Logline
A trio of Betazoids cause chaos on the Cerritos.
Written by: Jamie Loftus
Directed by: Megan Lloyd
Damn, security is wholesome. Loved Kayshons Naruto-run to the phasers. Focused!
That B-plot justifying the entire security team being isolated from the threat until the red alert was pretty funny.
Betazed intelligence? That makes sense. There has surely been a thread or two asking why that wasn’t a thing.
Laughed out loud at the disappointed Romulans. It was cheap, but I still adored it.
At some point, I’d like to see a gag about how the Romulans seem to hang out in the Neutral Zone all the time.
They don’t hang out. They lurk.
They better enjoy it while they can, their planet’s gonna be destroyed in just 6 years.
I think there is a fan theory that Romulan space is pretty small (relatively speaking), which is how they’re able to defend it well with a small number of ships. Which also explains why they’re not able to have enough ships to evacuate Romulus.
I think people tend to underestimate what’s required to evacuate a planetary population. That’s billions of people! The 24th century we see might have some massive passenger transport that could hold, say, 10000 passengers. You’d need hundreds of thousands of ships that size to evacuate the whole planet. And the logistics would be a nightmare’s nightmare. A ship that size probably doesn’t make planetfall. How do you get them loaded? Think about how long it takes to get a widebody jet boarded - maybe 500 people at most. What about the quadriplegics? What about the bedridden? What about the pets? Etc. etc. etc.
You could hold a lot of people in buffer.
True. Unfortunately, holding people in the transport buffer is one of those things you have to entirely forget exists if you want to tell certain stories. The transporter in general could trivialise a lot of story beats.
wouldn’t the Romulans entering the neutral zone also be an act of war, though? that’s kinda the point of a neutral zone – neither side can enter.
If a tree falls in the forest, and no one is around to hear it…
I like how one of the background characters in the party room was wearing the stupid headset everyone got addicted to in TNG
That was a fun episode. Hopefully they don’t kill T’lyn due to her Bendii like syndrome. Like how Mariner and T’lyn shared a moment. Betazoids intelligence agents taking the Cerritos across the neutral zone was that due to T’lyn influence?
The peptalk that Mariner gave T’Lyn was absolutely fantastic. There were so many good moments in this episode, but that is probably my favorite.
The Romulans that are disappointed when the Cerritos does not cross into the Neutral Zone was hilarious too.
I wonder if she actually has Bendii syndrome or if she’s just more emotional than a typical Vulcan? Sarek only lived 2 years after his symptoms started showing!
Yes, the Betazoids acted that way because of her.
I doubt the writers will give here Bendi syndrome. Seems too dark for Lower Decks
T’Ana was great in this episode. Especially because of the fact that we got some weird lore about betazoids being prey lol. When she went feral and started hunting, I absolutely lost it.
I also loved how Shax tried to talk her down and persuade her to use some coping/calming mechanisms.
Lol yeah calling her hunny was great.
I really enjoyed this one, from captain knowing somthing was up to the careing security team
I like to imagine that Lwaxana trained those three. The image of Majel Barret flipping around whacking people with a shock baton is quite amusing.
It wasn’t the shock baton that came to mind, rather the TNG episode where Lwaxana figures out that the fish-alien diplomats are frauds and spies. Lwaxana’s telepathic insights could be distracted, but not for long.
Even Deanna Troi, a less powerful empath, was able to survive alone undercover on a Romulan ship.
Of course there would be Betazoid Intelligence officers embedded in the Federation diplomatic core.
Once again, Lower Decks is the show that takes things to their logical conclusion.
I wonder if “Boimler, he guesses the charade” will enter the tamarian lexicon by kayshon for somebody finally getting it.
For sure that’s what’s going to happen in a future episode
