The Cerritos crew must prove their worth in a mission race.The Cerritos crew must prove their worth in a mission race.The Cerritos crew must prove their worth in a mission race.
- Dr. T'Ana
- (voice)
- Les Buenamigo
- (voice)
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- Petra Aberdeen
- (voice)
- Ensign Barnes
- (voice)
- Vendome
- (voice)
- Durango
- (voice)
- T'lyn
- (voice)
- Lieutenant Kayshon
- (voice)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaCommander Ransom demonstrates how to sit in a chair in a "commanding" manner, by throwing one leg over the back of the chair. This was how Commander Riker sat in Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987). The manner in which he sat down was so unusual that fans of the series have taken to calling it "The Riker Maneuver." Various explanations for the maneuver have been offered throughout the years since TNG aired, from Riker actor Jonathan Frakes's well documented back problems, to it being an acting choice to make Riker seem more like "a cowboy."
- GoofsWhen Captain Freeman demands more speed, a hand of someone in a yellow uniform is seen manipulating the flight controls to increase speed. That would indicate that it was Ensign Barnes who increased the speed, however, Barnes is seated at the ops station, not helm. Boimler is at the helm and had previously enacted the captain's orders regarding heading and speed, but he wears a red uniform.
When Captain Freeman demands more speed, she's actually speaking to Engineering. It's Lt. Commander Billups' hand seen shunting all available power to the warp engines, and since he's the Chief Engineer of the Cerritos, he's wearing the correct gold uniform.
- Quotes
Ensign Samanthan Rutherford: Captain, you need to see this!
Captain Carol Freeman: Ensign, I'm busy.
Les Buenamigo: Rutherford?
Ensign Samanthan Rutherford: Yeah, that's right, and I figured it out! The Aledo's code is corrupted. He erased my memory to cover it up. The AI's the same one that killed Shaxs!
Les Buenamigo: Why did I stop at your memory? I should've erased *all of you*!
Captain Carol Freeman: Les, what the hell is this?
Les Buenamigo: Starfleet is so competitive. Once you're an Admiral, you hit a wall! I've been trying for *years* to make a name for myself! I won't let you take it from me, not after everything I did to get us here.
Captain Carol Freeman: Everything you did? Wait, that means...
Les Buenamigo: Yes, yes, I set you up. I was sure you'd fail at negotiations on Deep Space 9, but you *stumbled* through that fiasco!
Captain Carol Freeman: And the Breen?
Les Buenamigo: Of course I knew they were on Brekka! I needed the Aledo to save the day, and you handed me a perfect disaster.
Captain Carol Freeman: My crew could've been killed!
Les Buenamigo: The Texas class will keep countless others *out* of danger. The good of the many, Carol!
Ensign Samanthan Rutherford: Sir, you don't understand. The code you're using, its emotional processing isn't stable. You can't bring those ships online!
Captain Carol Freeman: You are *not* one of those bad-faith Admirals that's up to no good. You're better than this, Les.
Les Buenamigo: I'm really not. You know, I'll-I'll say you attacked the Aledo out of anger when you lost the race. It... *defended* itself.
Captain Carol Freeman: What?
- Crazy creditsThere is a post-credits scene, involving Badgey and the "destroyed" implant of Rutherford.
Mariner (Tawny Newsome) continues to struggle to find her place within Star Fleet, particularly with her mother facing military tribunal for the events of the second season. She is assigned to Commander Ransom (Jerry O'Connell) to try and encourage her development. Ensign Rutherford (Eugene Cordero) is tortured by a mysterious malfunction in his neural processor that causes him to remember bit of his past long buried.
Now that the show is established, it's able to invest in some longer-term storytelling here, with characters and ideas seeded in one episode and paid off in a later one. Rutherford's malfunctioning brain is one of the more obvious ones but even something like Mariner's flirtation with a life outside of Star Fleet is foreshadowed by introducing her partner in an earlier episode.
Performances are good and, though I do think it relies on bleeped swearing for its' humour a little more than it should, generally I thought it was reasonably funny. For longer term Star Trek fans, the sixth episode sees the Cerritos visiting Deep Space Nine and both Nana Visitor and Armin Shimerman revisit their characters from that series. There are numerous other nods and references throughout the season too.
So, yes - at the very least season three maintains the level that the show arrived at towards the end of the first and I feel confident about it's progression heading into season four.
- southdavid
- Nov 15, 2022
Details
- Runtime28 minutes
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