Being on the spectrum, I have to say, I weirdly relate to Boimler in Lower Decks, especially early seasons. It’s something about his awkwardness combined with his dealing with his ambition that spoke to me when I got rejected from my dream school a year or so back.

It’s almost like Data is the person you dream of being in some ways and Boimler is the person you actually are in a few aspects.

Ah, yes. The film where Jeri Ryan, Terry Farrell, and Kate Mulgrew are accidentally forced to abduct Rick Berman and keep him in their house for a few months while they wildly improve Star Trek. A classic. 😁

If only.

I believe in the moment, it was actually a hologram.

Still, we desperately need a statue of the Chief.

You’ve got quite a bit - it’s in TNG S4, so you’ve still got all of TAS (if you choose. If you’re thinking about skipping, at least watch Yesteryear), the first few movies, and the first three seasons and six episodes of TNG to go before you hit this glorious staple who will last through DS9.

Also, heir to the holy rings of Betazed.

They’re basically the same character.

“This is the bridge of the Titan, Mr. Boimler. We’ve got all the time in the quadrant for jazz.”

“You! The one who is moving now!”

For some reason, I have the impulse to put this in here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkinoUGmKZ4

(Phish wanted Frakes to do a horn part for one of their tracks, but his skills were not up to the task. To honor the attempt, they made this track out of a bunch of the failed takes.)

“I like the bridge.”

I honestly forgot about that. It’s been a while since I’ve watched Orville, but remembering that, I agree.

I have respect for how the Orville turned both Isaac and Gordon around from the most annoying characters on the show to some of the best.

Classic

Currently running a campaign on 1st edition. May look into this.

I’lll taaaeek yoooo hooooooooeeeem, AGAAAAAAIN KATHLEEN!

Just being in Starfleet in general, honestly:

I feel like they could have done several things to make them more realistic.

One option might have been instead making it a form of matterless telepathic project, with a bunch of the crew having to awkwardly walk inside these projections.

Another option might have been to make it so the Doopler behaves sort of like a replicator and uses materials from its environment to build clones. At first, the Cerritos life support systems would be able to keep up, but then, instead of the risk of being crushed, it could have instead been the risk of oxygen depletion or something as life support struggles to keep up. Granted, that would have made beaming the Doopler emissary onto the star base even more sadistic than it already was, so you’d have to find a way to revise them.

I feel like the Pandronians aren’t as severe - maybe an 8. You could explain the floating in part as a naturally occurring anti-gravity system (which does canonically exist artificially).

I might be biased, though, in kn my Star Trek Adventures campaign, I have a Pandronian as my chief medical officer.

I feel like as this goes on, this list just devolves into random Star Trek species.

I mean, the whole point of the Antedians and Breen is they’re total meme species.

I personally feel like one of the ACTUAL worst species in the franchise is LD’s Dooplers. While overall, the eponymous episode is great, probably one of the series bests, the Dooplers felt out of place. Usually, Lower Decks has a standard of doing things that are both ridiculous and plausible by Star Trek logic - in other words, the cartoon dial is usually set at 6 or 7 (unless it’s a hallucination), but I feel like the Dooplers were a jarring turn to a 10.