I love this damn episode. A real love letter to the fans and I really liked the part when the Enterprise crew geeked out over the NX-01 crew realizing they are Boimler and Mariner.
A subtle thing I loved in this episode is how Jack Quaid (Boimler) and Tawny Newsome (Mariner) kept a lot of the same physical mannerisms their animated personas have, like Boimer doing his powerwalk away from Una (7:14) and even how Mariner sits kind of cross legged when she's chilling out with the crew.
In what way would that be at all unexpected? Though, to be fair, it would technically only have to be Mariner, since the show is largely from her point of view. Which also means that time portal somehow both undoes and reinstates the effects somehow. Personally...I just assume everyone in the future is smashed on something.
This is one of my new absolute favorite Star Trek episodes. I love how Tawny Newsome and Jack Quaid captured the physical mannerisms of their animated characters, like the way Mariner sits when she's talking to Uhura and the way Boimler walks away after getting startled by Una.
Sorry for the additional comment, I just remembered something I didn't want buried beneath the one below... At the end when Boimler and Mariner have returned to the Cerritos, where we see Boimler looking at his recruitment poster with Una, Ransom walks past and calls her, "...the hottest first officer in Starfleet history." This isn't as creepy as it sounds, because the actor voicing Ransom, Jerry O'Connell, is married to Rebecca Romijn, aka Una Chin-Riley. So despite the time and dimensional differences, you have a husband stating he finds his wife attractive. :D Though he could perhaps do so in a less alpha-male manner.
8th Hey Guys...well as a Trekkie Boomer 63, who grew up watching TOS 60's / 70's...... I loved this .....I found myself Smiling throughout..and laughing.......I give it a 10 !
Loved how they scripted Enterprise crew juxtaposed against how you would exactly script Lower Decks… and the dialogue and interaction still worked and felt genuine not forced… very intelligently done 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Hi guys :) A few things I really liked: - The characters' mannerisms didn't change to become "more real". - Boimlertalking to Pike about talking to other people. - The Orion being teasonsble, and not the stereotypical pirate. - Spock seeing the logic in not overdoing his emotional experiment.
the quote is Cary Grant talking about himself...becoming that person or that person becoming him. referencing pelia's former friendship with him on earth. that and the 2001 planet alignment space koala were my favs.
Such a fun episode! Boimler and Mariner are just all of us if that happened to any of us. So fun to see you geek out over all the references Clay :D As so often, Lower Decks, as much as they point out silly tropes, is a celebration of Star Trek and its tropes. I also like that they still very much played into the ongoing character archs, it's not just a standalone, even tho it can be seen as such. Like Boimler talking to Pike and Una towards the end is super sweet, as well as Mariner talking to Uhura. And I'm so happy we got the signature Boimler scream and running :D My main thing for Musical episodes is that, to me they have to make sense somehow. If it's just for the sake of it, I'm not the biggest fan. If there is an in universe reason for them to happen, that makes them way more fun to me (like for example Lucifer did). From the teaser and title it looks like it will be. And very much agree about the constant singing vs. going from song to song.
An episode of Star Trek never *truly* feels over until I get to see you guys react to it; been waiting for today ever since the weekend! We're definitely not worthy -- they knocked this one out of the ballpark.
@@twodadsreact Yeah, I see an episode, then Seán Ferrick do the Ups & Downs, then The Ready Room that really should still be called AfterTrek, and then you two. Almost always in that order. And this is the first time for SNW that, having done all that, I'll now rewatch the episode.
Pretty sure it's the 9th episode, because the clip for the next episode seems to be the really Ortegas-focused episode we haven't really gotten yet. Also, quite frankly with how well this episode turned out, it makes me excited for the musical.
This episode instantly became the best thing in my life as soon as it finished. (seriously, my life is all sorts of messed up right now. :P ) When it finished, I felt calm, relaxed, and genuinely happy for the first time in months. Of course, that feeling lasted all of about three second before the family dog, who was laying next to me, imagine there was a threat and left of the lounge barking his head off, completely shattering the experience. Oddly, one of my favourite parts was right at the end when, having seen (and known) who was on the other side of the portal, Rutherford seems unable to help but pipe up, "They seem nice." :D :D The whole episode was a blast, and I cannot help but lament that the whole series couldn't have been like this. Here's hoping season four of Lower Decks can match it in some way when they go to Fernginar and meet Rom and Leila.
I loved this episode so much! I think my favorite part about this episode is that I was so caught up in the crossover aspect of it all that I forgot about the mention of the NX-01 having horonium. So by the time Boimler had that Eureka moment about the NX-01, I completely forgot about it. Ransom calling Una the “hottest officer ever” is hilarious. I just loved all the ST: Enterprise references in general. And Boimler calling “Riker” while doing the Riker maneuver in an episode directed by Jonathan Frakes. I also loved the changing of the history, giving Orion _scientists_ the credit for the discovery. The scene of the animated SNW crew and the way it breaks the 4th wall was the honestly the best part second only to seeing Mariner and Boiler geek out the whole time. And I think there was a reference to Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind in this episode. Who was Pelia quoting to Boimler?
It isn't just a fictional reference made about the NX-01 We CURRENTLY do it to all USS Enterprises The first USS Enterprise CVN-6 was commissioned in 1938 and Decommissioned in 1947 We then built the USS Enterprise CVN-65 WITH portholes from the CVN-6 We are currently building the USS Enterprise CVN-80 It will also include 4 portholes from the CVN-6 AND 35,000 pounds of Steel from the CVN-65 There will also be a time capsule with momentos from both.
Actually the difference between an opera and a musical is apparently that a musical has talking parts while an opera does not. That aside, so many funny, funny things in this episode but Spock doing a Dirty Harry, "Do you feel lucky?"
Was one of the best episodes ever, loved it. Musical episode next week, hopefully it will be as good as the Buffy musical episode "Once more with feeling" was one of the greatest episodes of Buffy! as most of the SNW cast can sing, I believe? "actors" Yea I feel the same as you guys, get the fun stuff out of the way, either the last episode of the season or season three will be lots darker. Like Spock grinning I love it but still freaks me out. LLAP guys.
This is the first full episode of SNW or LD that I've seen, and I think this is going to put me over the edge to watch both series in their entirety. I was a little skeptical of both, especially LD, but this episode was just Star Trek through and through. TOS had comedic episodes back in the 1960s, and there was a whole animated series in the 1970s (which I haven't really seen), so maybe I need to be like Nyota and learn to lighten up. I realize I'm spoilering myself by watching an episode out of order, but that doesn't really bother me, I'm all about seeing how they do it, even when I know what they're going to do.
I absolutely loathe musicals, so I'm really dreading the musical episode, but I have to give them a lot of credit for taking that chance. It's a big swing. This whole series has been big swings, from playing with canon (and implying it's not as important as people think in the process) to things like this crossover. Simply going back and playing with some of the most important characters in the setting is risky, but they've been pulling it off. This show is great.
Just that you, dads, are just like me, however my parents weren't too happy or too nice 😅 most of us have been parents, and.. After all these years, back to my teen years, it feels oddly GOOD. Thanks.. I ignored the dads part and just listening. Two trekkie colleagues, together we are legion 🖖🤓
This was the best episodes. So far. Would love to see more lower deck live action. Usually cartoons characters don't look like the live person but this was just amazing
If Anson mount had waited a second more before the flipping it's the best part line, it would have worked better.hell, who am I to critique jenny frakes?
Nope. If you sync them together, the various angles and the timing aren't quite the same. Most of them are near perfect, but not quite. They didn't do it from scratch probably, but it's definitely not just a re-render of the original.
So far I have enjoyed last season of SNW better. This season has had too many light hearted episodes. This one, Spock, and now the singing episode. Next season needs to just have one episode where its funny.
Yeah...because of exactly what you said. And now with the strikes going on, shitpiles like Paramount are going to be coming down on people even harder than before.
Yeah. We have to be really careful that you cannot gleam the plot just from watching our reaction. It is always assumed that folks watching have seen it and tune in to see reactions to certain parts.
Spock smiling and saying "Do you feel lucky" before all hell breaks loose in the lab had be in absolute stitches. This episode was amazing.
One does not simply deny the legacy of The Mistress of the Winter Constellation.
That quote from Pelia is very real. It is directly, nearly word for word, from Cary Grant who, I'm so psyched to say, is now part of Star Trek canon!
Cary Grant was friends with an immortal alien.
So cool!
I love this damn episode. A real love letter to the fans and I really liked the part when the Enterprise crew geeked out over the NX-01 crew realizing they are Boimler and Mariner.
You should watch the ready room for this episode. The whole Riker thing was total improv and the conversation about it is amazing.
Tawney's hot Spock was also improv a later article revealed.
@@backtoearth1983 I loved both those moments lol
Where does one find this "Ready Room"? If it's important, I'm in Australia.
@@CamMcGinn1981 the paramount+ RUclips channel. Ready room is an interview style show with host Wil Wheaton (Wesley Crusher on TNG)
@@CamMcGinn1981 I hope this works for you!
ruclips.net/video/3SiYyIAz5xU/видео.html&ab_channel=ParamountPlus
A subtle thing I loved in this episode is how Jack Quaid (Boimler) and Tawny Newsome (Mariner) kept a lot of the same physical mannerisms their animated personas have, like Boimer doing his powerwalk away from Una (7:14) and even how Mariner sits kind of cross legged when she's chilling out with the crew.
It's absolute genius.
Does that mean The Cerritos Crew is always drunk on that Orion alcohol?
In what way would that be at all unexpected?
Though, to be fair, it would technically only have to be Mariner, since the show is largely from her point of view. Which also means that time portal somehow both undoes and reinstates the effects somehow.
Personally...I just assume everyone in the future is smashed on something.
Yes
You are right Mariner was literally drunk the first time we see her in the series.
I love that final scene where THEY are so high on the Orion booze that WE see them as cartoons. LOL
This is one of my new absolute favorite Star Trek episodes. I love how Tawny Newsome and Jack Quaid captured the physical mannerisms of their animated characters, like the way Mariner sits when she's talking to Uhura and the way Boimler walks away after getting startled by Una.
That fake it till you make it advice was a Cary Grant quote.
Looked it up too. Meant to add it to the video. I forgot.
Sorry for the additional comment, I just remembered something I didn't want buried beneath the one below...
At the end when Boimler and Mariner have returned to the Cerritos, where we see Boimler looking at his recruitment poster with Una, Ransom walks past and calls her, "...the hottest first officer in Starfleet history." This isn't as creepy as it sounds, because the actor voicing Ransom, Jerry O'Connell, is married to Rebecca Romijn, aka Una Chin-Riley. So despite the time and dimensional differences, you have a husband stating he finds his wife attractive. :D Though he could perhaps do so in a less alpha-male manner.
Holy crap. Soon as I saw this episode. I came running over here for reaction😂😂 I had no idea the crossover was gonna happen. I dropped my beer bro
8th Hey Guys...well as a Trekkie Boomer 63, who grew up watching TOS 60's / 70's...... I loved this .....I found myself Smiling throughout..and laughing.......I give it a 10 !
Love hearing that the "new" Trek can still speak to "old" Trek fans. You are not as big of a number as you should be.
@@twodadsreact been playin STO since BETA 12yrs ago....and have a VOY comm Badge Tat on my chest, and my license plate is REXTREK
Loved how they scripted Enterprise crew juxtaposed against how you would exactly script Lower Decks… and the dialogue and interaction still worked and felt genuine not forced… very intelligently done 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Hi guys :)
A few things I really liked:
- The characters' mannerisms didn't change to become "more real".
- Boimlertalking to Pike about talking to other people.
- The Orion being teasonsble, and not the stereotypical pirate.
- Spock seeing the logic in not overdoing his emotional experiment.
the quote is Cary Grant talking about himself...becoming that person or that person becoming him. referencing pelia's former friendship with him on earth. that and the 2001 planet alignment space koala were my favs.
Such a fun episode! Boimler and Mariner are just all of us if that happened to any of us. So fun to see you geek out over all the references Clay :D As so often, Lower Decks, as much as they point out silly tropes, is a celebration of Star Trek and its tropes. I also like that they still very much played into the ongoing character archs, it's not just a standalone, even tho it can be seen as such. Like Boimler talking to Pike and Una towards the end is super sweet, as well as Mariner talking to Uhura. And I'm so happy we got the signature Boimler scream and running :D
My main thing for Musical episodes is that, to me they have to make sense somehow. If it's just for the sake of it, I'm not the biggest fan. If there is an in universe reason for them to happen, that makes them way more fun to me (like for example Lucifer did). From the teaser and title it looks like it will be. And very much agree about the constant singing vs. going from song to song.
Have a like for the Lucifer mention.
An episode of Star Trek never *truly* feels over until I get to see you guys react to it; been waiting for today ever since the weekend! We're definitely not worthy -- they knocked this one out of the ballpark.
Dang! Thanks. That means a lot to us.
@@twodadsreact Yeah, I see an episode, then Seán Ferrick do the Ups & Downs, then The Ready Room that really should still be called AfterTrek, and then you two. Almost always in that order. And this is the first time for SNW that, having done all that, I'll now rewatch the episode.
I love this episode so much that I watch it nearly every day. It makes me very happy. And Frakes too.
Love the (different) reactions between the two, one gets the jokes, and the other one is like "whaaaaaaa???" =)))
Yay! What a fun episode. I think the musical will be the 9th episode. I might be mistaken though.
Cheers!
Pretty sure it's the 9th episode, because the clip for the next episode seems to be the really Ortegas-focused episode we haven't really gotten yet.
Also, quite frankly with how well this episode turned out, it makes me excited for the musical.
This episode instantly became the best thing in my life as soon as it finished. (seriously, my life is all sorts of messed up right now. :P ) When it finished, I felt calm, relaxed, and genuinely happy for the first time in months. Of course, that feeling lasted all of about three second before the family dog, who was laying next to me, imagine there was a threat and left of the lounge barking his head off, completely shattering the experience. Oddly, one of my favourite parts was right at the end when, having seen (and known) who was on the other side of the portal, Rutherford seems unable to help but pipe up, "They seem nice." :D :D The whole episode was a blast, and I cannot help but lament that the whole series couldn't have been like this. Here's hoping season four of Lower Decks can match it in some way when they go to Fernginar and meet Rom and Leila.
I loved this episode so much! I think my favorite part about this episode is that I was so caught up in the crossover aspect of it all that I forgot about the mention of the NX-01 having horonium. So by the time Boimler had that Eureka moment about the NX-01, I completely forgot about it. Ransom calling Una the “hottest officer ever” is hilarious. I just loved all the ST: Enterprise references in general. And Boimler calling “Riker” while doing the Riker maneuver in an episode directed by Jonathan Frakes. I also loved the changing of the history, giving Orion _scientists_ the credit for the discovery. The scene of the animated SNW crew and the way it breaks the 4th wall was the honestly the best part second only to seeing Mariner and Boiler geek out the whole time. And I think there was a reference to Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind in this episode. Who was Pelia quoting to Boimler?
Cary Grant. Other commenters mentioned it.
@@twodadsreact Archibald Leach.
It isn't just a fictional reference made about the NX-01
We CURRENTLY do it to all USS Enterprises
The first USS Enterprise CVN-6 was commissioned in 1938 and Decommissioned in 1947
We then built the USS Enterprise CVN-65 WITH portholes from the CVN-6
We are currently building the USS Enterprise CVN-80
It will also include 4 portholes from the CVN-6
AND 35,000 pounds of Steel from the CVN-65
There will also be a time capsule with momentos from both.
It was great, but I really wish I hadn't seen previews on the internet. If I'd seen this cold, I'd have shat bricks.
Actually the difference between an opera and a musical is apparently that a musical has talking parts while an opera does not. That aside, so many funny, funny things in this episode but Spock doing a Dirty Harry, "Do you feel lucky?"
Was one of the best episodes ever, loved it. Musical episode next week, hopefully it will be as good as the Buffy musical episode "Once more with feeling" was one of the greatest episodes of Buffy! as most of the SNW cast can sing, I believe? "actors" Yea I feel the same as you guys, get the fun stuff out of the way, either the last episode of the season or season three will be lots darker. Like Spock grinning I love it but still freaks me out. LLAP guys.
Lower decks is great
This was the crossover I never knew I needed and now lives rent free in my head!
Speaking truth right there.
This is the first full episode of SNW or LD that I've seen, and I think this is going to put me over the edge to watch both series in their entirety. I was a little skeptical of both, especially LD, but this episode was just Star Trek through and through. TOS had comedic episodes back in the 1960s, and there was a whole animated series in the 1970s (which I haven't really seen), so maybe I need to be like Nyota and learn to lighten up. I realize I'm spoilering myself by watching an episode out of order, but that doesn't really bother me, I'm all about seeing how they do it, even when I know what they're going to do.
Algorithm put you guys in my feed first time, Clay I love your enthusiasm, so fun watching with you.
Saw. The.musical thought was gonna hate it. I liked it.. can't believe it. Hit me up when the reaction is. Up. Cool stuff guys
I absolutely loathe musicals, so I'm really dreading the musical episode, but I have to give them a lot of credit for taking that chance. It's a big swing. This whole series has been big swings, from playing with canon (and implying it's not as important as people think in the process) to things like this crossover. Simply going back and playing with some of the most important characters in the setting is risky, but they've been pulling it off. This show is great.
Just that you, dads, are just like me, however my parents weren't too happy or too nice 😅 most of us have been parents, and.. After all these years, back to my teen years, it feels oddly GOOD.
Thanks.. I ignored the dads part and just listening. Two trekkie colleagues, together we are legion 🖖🤓
You didn't mention the nacelle-sucking alien in the credits.
The musical episode is episode 9, I think.
You are correct, it is Ep 9. And I did miss the nacelle sucker.
Ok I’m subscribed now because you guys are excellent!
Thanks!!! Welcome to the family!
Great episode.
We do deserve it because we love it,
Episode 9 is the Musical
The quote was Cary Grant
This was the best episodes. So far. Would love to see more lower deck live action. Usually cartoons characters don't look like the live person but this was just amazing
He is my hero.
yeah, right - "trace"
E8 is about the aftermath of the Klingon war. E9 is the musical.
So where are the Gorn!?
@@twodadsreact hopefully beginning e8....definitely e9. We will see....
If Anson mount had waited a second more before the flipping it's the best part line, it would have worked better.hell, who am I to critique jenny frakes?
Alot of improv during the filming of this episode
Uhhhh, no one "traced" anything for the opening. They just re-rendered with an "animation" filter...
I doubt that.
Nope. If you sync them together, the various angles and the timing aren't quite the same. Most of them are near perfect, but not quite.
They didn't do it from scratch probably, but it's definitely not just a re-render of the original.
Does the guy on the left have any joy?
What makes him special is when he reacts...he REACTS!
SDCC and I think it was released early because spoilers. I’m just guessing.
I do love this episode tho .
Yeah i hate what's become of pikes legacy
You’re skipping way too much of the good stuff
i could stand the guy talking more if it didnt seem like they pause it all the damn time, that got annoying so fast
So far I have enjoyed last season of SNW better. This season has had too many light hearted episodes. This one, Spock, and now the singing episode. Next season needs to just have one episode where its funny.
Nope. Gimmie the funny until all the MAGA bullshit finally dies. I need the escape from the rampant stupidity of the US.
Terrible episode. Spock is made out to be a fool. I can go on forever but the writers took a new series with great potential and destroyed it.
wow, you cut really a lot of the episode, I understand to not copyright infringe but most of the plot was just on the floor.
Yeah...because of exactly what you said. And now with the strikes going on, shitpiles like Paramount are going to be coming down on people even harder than before.
Yeah. We have to be really careful that you cannot gleam the plot just from watching our reaction. It is always assumed that folks watching have seen it and tune in to see reactions to certain parts.