This one was a weird episode, mainly as two of the episodes were ones I’d seen relatively recently. I knew bad admirals were a thing in Star Trek, but I didn’t know of the trope of ‘Badmirals’ until it was raised in an episode of Casual Trek.
We had a large selection of Badmiral episodes, admittedly mostly in TNG. Miles also suggested a Bad Commodore episode from the Original Series. I don’t know or care to know enough about military ranks to know the difference, so when we return to Badmirals as a subject, expect a lot of talk about the Commodore 64 from me.
Star Trek: Lower Decks “The Stars at Night”
I forgot this was the finale of season three and that we’ve had this many episodes of Lower Decks already. While a lot of plot things have gone on, there’s actually very little you need to know going forwards. I think this might be the first season finale we’ve covered, too.
Star Trek: The Next Generation “The Pegasus”
John Locke from Lost is in this one! I was given a choice and it was this or a melted old Matt Smith looking guy, so I went with this. Mo Ryan’s new book which had an excerpt published recently shone a bit of a light on the showrunner of Lost being rubbish people. It’s a shame, as Lost is a show that I love, but like Buffy, is going to have to be a show I love with some people in charge who were awful.
Anyway, this episode isn’t awful, it’s got the Enterprise and a Romulan Warbird both roaming around pretending not to be looking for the same ship, it’s got the Enterprise putting its headlights on and some unfortunate behaviour from Riker in his past career.
Picard “The Next Generation”
Until next episode of the show, this is going to be the most recent episode that Miles and I watched. Literally, Miles reviewed it on his blog when it aired and we watched the whole thing pretty much on day of release here and in the States.
It’s a strong start, definitely stronger than season one, although there’s a real fear of nostalgia leading the way here.
The episodes can be found on all podcatchers, on Spotify or using this link:
The Big List So Far
Here’s the big list up to this episode:
Faked Tales 