Star Trek: Lower Decks

“The New Next Generation”

3 stars.

Air date: 12/19/2024
Written by Mike McMahan
Directed by Megan Lloyd

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The announcement back in April that the fifth season would also be the final season of Lower Decks came after the season was already basically in the can. But they must've had an inkling that the end was likely, because "The New Next Generation" puts a relatively tied-up bow on the series, at least in terms of what it was. They shake up the status quo enough in the final scenes in a way that could have played either way, whether the series was renewed or not. Since the answer was "not," it's a good thing they took that approach.

The closing-act coda of the episode, season, and series is a nice and heartfelt sendoff that does a good job of representing what Lower Decks was about — a shipful of scrappy misfits working together to overcome their weekly adventures. The closing act redeems an otherwise unremarkable episode that suffers from the usual Lower Decks manic excess and limited substance.

The rift in the multiverse (set up in last week's "Fissure Quest") tears into the edge of Klingon space and destroys a Klingon ship in a small fleet commanded by Relga, the sister of the brothers who were killed by Ma'ah, Klingon friend of Mariner. Relga intends to (rather puzzlingly randomly) use this ship's destruction as a pretext to launch a vengeance crusade upon Ma'ah (and his brother Malor), alleging he was responsible even though it's demonstrably false. (Why does she even need this pretext? Isn't vengeance motive enough for a Klingon?)

Enter the Cerritos, which was already alerted to the anomaly and studying it thanks to the message sent from William Boimler to Brad Boimler. They discover the rift has a "Schrödinger's possibility field" surrounding it, which will cause alternate realities to be unleashed upon whatever enters it. Thankfully, the crew is able to set the shields with some magical "quantum filtering" technobabble that protects everyone, but not the ship itself.

The Cerritos comes to the rescue of Ma'ah and Malor before Relga demands Freeman turn them over or suffer the consequences of a full-scale attack. Outnumbered and outgunned, Freeman flees into the "possibility field," which causes the ship to transform into different possibilities of itself, which mostly plays like a naked excuse for the creators to geek out as they deliver to us on screen every Federation starship design possible, from Galaxy to Sovereign and everything in between.

Unfortunately, the story itself is thin. The conflict is completely forced, relying on an over-abundance of Aggressively Hard-Headed Klingons. Relga is a hopelessly inflexible caricature, demanding the Cerritos turn over Ma'ah and then immediately opening fire. Ma'ah fares no better, marching around the Cerritos looking for his cowardly brother and threatening everyone who gets in his way. All the shouted Klingon posturing is tiresome and annoying.

Meanwhile, the spatial rift is pretty much a routine anomaly that might as well be the Mutara Nebula plus lightning that zaps you and transforms your ship. It's a lot of sound, fury, and technobabble, signifying nothing. Granted, the animated pyrotechnics are nice to look at, and some of the action tomfoolery is fun, as when a Klingon vessel gets zapped and turned into a sailing ship, and the bodies of the crew just kind of hilariously float off into space. And there's a weird, mind-bending sequence where the Cerritos is split in two, which brings back memories of the wormhole from Star Trek: The Motion Picture.

But overall, this is just a weird anomaly doing Weird Anomaly Stuff. There's very little considered here in terms of alternate realities and paths not traveled and so forth — you know, the stuff that was intriguing about TNG's foray into the multiverse in "Parallels." It's mostly just an average day at the office, but with a longer run time and more animated VFX than a typical outing. That's kind of ironic, considering this is Lower Decks doing the Discovery-style universe-ending armageddon plot. It does it in a way that is, thankfully, true to Lower Decks.

In the end, the Klingons destroy themselves, the Cerritos is able to stop the anomaly from expanding (but it remains a point of study, where Starfleet can go through it to study other universes, apparently), and life goes on.

Elevating this is the last act and some character work:

  • Mariner and her mother have reached a true point of mutual trust, respect, and acceptance.
  • Boimler destroys the red PADD, which is symbolic of his ability to accept himself and stop trying to pretend he's someone else.
  • Rutherford, thinking he is "falling out of love with the Cerittos," realizes that his implant is actually keeping him out of sync with his One True Love, so he decides to have it removed. (This was probably the biggest head-scratcher that came out of nowhere and didn't quite land.)
  • Starbase 80, the only starbase with technology so old that it (for some reason) is not affected by the anomaly's weird properties, is parked permanently at the anomaly's location, where Starfleet can conduct research missions (in a way similar to how DS9 was parked at the mouth of the wormhole to the Gamma Quadrant).
  • Freeman leaves the Cerritos to command Starbase 80, in a nod to the alternate reality at the beginning of the season where she had been sent to Starbase 80 for unknown reasons. She even gets to bring her admiral husband along with her.
  • Ransome becomes captain of the Cerritos, and announces a competition between Mariner and Boimler to become his first officer, much to both of their dismay.
  • Mariner has a speech about the family of misfits that is the Cerritos crew that serves as a good encapsulation of the spirit of the show.

Overall, I'll give this a marginal recommendation. I enjoyed the character work and the final act, and I liked how they brought a lot of elements from earlier in the season together here (including the sealing of the anomaly being solved, hokily enough, with a farming analogy, thanks to Malor). The spirit and intentions are laudable. But the plot execution is a rather arbitrary disappointment, and the run-in with the Klingons is a contrived fit with the tech story. I guess this goes to the issue with Lower Decks in general, which is that this season was pretty mediocre overall and it really felt like they ran out of steam and were going through the motions, despite some bright moments. Then again, I've never found this series to be much more than a disposable diversion, sometimes pleasant, other times less so. I suppose that was its mission.

It will be interesting to see where Star Trek goes from here. Like streaming in general, it was a booming industry for a few years, but the last couple have seen everything pulled back into a retreat. All that remains is Strange New Worlds (which will be returning in 2025), and at some point, the long-threatened Starfleet Academy series. There's also the one-off Section 31 streaming movie being released next month. There will be less Trek moving forward, but that might not be a bad thing. The flow had to ebb eventually.

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    The series ended with a good story and a hopeful outlook for the future. I had wished the rest of season 5 had been up to this level of writing.

    I quite enjoyed it. Especially the last few minutes.

    These characters still have a lot of life left in them. Much more left on their journeys. Just not as Lower Deckers. It makes sense to end this series at this point. If I'm being honest, I'm kind of suspicious that a sequel series has already been ordered and we will hear about it soon. Same core characters but doing something different entirely. This suspicion probably will not age well, but we will see.

    We'll see them again, at any rate. Even if we have to wait ten years from now or more.

    I do wish the writing had been up to this level all season, as Colin says. I believe they didn't know this was the last season until very late. Maybe only the very last episode, in fact. If they had known, I think they would have tried to tell more "bucket list" stories throughout the season. I feel a little bit like we were robbed of that, but since this won't be the actual end anyway, I guess it's okay.

    I really like how many of the background characters got a moment to shine, even if only in the montage at the end. My favorite bit was the ensign who ascended to meet the koala getting dumped back onto the Cerritos in the background of the sickbay scene. Way to close that loop, writers, heh.

    One thing I wanted to see that we didn't get to was the redemption of Peanut Hamper and her returning to Starfleet. I still think there's a version of this show where Peanut Hamper is the breakout character if they had gone a different direction with her and wonder if they regret the decision. I felt like they were moving her back towards redemption with her last appearance so I would have liked to see it pay off.

    And we got soooooooooooo cloooooooooooooooose to the Captain Worf of the Enterprise-E cameo I wanted. Hell, just have him show up so it's 100% canon official that he was captain after Picard. I'd have been happy. Nice to see the ship, but boy was I ever upset they never hailed her and showed Worf on the viewscreen! What a tease.

    That was an almost perfect end to the season, and the series. Considering much of the beginning of the season made me think Mike & co were out of gas in the writer's room, and this upset the status quo enough to make me really want to see a season 6, mission accomplished. I wonder if, similar to Disco, they were given time to add additional material to help wrap up the series more neatly at the end. Because this works as a hopeful conclusion, setting up the possibility of further adventures or a spin-off series.

    The first kudos have to do with weaving together almost the entirety of Season 5 by the end. It's not a surprise it's a direct follow-up to the previous episode, and that the rift plot is dealt with. We also knew from advance photos that Ma'ah and his brother were going to be here. But they also worked in Ensign Olly and Starbase 80, meaning over half the season at least related tangentially to the finale. I think making the series closer focus on the ship's crew and some recurring characters was the right call, rather than adding more gratuitous legacy Trek cameos (though we do see the Anaximander's crew made it through to this reality by the end).

    I like that compared to the previous episode, the effects of the different realities were more muted here. Having the one Klingon vessel shift into a Disco-era one was a nice Easter egg for those who insist it's not canon. Otherwise we mostly just get a tour of different Starfleet-class ships.

    ​The humor is very subdued here, as befits the high stakes of the episode and high level of action. Honestly this is a pretty classic Trek format which could have been on TNG with only a few tweaks.

    But the episode is not perfect. First, the sister of the Klingon brothers that Ma'ah killed is an idiot. Admittedly, she's a secondary antagonist here - the anomaly is the real issue - so I don't ding the episode much for this. The shoehorned mini-arcs for Tendi and Rutherford, though, I think were pretty bad. Tendi's conflict with T'Lyn was telegraphed earlier in the season (Fully Dilated), but it was presented as resolved there, so it comes out of left field here. Not as much as Rutherford, who starts the episode suddenly veering into angry for no reason, then resolves a huge, heretofore unknown, personal conflict by the episode's end. I love where he ended up, but they treated him as a non-entity through the entirety of the season. One wonders if they planned for him to have this arc for Season 6, and then had to speedrun it here so they did something with him.

    ​Boimler works out much, much better, having resolved his silly "PADD arc" through the course of the episode. Mariner didn't really have that much of an arc this season, but seeing her (largely) act as the voice of reason here is refreshing, and shows how much she grew over the course of the season.

    We end on an intriguing note, with the status quo upset in many ways. Freeman is off the ship, with Ransom now captain. Mariner and Boimler are both "provisional first officers" - leading to potential conflict. Rutherford has removed his implant and seems to be finally coming to terms with his romantic feelings for Tendi. Starbase 80 and the Anaximander are right there in case they want to do an animated show covering alternate realities instead. There's so many new story possibilities. I wish the show had felt comfortable upsetting the status quo earlier, because something similar would have made Season 5 as a whole much, much more enjoyable. Instead we got mostly mediocrity, with the season only really finding itself in the back half.

    Hello, fellow Jammerites!! Long time no talk 😄

    While I thought the season as a whole was weaker than previous seasons, I was satisfied with the finale. It wasn't perfect and the technobabble made no sense. But surprisingly, I didn't care about the pseudo-science, probably because it's an animated show (side note: I loved the name for the Schrödinger possibility field). It was good enough to leave me with happy emotional beats and some closure. I'd happily continue watching more.

    While the season was weaker, it also makes makes me wonder if they wrote the season around the two-part finale since many distinct elements make appearances in it. I quite liked this approach. It allowed the episode to not feel like a stand-alone story.

    Thoughts:
    • Getting universe-ending stakes for the underdogs and the Cerritos being forced to deal with it when they don't want to was hilarious!
    • Seeing senior staff and lower deckers on the same page throughout the entire episode was awesome to see, really standing in contrast to the entire show and showing how far they've come.
    • It's nice to see Rutherford recognize his attraction to Tendi.
    • I thought Tendi and T'Lyn's conflict were most resolved in one of the previous episodes
    • The hypothesis that the "link between the two Boimlers" could mean something to the solution ended up not playing out. That's too bad. Even so...
    • ...I wished there was some dialogue between the two Boimlers at the end of the episode (as well as hearing some dialogue from all the guest stars from last episode, but that might be asking for too much in cost lol).
    • Ma'ah didn't really do much. I was expecting him to somehow have a more meaningful role to play given his relationship with Mariner and becoming 'captain' of his shuttle. Instead, he mostly parroted Klingon behavior.
    • Ronin's back to bring joy to a bunch of female lower deckers. Good for him. Good for them! 😆
    ---
    • Ransom's warp phrase is fantastic! I don't want to spoil it.
    • "Woah! I've never seen someone engineer that fast!"
    • "That beard looks good! I hate it."

    Looking forward to discussing Section 31 with you all!

    I appreciate the way that blood feuds among Klingons got depicted this episode. Killing one man doesn’t get rid of a problem, it just inspires his relatives to seek vengeance. First the brother and then the sister. It’s pretty much why vendettas are a bad things in real life (beyond vengeance in general being a bad thing).

    I always preferred Starbase 80 being a genuinely terrible place and not just a Cerritos-lite but it seems that ship has sailed.

    It’s also interesting that they revived the Rutherford-Tendi ship after docking it for seasons.

    I thought this ending was pretty good, but the Klingons felt very forced which tarnished the experience a bit for me. I've never rewatched the show (I'm a casual completionist of Lower Decks), so I don't even remember if these Klingons appeared in previous seasons before the farm episode or if this was a retcon. I do think this era of Trek has done a pretty good at ending the different shows so far. I really liked the Disco, Picard, and Prodigy finales (assuming Prodigy is done--I think it is).

    The multiverse portal makes me a little nervous. I hope that never comes up in live action. It's very much sideshow/fan fiction for me. Also, the Disco Klingon showing up for a second made me laugh, but then made me think of Enterprise's "Affliction" in a bad way. This need to address the creative process of the Klingon look in-universe again and again makes me shake my head a little. I appreciate the fandom and their ability to scrutinize, but too many fans come to the episodes with their spreadsheets and stellar cartography maps ready to point out what felt different or inconsistent. DS9 did it best "It is a long story."

    I'm really ready to move on from the heavy nostalgia focus Trek has been taking. In many way SNW charts its own path, but I'm excited for more 32nd century adventures (I know that's a niche opinion). I want to explore that uncharted part of the Star Trek universe and not remix the past endlessly.

    I have mixed feelings overall.

    As many have said, yes the Klingons felt a little forced and the plot for Rutherford fell flat. The Tendi/T'lyn microconflict also felt like it was forced in as well. I think this episode could have greatly benefited from either more buildup or a longer run time to flesh out any or all of those three conflicts to really make the episode feel more cohesive.

    Regardless, between the impressive visuals and the spirit of the episode as a whole, I still enjoyed this outing regardless.

    I'm going to miss these characters, despite all the obnoxious jokes and stories there's still something endearing about them that makes me want to keep coming back to know more. I also feel like there's still so much potential to explore especially with the animated format allowing for revisiting characters and locations that simply would be financially difficult with live-action Trek.

    I greatly wish for an animated series that has a similar premise and scope but without the guise of being a comedy or a kids show that would be allowed to explore a wider and more mature range of topics while still continuing on the "Trek Spirit" of optimism and great characters.

    I won't lie, I appreciate the restraint for not ending on a meta gag about ENT's ending or pulling some half baked ship out of its ass like all the classic shows were wont to do (as funny as it would've been to see the two biggest ship groups have a conniption over, say, Mariner/Rutherford ;) )

    Overall, I'd say this is a pretty fair assessment of the episode and the season as a whole. I think a lotta the choices in the season got made with the possibility that it was not being renewed but at least it ended on a satisfactory note with people wanting more rather than fans and critics alike being glad to see it put out of its misery, like it was for ENT (The last Trek show I watched on release through the end)

    Here's hoping for a follow up movie one day.

    A very fitting finale for this show, for all the reasons Jammer outlines in his review, none of which I feel the need to dispute. So now that it's all over, I want to talk about Lower Decks as a whole.

    I think it was back in season 3 that I noted that the best episodes of Lower Decks are typically the ones that don't lean into the comedy. They still have a very distinct tone from the live-action dramas, but the humour is a byproduct of the relative unprofessionalism of the Cerritos crew coming up against a Star Trek situation. Whenever the show just went for broke with comedy, it was usually too unfocussed and manic to set up and then land the jokes. And with great respect to the writers who obviously loved their show and their characters, those jokes were frequently underwhelming anyway.

    This isn't to say that this comedy show didn't have some very funny episodes - I still think very fondly of "Mugato, Gumato", and of course "A Mathematically Perfect Redemption" to name a couple - but the *best* episodes of Lower Decks were usually more drama than comedy. That list would comprise "Crisis Point", "No Small Parts", "Wej Duj", "First First Contact", "Reflections", "Trusted Sources", "The Stars at Night", "Fully Dilated", and "Fissure Quest", amongst others.

    So why is this? My thesis: the problem was baked into the show from episode 1, and it's a pretty simple structural issue: Lower Decks never had a true "straight man" leading the ensemble, which is an essential element of almost every classic sitcom. Looking back on the show's run, Mariner (the chaos agent) is the clear protagonist of the show, with Boimler (your classic straight man) as the sidekick, and they are frequently off in their own plots that are getting way too little screentime vs manic, disposable B- and C-plot shenanigans.

    Having a chaos agent as your lead works well if that's the show you want to make. Rick and Morty thrives on it, for example. But Mike McMahan at heart is a Trekkie, and he wanted to make a Star Trek show, which meant a likeable ensemble working together to get through weird sci-fi problems. In other words, he wanted to make a more traditional TV show rather than the manic exercise in nihilistic weirdness that is Rick and Morty. And that requires a more traditional TV setup. I think of some of my favourite sitcoms:

    Newsradio: Dave Nelson is the straight man trying to maintain order in a chaotic office.

    Arrested Development: Michael Bluth is the straight man trying to hold his chaotic family together.

    Community: Jeff Winger is the straight man trying to hold together a chaotic study group.

    Do you see what I'm getting at? These are three very different shows, but at their core they all have *very* traditional sitcom setups. Notably, that also stopped none of them from gaining absolutely devoted cult followings or from frequently going off-format (particularly Community).

    Meanwhile, Lower Decks: Beckett Mariner is a too-cool-for-school chaos agent leading a team of straight-man sidekicks through wacky sci-fi adventures. Particularly in the early years of the show when she could be just straight-up unlikeable, she was the wrong choice to take the audience on the ride. To summarise:

    * Most TV comedies are structured in a specific way, with a "normal" protagonist leading a cast of loons;

    * Most live-action Star Trek episodes are structured in a specific way, with an ensemble cast doing procedural stuff;

    * Lower Decks structured itself more like the latter than the former;

    * And thus, we have a comedy that frequently mishandled humour and wound up doing drama better.

    Could they have fixed this? Making Boimler the protagonist and writing him as more of a natural leader from the get-go would have been a huge improvement, as would have been keeping the characters together within one plot more often (see the DS9 crossover episode for a great example of how spreading your characters too thinly can ruin a great premise).

    But that's all in the past now. The show's over! Somewhat hilariously, I think it (and Prodigy for that matter) has left a stronger legacy behind it than Discovery. I don't think Lower Decks ever managed to become absolutely essential Star Trek viewing, but I don't feel like I wasted my time watching it either. I'm quite fond of both Mariner and Boims by this point, especially now they've had a lot of much-needed character growth, and I'd be very happy to see them pop up again in future Treks.

    Vale, LD!

    Well that seems a bit harsh. I enjoyed the 2-parter with different names (new), and found myself smiling throughout.

    These 2 were by far the strongest in the season as others have noted.

    Some great reappearances in Fissure and mention of the Enterprise is always good, plus a galaxy and sovereign class? Hey why not?

    But I have been visiting this site for over 10 years and watching Star Trek for 37, and I have decided it is time to stop watching. I have seen every episode of every series (except Discovery obviously) and in some cases I’ve watched episodes multiple times, but it’s time to move on. The world that was promised in Star Trek especially in TNG, has not really emerged. We have the technology, but we do not have the society, that’s for sure. (I am actually dictating this just like a Captain’s log on an iPad.)

    Each time I watch Star Trek I am reminded of this and suppose series like Picard and Discovery demonstrate we have not reached the aspirations that TNG promised. All the best to Jammer and all the best to all Star Trek fans out there reading this!

    Live long and prosper.

    Well, bitter sweet I guess.

    Season 5 wasn't the best of LD. I always looked forward to and enjoyed watching it, but it was obvious that some of the magic I enjoyed in seasons 1-4 was gone. These last two episodes were by far IMO the best of the season.

    To this episode? Yes, the Klingon seemed to pop up out of nowhere, but it's better than the Plaklids and the Klingons were part of an episode earlier in the season. It was OK and got us to the end. (even thought they lost count of BOP's I think)

    I've enjoyed these LD characters as much as any of the new live action Trek. Many times I found myself more emotionally attached to them than any time in Discovery or Picard. Not bad for a cartoon. It was obvious to me in every episode that the writers loved and respected the source material. I certainly can't say that for Discovery or Picard.

    Even with the blah-ness of S5, I still wish the show had continued.

    There was no stupid agenda.

    It gave me T'Pol, albeit in an alternate reality.

    3.5 stars for this one. Minus a half a star for the Klingons.

    Here's hoping that Section 31 is good... I'm sort of not expecting that.

    ... and I have no interest in Starfleet Acadamy at all.

    I'm gonna miss Lower Decks. Took half a season to find its footing, I think, but I really enjoyed it. I can tell in this episode that they had to cram a LOT of plotlines intended for several episodes into just half an hour ("Science Besties", Rutherford falling out of love with the Cerritos, etc) but this was still a pretty fun episode.

    You forgot the most important part of the episode... the official de-canonization of Discovery! The anomaly brought forth ALTERNATE universes and in it were the STD Klingons and by extension the who series/universe associated with it. I for one am very pleased by this. Giant Freaking Robot caught on to this as well

    You could just as easily write that off by saying, "In one alternate reality, the Klingons still look like Discovery S1 Klingons in the 24th century, rather than having changed their look back in the 23rd century before Kirk's era." It's just an LD Easter-egg joke, and of course sites like GFR are going to read into it whatever they want and turn it into a lengthy analysis for content to justify their existence. (Nothing against GFR. It's just what everyone does.)

    From what I understand that's exactly what officials at Paramount + were going for - that Disco is in an alternate reality. Which is okay with me. I think they did far too much damage to the Prime Timeline.

    Discovery is firmly in the prime timeline. We've just got to live with it. Just like some of us have had to learn to live with Enterprise being in the prime timeline. Me personally, after 20 years I'm just about ready to accept it . . . maybe . . .

    I think we're supposed to believe there's a faction of Discovery-looking Klingons that we just never see anymore. Like it's one of their ethnic races. A small minority that enjoyed a brief moment of power but now is rarely encountered, perhaps because they are in disgrace, and they never had large numbers to begin with, so. I don't think we're supposed to believe Klingons changed their looks again, though their "extreme" Discovery appearance could easily be explained by having genetically engineered themselves to be "more Klingon" than standard Klingons to counter the Augment virus. Their battle cry was "Remain Klingon!" after all. Sounds like society-level trauma from the augment virus to me . . .

    Regarding the brief cameo of a Disco Klingon, Mike McMahan basically winked in an interview and said "youl

    Argh...stupid mobile interface. He said "You'll find out in ten years." And winked.

    The most generous way to interpret this is there's some BTS maxim from the studio telling the showrunners how to handle the Disco Klingon design. But it could also just be a joke.

    That Discovery never bothered to show Klingons once after Season 2 suggests to me that unoffically the studio wants to act like the redesign never happened. If Trek lasts another 50 years I'm sure we'll eventually get another Augment virus-like explanation.

    @ Karl

    Yes, I agree, Discovery pointedly stayed away from depicting (or even mentioning) the Klingons in any way after season 2 to avoid contradicting what Klingons are supposed to look like with either the show internally or with the Star Trek universe at large. At times it really stood out, but it solved the problem, for that show at least.

    Three stars. This is a solid series finale that brings the main characters together in a common task, a great relief after the odd diversion of the previous episode. Lots of warm feelings and nice character moments mostly offset the fact that the peril is fairly routine and unimaginative. All in all, an enjoyable episode and send off.

    @ Jeffrey's Tube I'm sorry, but I don't get that. What do you mean contradicting what klingons are suppose to look like? I mean that would have made sense if they were still in the past, but in the distant future? Besides, that never stopped picard from featuring klingons or even strange new worlds, which basically picked up from where discovery 2 left off.

    @Karl that was basically what strange new worlds did, when we see the flashback during the war, yet they now had their hair when they were supposed to regain that afterwards. in fact, watching the show I get the feeling it wanted to pretend anything in discovery that outright contradicted canon never happened.

    you know, it still annoys me that after all that effort they went through to explain why klingons didn't have ridges only for it to be unceremoniously ignored by discovery. like how they also tried to redeem the vulcans after enterprise made them unlikeable only to continue making them unlikeable overall.

    With the series finished I have to say...I have mixed feelings on lower decks. I mean on the one hand, I love how this show satirizes the star trek universe INUNIVERSE. On the other hand, it's parody nature didn't always sit well with the universe it was supposedly set in.

    Anonymius: I too would like to pretend Discovery never happened.

    Speaking of which, did anyone notive at the beginning of the episode when the matter rearranging wave hit the fleei g Klingon ship it turned the ship and crew into hairless Discovery Klingons and whacked out Discovery ship before blowing them up? I got a chuckle out of that.

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