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In “No Small Parts”, the USS Cerritos encounters a familiar enemy. Tendi helps a struggling recruit named Peanut Hamper to find her footing.
Star Trek: Lower Decks closes out its first season with an action-packed, game-changer of an episode! The evil but incapable Pakleds return with a suped-up vessel that poses a threat to any federation ships unlucky enough to get caught in its path. The Pakleds have been using their time since their appearance in “Samaritan Snare” to build a powerful ship combined with the technology of numerous species. It goes hand in hand with the Cerritos visiting that planet from “Return of the Archons”: the Federation has a nasty habit of leaving behind some ticking time bombs!
Meanwhile, Boimler accidentally reveals the truth about the relationship between Captain Freeman and Ensign Beckett Mariner. It ends up not being all that important, but does pave the way for a promotion. it’s just not for the person you’d expect.
“No Small Parts” fills the rest of its time with a cinematic spectacle as the USS Cerritos fights back against the Pakled ship. The crew engage in some good old fashioned, TOS era (Those Old Scientists) fisticuffs. We lose a few friends along the way. Ensign Rutherford gets his Vulcan implant forcibly removed. And the EXOCOMPS make their dramatic return! Except they’ve become all too human since we last saw them.
We will return with a season wrap up live stream in a few days to break down the entirety of the first season of Star Trek: Lower Decks. Until then, enjoy our thoughts about the season finale and how Lower Decks managed to become something a bit more fulfilling in its final episodes.
In this episode of the podcast, Wes and Clay discuss “No Small Parts” and why Lower Decks is more true to Star Trek than the Picard series pretends to be. Plus! The guys talk about cinematic animation, shuffling the cards at the end of a season, and why Mariner is no Michael Burnham.