Ups & Downs From Star Trek: Lower Decks 4.10 - Old Friends, New Planets

The First Duty of every Starfleet officer is to the truth. It's the final episode of Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 4! Here's Seán with all the Ups & Downs.

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[Seal]

Missed one easter egg - the GD explosion looked exactly like a Kolvoord Starburst. Locarno finally got to perform one, all by himself.

[stntylr]

"Captain Picard will be so proud of you"
Of course this leads to the gut punch moment when Captain Picard tells Wesley that he is disappointed in him.

[JTBear]

Billups being protective of the Cerritos is akin to Scotty getting into a fight with the Klingons over "garbage scow"

[KentuckyKaiju]

I love that their solution to the Trynar shield involved the Cerritos playing to its actual strength: towing a busted ship better than any other Federation vessel.

[FreihEitner]

The pay wall on the Ferengi bomb was utterly brilliant. So very much in line with established Ferengi culture as well as a quick bit of levity in the episode's explosive climax.

[Sesadre]

Just a fun note: in the end when the Orion ship Tendi was on goes to warp, and we see the pretty colors, everything RED-shifts instead of the BLUE-shift that we saw when looking forward. This is just such an amazing detail that I absolutely love. We're also able to clearly see the 1c flash from behind as well, very nice.

[heatherstarling]

I do declare that Twaining should become an official form of diplomacy.

[theotakux]

I've loved T'Lyn, she's been the best part of the season for me up until this episode (She's still great, but this episode is great as a whole), and the line "Why would I say anything I do not mean?" is probably one of my favorite parts of the season. As much as she's integrating into the starfleet crew and the Lower Deckers, that line proves Mariner's point that she is, in fact, Vulcan as a motherfucker.

[MsMoonfanever]

I love that Mariner's plan after activating Little Genesis is basically the same thing Holo-Mariner did during the first Vendicta adventure, and now she gets to be that idolized version of herself standing against the person that insists Starfleet is only the worst of what's been seen, AND she gets to live to tell the tale about it

[DoctorSquirtle]

T'Lyn's response when ordered back by StarFleet was "Cerritos Strong." That's essentially the same as Spock's at the end of Star Trek VI when StarFleet ordered the Enterprise back for decommissioning, "I believe my response would be go to Hell if I were human." T'Lyn was amazing this season.

[PassivesAbseits]

There are 2 ways to view Mariners mental relapse arc:
Those guys, who struggle with mental health, call it a bold and realistic description and would give it an up.
Those who never struggled just don't get it. God bless you, Sean, for not getting it, I hope you never will. But personally I still think it is amazing, how Lower Decks also tackles such heavy issues.

[BenDaresAll]

I screamed when Boimler was the acting captain. I also cried a little at Tendi's good bye. Gimme a comforting hug?

[Kingkent]

My favorite thing in this episode is that the lower deckers are put in charge of the Cerritos, while all of the senior staff go on the away mission to rescue Mariner. It is a perfect counter argument to Locarno’s philosophy. Locarno’s philosophical point is that lower deckers are not valued, and their lives are recklessly spent for pointless reasons while senior officers survive and take all the glory. Prior to this episode I would have said that he is not wrong, at least in Starfleet where redshirts feel like an expendable commodity. But Captain Freeman demonstrates simultaneously that she trusts the lower deckers to give them complete control of her ship, and that all of the senior staff are willing to risk their lives to save one of their own. It shows that, while they still exist within a ranked hierarchy, all of their lives are equally valuable and the competency of everyone on the crew is recognised and respected.

[Brasswatchman]

25:40 You've just got to feel for Rutherford in this situation. Platonic or not, he looks like he's just had his heart ripped out. Poor guy.

[PitFriend]

Hang on. You didn’t mention in Cetacean Observations that there actually were seat belts in the ship Mariner took? She buckled in the Genesis Device. People often joke Starfleet hasn’t invented seatbelts but apparently they have, it’s just no one uses the things.

[ryanodriscoll]

No amount of podcasts will make me agree with last week's assessment. But this is this week.
Captain Boimler was a highlight for me. His character growth has been great overall and that was the brilliant moment that showed his growth.

[scoobiesnatches]

The cat and mouse scene between Mariner and Locarno’s fleet reminded me of that one ice ring scene in Titan AE.

[SpaceyO]

Shax's face when Tendi asks for Barter by Combat...

[michaelpapp]

5:47 wish it were Majel’s voice. “Previously, on Star Trek…and now the conclusion.”

[DarthTella]

The animators deserve a bonus for this season. The animation was so polished!