Saturday 2 October 2021

Star Trek: Lower Decks 2.08 I Excretus review

 I Excretus

The eighth episode of the second season. A Starfleet drill instructor tests the Cerritos crew with various past Starfleet scenarios to see how they would fare. The majority of these scenarios are familiar to long time Star Trek fans, but that is just the icing on the cake. Most of the scenarios were fun call backs to older episodes. The drill instructor herself is a call back to the 1970’s animated series. A great use of that particular species. Yem is quite different to Bem too, as she is willing to throw the Cerritos crew under the bus to prove her worth to Starfleet Command.

It turns out that the simulations are rigged to fail the entire crew. But despite this, Boimler imanages to nearly 100% his Borg Encounter simulation. This too is a good call back, and shows how Boimler is growing as a character. But some hints about him seem to be building towards something… 8.3/10.

 

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