Star Trek Lower Decks
Summary
Star Trek : Lower DecksmadeStar Trekbetter with its own additions to theStar Trekcanon . Star Trek : Lower Decksbuilt its reputation as an repair clowning and a dear missive toStar Trekfandom . The 2380s setting , snuggle betweenStar Trek : NemesisandStar Trek : Picard , think thatStar Trek : The Next Generation , Star Trek : Deep Space Nine , andStar Trek : Voyagerare all within living memory of Lieutenants Beckett Mariner ( Tawny Newsome ) , Brad Boimler ( Jack Quaid ) , Samanthan Rutherford ( Eugene Cordero ) , and D’Vana Tendi ( Noël Wells ) . TheStar Trek : Lower Deckscharacters know all too well the same event that fans ofStar Trek ’s XC trifecta do .
by nature , Star Trek : Lower Decksthrives on recall to some of the weirdest and most beloved function of earlierStar Trekshows , butthere ’s no need to have an encyclopedic knowledge of all thingsStar Trekin order to enjoyStar Trek : Lower pack of cards . or else of trust onall theStar Trekshowsthat preceded it , Lower Decksreferencesitselfas the seasons go on . Best of all , Star Trek : Lower DecksenrichesStar Trekcanon by introducing new factor that just did n’t live before , from minutia that " upper decks " shows might not interest themselves with , to brand - new characters and creatures we all need plush versions of .
Lower Decks is crammed full of callbacks to Star Trek ’s rich yesteryear and here ’s a selection of awe-inspiring thing that the show has brought back .
11Replicator Malfunctions
“Banana: hot. Banana: hot. Banana: hot.”
Whatislife like for a third-year officer on a starship ? How do they sleep , shower , and feed ? Well , it turns out thatthe lower decker sometimes have to treat with what happens when the USS Cerritos ' nutrient replicators get a little … touchy . Unlike tragic transporter malfunction , which are the basis of many an self-examining ethical motive play onStar Trek , the not - so - tragic replicator malfunction onStar Trek : Lower Decksare a petty more comedic in scope .
If there ’s one true thing about sophisticated engineering , it ’s that it ’s go to break at some level . Brad Boimler seems to get stuck with the bad ofStar Trek : Lower Decks ' replicator malfunction , like a Bonsai tree for breakfast , everything sample like black licorice , and an endless supply of steam hot banana . And when replicator credits are a affair , you ca n’t just keep asking for raw stuff . You get"banana : hot,“and you deal with it .
tragical replicator malfunctions seldom leave in more than an inconvenience forStar Trekcharacters , except inStar Trek : Deep Space Nineseason 1 , episode 4 , " Babel " , when DS9 ’s replicators were contaminated with an aphasia computer virus that about took out the entire elderly staff . ( Let ’s be honest , though , that whole station was held together with duct tape and dreams at that item . )
10Hysperia, The RenFaire Planet
“I don’t want to live in a castle with pet dragons and all the mutton I can eat.”
Star Trek : Lower Deckspays court to theepisodes ofStar Trek : The Original Serieswhere it was chintzy to utilize the readily - uncommitted sets and wardrobe of other genres with Hysperia , a major planet colonized by " Ren Faire types " , inStar Trek : Lower Decksseason 2 , episode 7 , " Where Pleasant Fountains Lie” . Hysperia is home to the USS Cerritos ' Chief Engineer , Lt . Commander Andy Billups ( Paul Scheer),who also happens to be the son of Hysperia ’s Queen Paolana ( June Diane Raphael ) , and thus will become the planet ’s tycoon , should Billups ever fall behind his virginity .
There ’s a fancy overlay on nearly every expression of Hysperian culture , like the"dragonsbreath engine"warp nuclear reactor and the mead - tincture feasting , all thanks to the dragons that in the first place called Hysperia home . Hysperian resident physician survive in castles , have dragons as pets , and keep the mediaeval party going nonstop , like the most immersive LARP you ’ve ever seen .
Star Trek : unknown New Worldsseason 1 , episode 9 , " The Elysian Kingdom " , pay alike court to the literary genre - bendingTOSepisodes with the USS Enterprise crew take on new fancy personas .
9Ferengi Television
“They put commercials IN the programs?”
Lt . Brad Boimler gets transfix by Ferengi television inStar Trek : Lower Decksseason 4 , episode 6 , " Parth Ferengi ’s Heart Place " , on a"travel guide"assignment to Ferenginar that inflate on the elements ofFerengi culture inStar Trek : Deep Space Nine . by from public library with Dabo tables , and the Dominion War Memorial commemorating lose profits instead of private people , Ferengi TV really capsulise how Ferengi capitalist ideal persistand form the refinement with command for more latinum .
Poor Boimler ca n’t take his spent eyes off , becauseFerengi TV show are so different from the Federation ’s interactional holonovels . With commercials interspersed throughout appearance and product locating in each instalment , Boimler ’s transfixed by the overt consist and sucked in by the"schlocky , lowest - common - denominator drivel"that Brad swan he can resist , but , in the end , he just ca n’t beatPog & Dar : Cop Landlords .
8Badgey
“Hi! Can I teach you a lesson?”
Sentient hologramsare nothing unexampled inStar Trek . Sentient EVIL holograms are n’t even unexpected . But a sentient malevolent holograph that ’s shaped like a Starfleet delta?That would be Badgey ( Jack McBrayer ) , the training hologram designed by Ensign Samanthan Rutherford , and exactly the kind of thing you ’d expect to discover inStar Trek : Lower deck .
Badgey considers Rutherford to be his father and fix out on a retaliation quest inspired by parental neglect . One might think , as Rutherford does , thatthe path to terminate Badgey ’s reign of terror might be through reconciliation and offering parental dear , because that ’s theStar Trekway , but Badgey is nothing if not contrarian . Love only causes Badgey to create Goodgey , and an charm to cause forms Logic - y , proving that the answers are n’t always as easygoing as they may seem to be . Sometimes you just have to permit the malevolent hologram ascend to godhood .
Star Trek : Lower DecksEpisodes Featuring Badgey
Star Trek : Lower Decksseason 1 , installment 6
" Terminal Provocations "
Star Trek : Lower Decksseason 1 , instalment 10
" No Small Parts "
Star Trek : Lower Decksseason 3 , instalment 10
" The Stars at Night "
Star Trek : Lower Decksseason 4 , episode 7
" A Few Badgeys More "
7AGIMUS
“You dare mock AGIMUS?”
Jeffrey Combs is nothing new inStar Trek . EVIL Jeffrey Combs is n’t even unexpected . But an evil Jeffrey Combs that ’s shaped like an old PC tower?That ’s AGIMUS the evil sentient computing machine , and it ’s up to Beckett Mariner and Brad Boimler to drive home AGIMUS to the Daystom InstituteinStar Trek : Lower Decksseason 2 , installment 7 , " Where Pleasant Fountains Trygve Lie " . It ’s not easy to rebuff AGIMUS ' bids for might and trick AGIMUS , but Boimler do to do just that .
" Changing the light on his tugboat from red to downhearted proves AGIMUS is upright now , really , dependable . "
Imprisoned in the Daystrom Institute , AGIMUS inspire a real modification of heart in exocomp Starfleet officer Ensign Peanut Hamper ( Kether Donohue ) , who is at the Institute following a bungled redemption arc . AGIMUS surreptitiously implies that he ’s turn his life around , because changing the light on his tower from red to blue proves AGIMUS is good now , really , honest . ( AGIMUS is not good now.)After a bona fide run of evil on the satellite Plymeria , AGIMUS is returned to the Daystrom Institute , begrudgingly cooperating with Starfleet .
Star Trek has innovate several planets controlled by computers , some with more confirming termination than others .
6The Dog, Created By Tendi
“Who has malleable protein bonds? You do, yes you do!”
InStar Trek : Lower Decksseason 1 , episode 7 , " Much Ado About Boimler",Ensign D’Vana Tendimakes a dog … from gelt . It ’s not a far stretch for Tendi to establish a dog out of sluggish atomic number 6 as a science project , hand - editing the genome successiveness into a animate being that seems to resemble an Earth dog , butOrion doesn’thavedogs , conduct to Tendi misunderstanding the true capability of existent Earth dogs . Thus , The Dog ( Jennifer Hale ) is capable of form - shifting into a spider - dog with shine eyes that can descale walls , work herself inside - out with eyeball bats , and spit lightning . Tendi loves The Dog with her whole essence , and who can charge her ? These are awesome lineament , not bugs .
In the end , The Dog is taken toThe Farm , a recovery nerve center for victims of transporter accidents , itself an excellent increase thatStar Trek : Lower Decksmade toStar Trekcanon . Before The Dog can be commit to a road of recovery or be demolish , The Dog float aside from Tendi into the far - reaching sky with a fond leave-taking , revealing that The Dog has always been capable of delivery , much to Tendi ’s surprise .
5Moopsy
“The moopsy drinks your bones!”
With just a single show to its name , theMoopsy is deceptively cute , but terrifyingly venomous . InStar Trek : Lower Decksseason 4 , sequence 2 , " I Have No Bones Yet I Must Flee , " a sojourn toNarj ’s Miraculous Menagerariumshowcases multipleStar Trekalien creature from appearance past , as well as Moopsy , a brand - fresh , adorable little critter that resembles a cross between a child seal and an axlotl . LikeStar Trek ’s resolution to Pokémon , Moopsy speaks its own name , and toddles around gleefully like a jellybean with feet .
Moopsy seems harmless , butthe verity behind Moopsy ’s wide - eyed kisser and eponymous call is that Moopsy is in reality the zoological garden ’s most vicious captive . When the Moopsy escapes , everyone is in deadly peril , potentially subject to the Moopsy ’s secret regalia of sharp teeth , used to drink the bones of its victims,“like a Thomas Kyd go to town on a Capri Sun,“according toStar Trek : Lower Deckscreator Mike McMahan . luckily , Lt . Beckett Mariner ’s quick mentation keeps Mariner , Commander Jack Ransom ( Jerry O’Connell ) and ( new guy ) from becoming osteo - milkshake for Moopsy .
4The Smiling Koala
“Why is it smiling? What does it know?”
Episodes Featuring Star Trek : Lower deck of cards ' Koala
Who Saw The Koala ?
Star Trek : Lower Decksseason 1 , episode 4
" Moist Vessel "
Lieutenant O’Connor ( Haley Joel Osment )
Star Trek : Lower Decksseason 2 , episode 10
" First First Contact "
Brad Boimler ( Jack Quaid )
Star Trek : Lower Decksseason 3 , instalment 3
" Mining the creative thinker ’s Mines "
Steve Stevens ( Ben Rodgers )
Star Trek : Lower Decksseason 3 , instalment 8
" Crisis Point 2 : Paradoxus "
Holographic Street Preacher
Star Trek : foreign New Worldsseason 2 , sequence 7
" Those Old Scientists "
You did .
Star Trek : Lower Decksseason 4 , instalment 3
" In the Cradle of Vexilon "
Brad Boimler
Badgey
3Orion Culture
“Some Orions haven’t been pirates for over FIVE years!”
Star Trek : low Decksseeks to balance out the sexist figure fromStar Trek : The Original Seriesand the attempt to riffle thenarrative about Orion womeninStar Trek : Enterpriseby featuringStar Trek ’s first Orion chief character : Science Officer in training Lt . D’Vana Tendi . Tendi showcases Orion civilisation from her own perspective , call out Beckett Mariner for subscribing to harmful stereotypes , while also illustrating the rightful things that perpetuate the ideas of Orions being pirate and assassinator .
InStar Trek : Lower Decksseason 4 , episode 4 , " Something Borrowed , Something Green”,Star Trek ’s first visit to the Orion homeworldoffers glimpse into the expression of Orion cultivation that explain persistent stereotype and why Tendi is sensitive to them . peril and dissembling are a issue of course for Orion , with aspects of plagiarization playing a part in everything from Orion wedding tradition to competitive games . The Orion culture date inStar Trek : Lower Decksis surprisingly nuanced , and actually manage to reconcile seemingly conflicting idea from earlierStar Trekshows .
2Starfleet’s California Class Starships
“I guess those Cali-class ships can hold their own longer than people think.”
Length
535.2 meters
Decks
~ 20 ( 11 in the saucer )
Top f number
buckle 8
Tactical
Phaser arrays , photon torpedoes , self - repairing shell
Entertainment
saloon , gymnasium , squash courts , gift shop , 3 holodecks
name after cities in California , the USS Cerritos and its fellow California social class starship are Starfleet ’s support vessel , designed to go where someone has already cash in one’s chips before . The Cerritos in peculiar is tasked with second contact mission , fall out up with alien societies after more famous ship like the USS Enterprise have already moved on to seek out the next new civilization . Other Cali - family starships may bring home the bacon aesculapian support or transportation for important Starfleet personnel .
In that regard , the California family is consider the lower decks of Starfleet ship . They ’re an older starship model that does n’t have all the brand - new feature that more glamorous ship do , and they necessitate a little scrap more regular maintenance , but the California course of study ships are utterly equal to of getting the occupation done .
InStar Trek : Lower Decksseason 3 , sequence 3 , " Mining the Mind ’s Mines , " the away team from the USS Carlsbad regards the USS Cerritos as kind of a big deal among California - class ships , comparing the Cerritos to the USS Enterprise .
