Star Trek: Lower Decks (season 2)
{5/5} “Half the time when you see someone with the wrong amount of pips around here it’s usually just delicious street corn.”
Star Trek: Lower Decks season 2, aired in 2021
Mariner and the captain, her mother, are getting a bit tired of working so closely together. Tendi thinks Rutherford has a problem in his brain and she’s the only one who can fix it. Meanwhile, Boimler is on the Titan but is distressed by Captain Riker’s rush-into-danger command style. When Mariner and Tendi go on a mission together they discover they don’t know much about each other. When a bartender tells Boimler and Rutherford that Mariner is secretly Black Ops, they begin to believe him.
The callbacks to episodes from previous shows — like Gary Mitchell, Pakleds, a Tamarian, and Sonya Gomez — are delightfully perfect. In one episode we see what the lower decks are like on a Klingon ship and a Vulcan ship.
It’s very funny. If you’re not watching The Good Place, this is probably the funniest thing you’ll watch today.
There is some beautiful animation when they visit strange new worlds.
Chris Westlake’s music includes glorious themes from movies and episodes.
Despite not having as much time per episode as the other shows, it still manages to tell stories about characters you care about.
Robert Duncan McNeill has a cameo as Tom Paris. Jeffrey Combs provides the voice of an evil computer, and Alice Krige reprises her role of the Borg Queen.
Stars the voices of Tawny Newsome, Jack Quaid, and Noël Wells.
I previously reviewed season 1.