Spoilers Star Trek: Lower Decks 4x09 - "The Inner Fight"

[Markonian]

I checked out Warped but I - yeah, snowflakey - was so upset by the contents that it became the only book I ever returned.

I wonder if the next episode is called “The Lower Decks”, or “Lower Decks, Part 2” or something close. Jessie Gender said that while this was a pun of “The Inner Light”, the episode’s content had more to do with the “Lower Decks” episode.

 

[Tallguy]

I checked out Warped but I - yeah, snowflakey - was so upset by the contents that it became the only book I ever returned.

What was so upsetting, if I may ask?

 

[Commander Troi]

The full story if you will started with a Twitter account where Mike McMahan posted a bunch of parody plot descriptions to hypothetical TNG S8 episodes. Then back around 2015 he took twenty or so of his favorites and published them in a book titled Warped which claimed to be the episode guide to this supposed eighth season of TNG, complete with an extended synopsis of the full episode and behind the scenes info for the episodes.

It really is quite hilarious.

Thanks! I'll check it out.

 

[Nerys Myk]

What was so upsetting, if I may ask?

It’s not a good book.

 

[Tuskin38]

I thought it was funny.

 

[Nerys Myk]

I thought it was funny.

"A madman's evil plot threatens Deep Space Nine and the entire galaxy." is funny?
Are we talking about the same thing?

 

[Avro Arrow]

"A madman's evil plot threatens Deep Space Nine and the entire galaxy." is funny?
Are we talking about the same thing?

No, we're not!

 

[Therin of Andor]

I checked out Warped but I - yeah, snowflakey - was so upset by the contents that it became the only book I ever returned.

"Warped" by Ian McLean, on Flickr

"An engaging guide to the never-aired 8th season of 'Star Trek: The Next Generation', based on @TNG_S8 by Mike McMahan, illustrated by Jason Ho."

Very different to Jeter's "Warped" DS9 novel.

 

[Markonian]

What was so upsetting, if I may ask?

The behaviour of everyone was cartoonish, as were the stories - like Neanderthals controlling an evil Federation. It also featured casual nudity.

 

[Tuskin38]

Are we talking about the same thing?

No we're not. We're talking about 'The Next Generation - Warped'

 

[Tallguy]

Now I want to know which version @Markonian is talking about.

 

[Greg Cox]

Now I want to know which version @Markonian is talking about.

Maybe the DS9 novel, Warped, by K. W. Jeter.

 

[Avro Arrow]

Now I want to know which version @Markonian is talking about.

Maybe the DS9 novel, Warped, by K. W. Jeter.

Not to speak for @Markonian , but he did post about what he found upsetting about the book, and the "Neanderthals controlling an evil Federation" was from the McMahan book, not the Jeter book. (Episode 21: Time Fire)

 

[Tallguy]

Not to speak for @Markonian , but he did post about what he found upsetting about the book, and the "Neanderthals controlling an evil Federation" was from the McMahan book, not the Jeter book. (Episode 21: Time Fire)

I'm not familiar with either, so I didn't know. Now I do. Thank you! (<== sarcasm at 0%, sincerity levels at max)

 

[Markonian]

Sorry, I thought my mentioning of stories made it clear it refers to the Warped story collection instead of the one-plot DS9 novel.

 

[137th Gebirg]

Wasn't there a Trek parody fanzine named Warped out there, at some point?

 

[Enterprise is Great]

I don’t think anyone remembers the plot of DS9 Warped.

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

Fun episode. I think the only Easter egg that got by me was the title itself.

Hmm. It's been a while since I read CLB's The Face of the Unknown. So I'm not sure how well this version of the prototype species for Balok's puppet squares with CLB's version.

And is "Zorky's" maybe an oblique Infocom Easter egg? (Hello, sailor!)

Hmm. Given the SW Easter eggs in this two-part season finale,

A young Alderaanian woman with a distinctive hairstyle walks into Mudds, and asks to see the information broker.
"Aren't you a little short for a Dassik?"

 

[Cyfa]

I've just rewatched "The Inner Fight" for the fourth or fifth time, and came over all unnecessary yet again when Billups took off his bounty hunter helmet and shook out his mussed up hair
(And also: Ma'ah! )