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Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Lower Decks | 4x03 "In the Cradle of Vexilon”

Written by: Ben Waller

Directed by: Brandon Williams

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Just a collection of random thoughts I had while watching the episode.
Captain Freeman saying she minored in something so she's qualified is such a common Trek trope. I love seeing it backfire horribly. I mean it makes sense. Leave it to the professionals.
The combadges have feedback. I fucking love it. The combadge tech has always driven me slightly insane in the inconsistency of how it works/should work so why not add another layer to it.
"Everything that has ever occurred IS science stuff." Stunning. Accurate yet also incredibly removed. So utterly fucking on brand for a Vulcan science officer.
Anomaly Storage Room. That feels like such a monumentally terrible idea. Of course Starfleet would do it. I mean why not having a mini-Daystrom Station in every starship? I wonder if the Enterprise-D in the Fleet Museum just has a storage room with Moriarty inside of a memory cube.
That fucking gift box. Gave me nightmares as a kid. I hate it. I need more.
"Eat a bag of Borg dicks, motherfucker!" has been added to my lexicon.
"There's a 0.015 error in sensor readings so it must be fixed." Makes sense. Starfleet has a fucking insane devotion to accuracy. I'm just wondering if the hazing or the accuracy came first. Like did everyone use accuracy has an excuse to haze people until Starfleet was known for having dummy accuracy, or was the accuracy devotion there first so officers used it as an excuse to haze people under them?
T'lyn is amazing. The typical Vulcan response of passivity but curiosity is going to work perfectly throughout Lower Decks. Especially when she is sensible and amazing command material. I hope she stays in Starfleet. Moreover I hope that they actually show her changing just a little bit over the show and being molded by the crew. I love being able to watch an earlier episode and seeing the rigidity still there.
"It sounds wet and that is what I like so please continue."
"They thoroughly describe your strength and shortcomings." I love it when Vulcans are being backhanded, whether they mean it or not.
Boims really can be a great officer when he doesn't get in his own way.
I genuinely don't know what's scarier. The Koala/mountain or Janeways Dad/Alien with the Matrix in Voyager.
"GIVE ME 30CC'S OF WHATEVER JUST FUCKING WORKED A MINUTE AGO." She would get along with Bones so fucking well.
Another slamdunk of an episode for me. Enjoyed every second and I have no real criticisms. Then again I often don't unless they're major. When it comes to Lower Decks it's just too wonderfully silly/stupid for me to want to slow down the ride.
- “It sounds wet and that is what I like so please continue.”
  new date one-liner unlocked
  
  Just try not to make the face that Mariner made while saying that line.
- The typical Vulcan response of passivity but curiosity is going to work perfectly throughout Lower Decks.
  It's just perfect, isn't it? Hardly a surprise to me given that a huge chunk of the funny parts of "serious" Trek stem from the dry bluntness of characters like Spock, Data, and Odo. Now that T'lyn is here my only question is why it took until the 4th season for someone like her to show up.
  
  Don't forget Tuvok! He was an amazing straight man to the shenanigans of the Voyager crew. I've really been coming to appreciate him more on my current rewatch. I actually get some Tuvok vibes from T'Lyn, just maybe a little lighter and 'carefree' in comparison.
  It really is surprising that it took 4 seasons. I wonder if their fear just came from worrying that they might come off too much like every other Trek show with having the 'straight man' type character so focal.
  
  "What about Tuvok? You must be excited to see his quarters."
  "Perhaps. Are they austere?"
  
  They floated it a little with Rutherford in the first episode or two with his Vulcan implant randomly making him act Vulcan, but it was dropped almost immediately.
  
  I think by the time appeared T’Lyn in wej Duj, they had already produced most/all of Season 3, and didn’t realize how much of a hit she would be. And then there wasn’t an opportunity to go back and add her in. I think they had just enough time/room to add her to the end of S3E10
  
  Now that T’lyn is here my only question is why it took until the 4th season for someone like her to show up.
  I guess it's because of shorter running time => less time for supporting characters.
- “Eat a bag of Borg dicks, motherfucker!” has been added to my lexicon.
  Right?
- Agree. Agree. Agree. There is so much goodness in this episode. And, so much quotable material. Dr. T'Ana is becoming my favorite Star Trek doctor. Love her attitude. I laughed so hard when Dirk sicced Lancelot the ferret on Rutherford that I started coughing. Lower Decks! Lower Decks!

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