The running joke on Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 2 Episode 4 gets tired pretty quickly, but, thankfully, it's not expected to carry the show. In brief, the horned apes of the planet Neural appeared ...

This post contains minor spoilers for season two, episode four of ‘Star Trek: Lower Decks.’ Fan service is often derided for being gratuitous at best, and an act of gatekeeping at worst. After nearly ...

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Star Trek: Lower Decks may be a lot of things, but normally it doesn’t go for raunchy sex jokes. Even in a previous Season 2 episode set in a co-ed shower, the humor was more based on Mariner (Tawny ...

Mariner joins Boimler and Rutherford for a round of anbo-jyutsu. When they try out some new moves on her, she kicks their butts. Two scientists are startled by a Mugato creature. On the Cerritos, the ...

When Boimler and Rutherford are separated from the away team, they run straight out into the forests around the Ferengi camp. The last thing that they saw was Shax being injured by a Mugato, then ...

This is a bit of a dark one, this one. When the away team land on the planet to investigate what's been happening with the Mugato herd, they discover that another team has already beaten them to it. A ...