Lower Decks S5E10: The New Next Generation
As we've observed before, it's a crime that Lower Decks was cancelled, but no one can say it didn't go out on a high note....
Lower Decks S5E9: Fissure Quest
Bradward Boimler's beard has finally come in, but he's still feeling inadequate compared to the other versions of himself we've met. He's still fixated on...
Lower Decks S5E8: Upper Decks
We've talked a lot this season about which characters are getting more or less of the show's focus because in the final season of a...
Lower Decks S5E7: Fully Dilated
Last week we declared, approvingly, that Lower Deck had fully become Beckett Mariner's show. And yet it's also a welcome development that the episode relegates...
Lower Decks S5E6: Of Gods and Angles
In the cold open, the Cerritos has to broker peace between floating alien orbs and floating alien cubes. We're also introduced to Olly, an eager...
Lower Decks S5E5: Starbase 80?!
Television is largely built around the reset button, animated TV doubly so. Bob's Burgers always teeters on the edge of bankruptcy, but it can never...
Lower Decks S5E4: A Farewell to Farms
In 1966, the country was sharply divided, over race, foreign wars, women's rights, and we had only very recently avoided catastrophic nuclear war. At home...
Lower Decks S5E3: The Best Exotic Nanite Hotel
This week, the Cerritos docks with the Cosmic Dutchess, a Starbase-sized interstellar cruise ship, which needs the crew to deal with a nanobot infestation. The...
Lower Decks S5E2: Shades of Green
One common lament among Star Trek fans is that the current era of shows has 10 episode seasons, vs the 26 of the broadcast TV...
Lower Decks S5E1: Dos Cerritos
It's the last season of Lower Decks, which is a damn shame. This might be the most consistently great show Star Trek has ever produced;...