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LOWER DECKS

➢ 5x04 A Farewell to Farms

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Why Tony Todd is awesome.

Lemme tell you a story about Tony Todd.

You know him. Yeah, you do.

This fly mofo has been in everything. Like, seriously. He’s been in some major Hollywood movies (Platoon, for example, The Rock and all the Final Destination movies) but is probably most famous for playing the Candyman, and starring in about a million B-horror movies. His list of TV credits reads like a comprehensive list of genre and procedurals. Your favorite show? He was probably in it. He’s just been cast in a recurring role in “The Flash.”

But among geeks, he is probably most famous for his recurring role in both TNG and DS9 as Kurn, Worf’s brother.

Kurn was a fantastic character with a developed arc over many seasons (which ended horribly but we won’t go there). Todd also guest starred in DS9 (sans Klingon makeup) as an older Jake Sisko

Also he has a voice like deepest smoothest melted chocolate. 

Tony was a guest at Shore Leave, a fan-run mostly-Trek convention I attended many years ago in Towson. He was a great panelist, funny and honest.

Now, Klingon cosplayers are always a big deal at Trek conventions. They do not fuck around. Their outfits could walk right onto a set and be filmed. Shore Leave always featured a whole contingent of Klingons. They’d run a Klingon Jail - you could pay to have your buddy kidnapped by Klingons and put in jail, and they’d have to raise money to make bail, and then all the proceeds went to charity.

Most Klingon cosplayers I knew weren’t that into Worf. He was just too…Starfleet. So when Kurn came along (and before Martok, the ultimate Klingon character of Trek), he was sort of the standard-bearer. He had been raised Klingon (unlike Worf, who was raised by humans) and was the very image of an honorable Klingon warrior. So you can imagine the excitement when Todd was a guest.

After the panel, we all left the hall, and there in the lobby was a big group of Klingons, standing in formation, in all their costumed glory, waiting to greet Tony. We all stood around to see.

He walked out and saw them. He didn’t greet them. He didn’t smile. He didn’t say hi.

No. Without missing a beat, he strutted up to them, and started…dressing them down.

Suddenly, he WAS Kurn. No makeup, but it was like Kurn was there. Walking up and down the ranks, calling them maggots, criticizing their attention, their bearing. Asking why none of them had bruises. Were they not fighting? Was their bat’leth practice falling behind? Where was the blood? And WHY WAS NOBODY DRUNK. He really tore into them, a little twinkle in his eyes.

The Klingons stood there, responding with SIR YES SIR when he addressed them, quivering with joy.

It was so awesome.

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I don’t know what sort of look the Korean fashion house Juun.J was shooting for, but I’ll call it a “post-atomic courtroom guards who snort futuristic coke in the TNG pilot” vibe.

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A black turtleneck + a gray pinafore dress = accidental TOS-era Klingon.

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I have no idea why a crew member from the Starship Discovery is talking about glasses in some 1987 @lenscrafters commercial.

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#837

The Loom are quite possibly the most terrifying thing in the entire Star Trek universe. To me, the thought of being erased from existence and forgotten by everyone who ever knew you is far scarier than dying or anything that would kill you, because at least when you’re dead you’re remembered and the impact you had is still there.

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How it started.

How it's going.

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Aaah shit. :/

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Lower Decks

➢ The Riker move.

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Animated Trek will always rank higher in terms of confidence compared to the recent live action shows because of how it fully embraces all the silly quirks of this long running franchise.

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I love this moment at the end of Brink where Gwyn tells Dal what to do just by giving him a look. Not only does it show how in-synch they are with each other, but it’s a great bit of subtle animation. All of the acting is in the eyes and the little micro expressions Gwyn makes as she turns her head to look at him are fantastic. It’s about the wrinkling of the nose and the barely noticeable twitching under the eyes.

I also particularly like Dal’s eyes darting quickly as he realizes what she’s doing before he looks up at her. This is one of those things that works better in 3D animation than in 2D animation. The little eye dart shows he’s thinking and processing things faster than he can keep up. It’s quick and subtle (barely lasting even a few frames), but nevertheless it’s there and it does so much work clueing us in to what’s about to happen.

It also reminds me of that moment at the end of the TNG episode: “Allegiance” where Picard tells his entire bridge crew he wants to detain two aliens who had been tormenting him captive with just a look.

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R.I.P. Patti Yasutake, who played one of the O.G. lower deckers in the classic 1994 episode that was the basis for Star Trek: Lower Decks.

STAR TREK: The Next Generation ↳ Lower Decks, 7x15.️ ️

Alyssa Ogawa 🌞💉🫀

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Okay, dumb question, but it's driving me a bit batty. Star Trek Prodigy - Maj'el. Is her hair two-tone black and white or just glossy/reflective? I'm thinking reflective... but genuinely, I'm not sure because at nearly every angle we see her at, it's the same pattern.

Okay, after not nearly enough consideration I've come to a conclusion. It's probably not the right one but... Romulans evolved different foreheads & eyebrows. We've also seen them with face tattoos; ST Picard gave us accents. What if we're now seeing Vulcans can have different hair patterns?

Subsequent conclusion. Sia is a Vulcan. 🖖🏻

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The dress on the left is giving Delta Flyer racing uniform.

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The accidental Kirk on the left looks like he has on a triangle badge pin from The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Wrong '60s NBC show, homie.

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The upper half of the eShakti dress on the left is reminiscent of the upper half of a certain TNG-era uniform.

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David Chu must be a Prodigy fan. The Nautica logo totally looks like the sail Captain Chakotay and the kids hoisted to propel the Protostar.