#pakleds

[smartsmears]

Sharing this take here too. I, Excretus, wej Duj and First First Contact are a really special trio of episodes and almost single handedly carry season 2's placement as the best season of the show for me. But it was basically consistently good after this.

[star-trekster]

Love the new intro battle scene for Lower Decks Season 5! Still Frame under cut ⬇️

[idol--hands]

Night’s Plutonian Shore

🐦‍⬛ Artist: E A R T H X X I I

[gaykarstaagforever]

Lore dressed like the Pakleds who found him floating in Space.

I love Pakleds. These guys don't get enough attention. ...Probably because they're kind of problematic, as socially-primitive, emotionally-stunted autismos who everyone thinks are fat stupid potato men (even after they routinely prove they aren't).

Seriously. The Pakleds are an opportunity to do something really cool, to show that neurodivergent people are just as complex and capable as everyone else, they just do things at 30% angles from everyone else.

I hear Lower Decks did a thing with them? I don't know that show, so tell me.

[headphones-lifeform]

Help, why am I this sad about Pakled Planet?

[convenient-plot-device]

*Minor here means a combination of "not well-known" and "not focused on by the show" - as well as "unpopular" because I didn't want to have one poll and skew the votes by having Klingons next to the Suliban.

(I am defining "enemy species" here as a species that frequently plays/played the role of villain, specifically within the context of behaving aggressively toward the main characters/the Federation as a unit. This is why the Orions are not on here; they don't go to war with the Federation or anything, it's just individual members of the species being jerks/doing various shady dealings for the Syndicate. Even if a species later becomes allied with the Federation, they are still included here (hence the Xindi).)

[waterme-stories]

Lore saying he got rescued by Pakled traders creates more questions than answers for me, I think.

[defconprime]

Pakleds from Star Trek Online

[star-trek-fandom-confessions]

#312

"One of favorite r/shittydaystrom theories is that the Menk from "Dear Doctor" episode of ENT are the ancestors of the Pakleds from TNG episode "Samaritan Snare.""

[jdsquared]

Kiddushin 49b

[idol--hands]

✨ Lore of ST:TNG as a MLP:FiM character ✨ 🎨 Source: https://kajiklikesdoodles.tumblr.com

[2mo3cm-man]

[sshbpodcast]

Episode 77: Well That Was Offensive

TNG: "The Samaritan Snare" and "Up the Long Ladder"

It’s kind of ableist and pretty anti-Irish, it’s this week’s episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation! First up: the Pakleds are technology thieves that stymie Riker and kidnap Geordie while Picard is off getting his ticker serviced in “Samaritan Snare”. After that, come play Irish stereotype bingo and revel in a horrible conclusion in “Up the Long Ladder.”

Also this week: shuttle design griping, cloning conundrums, and a postcredit that is basically all toilets and poop, so you can’t say we didn’t warn you.

Timestamps: synopses: 1:44; Samaritan Snare: 7:23; Up the Long Ladder: 33:31

[antzonian]

Pakleds seen in the background too!

2x07 - Rules of Acquisition