Written by Shae Rufe Caution: This article contains spoilers for Episode 207 of ‘Star Trek: Lower Decks’. I’m not going to lie, yesterday was an insanely busy day, and it got to end in the coolest way ever, by watching this with John. Lower Decks is the medicine I needed after chasing my nephew around all day. That kid can crawl like nobody’s business. This is probably how Captain Freeman feels after a busy day of Starfleet business. Like wrangling an evil supercomputer that caused a hundred-year civil war on a planet. The good news is they did figure out it was the computer causing the war and ended things peacefully. Freeman and Ransom help secure, Agimus, the evilest supercomputer of all evil supercomputers. Because he is super manipulative, and almost talks Ransom into getting him near a computer terminal. Now at this point, I probably would have just smashed him with a hammer and called it a day… however that is not the Starfleet way. Turns out, they respect all sentient life, including evil supercomputers. Which, like, come on! What even! It’s fine, because Mariner is assigned to take Agimus to supercomputer prison while Boims hits up a class M planet and murders giant centipede monsters for funsies. Also, centipedes are really just gross. I hope with all my heart they don’t exist on other planets, their existing on this one is bad enough. There’s just nothing worse than finding one on your kitchen floor and you’re only wearing socks because wearing shoes in your house is also gross. Not speaking from experience here or anything. Good news for Boims is he gets sent to go with Mariner instead, or is that bad news? Good news for Mariner but bad news for Boimler. They two are happily on their way to their mission destination when they encounter an anomaly that sends them crashing into an unknown planet. Mariner breaks her arm in the crash and pops that compound fracture right back into place. Now, there are very few things that make me actually queasy, and this is one of them. John popped his dislocated knee back into place in front of me once… I still haven’t forgiven him for it. Boimler is equally not cool with Mariner’s treatment of her broken arm, Agimus survived, the ship is broken, and the replicator is only making black licorice. Who even eats black licorice? Who’s out there willingly buying it and keeping it in business? Like Long John Silvers! Who even eats there? Agimus probably would if he could eat. He spends the entirety of the show trying to manipulate Boimler and Mariner into fighting. The sad part is, they do a few times. The wounds of the past are still not fully healed with Mariner and Boimler. She doesn’t think he’s ready for harder missions and she’s tired of hearing about his time on the Titan. Abandonment is a hard thing to recover from, also not totally speaking form experience here. Things comes to a head when Agimus shows Boimler a clip from Mariner’s data padd. Apparently, she went to Ransom on purpose and got Boimler transferred to her mission. In fairness, she’s also afraid he’ll die by giant centipede. Boimler is angry, rightfully so, and actually stuns Mariner in order to break into an abandoned ship with Agimus. We think he hooks the evil computer up to the ship’s main computer as it desires, but he doesn’t. Instead, he uses Agimus to boost a distress signal. Boimler is definitely more ready than Mariner gave him credit for. So what about Tendi and Rutherford? Well, the Cerritos was hailed by another ship requesting help. It just so happens to be head engineer Billups’ mother. And uh, this whole segment of the episode was just… interesting. Apparently, Billups was a prince who abdicated his throne in order to be in Starfleet. Only his mother, the Queen, would much rather see her son take her place as King. Which… apparently can only happen if he loses his virginity. I’m not joking about that. That is literally the plot point. Still, Billups takes Rutherford to examine his mother’s ship and see what’s really going on when she asks for help, and also because he wants to prove himself. Only, it’s a trap. Billups is called back to the Cerritos and part of his mother’s ship explodes. The fake outs! I can’t even with them! We’re led to believe that Rutherford died, again, in that explosion. I can’t handle losing Rutherford! And neither can Tendi. Thanks to her, we learn that Rutherford is alive and well, thank the universe. But it might be too late as Billups resigned from Starfleet and went to… well. You know. Thankfully Rutherford arrives in time and alls well that ends well. Billups takes his position back on the Cerritos, a happy virgin still. Rutherford is alive, Tendi needs therapy, and Mariner and Boims help get Agimus where he needs to be, supercomputer super jail. His episode was amazingly fun, but I can’t help but feel like I should be worried about the next episodes to come.
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