Logline
It’s a pre-warp society undercover Girls Trip!
Written by: Andrew Mueth
Directed by: Megan Lloyd
“We’ll have to lick it off” had me reeling.
I found the lurkey quite funny this episode, even if it was a bit of an embellished and exaggerated character.
And my goodness, I love the guest star that they found on the time dilation planet in this episode: The Vasquez Rocks.
Much more affordable at animation rates!
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.
I second many of your points. And, also…
“the purple D”
Had me immediately thinking, “Well, STO vanity shields are canon now, I guess.”
Damn, I guess the ship doesn’t clean itself after all.
This one combined a favorite sci-fi trope (timey wimeys) with pure unadulterated ridiculousness. It might be a series favorite for me!
What’s weird is in the IDW comics, Data has become a severed head again as well.
I’m a little sad. When I saw a time dilation plot, I was honestly expecting an unexpected romance to begin between Mariner and one of the other two (probably T’Lyn) - not like it fully develops, but like something weird to show up in the possible future we better get in the finale.
I was thinking something kind of similar - if they had left Mariner out of it entirely, we could have had a Tendi/T’lyn “Janeway and Chakotay build a bathtub” plot.
Annotations for 5x07 up at: https://startrek.website/post/16832667
