Spoilers Star Trek: Lower Decks 5x09 - "Fissure Quest"

[Commander Richard]

"Fissures must be closed before they get inflamed." - TrekMovie.com

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[NCC-73515]

Supreme Fleet Kimmander?

 

[tomalak301]

Considering the title, I hope we finally get an explanation of Boimler's Beard. It's actually starting to annoy me for some reason.

 

[Michael]

I hope we finally get an explanation of Boimler's Beard.

Huh, what do you mean, an explanation for the beard? He’s trying to imitate his successful alternate universe doppelgänger he met in “Dos Cerritos”, thinking that the beard is part of the reason for his success. I don't think it’s anything deeper than that. It’s just funny that it took him an entire season’s worth of time to grow it out.

 

[tomalak301]

Huh, what do you mean, an explanation for the beard? He’s trying to imitate his successful alternate universe doppelgänger he met in “Dos Cerritos”, thinking that the beard is part of the reason for his success. I don't think it’s anything deeper than that. It’s just funny that it took him an entire season’s worth of time to grow it out.

Ok, then maybe the punchline or some kind of conclusion. Maybe I just want him to shave it off.

 

[Michael]

Ok, then maybe the punchline or some kind of conclusion. Maybe I just want him to shave it off.

Oh, I’m sure there will be a conclusion to that storyline. My guess is that it will be something along the lines of Boimler realizing he won’t succeed simply by copying someone else’s decisions and that he has to do his own thing, resulting in him shaving the beard.

 

[The Wormhole]

It’s just funny that it took him an entire season’s worth of time to grow it out.

Reminds me of my first beard.

 

[Turtletrekker]

Reminds me of my first beard.

I'm 57 and it reminds me of now.

 

[NCC-73515]

I think Boims will be so disgusted about

Spoiler

31 agent Will Boimler who has a full beard

that he shaves it off again, because it shows the beard doesn't matter

 

[NCC-73515]

And now we know who the surprise is, many have guessed it:

Also on board:

Who is MARRIED to... EMH Bashir

(Phaser symbolism?)

 

[Firebird]

Garak and Bashir married - chef’s kiss

Alfre Woodard coming back as Lily Sloane - wondrous

Jolene Blalock coming back as T’Pol - perfection

The timing of the ending was comedy gold. I loved the treknobabble explanation of the temporal rifts. Kinda got some vibes from the Coda novelverse books with the setup going into the finale.

 

[tomalak301]

Did they really get Jolene Blalock back? The credits just list her as Jolene but if they got her back that is incredible. She was pissed about the way Enterprise ended and disappeared from Trek.

Fun episode. This is a tentative 10 if I get confirmation that that really was Blalock. That's probably even better than getting Fill back last season.

 

[NCC-73515]

The famous Picard facepalm!

T'Pol was married to Tucker for 63 years, so that one didn't die in TATV

Who might this one be?

Never expected that!

 

[ToddCam]

Fun. I was a little disappointed the "real" Harry didn't get a canonical promotion.

 

[Firebird]

Did they really get Jolene Blalock back? The credits just list her as Jolene but if they got her back that is incredible. She was pissed about the way Enterprise ended and disappeared from Trek.

Fun episode. This is a tentative 10 if I get confirmation that that really was Blalock. That's probably even better than getting Fill back last season.

I’m pretty sure it’s her after listening to her vocal performance here.

 

[NCC-73515]

Lily commands our fist flying XCV-330 type, the Beagle

It lands by rotating the ring!

Prime NX era uniforms and interiors

 

[Turtletrekker]

I love that Williams beard is growing in so much more evenly than Brad's did.

 

[tomalak301]

I’m pretty sure it’s her after listening to her vocal performance here.

It sounded like her but it could have also been Ruiz, who has gotten the Vulcan Voice down. I'm just amazed and shocked they got Blalock back after all these years.

 

[NCC-73515]

And Will's Defiant...

...has blue bussards, no name or registry markings (31), a phaser strip on the nose, ans it's the first Defiant we see landed

 

[Charles Phipps]

I choose to believe that Lt. Harry Kim was the Mirror Universe one.