"Twovix" logline

The Cerritos ensigns must assist a caretaker on the voyage of a historically significant starship.


Written by: Mike McMahan

Directed by: Barry J. Kelly & Jason Zurek


"I Have No Bones Yet I Must Flee" logline

Mariner tries to get demoted, Rutherford tries to get promoted, and Boimler makes a big move.


Written by: Aaron Burdette

Directed by: Megan Lloyd

  • RBG
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    351 year ago

    Assimilated salamander robot is my new favourite villain. That said, why did the exhibit not display their children?

    • Dharma Curious
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      211 year ago

      Because they’re grown now, and have asked star fleet not to use their image in any promotional material. They’re still salty about being abandoned.

    • JWBananas
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      141 year ago

      Starfleet are not YouTube influencers. The children have the right to privacy.

  • @UESPA_Sputnik@feddit.de
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    301 year ago

    I grinned like an idiot throughout the first episode because of all the Voyager callbacks but I got the biggest laugh in the second episode when Boimler goes to his new quaters and the room is bright red because of the glowing nacelle. I had to pause because I was laughing so much. For the past ~30 years I always wondered what crew quarters which face towards the nacelles were like. Thank you, Lower Decks.

    • @CeruleanRuin
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      241 year ago

      Shax could have just told him about the built-in filters on the windows, but he secretly wanted someone to hear his holodeck “adventures” with T’Ana. It was a cry for help.

    • @milkisklim@lemm.ee
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      41 year ago

      I’m sure there’s reports. And as a Vulcan lady with superior olfactory senses, it is only logical to become aware of what smells may occur.

  • @eva_sieve@startrek.website
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    241 year ago

    All our Wej Duj heroes came back for episode 1! …I hope Ma’ah’s okay.

    It’s interesting how between Lower Decks and Prodigy (plus some brief mentions in other post-VOY shows) we have a decent picture of how the universe view now-Admiral Janeway. It’s clear she’s viewed with a sort of heroic reverence, Captain Freeman assumed that Janeway’s logs would have a good answer for a Tuvix situation. Voyager’s celebrity status has definitely inflated her image a little, really put’s Dal’s awkward first encounter with the real Janeway in perspective.

    It feels very right that they didn’t actually dive into the morality of killing Tuvix other than “that’s messed up!” and making the Tuvix’d crew clearly in the wrong/not sapient before de-Tuvixing them. Lower Decks does earnest optimism about Starfleet well, but I don’t think deep dives into moral situations are something for a goofy 22 minute show.

    • Repple (she/her)
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      221 year ago

      T’Lyn is apparently way more of a maverick than Janeway, she killed a whole mess of hybrids without a second thought.

  • @Wooster@startrek.website
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    221 year ago

    The DS9 episode was handled with such dignity, but the Voyager episode was a fever dream and I am absolutely here for it!

    After 3 seasons, it’s surprising to finally have a voice actor for Westlake.

    I didn’t know I needed Clarinet Macro Viruses and assimilated Salamander Automatons at the helm, but my gosh did the LD team deliver!

    I wonder if the promotion rollout explains why marketing for this season was so sparse.

    I LOVED Shaxs talking about his relationship issues with Ransom and the fourth wall lean on the tubes was perfection.

  • @williams_482@startrek.website
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    171 year ago

    I’m honestly disappointed about the double release, because now I have to process two awesome episodes at the same time and I keep getting them mixed up.

    Quick hitters, in no particular order:

    • love Ransom demonstrating competent personnel management, another “surprise” twist of stuff working as it should.
    • the Shax/Ransom exercise scene is fabulous
    • Did that macro virus really get stuck behind a panel on the bridge for a decade (ish), or did curator guy cook it up to enhance the exhibit?
    • the whole Tuvix sequence was the perfect absurdist sequel to the original episode. Apparently T’Lynn and all of the merged persons are also cold blooded murderers in their own special ways.
  • Repple (she/her)
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    1 year ago

    Why does Michael Sullivan remember his wife? 😧

    Also, the macro nano probe and tng workout scene callbacks were absolutely amazing.

    • JWBananas
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      61 year ago

      Maybe from the episode where Fair Haven broke and they had to fix it?

        • JWBananas
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          71 year ago

          Yeah, but you know how VOY is. Everything always resets at the end of the episode.

          Ship smashed to pieces? Fixed by the time we hear the next Captain’s Log.

          It’s certainly no ENT.

  • @StillPaisleyCat@startrek.website
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    161 year ago

    Some thoughts after sleeping on it…

    — I found the 4 x 01 Twovix the best season premiere yet.

    All the premieres seem callback and Easter egg heavy. Making this one a museum (ship) mishap episode worked that into the story in a natural way and allowed some of the weirdest and trippyest things from Voyager to pike on. Bravo.

    While some reviewers have expressed regrets that the original Voyager actors voices weren’t used, I’m glad that the focus stayed on the Cerritos crew, the artifacts and how Voyager remains dangerous wherever she is, even as a literal museum.

    I am unhappy that the Klingon lower decker and his ship were sacrificed for the seasonal mystery big bad. It’s clear it’s really dangerous though. (Perhaps the mystery ship is collecting humanoids to take them to another era where they are extinct….?)

    It’s also likely the case that I enjoyed the ride of the premiere more for knowing I had another new episode to watch immediately.

    — The second episode was mostly a straightforward Lower Decks classic, but one that did its job to move the main 4 lower deckers into their new roles.

    We’ll have to see how well it works on rewatch, but the moopsie scenes seem likely to be classics. After the Voyager celebration of weird in the season premiere, it was very smart for Lower Decks to underscore its ability to give us its own very original weirdness, and remind us that humanity are the most dangerous in the menagerie.

    I’m glad that they make Rutherford a bit of an odd man out in the promotions. I still feel that he’s a bit of an incomplete person/character because his ambition and drive has been submerged by the implant. I really hope that the writers will keep dribbling out more about that.

  • JWBananas
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    151 year ago

    Veneers? Really?

    Worf can get a new spine but they can’t regrow some teeth?

  • @lwaxana_katana@startrek.website
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    131 year ago

    These episodes were both great. I have shipped Mariner/Ransom since s1 and, well, honestly, this new dynamic of theirs probably makes it even less likely than it ever was lol. But they were fun episodes. I do wish Lower Decks had more episodes, since they’re only 20 min/ea.

    • @Hypersapien@lemmy.world
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      121 year ago

      That’s one thing I don’t like about the streaming trend. They have a lot more freedom to do what they want but the seasons are much shorter.

      I don’t need 28 episode seasons, but maybe 15?

      • @lwaxana_katana@startrek.website
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        31 year ago

        Yeah, honestly so much is lost with the shorter seasons. And wrt LD in particular, I get that filming 28 episodes a year was hell on the actors/production, but surely doing VA is less time consuming than live action acting?

  • Rom [he/him]
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    121 year ago

    T’illups using “Tuvix” as a verb was golden.

    Also Captain Dr. Frigleeman definitely didn’t awaken anything in me I swear.