Funny / Star Trek: Lower Decks

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General

• Imagine the opening credits of Star Trek: Voyager... in the style of Rick and Morty.
  • The camera pans over a blue giant as it's being drawn into a black hole. An asteroid hits the Cerritos and it nearly gets sucked in, too.
  • The Cerritos passes over a field of ice, scratching the port-side nacelle on a glacier and losing power.
  • The Cerritos comes upon a dozen Romulans warbirds battling six Borg cubes. The Cerritos is shot once and nopes right the fuck out.
    • Season 2's version adds in Klingon Birds of Prey and Pakled battleships, giving the Cerritos's action even more urgency!
    • The Season 3 intro adds a freaking Crystalline Entity, which blows up a Cube!
    • Season 4 not only has a Breen destroyer chase a Bird-Of-Prey, but the Whale Probe shows up!
  • The Cerritos passes through some Space Clouds... with a giant monster sucking power from the nacelle.
• Each episode of season 3 is preceded by a bumper with a few seconds of the Cerritos at warp near a nebula, similar to Star Trek: Strange New Worlds — but in this case, the nebula takes the shape of a giant celestial koala which has been mentioned several times on the show.
• Never Trust a Trailer manages to make an already absurd situation goofier. The third season trailer mentions Freeman being arrested for allegedly bombing the Pakleds, and later bits show her anti-stress treatments on the Dove. So it makes it look like genocide is being punished by locked up surrounded by puppies and smothered in a giant pillow coffin machine.

Others

• A hilarious "genealogy chart" of the four protagonists.
• "Find someone who looks at you the way Rutherford looks at Jeffries tubes"
• The official three letter abbreviation of the show (in the vein of TOS, TNG, DS9, VOY, ENT, DIS, SNW, and PIC) is "LDS", after that scene from Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home.
• The variant cover for IDW's ceremonial 400th Trek comic has Admiral Picard Day◊ at Quark's.
• Phil Murphy, a designer for Lower Decks, made some pictures for the Star Trek Cruise, reimagining the crew as Wooden Ships and Iron Men characters.
• There's a youtube video of the voice actors commenting on the "Twovix" episode. Dr. T'ana's voice actress says that the episode inspired her to binge watch Voyager to the neglect of her children.

Season 1

"Second Contact"

• The show opens with Mariner swinging around a bat'leth while drunk, only for her to accidentally hack into a few inches of Boimler's leg.
• Mariner shows Tendi her Porn Stash by bringing up the nude Olympic training room holodeck program.
  Tendi: [embarrassed] Wow, this is a very detailed program.
• Boimler is grabbed by a Giant Spider, but the locals tell Mariner that it's a herbivore and it will eventually get tired of chewing on him. Hours later, it eventually tires out.
• Rutherford and Barnes have just successfully space-walked across the hull of the ship and successfully fought their way past a horde of zombies to get through an airlock that barely opened in time to let them through. One Smooch of Victory later, all Rutherford can think about is how weird it was that the airlock malfunctioned. Barnes, exasperated at the realization that Rutherford is more interested in the door than her, silently walks off.
  • Rutherford later regales Tendi with the tale of the above adventure, then comments that he and Barnes aren't going to go out again. He just can't get why she didn't find the door as interesting as he did. Tendi is surprised after hearing this; the airlock malfunctioned during red alert?
• "Everyone, protect this slime!" A line that goes down next to "Get the cheese to Sickbay" in that It Makes Sense in Context, but it's flowing with Narm Charm.
  • The entire sequence is filmed as if it's the climax to an epic episode that WE DID NOT SEE.
• As soon as he's cured, Ransom quickly freaks out and asks if he ate flesh. When told "barely any", he demands to know how much flesh he ate.
• The situation ends with all four main character slumped against the doors to sickbay, and Tendi with a Thousand-Yard Stare. Mariner asks how she thinks her day went.
  Tendi: Are you kidding?! (jubilant) I GOT TO HOLD A HEART!

"Envoys"

• Mariner's reaction to a transdimensional energy creature appearing out of nowhere and demanding their surrender is to grab it and ask for a canister so that she can stuff it inside. She only lets it go after it transforms some of its own mass to create Mariner a new tricorder and then a new battery to power it.
  • After it's left alone, it tries to attack Captain Freeman, but it's become so small at this point that it dissipates on contact without her even noticing it.
• Mariner and Boimler take General K'orin to the Klingon District. The entrance to which, is what appears to be the Klingon version of a paifang archway. Right after the two leave the shuttle, K'orin steals it to go somewhere else.
• Mariner gets a Taxor that's attacking Boimler for (accidently) insulting him to let Boimler go by pretending to throw his pouch.
  Taxor: (in the Taxor language) My wallet! Dang it! Aw man, my dad's going to kill me.
  • The insult was due to Boimler trying to apologize to the Taxor in their language.
    Boimler: (in the Taxor language) Female feces outside inside feces.
• Ransom keeps using Double Entendres during Rutherford's command training.
• Rutherford fails so hard at command training that he breaks records and the laws of physics.
  Computer: Ship destroyed. Casualties: 105%.
  Rutherford: Wait, how did I kill more than the whole crew?!
  [next simulation]
  Holographic Lieutenant: All the ship's children have been ejected into space!
  Rutherford: All those kids...
  Ransom: Freeze program. In thousands of simulations, that's literally never happened before. Let's try another one. On a ship with even MORE children!
  • It should be pointed out that the training exercise is supposed to be avoiding an incoming comet.
• Starfleet has officially adopted the "Janeway Protocol". Whatever it is, it'll somehow destroy a large section of the ship if you use it on an issue that's too mundane.
• Boimler lists a variety of Fantastic Racism descriptions of the Ferengi that applied to their portrayal in TNG, but not so much in DS9.
  Boimler: Oh my God, he could not be any more Ferengi — the big ears, the beady eyes, the greedy thing they do with their hands.
  Ferengi: (performs the greedy hand gesture with an Obviously Evil voice) Hyoo-mon. Myah.
  • Honestly, Quimp's caricature of his own species feels more like a straight-up Space Goblin than an actual Ferengi (and yes, we're aware that the Ferengi are the Trek Verse's equivalent of goblins).
  • The fact Quimp pulled a knife on them shouting "Give me your profit!" also comes off as amusingly hammy.
• Mariner and Boimler find the shuttle in front of the Federation Embassy, with General K'orin passed out drunk inside, and decide to just drop him off at the peace conference without sticking around to explain what happened. A random Starfleet officer finds him, and shows no indication that this is an unexpected development.
  K'orin: (to Starfleet receptionist) I demand you give me an honorable—[retches]
  Starfleet officer: [sighs] (on a comm channel) Someone contact the Cerritos. Tell 'em we finally found K'orin. He's just in time for the peace accords.
  K'orin: [grabs the officer's leg] Fetch me my drinking horn. I need ale.
  Starfleet officer: Are you f**king kidding me!? [continuously kicks his arm away] No! Stop that!
  • The shuttle is covered in citations, which Mariner quickly removes.
    Mariner: [sweeps the citations off the shuttle] Bye bye.
    Boimler: Isn't that illegal?
    Mariner: What're they gonna do? Send me a bill in space?

"Temporal Edict"

• In The Teaser, Mariner and Tendi butt in on Boimler's (boring) violin recital with a guitar and drum solo that's so loud that it reverberates not only throughout the ship, but somehow into the neighboring Klingon Bird-Of-Prey.
  Klingon Captain: What is the meaning of this intense bass? Are you mocking me?!
  Freeman: I don't hear it on our side. (quietly stops her mug from shaking) It must be your equipment.
  Klingon Captain: Engineer K'noch, today you die!
  • To top it all, Freeman quickly orders someone to stop that noise, and right as Mariner and Tendi finally finish, Boimler attempts to continue his recital, only for Shaxs to burst in and say the captain says he is too loud before smashing his violin.
• Boimler protests against the concept of "Buffer Time" on principle, but claims to accept it because it's Lower Decks tradition. He's already finished his margarita by this point.
• Boimler is the only one who's able to adapt to the removal of Buffer Time. His completely upbeat attitude to it is in complete contrast to everyone else being completely stressed out due to having to hurry to finish as many assignments as possible.
• The antagonists for this episodes are Gelrakians, a race of Luddite aliens armed with crystals, spears, and crystals fashioned into spears.
  Vendome: Oh God, I'm gonna die!
  Mariner: [removes the spear and bandages the wound] We live on a spaceship! Nobody is dying from a spear wound!
  • Because Freeman removed buffer time, nobody has the time or energy to stop the Gelrakians when they invade, leading them to take over the ship armed only with spears.
• Ransom's attempt to negotiate with the Gelrakians just gets him hit in the groin before getting caught in an electric net.
  Mariner: Alriiight! That was awesome!
• Ransom's increased irritation at Mariner while the two are in prison.
  Mariner: Permission to speak freely?
  Ransom: You always speak freely! Nobody can stop you from speaking freely!
• Mariner and Ransom are forced to choose who will end up having to fight to the death against the enormous Gelrakian champion. Much to their captor's confusion, the two end up fighting each other over the right to fight, when they were clearly expected to want to avoid getting painfully killed.
  Gelrakian leader: You do realize you're fighting over who gets to be chopped in half by Vindor right?
  • The solution to the dispute: Ransom agrees to let Mariner fight... then stabs her in the foot while her guard is down so he can fight instead.
• Mariner and Ransom end up developing Belligerent Sexual Tension while imprisoned during an away mission gone wrong. While watching Ransom fight, Mariner keeps wavering between being turned on by his fighting prowess, and disgusted at herself for being attracted to Ransom, a guy she hates.
  Mariner: (after seeing Ransom handle Vindor) Whoa. That was actually kinda hot. Ugh! Get it together Mariner! Get it together! You are not into this. Come on.
  • After everything that happened, Mariner decides not to report Ransom for stabbing her, since he saved the away team in the end. Then Ransom informs her that he's reporting her to the captain for not rolling her sleeves down. Mariner goes ballistic and starts making a mess of the Sickbay; she's then dragged out by two security officers while making graphic threats towards him. Ransom reflects to himself that he found that kind of hot.
    Ransom: (after Mariner threatens him while being dragged to the brig) Okay, that was kinda hot.
  • Even funnier if one pays attention during the episode: Mariner couldn't roll her sleeves down because one of them got torn when they're taken captive.
• Dr. T'Ana hisses like a cat while defending Sickbay from the Gelrakians. And her reaction to Mariner's refusal to have her scars removed is appropriately cat-like.
  T'Ana: Want me to clean up those disgusting scars?
  Mariner: Uh, no way. No, these are my trophies.
  T'Ana: Congratulations, you look like a [bleep]ing scratching post.
• In the far flung future, a teacher tells her class that Boimler has been remembered as "the laziest man in Starfleet," before moving on to the most important person in Federation history: Chief Engineer Miles O'Brien.

"Moist Vessel"

• After Freeman chews Mariner out for embarrassing her in front of Durango, Mariner leaves while giving a sarcastic Vulcan salute and sticking out her tongue.
• One of the annoying jobs that Mariner has to do is blasting carbon off of slightly harder carbon.
  Boimler: Scraping carbon off of slightly harder carbon? That's Klingon prison stuff.
• Ransom reveals that the holodeck is mostly used for porn, much to Freeman's disgust. (And on The Bridge, in front of everybody.)
  Ransom: I've got her emptying [bleep] out of the holodeck's [bleep] filter!
  (cut to the ready room)
  Freeman: ...Ugh. People really use it for that?
  Ransom: Oh, yeah. It's mostly that.
  • Based on how Freeman reacts compared to everyone else on the bridge, it's implied that she might be the only one who doesn't use the holodeck that way.
• Freeman and Ransom finally find a way to get back at Mariner, a highly-skilled slacker who tends to enjoy just about any punishment they can come up with for her (the brig is her favorite place). So they promote her, which predictably makes her absolutely miserable.
  • Mariner being forced to sit in on meetings she doesn't want to be at, like diversity training, a random lieutenant's boring one man show, or the senior staff's weekly Poker game where everyone folds.
  Shax: You can't go all in! This is a friendly game!
• Boimler thinks the best way to get promoted is to behave badly (long story), and the best idea he comes up with is spilling hot coffee on Ransom's crotch.
• Assuming that Lieutenant O'Connor's interpretation of the visions he experienced during his ascension is correct, then it's very amusing that the universe is balanced on the back of a giant, smiling koala. It's fairly similar to the world turtle Akupāra from Hindu mythology.
  O'Connor: WHY IS HE SMILING? WHAT DOES HE KNOW??
• While waiting for the admiral to arrive, Freeman takes a moment to clean what she thinks is a smudge on Mariner's face, much to the latter's annoyance.
• Tendi turns out to have strong Yandere tendencies whenever she learns that someone doesn't like her. Through most of the episode this has her trying way too hard to help O'Connor ascend. By the end, she claims to be over it, but when Rutherford mentions in passing that a few of the crew don't like her, she puts him in an armlock and demands to know who it is.

"Cupid's Errant Arrow"

• When Mariner asks if she'll have to meet Boimler's girlfriend in the holodeck, he responds that he doesn't do that anymore.
• Upon seeing that Barb is a real person, Mariner tries to ask the computer to end the program, as she can't believe it and briefly thinks she's on a holodeck.
• Mariner's Conspiracy Wall is a gold mine of Freeze-Frame Bonus, including a picture of Garak (he's always involved somehow).
• Canadian viewers find it amusing that Jet's lunch is poutine. Canadian junk food is now officially part of the Trek Verse!
• Ransom checking in on the captain dealing with the stubborn representative.
  Representative: (jumping up and down on the table) You're all murderers! Oh the madness! You have blood on your hands!
  Ransom: She's doing great.
• Jet in the background just as Mariner pantses Barbara. He decides he doesn't want any part of what's happening and walks back into the shuttle with his hands up.
• Mariner jumping through space to get to Boimler? Awesome. Mariner then finding Boimler out of uniform and the two of them freaking out over it? Funny.
• Both Barb and Mariner are accused of being things that have happened in the Trek canon: shapeshifters, androids, infiltrators, parasites, and even a rogue holodeck character!
• The Reveal that the "civilization" on Mixtus II consists of a single wealthy couple who don't want to evacuate because they just had their floors redone. Sucks to be them, because learning this is enough for the husband to completely lose credibility in Freeman's eyes.
  Freeman: There are two [bleep]ing people on your whole [bleep]ing planet!?
  Representative: Well, yes. We're uh, we're rich.
  Freeman: [Beat, "I'm sooo done with this" deadpan] Implode the moon.

"Terminal Provocations"

• In the opening, Boimler gets Fletcher and rest of the gang hissing "engine noises" (even Tendi joins in the fun). Then Ransom finds them standing in a circle looking at each other while hissing and making strange noises - and promptly calls for security!
  Ransom: [holds up a phaser] On the ground! Now!
  Boimler: We're just humming- (gets tackled by Ransom)
  Ransom: I said freeze! [puts Boimler in an armbar]
• "Damn, Starbase 80?" For context, the ensigns are pushing Fletcher to chug down casserole puree when Mariner accidentally bumps into Dr. T'Ana, who is now angry as there's nacho cheese in her fur from faceplanting into it. As Mariner tries to apologize, T'Ana refuses to listen to it and tells her if she wants to goof around, go work on Starbase 80, which is apparently so bad, it causes everyone else to gasp in horror with someone off camera replying with that quote.
  "You know how hard it is to get cheese out of fur in a sonic shower?!"
• Badgey is an Obvious Beta educational virtual assistant, obviously meant to be a Take That! at Clippy, Microsoft's infamous early attempt at something similar in the '90s. Besides looking like he could be a Series Mascot for the Trek franchise (he's an anthropomorphic Starfleet delta with Mickey Mouse-esque arms and legs), but he also has a progress bar that gets visibly stuck when he glitches out. And that's before the Holodeck safeties fail and he turns homicidal.
  • Badgey as a terrifying slasher villain, threatening gruesome (and graphic) violence when he catches Rutherford and Tendi Crosses the Line Twice. It doesn't help that he visibly has trouble keeping up with them, and his adorable design drives Tendi to give him verbal encouragement despite the fact that she's trying to get away from him.
  • And all of that is made funnier by Badgey being voiced by actor Jack McBrayer in the most happy go-lucky voice possible.
• During their investigation, Boimler and Mariner have to talk to Delta Shift, the crew who keeps the ship running while the Beta Shift is asleep.
  Delta Shift: (mockingly) Shouldn't you guys be getting ready for bed?
  Mariner: Look, we don't want to be here. I don't like us being awake at the same time. It feels wrong, okay?
• Shaxs really wants the Captain's permission to blow up the Scavengers' warp core. He's been very good this month.
  • You could argue this episode makes comedy out of The Worf Effect, because one blast from the ship could easily disable the Scavengers' ship, but the Captain insists on diplomacy first.
• Rutherford performs a Neck Snap on Badgey, despite the fact that there is nothing about a Starfleet badge that could be deemed neck-like.

"Much Ado About Boimler"

• The gang's understandably terrified reactions to the assorted horrifying stuff Tendi's dog (named "The Dog") does, while Tendi seems to be comically oblivious to. Over time, it becomes clear that Tendi knows The Dog does all of this weird stuff… She just has absolutely no clue that any of it is unusual for dogs to do, since they don't have dogs on Orion.
  • Some of The Dog's antics are horrifying, like spider-walking across the ceiling while its eyes glow yellow. However, some of them are just... weird, like when The Dog transforms into a metal cube and rolls away with a cartoonish clonk sound.

    Rutherford: Uhm, I'm starting to think you know more about DNA than you do about dogs.

    • Note that while The Dog is spider-crawling around the bunk room like a sci-fi horror monster, Mariner rolls over and asks them to wake her up if The Dog does anything she actually cares about, being far too exhausted to be terrified.
  • At the end, The Dog reveals she can talk. Tendi knew the whole time, and again, just didn't know that dogs couldn't do that. And it turns out the only dog-like thing about The Dog Tendi got right was she enjoys all the new and exciting things to urinate upon.
• Boimler ends up out of phase with the rest of reality after Rutherford's transporter experiment, glowing blue and producing a high pitched sound. He tries to report for duty anyway hoping to impress the temporary command. It doesn't go well.
  Mariner: DUDE, WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?
  Boimler: What? I'm just phasing! It's no biggie!
  Mariner: DISAGREE. IT'S KIND OF A BIGGIE.
  Capt. Ramsey: ENSIGN! REPORT TO SICKBAY!
  Boimler: But that's for sick people!
  Capt. Ramsey: NOW!
  Boimler: Aw...
  • Doctor T'Ana keeps painfully poking Boimler for samples to his (and hers) annoyance.
  • Rutherford finally runs in with a Tricorder and... gets rid of the high pitched sound. Because that was the worst part, right?
    Dr. T'Ana: Aw yeah, that was terrible.
• It turns out that whenever a Starfleet officer suffers some outlandish mishap that 24th century medical science can't treat, they're sent to live on The Farm (courtesy of Division 14). Many of the examples are at least a bit horrifying, but Played for Laughs in different ways:
  • Two officers fused together through the torsos should be horrifying, but they both look downright bored with their condition by now.
  • The officer who was simultaneously stricken with rapid aging and rapid de-aging, but on different parts of his body, keeps switching between sounding like a bitter old man and a wide-eyed youngster that it causes Mood Whiplash.
  • Captain Pike being horribly crippled and disfigured, confined to an iron lung wheelchair for the rest of his life is horrifying. Running into three officers who suffered similar fates, all beeping at the same time? Oddly hilarious. Especially as it suggests Starfleet medical science somehow couldn't even come up with a more advanced wheelchair in the intervening ~120 years.
    • Even better is at the end of the episode, where multiple different wheelchair-imprisoned officers are shown “wearing” Hawaiian shirts and “drinking” fancy cocktails after arriving at The Farm.
  • Some poor soul got turned into the same type of salamander-catfish as Paris and Janeway. He is referred to as simply “Anthony”.
  • The captain mentions that the missions to collect the mishap victims can take a long time, hence why many of his passengers were convinced his ship was The Farm.
  • And of course, the punchline that The Farm is actually an idyllic utopian resort when they finally get there is the perfect endcap to the space horror parody story. The Creepy Good captain musing that maybe he should paint his Red and Black and Evil All Over transport ship something more cheerful is just the cherry on top.
• Captain Freeman, Commander Ransom, and Lt. Shaxs are sent on a covert mission to maybe plant some saplings. Naturally, Freeman treats this as if it is the most critical mission in the galaxy. Ramsey can't help but laugh at the absurdity of it.

"Veritas"

• At the beginning of the episode, the ensigns have no idea why they're being put on trial. Tendi thinks it's because she's been replicating too much ice. She just really likes ice.
• “Today didn’t have to end in eels!!”
• Tendi's refusal to leak classified information is represented in the flashback as visual and audio censorship... in which the censorship occurs in completely illogical places. Evidently she has described the team members except for their eyes. Occasionally the censor noise happens only in the middle syllables of a word or over a word that isn't a security issue. And then the normal Sound-Effect Bleep for swearing starts alongside the other censor sound.
  • At one point, Ransom gets bleeped only when his mouth is visibly closed.
  • Quickly, the prosecution has enough...
    Clar: Are you so stubborn you're willing to risk death by eels?!
    Tendi: ...Yes, that's correct.
    Clar: [sighs] ...Then continue.
• The ensigns' punishment for not telling the truth is being lowered into a tank full of vicious eels, with burners later being activated to make the water start boiling. Tendi begs them to stop because the boiling water is hurting the eels more than anything else.
• We're treated to a return appearance by Q, with the animation format letting him bear a clear resemblance to a certain other John De Lancie character.
  • Q subjects the Cerritos senior staff to a Calvinball-type game for the fate of humanity. A game that involves playing cards, chess pieces, and a talking soccerball.
  • Mariner immediately shutting him down because she's dealt with enough crap today, causing him to follow her around like a petulant child.
    Q: HA HA! I challenge you all to a duel! Pick your weapons! I pick THE MIND!
    Mariner: Get out of here, Q! No! We're done with random stuff today! We're not dealing with any of your Q bulls***!
  • There's also the mere fact that, after over a decade spent messing with him, Q's gotten bored with Picard. Picard has probably gotten the best sleep in years.
    Q: Oh, Picard. He's no fun! He's always quoting Shakespeare, he's always making wiiine...
  • invoked To say nothing of the implication that Q doesn't limit his attention to “important” captains like Picard, Sisko, and Janeway, but will harass literally any Starfleet officer, including rank and file ensigns, whenever he's bored.^note Though alternatively, Q can look at the Star Trek multiverse from our side of the Fourth Wall, so he knows which officers are the main protagonists.
  • For maximum comedy, look at Boimler. Even the show's resident Butt-Monkey isn't impressed that Q showed up, implying that he does this a lot to everyone.
• T'Ana thinks she's experiencing a dimensional hop when no one on the ship recognizes her, but actually...
  T'Ana: Uh, w-wait... is this... is this not the Cerritos?
  (Camera pulls back to reveal a bridge of Similar Squad crew members)
  Not!Freeman: This is the Alhambra. Did you get on the wrong ship?
  T'Ana: ...F***! They all look the same!
  (T'Ana runs back on the Turbolift just as her counterpart gets off)^note A male human doctor that looks like Billups but is still voiced by Gillian Vigman.
  Not!T'Ana: Who the hell was that?
  • T'Ana's cat pun when she gets invited out.
    T'Ana: Oh, great. Guess I'll have to shave my p***.
    Freeman: Maybe you should. (winks)
    (Everybody laughs)
• Rutherford "rebooting" into increasingly bizarre situations with absolutely no context.
  • "Updating Klingon fonts!" "What?! Why do I even need tha—" *thud*
  • One of them involves having to walk across the top of a cloaked Romulan Bird of Prey, and repeatedly bumping into invisible obstacles.
  • “GORN WEDDING!!”
    • Rutherford tries to reboot his way out of that, but it doesn't work since it reboots after a matter of seconds to reveal him still being attacked by the Gorn wedding guests.
      Rutherford: STILL THE GORN WEDDING!
    • It is worth highlighting here that Rutherford’s plan to escape being attacked by Gorns wasn’t to try and actually escape... it was to bank on his implant somehow getting him out of trouble like it had been doing throughout the rest of the day. And, naturally, it utterly failed to do so for him here.
  • When he is sent to the Tank of Contempt to join Mariner, it's implied that he just had another reboot.
    Rutherford: Eels?!
    Mariner: [unimpressed] Dude, have you not been paying attention?
• Rutherford having to perform Uhura's fan dance from Star Trek V as a distraction...and being absolutely terrible at it.
  Shax: What are you DOING?!
  Rutherford: My best!
  • Credit to him, it does work. ...Sort of.
    Guard: Hey, stop that! Now you're distracting me!
  • And the guard's more annoyed by Rutherford dancing badly than the fact he is being distracted in the first place.
    Guard: I want the regular fan dance!
• In a flashback about how the bridge crew aren't infallible, Mariner tries to stop Ransom shacking up with someone who is actually a Salt Vampire. As Ransom's back is turned, she drops her disguise, while he tells Mariner Salt Vampires don't exist anymore. And the minute they walk away off-screen together, it pounces.
• The Reveal that they aren't on trial at all; it's a celebration silo and they just haven't bothered turning the lights on. The scary “judge” glowering at them? He's just some random guy waiting for a later party for his daughter (with Tendi cheering “Aww!” after he eagerly shows them all the adorably frilly-looking cake he got his daughter for her hundredth birthday). The ominous beam the senior officers have been floating in the whole time? It’s actually the "Beam of Celebration".
  Billups: It is an honor to be in this beam!
  Mariner: Shut up, Billups!
• Captain Freeman lampshading how Beyond the Impossible this situation was.
  "Today, you four almost got yourselves killed... at a "Thank You" dinner..."
• Tendi being mistaken for a badass black ops agent codenamed "The Cleaner" because she was assigned to tidy up the conference lounge... And then it turns out she's capable of effortlessly taking out several Romulan guards in hand-to-hand combat, giving them no reason to actually doubt her. The events of Season 4 imply nobody was mistaken at all, but rather Tendi was trying to conceal her history as Mistress of the Northern Constellation.

"Crisis Point"

• For once, Freeman sends Mariner to therapy in lieu of throwing her in the brig like usual. Problem is, even if Mariner was willing to cooperate, the ship's counselor is Dr. Migleemo, a less-than-competent Quack Doctor who does nothing but throw out food metaphors, which even Freeman finds annoying during her sessions with him.
  Dr. Migleemo: Carol, you're being a real prickly pineapple right now.
  Capt. Freeman: Ugh, stop referencing foods!
• The episode, in general, carries a theme about making fun of the Star Trek films, specifically how everything is much brighter (leading to J. J. Abrams' infamous lens flares), higher budget props like Shax's "phaser bazooka", or even just the highly nonsensical technobabble that is often made up on the spot as Rutherford points out.
  Rutherford: I initiated a rapid repeating emergency transport sequence and beamed the entire crew before we crashed.
  Billups: What? But that's not possible!
  Rutherford: No, it's a movie. You can beam whatever you want. You can do all sorts of beaming stuff in a movie!
• When the beginning credits to the movie play, Boimler gets beaned by them twice and everyone has to duck under them.
• When the Holo-Bridge crew rides the shuttlecraft to take them to the Cerritos, the show does the typical Star Trek cliche of panning shots of the entire ship while the crew looks on in awe. But they actually parody this by not only doing constantly different viewpoints, deliberately flying the shuttle around the ship multiple times just to keep looking at it, the camera spinning more and more out of control, and Billups crying in sheer over-the-top admiration.
  Boimler: I wish I could kiss her and squeeze her.
  Freeman: Excuse me?
  Boimler: Uhh, um... the Cerritos is a handsome lady.
  Freeman: You're damn right about that, Boimler.
• Mariner tries to act like a badass villain for her holonovel, but ends up just doing a laughable hodgepodge of Trek villain clichés, and is also hampered by not completely thinking the story through before starting it.
• Tendi takes offense at Mariner giving Orions the typical Planet of Hats treatment, saying there have been plenty of them who haven't conformed to the savage Space Pirate stereotype for a whole five years.
• Mariner fighting holo-Mariner has her state she knows all her own secrets; how she fights, how she dressed up as Toby the Targ every Halloween, and how she actually loves the warp core.
  Holo-Mariner: Take that back! The warp core's lame!
• Boimler, meanwhile, has programmed the holodeck with recordings from the crewmembers solely so he can find a more efficient way to suck up to the captain, and is still doing this in the middle of Mariner's bloodbath. And, since this is Boimler, it goes wrong anyway when he tries to give her chocolate chip cookies, earning a tackle from Jet because the captain is allergic to chocolate, leading to Boimler being mistaken for an assassin.
  Freeman: Good work, Jet! That's the kind of assassin tackling that earns you a promotion!
  Crewman: (from off-screen) Hell yeah, Jet!

"No Small Parts"

• The Cerritos arrives on Beta III, the planet featured in "Return of the Archons". The inhabitants have started worshipping the A.I. god Landru again because the older generation died out and didn't remind them not to.
  Freeman: I can't believe you all started re-worshipping the dang computer!
  Betan: Well, Landru is very persuasive.
  • The glorious Sight Gag when Ransom checks the database entry for the original Landru mission. It's a picture of Kirk and Spock... from the extremely low-budgeted TAS of the 70s.
  • Landru himself has gone from being dangerously evil to just comically evil.
    Landru: CONSUME THE INTRUDERS! OBEY LANDRU!
    Freeman: Hey! Don't make me paradox you into destroying yourself!
    Landru: LANDRU... APOLOGIZES.
    Freeman: This is literally the exact thing Captain Kirk taught you! Maybe write it down this time?
  • Starfleet's not entirely blameless in this though. Their "solution" to the problem of Landru was to cordon him off with Starfleet-branded caution tape, hang a sign on his red light, and slap a "Do Not Obey" sticker on his casing.
• One of the natives complains that he just bought a new scythe when the others insist there will be no more Red Hour.
• Ransom refers to the 2260s as the "TOS Era". Only, his abbreviation stands for "Those Old Scientists", rather than "The Original Series".
• Boimler revealing that he knows Mariner is Freeman's daughter, right when the Comm is still active, complete with shocked reactions from the crew hearing the reveal.
  • An enraged Freeman then beams Mariner and Boimler straight to the bridge while Boimler is teasing Mariner about "sweet little Captain kisses". He then unknowingly makes kissy faces in front of everybody until he sees Freeman's Death Glare and freaks out.
• The crew mostly fails to politely ignore this information. Ransom fails spectacularly, and when Freeman orders him to keep being hard on Mariner, he accidentally starts talking about their Belligerent Sexual Tension with the worst wording possible. He ends up having to cover his crotch with a PADD while apologizing profusely.
  Ransom: From now on, I'll make sure to give you special attention.
  Freeman: No! Be as hard on her as you always are!
  Mariner: Yeah, be hard on me!
  Ransom: I'm only hard on you when you make me hard! I mean I'm — I'm not hard right now! I mean I could— I could get hard, if I wanted to, but I'm not hard right now. I'm so sorry! You're both great!
• Now that the crew knows Mariner is the captain's daughter, everyone is asking favors or sucking up to her, including her superior officers. Some of them are a bit more subtle about this, but Shaxs bursts in loudly shouting he wants to give Mariner a present. His present seems to be a bat'leth in wrapping paper.
• Ransom complains that it's hard to choose who should be put in for promotion and transfer. Boimler's record is so spotless that it's honestly kind of weird, while Mariner is Captain Freeman's daughter. He insists that he can't make such an important decision until he can get a workout in. Boimler points out that Ransom's literally been lifting weights shirtless through the entire discussion.
• Even though they're a much more serious threat this time, the Pakleds still talk in their same slow-witted manner and confuse every Federation ship with the Enterprise.
  (The Titan warps in) "Oh no! It's another Enterprise!"
• Their defeat is similarly comedic. Different Star Trek villains have been taken into custody with as much dignity as they could muster, or trapped on an alien world, or gone down screaming and raging as their ship is destroyed around them, or suffered a similarly climactic and dramatic defeat. The Pakleds... freak out and haul ass out of the area when they realize just how badly they're outgunned.
  Pakled Captain: Make us go! Go, guys, go!
• When the Titan makes its debut, it turns out Captain Riker is friends with Mariner... and he's been giving her contraband from time to time. Riker quickly shuts off comms and tries to get everyone to focus on the threat at hand, but Troi's not letting him off the hook that easy.
  Troi: I'm sorry, what was that?
  Riker: (clears throat) We're still at Red Alert! Target those ships and fire!
  Troi: We're talking about this later.
  • Also, the fact that Captain Riker responded immediately because it'd be a chance to get back at the Pakleds.
    "A Pakled party and I wasn't invited?!"
• The Memorial Photo of Shaxs used during his memorial service includes his enraged Eye Twitch, complete with popping veins.
• Brad finally gets promoted to the U.S.S. Titan and is content. Mariner is calling him in the background, sounding downright pissed and calling him a "backstabbing little weasel".
• Riker's variation on "Engage" is so Riker that Troi speaks for all of us.
  Riker: Give me Warp in the factor of 5, 6, 7, 8. [jazz music starts playing]
  Troi: Oh, the jazz...
  • A blink and you miss it moment, but when Riker does the countdown, you can see Troi's eyes widen, then she proceeds to facepalm.
• As the Titan warps out, we see Ensign Peanut Hamper drifting among the debris field, clearly regretting her choice of desertion by beaming away without considering there was no planet nearby instead of saving the ship.
  Peanut Hamper: Help? Help?

Season 2

"Strange Energies"

• Mariner's exercise program:
  • The torturer is surprised that Captain Freeman is Mariner's mother, when Mariner expects the entire Quadrant to know already.
    Torturer: Your captain is your mother?
    Mariner: Yeah, lady, everybody knows that. Keep up, I thought you were good at this.
  • Mariner abandoning Holo-Boimler. Even the now-hostage torturer is shocked.
    Mariner: Yeah, well, he did it first!
  • Mariner continuing to vent about her mother while escaping.
    Mariner: I just always thought... she'd kick me out of Starfleet.
    Torturer: You'll never escape!
    Mariner: Right? Oh, wait, you're talking about the detention centre.
  • Mariner, more concerned about processing things, mentions she doesn't like the attention, but won't turn it down either.
    Mariner: Wait, does that make me a bad person?
    Torturer: You are an extremely bad person!
  • Ensign Sh'reyan interrupting the program.
    Jennifer So you work out by staging Cardassian prison breaks?
    Mariner: Yeah, what do you do?
    Jennifer Uh, yoga.
  • Having to cut her exercise short, Mariner starts doing squats, freaking out her hostage
    Torturer: Why are you squatting? We're going to die! Stop that!
    Mariner: I can't. It's leg day.
• While Ransom is starting to work out, you can briefly hear him say, "The trick isn't becoming a God. The trick is staying a God." This is a rather humorous reference to Harlan Ellison quote: "The trick isn't becoming a writer. The trick is staying a writer."
  • Which could also double as a sideways reference to Babylon 5. That show's producer, J. Michael Straczynski, was a friend and mentee of Ellison, and referenced the same quote in the title of one of his own books.
• Tendi's first attempt at "fixing" Rutherford involves electrocuting him and hitting him repeatedly with hard objects.
• Tendi chasing Rutherford throughout the ship, trying to convince him to let her do brain surgery on him. Barnes treats the situation like it's not remotely the most interesting thing she has going on that day, and none of them pay any mind to Commander Ransom's giant glowing head visibly flying around outside attacking the ship.
• After Tendi and Rutherford reconcile, she whispers that he shouldn't date Barnes.
• Mariner and T'Ana defusing Ransom's A God Am I situation by repeatedly kicking him in the nuts before using a forklift to drop a large boulder on him.
  • After Mariner has kicked Ransom in the nuts several times, he goes into a fetal position and pukes a rainbow.
  • Mariner defaults to her stiff "model officer" voice when explaining to Ransom what she was doing, and Ransom ends up thanking her for the repeated Groin Attack, given the situation.
  • T'Ana finally getting to drop a boulder on Ransom. (What makes this doubly funny is Dr. T'Ana's insistence that Kirk beat Gary Mitchell with a "boulder" is accurate.)
• After the mission, Mariner and Freeman come to realize that their initial plan isn't working out and decide to cut back on how much Freeman uses her. After the tender hug, Mariner realizes there's a security detail waiting for her.
  Mariner: There's a team waiting to take me to the brig, isn't there?
  Freeman: You know me so well. [two security members walk in and grab Mariner by the arms]
  Mariner: Love you mom!
  Freeman: Love you too! Never disobey me again!
  Mariner: (being dragged off) I do what I want!
  • Note, this entire exchange is in a warm, openly loving tone, even the parts that sound like they should be argumentative and confrontational.
• As Mariner, Tendi, and Rutherford talk about how happy Boimler must be on the Titan, we cut to Boimler screaming on the bridge of the Titan as they are attacked by a swarm of Pakled ships. The ship dives into a Negative Space Wedgie and the whole bridge and crew begin to weirdly distort. Boimler's understandably freaked out reaction is funny, Riker's enthusiastic reaction really sells it:
  Riker: I LOOOOOVE MY JOOOOOOOOB!
  • And this exchange beforehand:
    Riker: I'm starting to think this jam session's got too many licks and not enough counts!
    Boimler: WHAT DOES THAT EVEN MEAN?!

"Kayshon, His Eyes Open"

• The bridge crew's summation of the Collector's Guild.
  Ransom: Wasn't he the one who tried to collect Data?
  Freeman: They all tried to collect Data.
  Dr. Migleemo: (weeping) Why couldn't they leave Data alone? He just wanted to feel.
• The entire concept of a Tamarian Starfleet officer, with all the miscommunication that entails.
  • In the final scene, Kayshon tries using his metaphors as a pick-up line. It fails miserably, but points for trying.
• Boimler somehow managing to be more than capable of keeping up with Riker's orders in battle while also openly freaking out.
• "Kayshon, when he became a puppet."
  • Kayshon, when the puppet squeaked.
  • T'Ana notes that this isn't a very unusual thing to happen, and she will have it fixed shortly. It seems the most difficult thing is keeping random passers-by (like Migleemo, who wants to update his therapy techniques) from trying to play with the puppet. By hanging a sign saying "Don't touch! Not a puppet!" on the bio-bed with the patient.
• Apparently, Starfleet officers can be easily identified through their disguises by anyone who cares to look closely, because they have soft hands.
• The Pakleds are smart enough to know they can get through a heavy door by using a saw. They're also strong enough to do so by using the saw as a battering ram.
• Boimler being transporter cloned is heavily telegraphed, but what makes it hilarious is that they seem to be more annoyed than distressed by the development. Riker notes that he's seen this happen before.
• Boimler's plan over who should stay and who should go back utterly fails because his clone both anticipates and doesn't go along with it and ends up being the one to stay on the Titan while Boimler is demoted and sent back to the Cerritos.
• The inclusion of Spock Two's massive skeleton in Kerner Hauze's collection, and its subsequent destruction.
• One of the other trinkets in the collection is the fornication helmet of Kahless. Considering how Klingon sex is invariably Destructo-Nookie, the mind positively boggles over what it was for.
• The whole exchange upon Boimler's return to the Cerritos.
  Mariner: You're supposed to be on the Titan!
  Boimler: I got transporter cloned.
  Rutherford: Ha-ha! Pay up!
  Tendi: Damn it!
• When Captain Freeman goes on her denialistic rant about being a micro-manager, everyone on the bridge nervously side-eyes when she exclaims "Since when do I micromanage?!". Including Commander Ransom.

"We'll Always Have Tom Paris"

• When Rutherford question why the heck Boimler and Mariner aren't more curious about the guy being brought back from the dead, both of them cites the MANY incidents of Starfleet officers seemingly coming back from the dead. Though it's worth noting that very few of these were, in fact, actual death and revival. The incident they listed, in order:
  • "A transporter buffer thing" (Scotty in TNG's "Relics")
  • "A restored Katra" (Spock in The Search for Spock, but also Surak in "The Forge" from Enterprise.)
  • "A Mirror Universe switcharoo" (Georgiou in Discovery, starting with "The Wolf Inside".)
  • "The Borg rebuilt him" (Neelix is saved by Seven's nanoprobes in VOY's "Mortal Coil".)
  • "Future son from an alternate timeline" (Jake saves his father, Ben Sisko, in DS9's "The Visitor".)
  • "Maybe he got Genesis deviced" (Spock in The Wrath of Khan, The Search for Spock, et al.)
  • "Nexus/time ribbon — same thing" (Kirk, Picard, Soren, and Guinan in Generations.)
• The Tom Paris plate is a little concerned about the fumes in the Jefferies Tube. Especially considering that Boimler is having a conversation with a plate.
• When Boimler finally manages to make it to the bridge by crawling through Jefferies Tubes since his credentials have been removed in his absence due to increased security protocols which makes him unable to operate any equipment on the ship and he's too stubborn to contact Billup to have them reinstated, Tom's first reaction is to call him a Kazon due to his disheveled state and beat the crap out of him.
• Tendi turns Mariner's skin green so she'll blend in better at the Orion outpost, something that's treated like putting on Blackface In-Universe.
  Mariner: Honestly, this feels wrong. Please don't take any pictures of me.
• Mariner decides to ram the Cerritos with a shuttlecraft, which harmlessly bounces off of the deflector shield. Captain Freeman's reaction is less angry and more... puzzled.
  • Afterwards, Mariner claims that she lost control of the shuttlecraft because a bee flew into her face. In space. Ransom immediately calls bullshit.
    Ransom: You are so going to the brig for this.
    Mariner: Send the bee to the brig! It's the bee's fault!
• The Reveal of why T'Ana needed the family heirloom: She wanted to sit in the box it came in.
  • The horrified look on a person's face listening to T'Ana playing in the box.
• Mariner spends so much time in the brig that she drew a castle named "Mariner HQ" on the wall, with checkmarks on it marking the days. They end up multiplying through the season.

"Mugato, Gumato"

• The Running Gag of folks using all of the different names for the Mugato, with Shaxs going through three or four variations in a single sentence.
• The Hard-Work Montage of Tendi giving crewmen their physicals by stalking them and scanning them with a tricorder.
• Tendi having to chase down T'Ana to give her a physical, like she's trying to catch her cat for a trip to the vet.
• At the end of the episode, Mariner feeds the gullible, gossipy Honus a new rumor to spread around the bar—that Rutherford and Boimler were "the Mugato Twins", who had fought off a dozen mugatos bare-handed, then ground up and snorted their horns, which gave them strange powers.

"An Embarrassment of Dooplers"

• The fully-functional scale model of the Cerritos Rutherford and Tendi are building.
  • Our first glimpse is an extreme close-up of the primary saucer hull set to incidental music, but without any window lights or surface detailing, leading the audience to assume it is an Off-Model shot of the ship waiting outside Starbase 25... only for Rutherford to apply a decal of the ship name and registry number.
  • While trying to figure out how to activate the deflector on the model, Rutherford accidentally triggers a phaser beam that shoots another crewman offscreen.
  • Finally, while trapped by the crowd of Dooplers, Rutherford and Tendi improvise using the model's warp core as an explosive to blow open a sealed access hatch; they retrieve miniature access cards from the model bridge, insert them into a Two-Keyed Lock with tweezers, and retrieve the warp core... all while a tiny version of the (model) ship's computer voice issues warning prompts.
• The part of the car chase where Boimler and Mariner literally pass through a Vulcan ship, which doesn't illustrate any response other than "Fascinating" from the two crew. It has to be seen to believed.
  • During the chase, one obstacle is another guy stuck in the beeping wheelchair, Captain Pike-style; he beeps as all the karts swerve to avoid him (as he's going maybe 1 mile an hour). Said man is apparently designed to resemble Alex Kurtzman.
• Boimler wondering if the Data bath bombs he and Mariner have to deliver might actually be Lore. The person they are delivering for says that some might be.^note There are, in fact, Lore bubble baths in the mix. The Lore ones are the ones that are smirking.
• When Boimler and Mariner crash into a lake, the water immediately begins sudsing up right before the bubble bath bottles resurface.
• Freeman figures out the way to undo the Dooplering effect: get the Dooplers mad. Cue a Cluster F-Bomb from T'Ana as she recombines the Dooplers in her Sickbay in short order.
• Seeing Captain Shelby at the party? Cool. Seeing The Outrageous Okona DJing at the party? Hilarious.
• The bartender notes that Kirk and Spock came to her bar after failing to crash the party, though she notes "the blond one" did most of the drinking.
  • Kirk and Spock's names are carved into the bar. Sweetie Graffiti style.
• When Captain Freeman realizes they didn't add her to the invite list despite being promised, she beams the Doopler in to crash the party (literally). An exterior shot of the station shows that he's still Doopling by the time the Cerritos crew has settled on hanging out at Kirk and Spock's old bar after being looked down upon by the station commander who prevented Freeman & crew from beaming over the first time the Doopling happened.

"The Spy Humongous"

• The Pakled homeworld is just named Pakled Planet.
• The fact that Boimler is asked to join a special club called "The Red Shirts" is enough to put any Trekkie on edge. Doubly so because they see it as a mark of pride.
• The Pakleds still can't tell Starfleet ships apart. They also can't tell Starfleet captains apart, assuming Captain Freeman is actually Captain Janeway.
• When Boimler first joins the Red Shirts in the beginning, Mariner seems upset at him for joining the "brownnosers" to get out of having to do "trash day", only to grumble "such a great call".
• The Pakled spy... is a very bad one. Including photographing his own foot and jettisoning himself into space by mistaking an airlock for a toilet. Kayshon and Ransom have him made almost immediately, and spend most of the episode leading him on a tour of non-critical parts of the ship while pretending to be none the wiser.
  Ransom: We're not exactly dealin' with the Tal Shiar here.
• Captain Freeman's growing frustration with the Pakled leadership. First Queen Pakled, who doesn't have a big enough hat to enter into negotiations, then King Pakled, and then moments later Emperor Pakled (with the biggest hat of all!)
  Captain Freeman: Are you shitting me?!
• The Pakleds setting a record for the fastest Full-Circle Revolution, with the leader declaring that the Big-Helmeted Pakleds would no longer be in charge, and then immediately dons the Emperor's helmet, declares himself in charge, and tells everyone to behold his giant helmet.
• Ensign Casey asks Boimler if it's true that Riker "cleans his trombone" all the time. When Boimler confirms that he did, and states it was kind of disruptive, Casey muses that he needs to figure out how to blow some brass.
• The Red Shirts have an improv class where they practice acting like captains and giving a Rousing Speech to their crew. When Boimler first tries this it doesn't go too well, with him nervously pausing and repeatedly saying he's the captain. The others look on unimpressed, and Casey comments "we should mutiny".
• One of the anomalies being a giant space slug who screams like a goat, eats Tendi whole, then poops her out.
• Somehow the Pakled Queen is not high-hatted enough to call a ceasefire.
• When Tendi turns into a scorpion monster and starts trashing the lounge, Jennifer (the Andorian) starts to give a Rousing Speech to the panicking crew which seems to be working... and then the other Red-shirts start giving speeches at the same time, which gives us a confused crew and one jumbled cacophony of speeches.
• Freeman tricks Rumdar into spilling their plans and then beams away. The Pakled leader realizes something... Rumdar outsmarted Captain Janeway!
• After acting like an elitist, Casey get some rather gross karma coming his way in the form of only being acting captain for just a couple of seconds till Shaxs kicks him out and gives him this order.
  Shaxs: Clean up Airlock 17. A Pakled did something unspeakable in there.
• The ending, which has the Warp Core Four all prank call Armus. Even Boimler joins in!
  Armus: I AM THE SKIN OF EVIL-
  Tendi: More like a puddle of s—t!
  Armus: Daaaaaaaaaaaamn yoooooooooou!

"Where Pleasant Fountains Lie"

• When Rutherford reaches Billups' room, the first thing he asks is not only where is he, but "Did his kingdom come?".
• Queen Paolana brags that her guards will "destroy [Billup's] virginity" because she trained them to skip foreplay. Cut to the room and we find out that Billups' hasn't even been able to get it up, probably because of said lack of foreplay. When Rutherford barges in, Billups is standing in the bathroom waiting for something to happen while his guards just sit there doing nothing.
• Mariner and Boimler are forced to forage for food and hydration on a desert planet when the broken replicator can only make black licorice, a food item that "is dry and tastes like poison". When they find a fruit tree, the fruit... tastes like black licorice. (And the juice gives them both blue mustaches.)
• All the while AGIMUS is trying to convince them to plug him into a larger device like the shuttle promising everything from replicating a sonic shower to better food. Boimler insists that they can't just ditch or bury him because Starfleet regulations require they respect sapient life. Then he teases them about how he could have fixed the replicator after the black licorice tree incident so they could have guacamole...
  AGIMUS: I have rights! (As Boimler and Mariner bury him in the ground)
• When Boimler reveals that he tricked AGIMUS by plugging him into the dimmer switch rather than the navigation console, AGIMUS angrily screams that he'll blind them and starts flashing the lights.
• We finally learn what Starfleet does with all those evil computers: they're all put in the same room that they could probably break out of easily. But they're deliberately left together so they end up arguing with each other about who's really going to conquer the universe, keeping them too occupied with their egos to be a threat to anyone. In essence, Starfleet basically takes care of countless genocidal A.I.s through treating them all like a bunch of crabs stuck in a barrel.
  • And one of them has the CBS Eyemark on it. Guess CBS All-Access was more than what the name implied...

"I, Excretus"

• Mariner's response to being left to potentially smother or freeze to death in space isn't fear or even anger just exasperation. It really makes clear that she's not even remotely surprised that an otherwise amazing, awe inspiring moment would be ruined like this.
• After they were almost left to die in space, Mariner remarks how they are so expendable, while Shaxs tries to claim they are all equals to assuage their worries.
  Shaxs: Ridiculous, we're all equals on this ship, right?
  Ransom: [in an aside to Shaxs] Uh, they sleep in a hallway.
  Shaxs: [wincing] Oh...
• Tendi's patient in the Medical Ethics simulation is a Klingon who broke his back and paralyzed himself by picking up a peanut.
  • Tendi's total unwillingness to kill the guy results in him not only falling out the biobed, but pulling through, complete with medics solemnly calling "time of life".
• At long last, Shaxs points out one of the franchise's most notorious quirks: why the hell are Starfleet containers hexagon-shaped, which just makes them more likely to fall over?
• Mariner's "Spectre of the Gun" simulation goes insanely badly. Banned from walking into town, she tries to get on a horse, figuring that after two years of teaching this'll be easy. The horse not only throws her off, it then jumps up and down on her.
• Mariner's final simulation has the Cerritos crew exposed to the "Naked Time" virus. The result is a massive orgy and absolutely no other kind of released inhibition. Mariner vents herself into space to make it stop.
  • Hilariously, the only one she doesn't mind seeing is Jennifer making out with Barnes.
  • The scene is already funny... until Shaxs does his Stupid Sexy Flanders pose and yells "IT'S NAKED TIME!" Then it becomes hilarious.
  • And Billups, though also naked, is just sitting in the back playing on his PADD, ignoring all the chaos around him.
  • Mariner's score is 20%, so apparently it's possible to fail even harder than getting everyone sucked out into space.
• The hologram pod computer, once Boimler has to stick around instead of finishing the program, decides to outright cheat in the Borg simulation and gives him the most embarrassing Borg designation ever.
  • The Borg Queen being genuinely concerned about Boimler's health when she learns he is human and not merely something slightly close to one.
    Borg Queen: Ew! Well! You need to drink more water. Your skin is a mess. Still, I think we should add your biological distinctiveness to our own. It's kind of our thing.
• The over the top shameless villainy of the mirror universe crew simulation. Particularly when Mirror Boimler screeches at Mariner like a pod person.
• There was also this little gem right after Shari yn Yem has revealed her Evil Plan.
  Mariner: I knew it! That mirror universe drill was rigged!
  Shari: They were all rigged!
  Mariner: And those horses? I would never get trampled by a horse!
  Shari: Oh, actually, no. The horses weren't rigged. I ran out of time. That one's on you.
  Mariner: Horses love me! Shut up!
• Shari's segments ricochet around the bridge like pinballs when she's given a taste of what it's actually like to be in danger on a starship—and the actual crew are all sitting comfortably at their stations like they're driving to church. Made even more hilarious, when the scene cuts to showing crew members across the ship reacting to these harrowing situations with casual indifference.

"wej Duj"

• Boimler innocently asks Shaxs if he learned pottery on Bajor, and it turns out just that comment is more than enough to set him off.
  Shaxs: You think I had time for anything other than resisting!? Fighting fascism is a full-time job!!
• Boimler's attempt to speak to Lieutenant Kayshon in Tamarian metaphors is... less than successful.
  Boimler: Um. Karno... in the forest with Myra?
  Kayshon: It is hard to lose weight when you can replicate any food you want! (storms off)
• Boimler tries to join Mariner and Captain Freeman on the holodeck, but walks in on the most awkward thing he possibly could; a loud argument about menstruating during a phaser battle.
  Mariner: Why would you tell an entire shift I get bad cramps?!
  Freeman: You were on-duty! Your commanding officer has to know any medical issues that could impact the mission!
  Mariner: Billups doesn't need to know! He's not good with that stuff! It freaks him out!
  Freeman: If I had to dance around everything that freaks out Billups, he wouldn't get anything done!!!
  Mariner: Cool! Then maybe I'll tell him to boost the environmental controls to help with your hot flashes!!
  • Boimler doesn't even get a sentence out before immediately pounding the exit button. Thankfully he escapes before they notice his presence.
• Dr. T'Ana's lack of concern when Boimler plummets during her rock-climbing program.
  Tendi: Good thing the safety protocols are on! They... They are on, right?
  Dr. T'Ana: I 'unno. Sure.
• Boimler eventually falls in with Ransom and two other crew members who all bond over being from Hawaii. Turns out all of them are lying, which we could kind of guess since one of the crew members is a Benzite and they can't breath in oxygen-rich atmospheres without a special apparatus. Not saying it's impossible he could've been from Hawaii, but it's very unlikely.
  • When everyone comes clean about not being Hawaiian, they instead discover they were all born on moons... except Boimler, again.
  • Boimler then tries claiming that Modesto, his home city, is like a moon. They get offended.
    Benzite: If you were from a moon, you'd know how deeply offensive that is.
    Boimler: You pretended to be from Hawaii! That's like the most culturally insensitive thing there is!
• Mariner and Freeman playing the Starfleet version of Clue.
  Mariner: I think it was the Chef, in the Biolab, with the sniper rifle that can shoot through walls.
  Freeman: You always pick the Chef!
  Mariner: invoked Yeah, 'cause we have replicators! Why is there a chef? That's just shady.
• The whole exchange between Rebner and Dorg, with Dorg clearly being enraged by the Pakleds' stupidity. The Pakleds request another bomb, even though Dorg says the one he gave them should have been enough. They claim they tested it on a big asteroid, but it "stopped working".
  Dorg: (with a Twitchy Eye) IT WAS A BOMB! (Facepalm) YOU CAN ONLY USE IT ONCE!
  • The Pakleds are also stupid enough that they keep introducing themselves to Dorg, even though he reminds them they've met several times.
  • The only thing funnier than the Pakled's stupidity is that it's working for them. They got everything they wanted from the scheming Klingon, including a second bomb.
• Just the fact that the Pakled ship is named Pakled. The Pakleds are clearly not good at naming things.
• The Pakled version of Red Alert.
  "Red Alarm! Red Alarm!"
• A look at the Pakled lower deckers shows that they're... pretty much useless.
  Pakled #1: I am hungry.
  Pakled #2: You should eat.
  Pakled #1: (smiles) You are smart!
• Marc Evan Jackson as a Vulcan. Has there ever been more perfect casting?
• T'Lyn carries on the tradition that Kelvin Spock started of using "Live long and prosper" as a veiled way of saying "Go fuck yourself."
  • To say nothing of a Vulcan rendering a "Sarcastic Vulcan Salute".
• The credits play over a shot of the lower decks of a Borg Cube. It's just a bunch of regenerating Borg.
• When you view the episode through the lens of Ma'ah as the Klingon version of Boimler and T'Lyn as the Vulcan version of Mariner, a lot of the episode becomes much funnier.
• The running gag of of T'Lyn presenting what are (to humans) well reasoned and calm arguments and the other Vulcans saying that she is acting like a child and admonishing her "outbursts".
• The Klingon lower deckers' parody of the Vulcan salute "Live Long and Prosper" becomes "Avoid Death and Cower".

"First First Contact"

• When Captain Freeman confesses that none of her senior officers will be joining her at her next command because Starfleet likes to keep California-class crews intact, Billups of all people goes off on a Cluster F-Bomb, to the horror of all present.
• After two seasons of Will They or Won't They?, Tendi and Rutherford finally confess that they're in love with... the Cerritos. They're just trolling the shippers at this point!
• Turns out very little gets Sonya Gomez down, even her impending doom.
  Sonya Gomez: Alright, that's enough existential dread! Let's get to work!
• The debris from the planetoid will knock out the power if even a little bit touches the hull of the Cerritos. Kayshon suggests just warping past it but gets shouted down by everyone for various reasons.
  Kayshon: It was merely a suggestion!
• Rutherford's "Eureka!" Moment comes from overhearing Mariner and Freeman's argument about lowering defenses, which he cheerfully states without caring about their embarrassment.
• Freeman needs all hands on deck to remove pieces of the hull so they can navigate to save the Archimedes... which means the ballroom dancing competition will have to be postponed. An angry crew-member in an evening dress throws down her heels and walks off in a huff.
• We finally get to see Cetacean Ops and meet two beluga crewmembers; Kimolu and Matt. And they reeeally want people to swim with them.
  • Also, they never leave their tank and have apparently missed out on some stuff.
    Kimolu: Mariner is the captain's daughter?
    Matt: Keep up, Kimolu!
  • Or they just suck at paying attention.
    Matt: You should come swim with us.
    Kimolu: I already asked him that. Maybe you need to keep up, Matt!
• When Kimolu and Matt get the half-drowned Boimler out of the tank, they fret about how Tendi and Rutherford have to keep his skin wet. Basically, they're treating him like a beached whale.
• Boimler says he saw a koala after coming back to life; Tendi nervously says he should probably keep that to himself.
• In a dig at Star Trek: Deep Space Nine being the Network Redheaded Stepchild of the franchise, Tendi excitedly says she'll be like Jadzia Dax moving onto the command team as a science officer, but T'Ana has no idea who that is and was thinking of Spock.
• In the end, the first contact mission goes off without a hitch, as a very tipsy Captain Freeman can attest when she returns to the Cerritos.
  Ransom: Captain... (laughs) ...have you been drinking?
  Freeman: (slurring) They're a veeeery welcoming culture!

Season 3

"Grounded"

• When we first see Mariner, she's throwing a plant at a TV, her father muttering how she could just turn it off normally. Then it turns out she's been doing it to other TV screens.
  • While her father is on a video call, she takes her tantrum to another room, prompting the Admiral on the other end of the call to ask why Admiral Freeman even keeps breakable objects in the house anymore.
  • Mariner's Irrational Hatred for the Golden Gate Bridge.
    Mariner: Why do we have that? Nobody drives anymore! This planet is whack!
• Turns out Boimler's family owns and operates a vineyard, just like Picard. Only problem is they make raisins instead of wine, which is much less cool.
• The female workers on Boimler's family farm throwing themselves at him in increasingly unsubtle ways, while Boimler remains either oblivious to it all or willfully uninterested.
  Worker: Bradward! I'm soaked in juice and I need help getting naked!
  Boimler: Just spray off with the hose, Leanne!
  • One of said girls is modeled after the Sun-Maid raisin girl.
• Boimler ruining Mariner's entrance:
  Tendi: (talking about Captain Freeman's trial) I wonder how Mariner is taking this?
  Mariner: Oh I'm taking it, taking it to the limit!
  Rutherford: Did you time your entrance to say that?
  Mariner: What? No.
  Boimler: Oh yeah she did.
  • Made funnier by the fact that Boimler is drinking a cocktail when he says this, implying he had plenty of time to go to the bar while they waited.
  • They're meeting at Sisko's Creole Kitchen, where Boimler puts some "Ketracel White Hot Sauce" in his gumbo, and promptly nearly dies from too much spiciness. Mariner, oblivious to his suffering, casually douses her gumbo with spray after spray, and comments that it has "a pleasant little kick" when she finally tastes it, after Boimler has passed out.
• The highly secure transporter facility the lower deckers need to use to get to the Cerritos is manned by a sweet old grandpa transporter chief that nobody can bring themselves to knock out, and that's before he pulls a phaser on them.
• All of Bozeman Montana is a First Contact-themed tourist trap, complete with holographic Zephram Cochrane taking you on a warp 1 ride in the Phoenix. (Voiced by James Cromwell, no less!)
  • Speaking of the ride, the recording of Zephram advises riders to finish up their snacks, as no food or drink is allowed on the ride. In response to this, Rutherford and Tendi, who are savoring churros, briefly pause and glance at their churros before proceeding to scarf them down as advised.
• Our Lower Deckers ending up Covered in Gunge again as they use the reproducing extremophile lifeforms in a bluff to not get in trouble for stealing the Cerritos.

"The Least Dangerous Game"

• There's a Klingon-based tabletop game where everyone always dies. The entire goal is to die with honor and go to Sto-vo-kor. The version we see is voice acted by Martok, but not the real Martok, it's just a Ferengi-made voice knockoff and they do this with every single famous Klingon. Tendi, Rutherford, Boimler and Mariner are all dressed up in Klingon costumes for the occasion, with Boimler even having a Klingon head ridge hat.
  • Boimler decides to play it safe and not enter the scary cave. Martok announces that he doesn't get to die an honorable death and instead has to live out his days as a dentist.
  • After the events of the episode, Boimler decides to be bold and challenges a bartender. This results in the bartender ripping off his arm and beating him to death with it. Martok does not consider this an honorable death, because Boimler died by his own hand.
  • The end of the episode reveals that the game runs on microtransactions. But then, it is a Ferengi game.
• The planet Dulaine is ruled by a telepathic baby, a living volcano, and a sentient computer—three stock foes on the Planet of the Week—who explain that this arrangement allows for checks and balances.
• K'Ranch explaining that there are three types of prey; the kind paralyzed by fear, the kind that runs and hides, and the third... "is a type of winged lizard which doesn't really apply to this situation."
• Boimler decides to stand his ground against the alien hunting him... and takes so long he gets a spear in the shoulder. Then it turns out he wasn't in any real danger, so the alien tells him maybe not to stand around talking next time. Then takes a few more selfies of himself with an unconscious Boimler.
• Ransom effortlessly resolves the tension with the "wellness-based society" of Dulaine by ripping off his uniform shirt and showing off his physique. He also busts out a standard "We may come from different worlds..." speech.

"Mining the Mind's Mines"

• Mariner's repeated insistence that she and Jennifer are not girlfriends, despite confirming they both call each other "babe" when questioned about her illusion, and Rutherford's implant detecting a raised heart rate.
  • Then Jennifer and Leah Brahms team up and invite Mariner to come look at the warp core with them.
• Boimler approving of Mariner being in a stable relationship is sweet. His way of expressing it, however, is approval that for once Mariner isn't "destroying everything in [her] path."
• Boimler insists the illusions will have to try hard to get him. Cue an admiral showing up on a hoverbike saying they need him to fight the Borg. And Mariner pointing out that even in Boimler's fantasy, he's riding in the sidecar.
• Stevens is persuaded to dunk the psychic mines to get the job done faster and the barrel crashes and breaks them, releasing a green glow.
  Boimler: Uh, sir, what happens when these things break?
  Stevens: I'm sure it's fine, they probably just make a real big fantasy. Watch out, giant ham sandwich incoming!
  (A massive flying snake appears, shrieking)
  Stevens: OH GOD, KUKULKAN!
  • How does Mariner convince Stevens to do so? Telling him people were talking smack about Ransom and his core.
• T'Ana, after giving Tendi a pep talk, turns to her patient with a parasite feeding on his foot then revs up her medical chainsaw so she can amputate it and grow him a new one. Even the parasite is shocked!
• Werewolf Jennifer still playing at Mariner's relationship insecurities.
  Werewolf Jennifer: I WANT TO BE EXCLUSIVE! I WANT US TO GROW OLD, AND BORING, AND GROW ORCHIDS TOGETHER, BABE! SETTLE DOWN WITH MEEEEE!!!
• Klingon Clowns, a giant Borg Snake, Werewolf Jennifer and a giant raisin are among the nightmares. They only get sillier when they start exhibiting other random memories, so the clowns start playing the horns, Werewolf Jennifer sports a fedora and the Borg Snake shoots a basketball while saying "GIVE US YOUR DISTINCTIVENESS".
  Boimler: Does Jennifer wear hats?
  Mariner: No, her antennae are too sensitive.
• The ensigns discover their memories are being data-mined. Secret access codes, personal information, and Ensign Kearns' uncle Trent drunk-dancing at her cousin's wedding.
  Mariner: (watching) Damn! Get it, Trent!
• Turns out the Cerritos is a legend among California-class ships, even the lower deck gang... except, of course, for Boimler, who everyone thinks is a tiny robot who always gets in trouble.
  Tendi: Aww, (acting like a robot) Boimler-wants-to-be-peo-ple.

"Room for Growth"

• The fact that none of the main four are worried about the D'Arsay mask, and particularly the fact that this is at least the third time that it happened just to Cerritos.
  Mariner: Stop touching masks!
• In the aftermath of this, the engineers run themselves ragged trying to fix everything. When Shax tries pointing out there's no weakness in admitting you're overworked, Billups is so tired he can barely flip his lid.
• Freeman then schedules the engineering crew to a spa vacation. Cue the weariest group cheer ever seen.
• Things do not go well for Freeman, as the engineering depart are incapable of switching off, driving her ever more bonkers, until the Dove crew are forced to put her in therapy. And even the maximum dosage of cute puppies does nothing, which then puts the Dove's captain increasingly on edge herself.
• Finally, the engineers save Freeman... by engineering a solution: A device made out of a turbolift which instantly de-stresses the captain. The Dove captain is not happy.
  Captain: I want this thrown out the airlock immediately.
  Nurse: But-
  Captain: I said immediately!
• While crawling through the bowels of the ship, Tendi, Mariner and Boimler end up in a swamp underneath the hydroponics bay; thanks to the type of plant, oxygen levels are low and the room is flooded with nitrous oxide. This causes Mariner and Boimler to go on a Mushroom Samba, but Tendi's Orion physiology renders her immune. Mariner can taste sounds, Boimler thinks there's a massive maze and Tendi ends up having to pull them out before they suffocate.
  Boimler: "OK, you stay here and feed the rabbits! I'm gonna find a way through this maaaaze! (eyes bulge out)
  • And in a Freeze-Frame Bonus, you can see a Doopler skeleton trapped in the roots!
• The lower deckers bond over a story about how Ransom got turned into a caveman and made himself a wife out of churros. When the fact they'd go off is brought up, the Deltas reveal he resupplies it every few months. They're not sure if it's true, but the episode ends with Ransom asking the replicator for churros in an unmarked paper bag...

"Reflections"

• Mariner shilling for Starfleet at an expo.
  Mariner: (with fake enthusiasm) Starfleet, get your Starfleet, get ready for warp ten excitement! Discover the undiscovered country!
  • That last line gets even better when you remember that "the undiscovered country" in Hamlet refers to death.
  • Also note that "get ready for warp ten excitement" is a joke about a tagline from the novelization of The Wrath of Khan.
• One of the potential applicants at the job fair is a Gelrakian, the people obsessed with crystals. She asks how often you get to mine dilithium in Starfleet.
• On top of being awesome, Boimler's rant against the rest of the job fair is hilarious.
  Boimler: You're always getting people trapped inside of games! STOP TRAPPING PEOPLE INSIDE OF GAMES!
• And on that note, seeing the mild-mannered and rule-abiding Boimler going on a rampage while the rebellious Mariner is signing up new recruits like she's supposed to has Ransom clearly wondering what the hell is going on.
• After his epic rant, Boimler gets sent to the brig... Where he adds graffiti of "Boimler's Guesthouse" next to "Mariner's HQ".
• When Rutherford finds himself trapped in a reflection after some other, more malevolent version of him is piloting his body, the first thing he jumps to is "I've been taken over by an anaphasic alien!" (Technobabble for "an incubus" basically) This kind of thing happens so often "I've been possessed" is what people think of first rather than "he's dissociating" or something like that in Star Trek.

"Hear All, Trust Nothing"

• The Cerritos visiting Deep Space Nine:
  Captain Freeman: Helm, just buy me some time to read up on the Karemma.
  Bridge Crew Member: Uh, sir? How do we do that?
  Ransom: I don't know. Just circle around and pretend we're in awe of the pylons.
  Bridge Crew Member: Yes, sir.
  [The Cerritos circles Deep Space Nine while the DS9 theme plays]
  Bridge Crew Member: Umm...
  Ransom: Just keeeeep circling.
  [The DS9 theme plays again!]
  • Upon arrival, the DS9 theme starts playing majestically, while all Shaxs can do is condemn the station as a "tacky Cardassian fascist eyesore."
• Quark has expanded to twenty-four franchises across the Alpha Quadrant. The Promenade now prominently features a gift shop and Quark happily takes selfies with visiting tourists (for a nominal fee). Mariner admonishes the others for wanting to visit "a chain restaurant", but they're nonetheless excited to visit the original Quark's.
• Mariner's friends tell her not to be her usual bossy self. She denies being bossy, and all of them laugh at her.
• Whenever Shaxs and Kira are on the screen, the two start arguing over who owes who concerning rescues during the Cardassian occupation of Bajor. Note that both Shaxs and Kira are each arguing they owe the debt for all the rescues, not that the debt is owed to them. The argument becomes less and less friendly as it continues.
  • After he shoves her out of the path of the Karemma EMP, Kira uses that to get the last laugh.
• Morn is seen silently drinking at the bar, same as always.
• Why doesn't Quark want to do business with the Karemmans?
  Quark: I have principles!
  Kira: (annoyed) No, you don't!
• Mariner phasering all of Jennifer's friends while Jen herself laughs and claps in the background.
  • Before that, Mariner has to put up with the evening's activities: candle-making ("Place your intention on it"), ghost stories, and interpretive dance.
  • Mariner's Flat "What" reaction when the other girls say they genuinely find Boimler hot, to the point she pours out the rest of the alcohol for herself.
    • Additionally, she somehow pours an entire bottle into a glass a third its size..
• After talking incessantly about being a former pirate, Mesk breaks down and admits he's never even been to Orion. He was raised in Cincinnati, Ohio!
  Mesk: I got adopted by humans, and everything I know about Orions I learned from a holonovel. The bad ones, too! The ones with boobs on the cover!
• In one of the B-plots, Boimler is so improbably lucky at dabo that the local pit boss finally has to bribe Boimler into quitting by offering to give him a Quark's gift card worth double his winnings. Boimler takes it without a moment's hesitation, because the money wouldn't be worth anything in Starfleet anyway.
  • During the ending, Boimler runs in front of Tendi and Rutherford wearing enormous fake Ferengi ears and carrying ridiculous amount of merchandise in his arms.
• Freeman finds out why the Kareema are so furious with Quark, and declares she's got a situation that will make everyone happy: The Kareema get 76% of Quark's profits. They celebrate by drinking on the house. Quark isn't actually happy with this.
  Freeman: Well, you're happier being poor than in prison, aren't you?
  Quark: No!
• A minor case, but the stolen Karemma replicator tech is called the "Quark 2000". You'd think he'd at least call it the 3000....

"A Mathematically Perfect Redemption"

• The whole episode, being a variation on the "advanced alien arrives on primitive planet and teaches them advanced science while learning to value the simple things in life," except the advanced alien is an arrogant and self-centered exocomp who doesn't actually learn to appreciate anything and the backwards natives are smarter than they appear and used to be much more advanced. The romance between Peanut Hamper and Rawda is exceptionally hilarious, getting every bit of comedic mileage from a birdman and flying box robot being sexually active.
• As Peanut Hamper is calling for the Borg, Tendi stops her by just pushing her antenna back into her chassis, following by Shaxs catching her. Her act of spite now foiled, the exocomp is reduced to pathetically screaming that resistance is futile.
• At the end of the episode, AGIMUS and Peanut Hamper are sharing a Evil Laugh to celebrate their partnership only for the other evil computers to join them, leading Peanut Hamper to order them to stop laughing with them as they weren't invited to do so, to no avail.

"Crisis Point 2: Paradoxus"

• When Mariner hears the movie's plot will involve Time Travel, she asks Boimler if they're going to do something stupid like "assassinating Kennedy". Believe it or not, this was Gene Roddenberry's early pitch for what became Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (when Paramount heard the pitch, they proceeded to have Roddenberry Kicked Upstairs and brought in Nicholas Meyer).
• When Mariner storms out of the holodeck, she has to step over the black bar that's there for the widescreen.
• Boimler designed an incredibly attractive and intelligent scientist to give exposition and be his character's love interest, but since he drops that subplot, she asks Mariner what she's supposed to do now since that was her entire purpose. Mariner dodges the question by running.
• Walking back into the holodeck, Mariner finds herself accosted by a trio of robed cultists.
  Mariner: Don't touch me! Your characters don't even have names!
  Lead Cultist: You know nothing of our ways! Acolyte 2, throw her into the brig!
• Knicnack's Love Confession to Boimler:
  Knicnack: I love you! I'm in love with you!
  Boimler: I'm in love with you too, buddy! Let's go!
  Mariner: Okay. Hey, there's your romance.
• Boimler and Mariner storm the freighter's bridge to confront the leader of the cultists:
  Mariner: Here it comes! The big heroic speech where you turn him around from being—
  (Boimler punches the cultist in the face)
  Mariner: Or yeah, we could do the Kirk thing! That's cool too.
• Knicknac hulking out and going full Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass on a bunch of hapless cultist mooks is both badass and hilarious.
• Rutherford stops to loot the clothes off of the punks they knocked out, lampshading that half the fun of time travel is getting to dress up in period costume.
  Rutherford: (trying on pants) They don't fit! We need to find bigger punks.
• When Boimler has his dehydrated dream with Sulu, he starts geeking out over being around him after everything is said and done. Sulu just replies, "Horsey's gonna bite you now." The nearby horse proceeds to do exactly that, clamping onto Boimler's neck, causing Boimler to wake up from a hypospray injection.
• T'Ana chases the Lower Decks crew out of sick bay because she needs the bed to treat Stevens who leaned up against the warp core. For the second time that day!
• When issued his black Section 31 communications badge, William Boimler points out how silly it is for a covert black-ops agency to have such a conspicuous giveaway of their identity — an often-heard complaint from Star Trek: Discovery, where the badges originated. The irritated Section 31 agent tells him that if he would prefer to still be dead, that is also fine — holding up the hypospray that she used to revive him — so William hastily accepts the badge without further questioning.

"Trusted Sources"

• Rutherford begging the security officer to let him have some pie, and then finally demanding to be stunned while dramatically ripping his shirt as the officer shouts a Big "NO!".
• When Freeman leaves him in command, Dr. Migleemo's first order... is to hail his mother so she can see him sitting in the big boy chair.
• When the Aledo appears to save the day by blowing up the first Breen ship, Freeman asks "What the hell kind of ship is that?" Cut to the bridge of one of the Breen ships, with its captain (presumably) asking the same thing to his subordinate, who shrugs and blargles in Breen.
• Starbase 80 keeps their crew manifest in a rolodex.
• While Freeman is attempting to reach Mariner, there's a Pyrithian bat loose on Starbase 80, and the crew is having no luck getting rid of it. Partly because they're solely relying on whacking it with a broom, which it doesn't care about.

"The Stars at Night"

• Shaxs getting to eject the warp core is awesome. Him crying Tears of Joy as everyone cheers him on like he scored a winning touchdown, on the other hand, is hilarious.
  • In the Trek Logs instagram account, he describes how this has been a dream come true, and he's gushing about how he got to drop a two-storey matter-antimatter bomb mid-warp.
  • As Shaxs runs past, Lt, Kayshon yells, "Ackron, on the night of his joining!" Assuming "night of joining" means "wedding night," that probably translates as "f*ck yeah!"
• When the first of the California-class ships arrives, the U.S.S. Oakland, Boimler is just confused as if he was expecting someone stronger.
  Boimler: We got another ship coming out of warp! It's the... Oakland?!
• T'Lyn officially joins the Cerritos on a training assignment and is paired with Tendi. The tone is immediately set by T'Lyn looking for a quiet place to discuss orientation, only for Tendi to literally drag her into meeting her friends.
• The Hard-Work Montage has Dr. T'Ana yelling at everyone in Medical, and Chief Engineer Billups telling everyone he wants them to move as fast as Commander Data when putting chips in the boards. What is Ransom's pep talk for the command division? How to do the Riker Maneuver of course! ^note "Swing your leg over the top of the chair to sit on it"
• Every single Cali-class ship warping in to the rescue is awesome. Listening to Boimler going full Motor Mouth to rattle off all their names is hilarious.
  • One of the ships? It's the U.S.S. Alhambra, which Dr. T'Ana mistakenly thought was the Cerritos back in season 1, complete with the weird dopplegangers of the ''Cerritos'' crew.

Season 4

"Twovix"

• The macrovirus taking over Voyager, fusing with a Borg nanite and hijacking the computer systems, causing Dr. Chaotica, The Clown and Michael Sullivan to appear (as the curator had installed holo-emitters all over the ship) and take over. The nanites even assimilate one of the mechanical salamander-fish things used for an exhibit based on "Threshold".
• As everything is kicking off Beckett is pulled into a passionate kiss by Michael Sullivan.
  Sullivan: I love you, but I can't be with you.
  Beckett: Woo. I like this guy, though.
• A bit of dark comedy comes from one of the holographic Michael Sullivan's lamenting a sad "Ugh, I miss my wife."^Context Janeway deleted his wife when she changed his program to make him more appealing.
• The various bizarre Tuvix-style fusion beings, including Dr. T'Billups, Captain Dr. Freeglimo, and even one between Lt. Commander Stevens and Matt the whale ("Swhale Swhalens"). Swhale promptly says "I want a fish!" and makes a weird noise; Dr. T'Billups then states Swhale isn't his best work.
  • T'Lyn and Tendi's attempt to try and unfuse them all results in a giant blobby meatball with various limbs and parts sticking out.
    • Just before the blob monster is created, T'Billups sees Tendi and T'Lyn while the latter is circumventing the security for the transporter, demanding to know what they are doing. T'Lyn just gives him a blank stare that must be the Vulcan equivalent of Bitch, Please before activating the teleporter.
  • The ethics of what Janeway did to Tuvix are brought up, and everyone debates what to do about these new sentient lifeforms. That goes out the window once they all fuse, and they opt to return everyone to as they were before, because nobody wants to be a giant blob monster.
• After Mariner is able to get Boimler to be confident again and tells him to go save Voyager, Boimler thanks her by patting her on the head before he leaves.
  Mariner: Ew! Did you just pat me on the head?
  Boimler: Yeah, it felt weird to me, too. I'm sorry.

"I Have No Bones Yet I Must Flee"

• The episode starts with a couple of Romulan lower deckers plotting their commander's demise and each insisting their treacherous plan will come to fruition before the other's.

  Female Romulan: Don't make me scoff! Your plans are barely even schemes.

  Male Romulan: You wouldn't know a scheme from a conspiracy!

  • Cut to the bridge, where the ship is accosted by a mysterious alien craft that's shaping up to be the Big Bad of the season. The captain accuses one of his subordinates of plotting against him. The subordinate protests that of course it wasn't him! Obviously, he wants the captain dead but not like this!
• Poor Ensign Gary is very confused as to why Mariner is mad at Ransom, at one point asking if they're "breaking up" or something.
• Some rather twisted humor comes from Ransom's team fleeing in terror from a cute little Moopsy waddling after them — that can suck out your bones!
  • A cute little moopsy that can suck out your bones AND uses Pokémon Speak in an adorable little helium voice.
    Moopsy: Moopsy!
• Boimler's various accommodations — his first new cabin is flooded with blinding light from the Bussard collector (the red thing on the front of the nacelle), while his second is sandwiched between two holodecks. First he hears Shaxs and T'Ana's Robin Hood roleplaying (with T'Ana killing the holo-Robin so she can take his place), then Captain Freeman starts scatting after becoming "President of all Starfleet".
  • And then at the end he decides to share quarters with Rutherford, but the one they get is yet another one with windows pointed at the Bussard collectors. As Boimler starts freaking out, Rutherford casually adjusts the windows to block the glow since they obviously have that feature - solving the problem in 3 seconds flat. Any tech person who ever lent a hand to their less-savvy friends will get a good chuckle out of that one.
• Fridge Logic kicks in when Rutherford reveals he's been turning down promotions so he could keep hanging out with Tendi and the rest of Beta shift. The stuff he's accomplished over the course of the show (stopping the Pakled attack, removing the Cerritos hull to save the Archimedes, etc.) more than qualified him for one. He feels awkward asking now since he hasn't done anything recently to earn it, but Tendi point-blank asks Billups and he immediately agrees.
  Rutherford: Wait, you can just ask for things that you deserve?!
• Ransom having an encouraging heart-to-heart with Mariner about her value as an officer while his mouth is full of teeth that are two sizes too big.
  • And before that we get this gem from dr. T'ana.
  Dr. T'ana: Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go kill the Sheriff of Nottingham for being a little f[bleep]kface, haha.
• Rutherfords relationship with Livik.
  Rutherford: Livik!
  Livik: Rutherford! (Beat) And also Tendi!
• Mariners Kirk Summation after it turns out that the humans in the zoo let the Moopsie out.
  Mariner:Humans: We really are the worst.
• While Ransom and Shaxs are doing exercises in the gym and they're doing the same routine Troi and Crusher are seen doing in an episode of TNG while also wearing the same outfits.

"In the Cradle of Vexilon"

• Updating Vexilon seems rather straight-forward, but Captain Freeman encounters tons of problems trying to get it done. Anyone who's had trouble updating their PC probably knows exactly how she feels.
• T'Lyn gives Boimler a pep talk when Boimler worries about commanding ensigns into life-threatening situation, assuring him that he's up to the job. Boimler translates this to the ensigns as follows:
  Boimler: T'Lyn says I have to put you guys in danger. Let's do this!
  T'Lyn: That is not how I would have conveyed the lesson.
• Ransom is utterly blasé about Boimler dying on the mission, at least once Dr T'Ana has revived him, telling Boimler that the first death is the memorable one and the missions only get more dangerous from here on in.
• T'Ana's reaction when Boimler comes back to life... and then (seemingly) dies again!
  Everybody out! Give me 30cc's of whatever just worked a f[bleep]ing minute ago.
• There is a Betazoid gift box in the anomaly room. It's picked up the speech patterns of anyone who's entered the anomaly room, resulting in it regularly blurting out random phrases, ranging from gibberish like "Feddle de dee wa weedle deedle dee da!" to mere Non Sequiturs. When it blurts out a string of curses, Tendi immediately knows that T'Ana must have visited the room at some point.

"Something Borrowed, Something Green"

• The wedding invite was translated and it turns out a lot of it is just placeholder info.
• T'Lyn's summation of Boimler and Rutherford's closeness since they became roommates.
  T'Lyn: Their emotional closeness is unpleasant.
• Tendi's mother and father; The Warrior Queen Shona and B'rt.
  • In the season finale, we find out one of their lieutenants is named "B'th."
• This episode is Mariner’s turn to be a Butt-Monkey as she gets stabbed in the shoulder three times whenever a dagger’s thrown around!
• The "Slit Throat" has a jar full of bloodied knives, so apparently stabbings happen a lot there.
• Mariner being amazed at how filthy rich Tendi's family is (even by her post-scarcity economic standards) — Tendi tries to downplay it by saying they're only the fifth-largest Syndicate family, but she, Mariner and T'Lyn are being carried on a sedan by servants. And so are Tendi's parents, for that matter.
• A bouncer refuses to let the Trio cut the line until he turns around and recognizes Tendi. He immediately begins grovelling for his life as she awkwardly attempts to brush it off.
  Bouncer: Mistress of the Winter Constellations?! I didn't realize. Please don't flay me!
  Tendi: Uh, he's— he's just joking.
• Apparently, bridal kidnapping is a tradition on Orion. The problem with D'Erika being kidnapped is that it was too late for that, so it's actually a problem… because it's tacky.
• Mariner had assumed that Starfleet made up the "Orion women control the men through pheremones" thing in order to help Captain Archer save face after the events of "Bound".
• Mariner calls D'Erika's ex Nya'al a "big ol' hunk o' ham steak". T'Lyn agrees that he is "aesthetically pleasing".
• The Madame at the sex dungeon comments that Tendi didn't need pheromones to make men swoon, causing Tendi to blush furiously as she denies it.
• Mariner apparently got stabbed an additional time offscreen during a "daddy-daughter dagger dance"
• Boimler and Rutherford complain at the end of the episode about being left out of the visit to Orion.
• Boimler and Rutherford's idea to solve the dispute between Freeman and a Chalnoth captain about who get to scan a nebula is to put them in their Mark Twain's themed holodeck program, while both captains are dressed like the author.
• The Chalnoth Captain rejects the proposal that the Cerritos scan the nebula and share the resulting data with him because 'Federation data is too detailed and nuanced!'

"Empathalogical Fallacies"

• The crew of the Romulan ship all groaning in disappointment when the Cerritos turns away from the Neutral Zone at the last second. Their commander decides to order them to lurk in another sector, like a dad taking his disappointed kids out for ice cream.
• In a moment that's also heartwarming (at least, for a certain definition of "heartwarming"), Mariner convinces T'Lyn that following her instincts doesn't make her any less Vulcan; her Bendii Syndrome proves it, as Sarek also had it and he was "Vulcan as a mother[BLEEP]er". T'Lyn agrees that by the transitive property she is then indeed "Vulcan as a mother[BLEEP]er"; after only a few months aboard Cerritos, she's already mastering the art of "colorful metaphors".
  Mariner: Fuck yeah! Logic, bitch!
  • Earlier in the same conversation, Mariner is trying to reassure T'Lyn that she is an excellent Vulcan officer.
    Mariner: What was your captain's name?
    T'Lyn: Sokell.
    Mariner: Mannnnn, [BLEEP] Captain Sokell! What, you saved their lives, so he kicks you off the ship? Where's the logic in that, huh?!
• When Security jumps into action at Red Alert, the first obstacle they and Boimler encounter is a feral T'Ana. Shaxs speaks calmly to her, trying to get her to do Migleemo's breathing exercises, only for her to jump at him. He catches her and holds her like a naughty house cat. Later during the elevator ride to the bridge, Boimler asks if she is going to be okay, and Shaxs assures him she will since they gave her some warm milk to calm her.
• Mariner hugs T'Lyn at the end of the episode. Tendi sees and tries to get in on the action, only for T'Lyn to insist that Mariner used up her one allotted hug per day.
• Captain Freeman finds herself Instantly Proven Wrong when:
  • T'Ana chases her tail in the bar.
  • Several of the crew form a human pyramid.
  • T'Ana acts (unsucessfully) on ancient instinct against the Betazoid trio.
• Boimler's little delighted smile when Shaxs admits "defeat" after their wrestling match is both adorable and hilarious.

"Parth Ferengi's Heart Place"

• There's something dryly amusing about how, after seeing so many doomed lower deckers trying to scheme their way into a captain's chair this season, it's the Ferengi captain who figures out the treachery that's afoot... just in time to get pew-pewed by the mysterious ship.
• Ransom assigns the group to travel guide duty, which is actually mostly just a pub crawl with a museum stop now and then.
• Ransom asks Tendi and Rutherford to act as a married couple for their new mission because the Cerritos doesn't have any. According to him, the Cerritos statistically has the horniest and least romantically-committed crew in Starfleet.
  • Upon arriving on Ferenginar, Rutherford calls out "We got married at a wedding!" A mother walking by with her child pulls on their arm, as if to say "don't look at the hew-mon tourists."
• Mariner's description of Ferenginar: "It's what Heaven would look like if God was stupid."
• The Ferengi have a memorial for those lost in the Dominion War, but it's for profit that was lost, not lives.
• Boimler's entire sub-plot: the man gets lost in Ferengi commercials.
  • When he first catches one, he pronounces the name as "commer-seal".
  • The Slig-O cola commercial just flat-out lies and says your lobes will double in size from drinking it, much to Boimler's amusement.
  • When the show Pog & Dar: Cop Landlords suddenly and blatantly drops some Product Placement for Slug-O Cola, Boimler laughs at it and says it's like mind control, as a picture of a mountain with stars over it twinkle with a familiar sound effect.
  • Look closely at the TV Boimler is watching; it's in the shape of a CBS logo.
  • One of the items on Boimler's itinerary is the Ferengi Hall of Fame Gift Shop, with a note that the actual Hall of Fame is coming soon.
  • At the end, Boimler's spent eight hours having done nothing but watching television. He's now in his underwear with his eyes bloodshot from the glare. Ransom's actually quite proud of him for doing something that isn't the usual same acts... then tells him someone's coming to get him and to just relax, go limp and don't resist. Cue a muscular Ferengi busting down the door and lashing him with one of those electric whips as Boimler screams in panic and agony.
• After an entire episode of pretending to be a couple and being weirded out at being placed in intimate settings, Tendi and Rutherford agree that being a couple wasn't for them and they should just stick to being platonic friends as they have no chemistry. Then he does a Bridal Carry before they both get into a tight Jeffries tube in a very suggestive position (with giggling from inside the tube, no less).

"A Few Badgeys More"

• The key point of AGIMUS's deception that he's good now? His lights are blue now! This works, at least with Tendi.
• Badgey shooting the Cerritos is referred to by him as 'booping it' and the Cerritos crew consistently use the term as well.
  Shaxs: He's bypassing our shields. We can't take many more boops!
• The other malevolent AI's at the Daystrom Institute playing basketball and gardening, like a regular prison yard. This despite most of them being unmoving blocks like AGIMUS.
  • A basketball is tossed into the hoop from offscreen as the scene begins. Who could've tossed it?!
  • The AI's can't help but laugh evilly, even when they've done something mundane like attending group therapy.
    Lord Tyrannikillicus: I have conquered self-doubt and seized personal growth! (Evil Laugh)
• The fact that AGIMUS, despite still being a rectangular box that needs Boimler to carry him around, can somehow get depressed enough to Face Plant on the ground. A blink and you'll miss it gag shows that AGIMUS actually pushed himself off due to some sort of lever in his back.
• After Rutherford apologizes to him for snapping his neck, Badgey's good side separates from the original program into "Goodgey".
  Goodgey: Do you guys wanna take a root beer float break?
  Mariner: Uh, yeah, of course we do. But we still have to save our ship!
• Tendi is just so giddy over playing with sand, since Orion didn't have any. (This makes her a hilarious counterpart to a certain someone from another major sci-fi franchise with a notorious hatred for sand.^note "It's coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere.")
• Boimler and Tendi are utterly unconcerned with whatever plot AGIMUS and Peanut Hamper are up to, taking their betrayal as a given. Boimler's reaction to AGIMUS using a newfound wireless ability to take control of the shuttle and place them in restraints is less fear and more mild annoyance. Boimler even notes that AGIMUS's conquest of an entire planet is something Starfleet will be able to reverse in a few hours once they get around to it. In fact, Tendi ended up playing with sand because she had nothing better to do while AGIMUS held them captive on a beach.

"Caves"

• Upon finding out they're going to be exploring caves, Mariner starts complaining, ultimately screaming "I HATE CAAAA" *transporter effect* "AAVES!" as she's being transported.
• The Vendorian species' hat turns out to be Inscrutable Aliens who test other species' morality just because they can; Boimler manages to make up for failing their Secret Test of Character by introducing them to Lieutenant Levy because they enjoy when people make up crazy theories about why they do anything.
  • Then when Boimler admits he likes Levy it turns out they knew Boimler was bullshitting them but played along anyway to get him to admit that.
  • Then it turns out the Framing Device was another test.
  • If you listen closely, the Vendorians deny having a hand in the Klingon Civil War, but they do not refute that the whole "warp speed damages subspace" was their idea, suggesting it was another morality test and they really didn't need to follow through.
• During Mariner's story, she and her Delta shift counterpart have to get close to a rock that causes Rapid Aging; They eventually decide to get the Delta shift counterpart of Boimler to do it since he's the youngest and the least affected. He protests that his leg is broken but both assure him that the time dilation will just make it heal faster, instead it heals wrong and then falls off, then Delta shift's counterpart to Rutherford finds a way to solve the problem without having to get close to the rock.
• During Tendi's story the lower deckers end up rescued by Shaxs leading to Mariner almost peeing herself and Boimler actually peeing himself.
  Shaxs: I'm here to save you!!!

"The Inner Fight"

• Upon arriving at the Pickpocket District, Rutherford laughs and declares that they don't have pockets, only to be Instantly Proven Wrong when it turns out his pants do have pockets! And then he spends the rest of the scene with his hands firmly in there, clearly enjoying the small pleasure of having pockets. Captain Freeman assuming the source of information is a bad puppet (since it resembles the alien puppet used by Balok in "The Corbomite Maneuver")....only it actually is a real, tiny alien.
• T'Lyn casually mentions her previous ship surviving a Pakled encounter not too long ago. Mariner almost puts it together that the Cerritos was present for the same event before everyone gets distracted and moves on.
• Mariner and Ma'ah take shelter together during a glass storm, with Ma'ah saying they will continue their fight when the storm resides. During this time, he ends up playing Warrior Therapist to Mariner, talking her through her issues and helping her realize she should honor her dead friend Sito Jaxa. When the storm finally passes in the morning, Ma'ah tries to resume their battle, only to be surprised when Mariner hugs him and declares them to be friends, and is disappointed they won't finish their fight now.
  Ma'ah: (clearly winded from the hug) Remove yourself! What is the meaning of this?!
  Mariner: I'm hugging you.
  Ma'ah: Klingons do not hug!
• Klingons get the fuscia-pink blood from Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country for Rule of Funny. The result is that after Ma'ah brutally kills his mutinous Number Two, his face looks like it's covered in Pepto-Bismol.
• Mariner's first act when she awakens on Nick Locarno's ship? Criticizing the decor.
  "What in the minimalist hell...?!"

"Old Friends, New Planets"

• Turns out young Mariner was totally like Boimler, an excitable geek.
• Mariner discussing Locarno's "decor" for the Nova One. Or lack thereof.
  Mariner: Uh, nice ship. Very...white. And...nothing else.
  Locarno: Thanks. I designed it myself. No Starfleet carpets or wood paneling in here.
• Before broadcasting his New Era Speech, Locarno asks Mariner how he looks:
  Mariner: Confident. But, y'know, in like a creepy way?
  Locarno: Perfect! That's what I'm going for!
• While Locarno is discussing his brand new Nova Fleet, Rutherford realizes he looks like Tom Paris. Boimler, who was infamously battered by Paris, doesn’t see the resemblance. This leads to them being too busy arguing whether or not Locarno and Paris do look the same to fully pay attention to the speech. Even more, it makes the moment less like a threatening moment and more like a couple of riffs off of Mystery Science Theater 3000.
• Mariner plays along with Locarno until he makes his big broadcast and asks for her to put in a few words as a fellow rebel. If you pay attention she's actually drawn a bit blurry here while Locarno is drawn clearly. Mariner has run up so close to the camera that she's out of focus.
  Mariner: [running up to the viewscreen and pointing at him] THIS GUY SUUUUCKS!
• After stealing Locarno's Genesis Device, Mariner treats it as a Companion Cube, even nicknaming it "G.D.", for some levity as she tries to escape by herself from hostile territory.
  Mariner: (nervously) Alright, you are my First Officer! Yaaay! My little buddy. Please no exploding...
• When Rutherford and Livik start arguing about how to repair the Retribution in time, T'Lyn offers a way to get them all on the same page. Billups gets excited, thinking she is going to mind meld them, but T'Lyn says her suggestion is something much less invasive. We then see Rutherford and Livik in the Mark Twain holoprogram, having already worked things out. Freeman is baffled that such a ridiculous method actually works. And then Rutherford and Livik go right back to hating each other by the end of the episode. Sam explains that they only like each other when they're "Twaining".
  Freeman: Why does this work?
  T'Lyn: Illogical tactics sometimes lead to logical solutions.
  Boimler: (in tears) It's beautiful...
• D'Erika dismisses the Cerritos as a third-rate support ship, which provokes Billups into an angry rant as he rolls up his sleeves to fight before Ransom pulls him back.
  Billups: (angry) The Cerritos is not measly! She's the gem of the California-cl—
  Ransom: (sotto voice) Andy, shut up!
• What takes Locarno down in the end? A Ferengi replica of the Genesis Device... with deactivation locked behind a paywall. Locarno dies cursing the Ferengi for this bizarre decision.
  Locarno: Ha! Next time, set a shorter timer.
  Genesis Device: To deactivate detonation, please insert two bars of latinum.
  Locarno: They put a paywall on a bomb?! Stupid Feren—
  [BOOM]
• Boimler as Acting Captain has some chuckle worthy moments:
  • As they begin the attack run on Locarno's shield, Tendi takes a second to compliment Boimler's "captain voice" and he fully drops the gravitas to appreciate it.
  • He joins a long list of captains in first baffling an admiral, then hanging up on them.
  • He and Rutherford can't resist pointing out that while oft-mentioned, almost nobody ever uses the captain's yacht.

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