191. The Coffee Machine Cleaning Cycle of the Federation (LD 5.07 and 5.08)

Anika and Liz are briefly trapped on a world where months pass in the space of seconds, which gives us a lot of time to talk about how great Carol Freeman is. Yes, we're talking about Star Trek: Lower Decks' "Fully Dilated" and "Upper Decks". We liked one of these episodes! Mostly! "Fully Dilated" was a personal attack aimed at us Why is Tendi so out of character this season?  The Boimler and Rutherford subplot felt like a throwback to TNG_S8, but what works as a 140-character tweet is less successful spread over 22 minutes of animated comedy If you're going to put T'Lyn in the T'Pol role and then make boob jokes, they should be … funny "Do you know how mid an episode has to be for Data to be our favourite part?" We liked "Upper Decks" a lot!  But doctors withholding pain medication is not funny Freeman continues to be the best captain