Star Trek: Lower Decks 2.03 We'll Always Have Tom Paris review

 We’ll Always Have Tom Paris

The third episode of the second season. While Tom Paris is visiting Cerritos on a tour, Rutherford finds that Shax has returned from the dead, Mariner and Tendi go on a ‘Girls Trip’ and Boimler has trouble with the computer. Not sure what to think of Shax returning, but Rutherford’s uneasiness about it is realistic (and comedic enough). The focus of the story is really Mariner and Tendi’s space road trip of errors. Certainly a journey of discovery, of each other. (Like ,Beckett, you didn’t know your Orion crewmate’s first name is D’Vana? Really?)

That Dr. T’Ana only wanted the box was one of the best parts of the episode. One of the others was Tom reacting to Bradward falling into the Bridge by saying “It’s a Kazon!” and fighting him. 8.2/10.