most normal starships have in 10.

[@tyalmonivol2765]

That cadaver under the hydroponics bay is not a crewmate. If you look close it is actually the body of a Doopler. Maybe one of the clones from the doopler episode.

[@Gambit2051]

THANK YOU! It is esp HILARIOUS to see Sean complain about that on a Green Screen, bc I am pretty sure that Kris Thompson noticed considering how Blown Up that Doopler was lol.

[@AzraelThanatos]

For the Baryon Sweep thing, I'd assume that the Hydroponics Bay is shielded from that sort of thing there because otherwise the entire bay gets wiped out there.

[@nobodyimportant2470]

Also a possibility is that the bay can be ejected for the sweep. Also if I am remembering correctly the sweep was as dangerous as it was because the Enterprise was long overdue for it. They cranked the power up for deep cleaning and that is why the crew needed to be evacuated. Non living organics were safe otherwise the leather saddle wouldn't have been left on the ship.

[@Yattien89]

@@nobodyimportant2470 I'm confused, are you saying plants are non-living organics, since the comment is regarding hydroponics bays?

[@mastere6115]

@@Yattien89 no, they are just trying to prove a point that the sweep clearly can be set to not clear certain things or places on a sweep, since the specific saddle they mentioned, which is the corpse of an organic being, didn't get removed.

[@frankrecinos7158]

If I remember from that episode they mentioned the hydroponics Bay and all those plants being needed to be evacuated or something like that.

[@nobodyimportant2470]

@@Yattien89 As Master E said I mentioned the saddle as it shows that the sweep didn't damage organic matter that wasn't alive. The captain went back onto the ship to get the saddle he left behind because he found out the planet they were orbiting had horses. If it destroyed organic matter then the saddle wouldn't have been left behind. Normally they would have done the sweep without moving the crew off but the increased power due to the ship being over due was why they needed everything living off the ship.

[@Robert-nk8wy]

Okay your down for the captain I disagree with because they specifically explain she has had this build up for months hence the whole season.

[@darkwalkermyth]

I kind of felt that when Billups slapped Shax, it called back to the ever controversial Mel Brooks movie, "Blazing Saddles" with the French Mistake scene, where the guy is beating up on one of the cowboys calling him a brute and collapses crying on the cowboy.

[@JoshGColorado]

This show is seriously exactly what trek didn't know it ever needed. Love it.

[@Chiscringle]

The puppies and bunnies room was so adorable! I'm not sure I'd relax so much as get so ramped up my head would explode.

[@kurthkovacevic5327]

I didn't realize the body till this episode and it looks like a duplier body as the clothing looks similiar.

[@sjprdude]

The dead body is an UP!! It’s so lower decks. It’s telling you that they are not taking good care of the Cerritos!!! Loved it!!

[@lorenzwinterhoff8049]

5:59 AND AROUND IT: I dispute your down sir. For those who haven't dealt with a lot of stressing things for a long time (as you so aptly list for us), allow me to elucidate. It's very often the smallest of things that can cause a stressed person to explode. The biggest things we deal with daily are there and part of our world construct, so rather than explode at every turn with these daily recurrent issues, is that one teeeeeeny tiny thing that causes the blow out. There's many sayings that demonstrate this, such as "The straw that broke the camel's back," or the experience of a tiny stone in one's shoe being so eggregious that you have to stop and remove this BOULDER only to find a bit of sand. I perfectly understand Captain Freeman not exploding at her daughter, she knows how to manage that. Her arrest was stressful but she knew she was innocent. Her engineers refusing to "relax" as prescribed/ordered? NOT NORMAL MUST FIX.

[@monkofbob]

Sean, with your first down you’re missing the element that this isn’t just Mariner not obeying her, this is the entire engineering department actively disobeying her orders, and remember her management style is micromanaging, every order obeyed perfectly and on time. This is great exploration of her character, when we had just seen her daughter explore her dream and nightmare being the strictures of commitment being the loss of her freedom hence why she loathes advancement. It’s an up from me

[@funlightfactory6031]

and he missed the fact that she was just recently taken over by an alien mask, which the episode eludes to, as having contributed to her inability to handle her stress like she normally does.

[@RickyLeong]

Regarding your first down: To be fair, IIRC, the head relaxation officer did point out Freeman was suffering from an accumulation of stress over a long period all manifesting itself after the engineers trigger her by continually working …

[@kageseb]

One for Cetacean Observations: Boimler says "fortune favours the bold" which is a DS9 reference.

[@notTHATJohnSmith]

That's what Matt Damon said. Shortly thereafter, I lost ALL my money 💸 in Bitcoin. 😉

[@leaarinwarkentine]

It's also ab Latin proverb, though. Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat

[@robkitson9676]

Doesn't Kirk say that in a movie? Or something similar.

[@scorch2155]

I'd say that's a stretch as that's a saying that's existed long before star trek was ever crested and is used to this day.

[@QBCPerdition]

One thing to point out, the swamp is not the hydroponics bay, it is below the hydroponics bay. That's where the water is coming from. They even show the hydroponics bay where the...Darmok-guy is tending a flower. I didn't notice the skeleton until pointed out here, and even when it was being shown, I wasn't sure if it was a skeleton or a stone idol. The ship was transformed into a temple and this would be the last place anyone would want to clean.

[@boko06]

I missed the skeleton too

[@snake5379]

you namedropped Geordie, but ignored the visor!

[@daneyoshida]

The corpse is a Doopler from season two. loved that throw back. (same writer) and the holodeck scene. omg the most funny scene in the series so far.

[@daniellewis3330]

As an IRL engineer myself...can confirm that we de-stress best when we *solve* problems, or build something that *works* . Note that this is very different from *working* on things, or if a device *doesn't* work. We stress just like anyone else when the work is happening, but the achievement pop at the end when it all comes together is what really does it for us.

[@antney7745]

It's like relaxing by doing a crossword puzzle or something.

[@nickzwa]

disagree with down for PTSD. Freeman experienced multiple episodes of extreme stress in a short amount of time. 3 recent mask encounters for instance. Her goign from functional but highly stressed to non-functional and overstressed is very realistic and how PTSD presents when triggered.

[@selalewow]

10:34 It is not an officer, it is a Doopler. I think that is an amazing call back. Also the Hydroponics bay would be shielded from a barium sweep.

[@erinmichelle9677]

Favourite episode of the season so far!

[@martijnkerkmeijer1685]

I really enjoyed this episode. I really liked the smaller storyline of our lower deckers just being friends on an adventure in the bowels of their own ship. Very fitting with the themes of this show. And my goodness, the animation just gets better and better, doesn't it?

[@willyorgy4677]

I feel like that deflector area with the low gravity is a reference to the low gravity area in Enterprise.

[@aquilaprimedesign]

For some reason, I got strong Willy Wonka/Fizzy Lifting Drinks vibes from that scene LOL

[@coreymolloy8134]

My favourite bit of the episode is at the end when they get rid of the fancy new "relaxing machine" because it would put everyone on the Dove out of a job. It feels like a calculated little jab at all the "miraculous" tech or uses for the transporter that show up from episode to episode in series past only never to be mentioned again.

[@ARenaissanceMedic]

It's not a crewman, it's one of the dooplers

[@RichardStyles]

It’s a shame as this doesn’t hit Amazon prime for another day (or two?) in the UK.

[@andrewmurray1550]

Australia (Amazon Prime) gets Lower Decks about 24 hours after Sean's posting of Ups & Downs, so this video is up before Prime "airs" the episode.

[@KevReillyUK]

As an engineer, both professionally and spiritually, this episode was right up my alley. I once stayed in a hotel room in which I spent an hour fixing a radio that was built into the nightstand (it was a long time ago, in a very old hotel). I doubt anyone else had used that radio in decades but it was broken and it *needed to be fixed,* damn it. This Is The Way.

[@sunsage3754]

I dunno, I think this being Freeman's max stress fits the character as I see her, setting aside the mention that it was really just the last straw after a barrage of them (building for months or whatever the line was). Beckett is her daughter so that's a part of her baseline and has been for decades. She believes in the system so the trial wasn't so bad. But this? Her crew hiding things from her and thus (according to her thinking) not believing in her as their captain? Yeah I can see it. It feeds into her California class fueled inferiority complex in a way nothing else that's happened really does.

[@CHASEMARC]

I loved the 1/2 klingon looking person standing behind the Shaxs in engineering (look closely at the lines on that crewmember's forehead)

[@TheBntimmins]

2 things that got missed 1 - one of the female engineers is wearing a visor 2 - Boimler says 12:29 "a lot of this stuff isn't even labeled". In SeaQuest DSV, Bridger and someone else is taking Darwin though his water tubes. Bridger says the same thing about the SeaQuest.

[@WilliamHerrold]

Re-watching this and Sean calling Ro returning made me smile ear to ear.

[@SkeltonStrangeNewWorldsno.1fan]

I actually enjoy watching this podcast more then the Below Decks. This show just takes me straight to the highlights.

[@m1r993]

It might be a stretch, but when I saw the ship was named the Dove, I immediately thought that there'd be a reference to the fact that the engineers and Freeman had a Day of the Dove, if you will...

[@robkitson9676]

I ignored LD the first two seasons because I usually dislike cartoons. I stumbled on the first season three episode recap by Shawn and thought I would give it a try. I enjoyed the pilot episode and ended up bingeing the entire run to date. LD is a great addition to Star Trek. Thank you TrekCulture for introducing me to LD. KITSON, his eyes open. One favor though: Please consider putting a caption of the episode title every time you reference an episode from another show. Whenever Shawn mentions an episode I have to reply it a couple of times to write it down.

[@rmdodsonbills]

I liked that the administrator of the _Dove_ claps her hands, the two outside ones clapping on the middle one. Well thought out! That's the exact right way for a three-handed species to clap.

[@silversonic1]

I think when she said they should join the Maquis, she was using it as a way to say they should die. Contrary to your down, failing to get the engineers to relax after so many stressful events was the straw that broke the camel's back. The woman running the spa identified the mask situation(s) as being a causal factor. I have to agree with other viewers that the body spotted there appears to be one of the Dooplers. How he ended up there would be anybody's guess, but I wouldn't classify it a down. This was a thoroughly enjoyable episode. I honestly feel like you keep forgetting what kind of show this is. The ONLY down I would give it is the fact that the bridge is on deck 1. There are traditionally no quarters there. I'm just surprised nobody noticed that. Side note about the baryon sweep, Captain Picard's saddle wasn't damaged by the sweep. One could conclude the sweep doesn't affect dead organic matter, just living organisms. (Edit) Oh, right. Plant life. What did the Enterprise do about the arboretum and other plants on the ship? I don't remember if that came up.

[@DarthArachnious]

The whole gag with not shooting the asteroids cuz that's what the deflectors for got me. Things like that that reminds you how the ships are supposed to work in an episode where they're crawling through tunnels that aren't on any schematics.

[@andrewmurray1550]

they could easily have turned that scene into the weapons officer turning it into an "asteroids" (arcade game) type gag by shooting the asteroids one at a time.

[@lenyacullo7245]

In the Klingon’s relaxation room there was a tribble pinned to what looks like a dart board

[@stevenmartyn2010]

I'm a diehard trekkie and I finally was able too get my wife into star trek with lower decks 😁 I get too show her classic trek anytime they make a reference 🥳

[@dankoehler3157]

I would assume hydroponics would be expressly shielded from Barium sweeps as the whole purpose is to grow organic food stuffs?

[@martinporteous3483]

This would have beeb a perfect time to show us the "Rubber Ducky" room.

[@apok1980]

I DISAGREE SIR. Captain Freeman has been through a lot, but that’s just being StarFleet. If she feels like she isn’t taking care of her people, it stresses her out crazy. That is an UP sir.

[@Hafflwolf]

Another cetacean observation...one of the engineers (a female) was wearing a Geordi LaForge-style eye prosthetic.

[@SImrobert2001]

Doesn't Ro Lauren take over for Odo as DS9 chief of security in the DS9 books?

[@markeschen]

The throw away lines from post-egg dialogue was my favorite part of the episode.

[@DanielSolis]

I think you can judge a show best on its "C" episodes. Not the worst, not the best, but the straight-down-the-middle episodes that won't make it into the highlight/lowlight compilations. If those episodes are still making me laugh, then it speaks to a strong overall series.

[@nomnomgoblin8901]

I think we skimmed over some very fun stuff here. Like the Dove leader telling her crew to jettison the relaxation machine or how she is getting stressed to the point she has to space vape. Or the low grav section in the deflector array, the fun they were having felt like the sort of wonder that a low ranking starfleet officer would just hold fondly through the rest of their career, like in SNW with the outer panel marked all over with initials.

[@Kris-Wolverine-Matthews]

The Clyde Barrow version of Shaxs reminded me of Marc Alaimo as Burt Ryan in "Far Beyond the Stars"

[@amehak1922]

One of the best episodes of lower decks

[@mikeevans4585]

The device engineered for Capt Freeman's rehabilitation is based on Temple Grandin's hug machine! She is an on-the-spectrum scientist who studies animal husbandry and uses the device on herself when feeling anxious...she devised one for cattle to reduce their stress. BTW I'm with you Sean on the formulaic quality of this season's shows, I hope they don't fall in the same trap/rut as Futurama in treating characters as a means to just quick laffs...I'm a big fan of this Star Trek show and would love to see it stay strong for seasons to come!

[@RamosLuis2550]

if you disintegrate all organic matter the skeleton would still remain as it is made of calcium and other things, but yes, someone would notice a missing crewman, and i don't think you can stowaway for long on a Starfleet ship

[@adamgoss3638]

Sean I LOVE your shirt!! Also has no one learned since Scotty went twice on shore leave and have it go badly each time??

[@CelticCubby]

I think the Teller Prime mud bath is also a call back to the Enterprise NX-01 crew's preparation for Ambassador Gral visiting. Trip was complaining about having to set up the mud bath because the Ambassador likes a good soak.

[@nobodyimportant2470]

Could also be a reference to the DS9 episode 'Who morns for Morn" where he slept in a mud bath because it was relaxing

[@M3PH11]

11:29 Your bones are mostly calcium. Calcium is a mineral and not organic. It's more like a rock. So a baryon sweep would possibly miss\skip it.

[@happyslapsgiving5421]

Points: "Even you!" Creepy whisper: "I see you..." Bro, I was on the toilet. 😠

[@funlightfactory6031]

I disagree with you about her stress. In the episode they elude to the fact that she just recently got taken over by the mask, and that, that contributed to her ability to not handle her stress like she normally would.

[@wkwynn]

The robes they wore on the Dove looked like Picard's pyjamas in All Good Things

[@tymuse7831]

I think you missed the episode The Trouble With Tribbles in the Original Series where Scotty is confined to quarters after the fight with the Klingons. He didn't want to go to shore leave, just wanted to read his tech journals, but when Kirk confines him to quarters, it allows him to read his technical journals and that makes him happy. That is definitely where this idea of how the engineers relax comes from.

[@bobcarn]

Opening up with Mariner yelling at her mom to "stop touching masks!" had me hooked.

[@iowaclassic]

To me the opening scene of Capt Freeman taken over by the mask and the LD gang's reaction was the funniest opening yet.

[@randomdude8202]

Bullets were wrong at holodeck scene. They still had their casings attached. But you can say it was a holodeck program coding error.

[@marcress]

Explaining the body: A former Chief Botanist of the Cerritos passed away suddenly while Dr. T'ana was on leave. The botanist's last request was to placed among the roots of plants in the hydroponics bay so as to serve as food for the beloved plants. That is the only explanation I can come up with. I am sure that there may others. (maybe T'ana has been hiding bodies down there after they have been shot up in the holodeck with the safeties off.)

[@lysan1445]

I always enjoy watching your up & downs. Thanks for all the effort you put in! This time I disagree on the down for Cpt. Freeman's breakdown. It is quite common that people who can handle high-stress levels lose it on little things, sort of a pressure valve or the straw that breaks the camel's back. I thought it was rather funny.

[@ViroVV]

tarot troi shirt deserves its own up

[@enmunate]

Is there a reference to the star card that I am missing?

[@kerrygligorovic9758]

This time Captain Freeman is the star of this episode as she has cost trouble on the USS Cerritos while under a spell from an ancient mask, then take Billups and his team to a relaxing spa were she's the one who is getting all stress out as she went crazy. I though her daughter Mariner is a trouble maker well this time CAptain Freeman is the control maker like mother, like daughter😆.

[@radbaron]

No "Up" for those bathrobes being oh so close to uniforms in ST:TNG season 1 that we would see on background characters? Still looking forward to the spinoff series "Tendi in a Towel" with the special episode "Mariner Mudbath"

[@arnolddimmer9598]

Freeman Mudbath would be better. As would a series just with her in that short robe; who needs Tendi? :-)

[@Morriepl]

Scotty in "Trouble with Tribbles", while reading engineering magazines - "I am relaxin'!"

[@twocvbloke]

I was thinking that might have been another lost Pakled (like how that one took a leak in the airlock) in the hydroponic swamp, but looking at others' comments, apparently it's a dead Doopler that got stuck, which is a nice callback... :P

[@flintread2303]

I think with due respect you're missing the point the captain has obviously been bottling the stress and now she is in a safe space to let it go and she does big time. I thought that was an up as a councillor. This is how leaders tend to come unraveled.

[@dandennis4602]

Big ups for guest star Mary Holland as Toz. She's always great! So amazing on Veep, Comedy Bang! Bang!, and Happiest Season.

[@sab1751]

dude you need to understand that sometimes what sets you off isn't the most stressful thing, just the last stressor, like the straw that breaks the camel's back. So, it was actually very realistic to me. ;) great vid regardless, love you guys.

[@andrewharris8479]

Could the reference of Mariner saying that Delta shift should go join the Maquis be a really dark reference, as they had been all slaughtered and delta shift should join them in being slaughtered?

[@fusionsigh]

I don’t have money for paramount + so watching you is how I know what happens in star trek

[@v3ru586]

Freeman's attempts to make the engineers relax hit so close to home for me. All those people telling me to stop doing fun things, because I'm supposed to relax (anyone else had to sneak around teachers in school bc you couldn't relax during recess in a way they approved?)

[@mooniejohnson]

If "making love" to churros means consuming 35 of them, hot, in one sitting... well, I'd be hospital now _but I wouldn't regret a damn thing_ . Churros with cream cheese are 100% worth a trip to A&E.

[@lalywindland5764]

It reminded me about a bag of churros I hid in a cupboard so my Mom would not find it, as I did not want to share. I forgot about it for a few months and when I found the bag again, they had darkened and were hard. I tried putting them in a glass of water for a while, but it was hard chewing them. They did smell nice, I love the smell of cinnamon. Wasn't the "building yourself the perfect girlfriend" what the holo deck was for? Or for the engineering crew? LOL. Do they still have the rule here that a superior officer can't date anyone under his command, like on the first Enterprise? If they still do, no wonder he's lonely. Shax and Dr.T'Ana have the same rank, they can date, the captain is married, Billups does not want to become a king, and the Tamarian and Stevens keep being rejected by women. Really, the Lower Decks have more fun !

[@bladecole]

Let’s go Ferrick!! Missed you today bro. I was late.

[@robert_bbiii]

Has anyone else read the Lower Decks comic that came out? For the record, I read all the footnotes in Sean Ferrick's voice

[@KhaosAdmiral]

I like to imagine Diane being T'ana's kinky sex name is an homage to the actress who played Dr. Pulaski.

[@thomashill6347]

Well like always Sean NICE job on the UPS and Downs this week Thanks