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[00:01:12] A new mission, the return of a dangerous enemy and a shocking resignation.

[00:01:19] Episode 9 of Lower Decks gives Captain Freeman the mission she's been campaigning for since

[00:01:23] season 1.

[00:01:24] But when a reporter joins accrue to do a story on the Cali class starship, she's concerned

[00:01:29] Mary will mess things up and well it's lower deck so you know it won't end well.

[00:01:33] And that's an understatement.

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[00:01:38] My name is Dan Davidson and we are Discovering Trek, Lower Decks.

[00:01:49] Thanks so much for joining us and welcome to Discovering Trek, the Star Trek universe

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[00:02:05] Episode 9 of Lower Decks trusted sources brings a news reporter on board to detail

[00:02:09] the first new swing by mission of the Cerritos and Captain Freeman really wants to show how

[00:02:15] great her ship and crew is.

[00:02:17] One is, she thinks Mariners gonna blow it for her.

[00:02:19] Yeah way to go mom.

[00:02:21] And after visiting a planet that we haven't seen since TNG season 1 and really didn't

[00:02:26] want or need to, things get real interesting on a different planet when a former enemy shows

[00:02:31] up and wrecks havoc on everyone's favorite Cali class starship and crew.

[00:02:36] But as usual I'm getting a little ahead of myself before we get into too much detail

[00:02:40] about the penultimate episode of season 3, I have to introduce my two amazing co-hosts.

[00:02:45] They really are the finest podcast crew in the quadrant and I can't do this without

[00:02:48] them as always to help me break down this week's episode of my two good friends Bill Smith

[00:02:52] and Casey Shasky.

[00:02:55] Well Bill Lower Decks always has amazing callbacks that surprise us and this week we got

[00:02:59] to go back to the drug planet from TNG so yay.

[00:03:03] Yay, this is an episode of TNG that I love thanks for the intro Dan and it's kind

[00:03:10] of cool to go back there after all this time especially in Lower Decks because we can

[00:03:15] kind of be cheeky about it and that makes me happy.

[00:03:18] Yes, well get into that I'm sure and Casey on top of everything else that happens this

[00:03:22] week we actually see Freeman put Dr. Greenbird or Dr. Migglymau in charge of the Cerritos

[00:03:30] so just another normal week for our favorite California class.

[00:03:35] Hey doctors she'd always kept in starships.

[00:03:39] Oh yeah we know what happens with that right Troy.

[00:03:44] It's going to be a great conversation and I am really looking forward to it but before

[00:03:48] we start our discussion this episode of Discovering Trek Lower Decks does contain spoilers so

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[00:04:14] So guys second to last episode of the season this season has been fantastic so far let's

[00:04:19] start out with our thumbs up or thumbs down as we have done for most of the season I'm

[00:04:24] going to give it a thumbs up I thought it was fantastic I really liked it there were

[00:04:27] some fun parts there were some serious parts there were some surprises and some callbacks

[00:04:31] to Great Trek which we always love so thumbs up for me Casey what about you but thumbs up

[00:04:36] my friend you know they always know how to have a strong ending or close to ending of

[00:04:43] a season love that yeah absolutely and Bill I think you're going to probably we're

[00:04:47] going to be going three for three.

[00:04:48] We are three for three thumbs up definitely I like the premise of this episode I like

[00:04:53] how it sets Captain Freeman on some uncertain footing and I like that there's some real

[00:05:00] tension between her and Beckett plus like Casey says you know they get really strong toward

[00:05:07] the end of a season and that tells me a lot about what we can expect in the one episode

[00:05:12] to come later in the season.

[00:05:14] Yeah every season finale of Lower Deck so far has certainly not disappointed so we'll

[00:05:19] see what happens with that next week one of the things I liked about this guys is that

[00:05:24] this was a good episode about trust and the lack of it shown to Mariner I was I was really

[00:05:30] unhappy with how ransom reacted to everything that was going on and even more so with Jennifer

[00:05:36] and even Boimler to a point everybody of course they have this close relationship and

[00:05:41] then all of a sudden at the first sign of trouble everybody points a finger at Mariner

[00:05:45] I know Mariner I know she has the reputation but that kind of that kind of made me feel

[00:05:50] kind of bad Bill I'm not sure if you felt the same but I felt bad for the girl.

[00:05:54] If you'd like I can hug you I didn't feel that bad okay yeah I think that that's a credit

[00:06:01] to the way this script is crafted they wanted you to believe that it was Mariner and because

[00:06:07] it's it's in character for her I mean whether or not she'd go to that length to torpedo

[00:06:14] her own mom is debatable but it's plausible and I think that's why that element of the

[00:06:19] story works this is something that that really painted the serritos in a bad light and I

[00:06:25] think that that's why people react so viscerally honestly.

[00:06:28] Okay so do you think it's it's normal for what we're seeing with lower decks and for

[00:06:34] the California class that they have such a bad reputation when they really have a fan

[00:06:40] they do a fantastic job but just about everything they've done yeah the reputation seems a little

[00:06:47] out of place with all the accomplishments that are going on with the serritos we you know

[00:06:54] we don't know everything that's happening with the other Cali class ships but yeah part

[00:07:02] of that you kind of go well if there's this reputation but then you know hey you do a good

[00:07:07] thing and you do a good thing and where it's a pattern it's not a one-off where they're

[00:07:13] oh they're having success after success then at some point really unless people are just

[00:07:19] burying their heads in the sand the reputation has to change because then it's no longer

[00:07:26] your credit as a captain on some other type of ship where if you go the Cali class ships

[00:07:33] aren't doing anything then you've lost credibility if anybody looks up the accomplishments

[00:07:38] that the serritos crew have done yeah Bill do we think that do you think that it's part

[00:07:42] of the issue of that question that I pose to Casey is we get to see the lower deckers but all

[00:07:50] of the things that the serritos in the California class have done let's look at example for the

[00:07:55] end of season one where they save the day and and they've done some some pretty huge things

[00:08:00] over the course of three seasons do you think that I'm looking through it through a lens

[00:08:04] of that the lower decks people always seem to be the ones that get the the bum end of the deal

[00:08:09] and maybe that's why that that that reputation is out there or do you think it's a valid

[00:08:14] reputation because California class isn't the enterprise it isn't Galaxy class it isn't sovereign

[00:08:19] class it's just California class I think it's a ladder I think it's because it's California class

[00:08:24] I think we you know we have a perception because we see you know behind the curtain you know

[00:08:29] in us you know we understand why things are the way they are and we know that these Starfleet

[00:08:33] officers on this ship are just as as brave and valiant as the ones serving on the USS Enterprise

[00:08:40] you know we see that in the in the in the whole brain attack storyline you know uh ransom is

[00:08:46] ransom doesn't shy away from anything he's right there in it you know and same with Freeman

[00:08:51] they they act like Starfleet officers so I think it's a Cali class that gets a bad rap

[00:08:55] because it's second contact it's not you know uh it's not it's it's it's not a status job

[00:09:04] yeah and and and on top of of second contact now it's swing by uh which I like how one of the things

[00:09:11] that I've liked with the writers have done with lower decks is they've had a lot of continuity

[00:09:15] the continuity whether it's from 25 years ago with episodes that we saw in the original series or

[00:09:20] or excuse me in TNT or deep space 9 or what we saw in season 1 where she started talking about

[00:09:24] this idea of operation swing by she finally gets it she's very nervous and oh it's gonna be awesome

[00:09:30] but we're gonna give you a reporter and when has a reporter on a starship ever gone wrong

[00:09:36] let's just ask Captain Harman of the Enterprise B shall we I mean Casey that was something that you

[00:09:40] knew right from the get go having somebody from the FNN on was was was gonna go bad and it certainly

[00:09:47] didn't disappoint anytime editing is controlled by someone else you never know what the outcome is

[00:09:55] gonna be and usually the outcome for certain things you know on news to sell commercials

[00:10:03] the goal is to make you dissatisfied with your current situation so you think oh if I buy this

[00:10:09] thing that they're advertising I'll feel better about what's going on so yeah once again not shocked

[00:10:16] that the reporter did the reporter type of inside addition slash job that just uh crushed that ship

[00:10:25] you really you're yeah go ahead they really was an inside addition type piece who case you nail it

[00:10:31] with that description I was for the life of me earlier I was trying to figure out what show it

[00:10:35] resembled in that are a current affair come right among it was just that kind of gotcha journalism and

[00:10:43] yeah like you said it just journalists on starships never work out all that well

[00:10:48] we've seen some great voice guest actors uh this season in in lower decks in season 3

[00:10:54] it would have been awesome if they somehow would have gotten James Earl Jones to come in and do

[00:10:58] the CNN thing by going this is FNN the Federation News Network I would have been just I would have

[00:11:05] been dying that would have been fantastic but we did see um I kind of thought coming what was

[00:11:11] gonna happen and I think Bill you alluded to this a few minutes ago where she wants to interview

[00:11:15] the crew so we know that that's gonna be a problem and everybody seems really excited about it

[00:11:19] they're they're they're going to talk about what they love so much and then Mariner goes in and then

[00:11:24] all the the wheels fall off the cart and there's all this huge problem and as we find out

[00:11:29] Mariner's not the problem everybody's just having great conversations and talks about things that

[00:11:34] aren't necessarily an issue to them but make the California class look bad

[00:11:38] and that's part of that whole reputation problem well it goes back to context right you know

[00:11:43] uh when when Freeman and Ransom confront Mariner they say that she went in and said all these things

[00:11:50] out of context so it made them look bad um and that's really what the other stories were

[00:11:55] you know some of these other people like K-Sean and some of the other crew members

[00:12:00] relate some of these stories that they were involved in or that mattered to them

[00:12:04] and to the reporter it looked absolutely silly so I mean yeah getting turned into a hand puppet

[00:12:09] that might seem silly to somebody I get it um maybe a silly is being held by a giant green hand

[00:12:15] in space who knows but you know without proper context it tells us that really anything can be

[00:12:23] misconstrued or blown out of proportion as it was with this reporter.

[00:12:27] Casey what do you thoughts on that? Absolutely I mean come on this this what's

[00:12:35] of get it goes right back to uh reporter trying to build uh instant trust with people

[00:12:45] and to to get them to loosen up and to get juicy things that they may not think are juicy

[00:12:53] and or whatever and fulfills what the agenda or hidden agenda of that reporter is

[00:13:01] so it can just be you know you get people talking in the longer and longer longer certain stuff will

[00:13:06] come out where you go oh yeah I could I could cut that right there and there's your those the

[00:13:11] little sound bite that'll work that you can manipulate it any way you want to and it may have nothing

[00:13:19] to do at all of how the situation actually was. Yeah I agree 100% speaking of juicy because you

[00:13:25] used the term juicy a second ago um starbase 80 let's talk about starbase 80 we finally get

[00:13:32] see kind of though we see the two people show up in the in the little mini shuttle um do we really

[00:13:37] think that there's any place in starfleet that is that disgusting. Do we really think there's any

[00:13:42] place in starfleet that's run by 80's stoners I I built Bill and Ted to get a job somewhere.

[00:13:50] They really did. It just I have a I have a hard time believing that even uh you know some kind of

[00:13:57] starbase on the edge of the frontier in someplace where rejects go because starfleet is not about

[00:14:03] that I mean they even found a place for red sparkly on the enterprise or it starfleet academy

[00:14:09] if he can find a spot I have to believe that someplace like starbase 80 probably wouldn't exist.

[00:14:16] Yeah it was it was kind of gross Casey um not gonna lie and it what did it smell like it's not like

[00:14:21] sweat and something else I forget what it was but it was a pretty funny line uh you

[00:14:26] you all around when when the when your shuttle comes in and it's greasy I'm like we guess what now

[00:14:34] elbow grease. Not that elbow grease it was like mmm thank you. Well one of the things that I found

[00:14:44] very interesting actually before I get to this I got I got one other question. We're either of you

[00:14:48] surprised by the resignation of of Beckett at the end of this episode do you really did

[00:14:55] did we think that she was gonna stay at starbase 80 or was she just gonna say that's it now before

[00:15:00] you answer that I will say I can't imagine it's gonna be long I don't know if we're gonna have

[00:15:04] to wait till next season for her to come back or if it's gonna be next week um but I can't imagine

[00:15:09] that it's going to be a permanent thing but were you surprised Bill that that we saw her take this

[00:15:14] step. I was a little bit shocked I uh not incredibly I mean I wasn't like you know jaw dropping but

[00:15:20] I thought they might be able to get some interesting storylines out of the starbase 80 thing um because

[00:15:25] I mean they teased it so really in the season you know if it's that place that's that dreaded let's

[00:15:30] see why it's that dreaded um the only thing I didn't like about her leaving Starfleet is that she

[00:15:36] hooked up with that treasure hunter from career day that just doesn't work for me um that's not a

[00:15:41] development I dig no pun intended. But that's a good pun absolutely go ahead Kasey.

[00:15:49] Please save us. I wasn't surprised because I could see the mirror character just going F this

[00:15:57] no you're not dumping me off into you know like the worst summer camp whatever type of thing

[00:16:04] that you want it was like I have options and you know they made sure that we all knew in the audience

[00:16:10] that she had options earlier. So it was kind of like um and part of it like Bill you're saying

[00:16:19] I don't think they could show it to us because the whole aura of how awful this place is or how

[00:16:25] crappy it is in our heads we're all thinking certain things and they'd see it and go well okay well

[00:16:31] that's not that bad and like you're saying how can it how can a start base really be that bad

[00:16:36] yeah there's there's no way so I cut I wasn't surprised on it as like okay she was just to hey

[00:16:43] peace out you know and did she actually to I remember correctly she did the Vulcan thing that she

[00:16:48] didn't season one too where she just was like see ya and she didn't add as she was walking away

[00:16:52] yeah good old mirror um so I do have one thing I want to get to we're gonna talk about fans that's

[00:16:57] first before we do that but when we get back we're gonna go back in time to TNG season one

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[00:18:41] okay guys so here we are gonna wrap up some of the discussion that I some of the points that I

[00:18:49] had and that's the return to Omara that was wow that was completely unexpected I didn't know bill

[00:18:56] that you really liked the episode symbiosis I hate that episode I do not like that episode at all

[00:19:02] I've never liked it the only thing I like about that episode is when the guy like electrocutes

[00:19:06] riker and he's like absolutely that's that's that's that part I like that's awesome because

[00:19:11] Freak says his look on his face like he should you can't see it in an audio podcast that's pretty

[00:19:17] much the only part of that episode that I remember and like but so I was really surprised but also

[00:19:23] another great example of what this team is capable of they pull stuff out that we would never think

[00:19:30] we would have seen ever again and it works 100% the whole storyline about the enterprise leaving

[00:19:38] and what their society went through to get to the point that they are now with that mural T-Series I

[00:19:43] want that mural my room at home because that was really something perhaps you can set it up behind

[00:19:48] the skulls from Star Trek Picard when they make things available I like that idea too yeah I love

[00:19:53] that we got a chance to go back to Omara at the end of symbiosis you know Picard essentially leaves

[00:19:58] these people high and dry he does and rightfully so in a way I mean from their perspective it's not

[00:20:05] but from our perspective it's like aha he gotcha he is he obeyed the prime directive and he found a

[00:20:12] way to get them off the junk I like the fact that we went back and revisited what happened to

[00:20:19] these people and I find out they just got addicted to fitness was hilarious it was pretty good

[00:20:25] and ransom certainly certainly like that well you were fan of them returning to that plant actually

[00:20:30] Casey let me ask you this you were fan of the original TNG episode symbiosis no no guys know what

[00:20:37] you're missing I know I know exactly what I'm missing and I'm glad you love it and enjoy it but

[00:20:44] NUNCA for me the best part about symbiosis is that you get two guest actors from Rathacan

[00:20:52] you do and start trying to do same episode you do I saw the best the best part of that

[00:20:58] episode was the ending credits oh I hear the music's pretty good yeah TNG the motion picture

[00:21:06] they used in the end credits yeah what a great coincidence so so we see what's going on with Omara

[00:21:13] pretty awesome okay things are good that mural is still awesome I still want that mural in my house

[00:21:17] so they decide to go see what's going on on brecca the neighboring planet this was the part that

[00:21:22] I absolutely loved I was so so happy to see the brain back or the guy from return of the Jedi however

[00:21:29] you want to look at it um but it was it was it was great to see the brain and their weird starships

[00:21:38] fantastic call back to DS9 they're still pretty they're pretty pretty big nemesis no pun intended

[00:21:44] to other star Trek movies but it was good to see and they worked in the story really well Casey

[00:21:50] there are great villain when when you can't understand a thing that the villain's saying

[00:21:56] like it's like it's like what what is the motivation it's like these creatures are just terror

[00:22:03] they're there's coming at you and there seems to be no reason none whatsoever so yeah very nice to

[00:22:12] that was a great surprise wasn't expecting them Bill I agree 100% at first I wondered what happened

[00:22:20] to the people on brecca you know I'm like did we stumble into something bigger like some kind

[00:22:26] of catastrophic event did the disruption of this drug trade kill everybody on the planet

[00:22:32] and then to find out that it was a you know a brain surprise attack was even cooler if I can use

[00:22:38] that word because we haven't seen them in so long and then you get that energy dampening weapon

[00:22:44] that's like oh whole whole great great continuity there they still have that weapon and it causes

[00:22:49] lots of problems um until someone comes to the rescue um in the form of the automated ship

[00:22:58] I can't remember the name it right now I apologize but I you know

[00:23:02] when has ascension computer ever been a good thing uh maybe we should ask dr. Dastram

[00:23:08] uh I don't I don't know I'm just asking but I've got a real bad feeling about this it was great

[00:23:12] it came in swoop and saved the day but I'm never a big fan of autumn fully automated AI buddy

[00:23:19] look how well it worked out in TOS look how well it worked out really any other time the computer has

[00:23:25] been in charge um you know even in TNG I mean when people kind of co-op the computer to take control

[00:23:32] of the ship it's not cool um you know so I I have a feeling there's a lot more to this and

[00:23:40] this isn't the last we've seen that that Texas class no for not by a log shot yeah um

[00:23:47] I like the idea of what the admiral is trying to do you know you want to save lies but isn't the whole

[00:23:52] idea of Starfleet exploration that's the whole reason why they are in existence they're not

[00:23:58] Bill and I talked about this on Trekkieke this week there are semi militaristic organization even

[00:24:04] though their prime uh directive no pun intended again is exploration um so it's it kind of

[00:24:12] it's kind of a slap in the face if that an admiral of this stature would be doing this

[00:24:17] for the good of protecting lives when the whole idea of our lives is to go out and explore more casey

[00:24:23] well you're not exploring more casey but explore more common maybe they're going to be one

[00:24:27] out there hello there well part of it think about it if you're somewhere if you were in a

[00:24:35] continent here on our planet and someone came by first contact does that and then X amount of time

[00:24:42] later something comes where there's no person you're dealing with it's like just cold and clinical

[00:24:52] and I was like how how is that um relationship building for for any civilization and that just

[00:25:02] you really take you're taking the humanity out of everything yeah how is an automated drone ship

[00:25:13] going to make first contact yeah you know how was it going to make second contact I mean how is it

[00:25:19] going to address the needs of a federation member world um or how's it gonna negotiate a treaty

[00:25:28] it can't do those things nobody to beam down so I mean it's just it doesn't it doesn't make sense

[00:25:33] and I mean you can go back to TOS with Landrue and and um the the apple all of these things that have

[00:25:41] computers running things it always goes bad and for someone who's an admiral in Starfleet to think okay

[00:25:47] I'm gonna design a starship that's fully automated because nothing has ever gone wrong in the history

[00:25:52] of Starfleet or any of our exploration I'm sure it's gonna be great or does it I got I got a bad

[00:25:58] feeling about this as another franchise is fond of saying from time to time as you should

[00:26:04] you know we've seen it all too often um I just I I got I have the same bad feeling

[00:26:10] hmm and Casey I know I can tell you're on your page you got bad feeling too

[00:26:15] it it it shall not end well let let me ask you this guys one other thing I wanted to ask is we

[00:26:21] have seen in the three seasons of lower deck that we've watched so far we've seen a lot of times

[00:26:27] where the lower deck crew is talking about this certain mission from Picard or what happened

[00:26:32] on deep space nine and this that and the other thing they know all this stuff wouldn't you think

[00:26:37] that some of this stuff would have been classified by Starfleet command but they seem to know an awful

[00:26:40] lot like the brain and the energy dampening weapons and stuff like that they seem to have an idea

[00:26:45] of what was going on and we're able to come up with a way to defend the ship when they were being

[00:26:49] attacked by a race and a species that really hasn't been seen since the Dominion war and they didn't

[00:26:55] even know a lot about them before then I think it's kind of the opposite I don't think it would be

[00:26:59] classified especially since it it goes to you know being able to defend a Starfleet vessel

[00:27:05] you know all these ships make logs and they're all I want to say publicly available but they're

[00:27:10] available to pretty much anybody in Starfleet as we've learned through next gen you know because

[00:27:14] they can call up somebody's log on a different starbase and go through them so I I have to believe

[00:27:20] that some of that data is there and some of these lower deckers are big time nerds oh yeah

[00:27:25] we've seen that with Boymler actually yeah absolutely that makes total sense what else you got

[00:27:30] guys for this episode there was a lot going in on this episode or a lot going on in this episode

[00:27:35] it warm me out quite frankly I have two things the first of which is I love that the emblem on

[00:27:44] the reporter's pin kind of looks like the CBS logo that always makes me happy when we see a callback

[00:27:50] of whether it's you know in the bad computer storage in Okinawa or in this case but really the

[00:27:58] burning question of this episode and something we haven't brought up yet is how have we never seen

[00:28:04] a de-replicating trash can before in Star Trek we see it here at the at the pie eating contest

[00:28:11] in the lounge they're just taking the pies zip them into this trash can that essentially turns

[00:28:16] the pies back into energy I want this more than I want to transport quite honestly speaking of

[00:28:23] pies well am I the only one that that thought of breaking bad with that whole pie eating content

[00:28:27] no okay good because I mean that's a classic moment from breaking bad with the with the pie eating

[00:28:33] contest and that's initially what I started thinking about and I got to say Marin is kind of a

[00:28:39] bad pie eater if she's got that blueberry all over her uniform for so long into the episode well

[00:28:46] yes but but also have you ever seen stand by me in the pie eating contest there oh yeah it was

[00:28:53] so long ago so let's see now I don't remember it's you know it's been a long time some some

[00:28:57] good times pie eating contests are rigorous and aren't always everything that can stay into the

[00:29:04] system and it's like hey that that's how it goes and if you get it on your hands in your shoes

[00:29:11] yeah whatever I only wish that you know to complete the rep the circle back to breaking bad

[00:29:19] it had been a tulibarie pie oh yes that would have been really good now would have been the best

[00:29:25] wink at a nod back to a non-canon source ever and I really can't fault it for that because I mean

[00:29:32] I love blueberry pie but tulibarie would just been the icing on the cake yes yes it would have

[00:29:38] so Casey what else you got anything before we wrap up about things that stood out for you

[00:29:42] I know we talked a lot about different things this whole this whole conversation captain Carol

[00:29:47] Carol being Carol yelling is quite intimidating yeah and it's like

[00:29:55] I was like yeah if I'm a crew member on that it's like okay um

[00:30:01] she's pissed let's go here we go I will I will do whatever work I need to do as far away from her

[00:30:09] as possible to have her happy about what's going on yeah you don't you don't get a lot of yelling

[00:30:17] captains in Star Trek you know shut up that damn noise that's about really the only other one I can think of

[00:30:23] hey not wrong not wrong well because I mean their job is to be in command right well I think that

[00:30:31] I think that Freeman you know yells because she really feels betrayed honestly

[00:30:38] and it's it's disheartening to hear her have that reaction to Mariner that she does

[00:30:45] because it's her daughter you know especially when she says I don't even know if I can call

[00:30:49] you my daughter anymore I'm like my heart sunk a little bit because I mean that was

[00:30:54] it was a blatant over reaction on her part but it was coming from some place that was just

[00:30:59] a deep wound and she didn't have the information to make that comment she was assuming and everyone

[00:31:07] assume she was she everyone assumes what she but but I'll go back to what Bill just said

[00:31:12] she's a captain she's not she needs she needs to do a better job but you're right she's very

[00:31:18] very very intimidating well if you have you know someone that you've given birth to on your crew

[00:31:29] that's got to be incredibly hard I mean I would always go where our home room teacher

[00:31:35] was the father of one of the guys in the say in that home room and it's like I couldn't believe

[00:31:41] how it would be for both of them for four years of like this isn't just your your teacher

[00:31:49] this is your parent and then you're the kid and like how do you be yourself when your parent

[00:31:58] is there 24-7 yeah well I guess we're gonna find out what happens a great episode nine

[00:32:05] to season three a lower deck so that means there's only one left Casey so what are we

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[00:34:36] for lower decks episode nine trusted sources how long will we see Marin are not in a Starfleet

[00:34:42] uniform with only one episode left in the season I for one hope we don't have to wait until season

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