Yay to season 4.

I agree. Experience bij, Paramount!

It’s not a spoiler. It’s from season one.

One thing that suggests Broken Mirror’s mirror universe is the prime one is the uniforms borrow a lot of conventions from the IDE TNG Mirror comics, which sorts out a way the empire resurges.

I might add we saw a different Terran empire variant of the Cerritos in 2x08 “I, Excretus”, albeit a holodeck one.

My joking theory is they did the weird Rutherford implant removal to make his live action costume easier. 😉

It depends. The Cerritos is passingly mentioned in Prodigy, which suggests at least one version (probably ours) of the Cerritos is in the prime timeline.

I met someone who actually got into TNG because of Lower Decks.

I feel like I’ve been pulled off Ketracel white cold turkey. So many good episodes. My ultimate conclusion is the best episode is probably season 2 finale, with season 4 finale very close behind.

The Rutherford thing was weird - they could have written in a bit more foreshadowing. I’m gonna tell myself it’s a way to make Eugene Cordero’s makeup easier for a live action film. 😉

I could be wrong, but I think this is the first time an Ariolo has spoken on screen.

According to Memory Alpha, there’s an okudagram in Prodigy that says Prime Harry’s a Lieutenant by 2384.

There was so much joyful “Eeeeee”-ing during this episode.

I love this site.

I only switch to Apple Music in July - all my top albums are They Might Be Giants albums.

This episode almost gives me Last Airbender “Tales of Ba Sing Se” vibes. It was especially nice to get to check in on a bunch of regular side characters for what might be the last time.

At the end of the episode, I was like, “Oh my gosh! It’s that one random cadet!”

I also chuckled at Shax’s conflict; I thought they were going to reveal he had been living with some sort of engramic virus or something after an accident.

I’d say the only one that competes with it for me is Generations.

The appearance of the D once again brings me back to the question - is each reality also in the year 2382, or is there a temporal differential that randomly varies?

There are a couple other instances begging this question:

• Captain Tersal is wearing a TNG-era uniform. It wouldn’t be much of a stretch to just say the uniform was never retired in her timeline and are intended to be kept largely the same like the monster maroons, but it still presents a possibility.
• Boimler is able to read about alt-Boimler’s missions on the alt-PADD. Does this mean alt-Boimler’s timeline is a bit ahead, or is the PADD somehow maintaining its connection with the alternate timeline?

I might also add that it being a Galaxy Class Enterprise alone does not mean it is the D - we only know it’s the Enterprise D because of Ransom calling it “the purple D”.

I have my own theory that alt-Boimler is actually William Boimler tasked to replace his other self for mysterious Section 31 reasons. He even says “No one deserves to be replaced by their own clone.”

However, that theory aside, I joke that there’s a chain of modelling off alternate realities that spans the ship ranks, the various levels of admirals, the Federation presidency, the Travelers, the Q Continuum, and beyond.

What’s weird is in the IDW comics, Data has become a severed head again as well.