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It’s a pre-warp society undercover Girls Trip!
Written by: Andrew Mueth
Directed by: Megan Lloyd
This one combined a favorite sci-fi trope (timey wimeys) with pure unadulterated ridiculousness. It might be a series favorite for me!
I have this headcanon now that Boimler met his purple universe self once, and that’s why he started dying his hair.
Wait a minute now, is he actively dying his beard as it grows in? That’s pretty weird, isn’t it? Did he lie in his own personal log about dying his hair, or does the hair dying occur at a follicular level?
I enjoyed this one more than last week’s - I think I’m calibrated to prefer the more heartfelt episodes over the sillier ones. And this one added “the purple D” to the lexicon, so that’s…a real legacy, is what it is.
The Mariner subplot was pretty thin, and probably could have been cut entirely.
Heartfelt usually but not always equals The Tendi Effect on LD to me hah. I agree about the subplot being weak - both for Mariner and also Boimler/Rutherford which was pretty much a slapstick sketch.
I would’ve liked to see something like Boims struggling to think of a first book to take to T’Ana’s book club, with Ruthie enthusiastically but haplessly trying to suggest things (usually engineering related)
Damn, I guess the ship doesn’t clean itself after all.
What’s weird is in the IDW comics, Data has become a severed head again as well.
