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Spoilers Star Trek: Lower Decks 5x04 - "A Farewell to Farms"

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"Dr. Migleemo cooks up some hot dishes while Mariner prefers hers served cold." - TrekMovie.com

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Decent episode. Kinda wish we weren't just given like 30 seconds of new information on the Rifts but it was fun all the same. Love the stuff with the Klingons more than the stuff with Miglamoo. Also, Mary Chiffo had a part in this episode, so that's fun she is still getting some Trek work. I still wish she would show up on Strange New Worlds as the chancellor.

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Violent scenes for the Quinto-Kelvinprise with kids
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A comment on youtubers being artificially negative to get clicks? :D
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Klingon used in this episode:
pugh gegh (correct: qegh) - barrel of dregs
'urwI'pu' - new word?
diktagh (correct: Daqtagh) - dagger from SFS
bij (correct: bIj) - punishment, from the board game with Kavok
quv beq - honor crew
lujwI'pu' - losers
taghjaj qaD - lung day challenge (correct: DaHjaj - today)
qoH - idiot
HIq'aD - blood vessel
chatlh - soup
to'Duj (correct: toDuj) - courage
cha'DIch - second
 
6.

The growth of Boimler's 'beard' is so funny, and looks like something I would have grown at high school. :D

Aside from that the only other funny part was Boimler getting excited at using pain sticks. :klingon:

The season is a bit hit-and-miss, which is a shame. I hoped it would go out in glory like PIC, but it's going out more like DIS.
 
Personally, I think this was the best episode of the season to date, though YMMV.

The A plot here sees the return of Ma'ah, with Mariner and Boimler attempting to put things right for him. I don't think it was laugh-out-loud funny, but I did appreciate many of the turns here. Boimler being unexpectedly really into Klingon stuff (and now apparently being fearless) was a nice turn for his character. Ma'ah's brother was also an interesting take on a non-traditional Klingon character. I'm not going to say this was a deep exploration of Klingon culture, but it was very refreshing to get a view into lives of Klingons who aren't all about warrior posturing - I wanted more story here, which is (IMHO) always a good sign. Not to mention the episode genuinely shocked me at the end with a bloody death (I think the first one in Lower Decks?).

Unfortunately, this is brought down by the B-plot involving Migleemo, which is just - there. While it's at least a bit interesting they decided to go somewhere with his food simile obsession and we find out he's from a species of gourmets, it was a two-minute gag stretched across the episode's length. Not to mention Tendi and Rutherford basically just stood there. The episode would have been infinitely better if this was all just cut.
 
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Hm it’s not emending, but there’s a set of Klingon armour from Star Trek Online on display
 
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I thought this episode was decent, but didn't wow me. It feels like a lot of the episodes thus far have been two halves that aren't quite strong enough to hold their own, so they get stuck together. I actually liked the food stuff better, although I think my main issue is that it was all pretty predictable. They did a lot of Klingon stuff we've seen time and time again, and the reveal that the food critics were hacks was well foreshadowed. I'm interested in the parallel wormhole plotline -- I hope they explore it a bit more rather than just waiting until the final two episodes to cover it.

I should say though, I really liked the subdued title sequence, it was really well done.
 
Decent episode. Kinda wish we weren't just given like 30 seconds of new information on the Rifts but it was fun all the same. Love the stuff with the Klingons more than the stuff with Miglamoo. Also, Mary Chiffo had a part in this episode, so that's fun she is still getting some Trek work. I still wish she would show up on Strange New Worlds as the chancellor.

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I don't think every episode has to be rift heavy. That would get old pretty quick.
 
His second role in Star Trek. He previously played a Xindi-Sloth factory worker in Enterprise's The Shipment.
He also voiced Tenavik in Star Trek Online after Kenneth Mitchell couldn't do it. Kenneth, who is a friend of Sam's, personally asked and suggested him to Cryptic as a replacement.

He was the Klowakhan food critic, Legnog.
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