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A trio of Betazoids cause chaos on the Cerritos.


Written by: Jamie Loftus

Directed by: Megan Lloyd

29 points

Damn, security is wholesome. Loved Kayshons Naruto-run to the phasers. Focused!

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24 points

The Cerritos is continuing the proud Starfleet tradition of having good mental health advisors and a kinda useless ship’s counselor.

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13 points

That B-plot justifying the entire security team being isolated from the threat until the red alert was pretty funny.

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24 points

Man, I was hoping they’d confirm the commonly held theory that Sokel is T’lyn’s father (since she’s the Sh’val’s version of Mariner). No dice unfortunately.

Really like how Mariner was emotionally mature enough to solve the problem by just talking. Sure, she’s done that some other times (Crisis Point II comes to mind), but she doesn’t really know T’lyn nearly as well as those other examples. Really shows how far she’s come from the therapy-hating Mariner in Season 1. She’s not wrong to point out how Vulcans tend to have a very narrow view of what their species should be like while idolizing paragons who don’t fit that mold. Tear them space elves down, girl!

Other notes:

  • One of Shaxs’ officers at the gathering reaaally looked like a Kiley (Kileyan?) from SNW episode 1. Guess Pike’s message stuck.
  • I noted previously that they drew the betazoids with larger eye dots to reference their dark irises. Looking back, I think they even did that when drawing Counselor Troi in season 1.
  • we don’t often see Tendi being the butt of the joke. guess there’s no place to ham up her excessive emotionality than a T’lyn episode.
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23 points

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.

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18 points

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.

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16 points

They don’t hang out. They lurk.

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9 points

They better enjoy it while they can, their planet’s gonna be destroyed in just 6 years.

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6 points

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.

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8 points

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.

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4 points

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.

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6 points

If a tree falls in the forest, and no one is around to hear it…

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21 points

I like how one of the background characters in the party room was wearing the stupid headset everyone got addicted to in TNG

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11 points

Great episode. I really like what they’re doing with T’Lyn.

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