"Dos Cerritos"
Logline
A spatial anomaly forces the Cerritos crew to face their own faces.
Written by: Aaron Burdette
Directed by: Megan Lloyd
"Shades of Green"
Logline
Tendi races to stop a conflict while Boimler & Mariner race to stop capitalists. Rutherford fixes a door.
Written by: Keith Foglesong
Directed by: Bob Suarez
Also, you know the Borg are horrifying when they're even putting up a fight with Apollo.
As a fan of mysteries, my mind tends to clasp onto details that writers felt important enough to mention, but had no bearing on the plot up to this point.
The fact that the ship Tendi recovered was a “medical frigate” triggered such an alarm in my head. Yes the ship was able to gas the Blue Orions, but that’s hardly a feature unique to medical ships.
We Know:
- Tendi wants to come back to help raise her niece.
- Tendi wants to be a captain
- The finale is going to have some tear jerking moments
- This is the last season.
I think we’re being prepped for the main cast to go their separate ways, not unlike the DS9 finale.
We’ve had some foreshadowing with Freeman and Starbase 80. I wonder if the finale might end with her being posted there, as an admiral. Fix it up, that sort of thing, rather than an exile.
In the Mike McMahan interview TrekMovie ran yesterday, he said they knew it was going to be the final season fairly early in the writing process, so you could be on to something.
I think for Dos Cerritos the B plot with Tendi carried the episode. I honestly felt like they missed the classic Lower Decks balance of seriousness and humor on the A plot and played it slightly too straight in a way that made it seem too much like a run-of-the mill multiverse episode. The two T’Lyns jokes were fun, though.
Shades of Green also did great with the Tendi plot, and the overthrow of capitalism part was enjoyable enough.
Now the big question is: Will Boimler single-handedly cause Starfleet to create a multiversal prime directive after that PADD makes him do something spectacularly wrong? 😈 (Though I guess based on PRO events, probably not.)
they missed the classic Lower Decks balance of seriousness and humor on the A plot and played it slightly too straight in a way that made it seem too much like a run-of-the mill multiverse episode.
Yeah...it feels somewhat intentional, as showing alternate versions of the characters that really weren't that different was kind of the point, but that's not exactly a comedy latinum mine.
So, is anyone else anticipating some crossover with Prodigy and the events that affected the Prime Universe in it's Season 2?
Because that's exactly where my mind went when they did the whole foreshadowing of "someone sure is opening a lot of time rifts lately". (I might have that quote off a bit from Captain Freeman but I'll edit once I get a chance to rewatch.)
It didn't cross my mind, but that would certainly be a treat. I can't recall off the top of my head exactly how the timelines line up.
I hate to bring this up, but giving all the treasure to Tendi's family is pretty definitely a Prime Directive violation.
