What's going on?  Has it been a whole year? How long is that anyway? Where's Sean? Questions are answered.  Lane and Courtney Bowen come back to talk about Star Trek Discovery.  Back on Earth things have fallen apart and the Discovery crew has to fix it.  Who needs Michael?  Oh.  Have things devolved back to what they were like before?  

What? 

The Discovery crew shows up 930 years later and we finally get to meet some characters.  Wade is just so happy to finally like what the show is doing. Sean and Glen are less enthused, to varying degrees. -But what would one of these podcasts be with a little disagreement?  

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It's a brand new season and a new start for Disco.  

Do we like Star Trek Discovery now? Are we off brand? Total hypocrites? 

We're done being reflexively unsupportive. 

Has Lower Decks pulls off the show everyone thought it should be?  What themes is this show pulling off that Trek hasn't dealt with? What can we expect from the next season? What did we hate?  Does a Rick and Morty structure work here? What is going on? Status Repot never ended.  

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Wade has become what he hates.  The worst kind of Star Trek fan.  Sean is there to put us in his place.  Glen is the same kind of fan he’s been. 

In Status Report, everybody gets along. Kinda.

Is there even such thing as good improv?  Is this more Star Trek or contrived gags?  A discussion of what do we want from our guest cameos and crossovers?

Status Report incites more anger than usual when Glen steps out of line.

What time is it? What does "Much Ado About Boimler" even mean as a title?  Who do we count as our best compatriot?  We have some favorites in this ep.  

What satire or commentary did Lower Decks miss or not go far enough with this week?

We love The Dog!

Is this a Star Trek Cartoon or a Tim Robinson sketch?  Why not both?  Lots of guest stars in this one.  Well, not the podcast. Joanie left.  Is Lower Decks making its own lore?  

Wade invited a woman named Joanie onto the show and things got weird.  Just how many of the jokes on Lower Decks are references to other Trek, and how much does that even matter?   Has "Cupid's Errant Arrow" struck?  Somebody on this episode is excited for Status Report.  References are made.  

Under the Bridge this week starts with a peek at the mess under the hood of the podcast before getting all into "Moist Vessel."  All the pedantry you expect from a Star Trek podcast, and the outrage of a host mistakenly calling it "Star Wars."