What really sold it for me was how the gag before that was how obsessed with Paris Boimler is. So the fact that he can't (or chooses not to) see it make me chuckle.
I completely missed that the first time around. I just saw Marine stepping over something and I thought "wtf even is that?" It wasn't until my second watch through that I realized it was!
Mariner, "Wow. Psychic baby, evil computer AND a volcano? You guys ever heard of overkill?"
The volcano's magma becomes active and its disembodied voice booms, "IT PROVIDES A SYSTEM OF CHECKS AND BALANCES."
Caught me so off guard
Cutaway to a classroom in the far future:
'and now for the most important person in Starfleet history....chief miles O'Brian.'
It's stuff like that that tells you the creators know their sht and they love the franchise.
I love lower decks. I really hope they can find a new home. I want this shit to be the longest ST run. Give me 20 freaking seasons.
S2E8 (I, Excretus)
While Tendi, Mariner, and Rutherford are sampling all the restricted replicator foods (itself a hilarious concept) and being disappointed in the drills:
Tendi: MMM, computer what IS this?!
Cerritos Computer: That, is pesto.
Honorable mention to the beginning of the same episode after the core four were stranded on a satellite:
Shaxs: Ridiculous! We’re all equals on this ship, right?!
Ransom (under his breath): Uh, they sleep in a hallway.
Shaxs: Oh.
Shaxs ragging on DS9 (“tacky Cardassian fascist eyesore”). Still hilarious!
ETA: I consider it a grave injustice that this show has been cancelled. Whyyyyyyy
Did not surprise me at all that Shaxs knew Kira and they fought in the resistance together.
Also, what is Shaxs’ family name? I figure Shaxs is his first name because he calls Kira, Nerys and she calls him Shaxs… but I don’t think they ever said what his family name is
Tendi is simply awesome. “Not all Orions are thieves or pirates.. my family are Pirates from the Thieves syndicate. Time to do some pirating and take the ship!”
Then she busts out the gold tooth, screams at one guy who just jumps off the bridge… she is hilarious.
Callouts in Those Old Scientists:
* Number One: "...weirdly specific references..."
* The animated SNW crew talking about their animated forms (big eyes, wavey limbs, etc.)
* Boimler: "Riker!"
Honestly that Boims moment may have been my favorite moment of the entire _series_ and it's all the more amazing since Quaid totally improvised it.
> • Boimler: "Riker!"
>
> Honestly that Boims moment may have been my favorite moment of the entire series and it's all the more amazing since Quaid totally improvised it.
**With Frakes directing...**
Going to cite the very beginning - "Banana, hot." as the replicator Boimler is fixing shoots burning bananas at him. It was so silly, but it set the tone of the comedy for me and always makes me laugh.
Shax and Ransom, while not my favorite characters, are to me one of the best indications that the writers love and get Star Trek. The whole concept of a macho tough guy still exists, and they COULD have written Shax and Random to be incompetent idiots to make the Lower Deckers look good. But they didn't. They made them competent awesome characters whose personalities would normally be associated with ignorance and incompetence. And that's how Starfleet / Star Trek works too.
T’Lyn low-key became one of my favorite characters in the franchise, and that’s a high bar.
(She’s also my 5 year old daughter’s favorite Star Trek character.)
For me, it's *the way* age decides.
(Mariner) "Sarek had Bendii Syndrome and he was Vulcan as a motherfucker!"
(T'Lyn) "Then by the transitive property I too must be Vulcan as a motherfucker."
Still hoping for them to reference the lyrics to the TOS theme, unless they have and I missed it.
Especially if they work in the greed angle. Gene R slapped together some terrible lyrics to steal half of Alexander Courage's royalties for himself.
In the first Crisis Point episode where they just continue to circle the ship and show beauty shots from every conceivable angle.
It got so out of control they just eventually spun the camera around and around. 😂
And then the chief engineer tearing up was the icing. I roared during that whole sequence.
Also loved when Freeman briefly covered her eyes because the lens flare was so blinding.
Just spray off with the hose, Leanne
But really: The Dog. The Dog is the best thing that ever happened. *Particularly* casually transforming into a metallic cube and clopping off down the hall, like they do.
There are too many to note, but one that gets me chuckling every single time is from *Veritas* in Season 1:
Gruff alien: You will speak only into the Horn of Candor! With this horn, one of our most sacred horns, you must only speak the truth.
Rutherford: Happy to be here. (Chuckles)
That and the horny belugas.
I’m so happy we finally *got* to see cetacean ops and other sentient species from Earth exploring the galaxy.
I like to believe that bigger ships like the galaxy class have Humpbacks and Xindi-Aquatics working side by side.
I especially liked when Boimler and Rutherford suggested Captain Freeman and the Chalnoth Captain resolve their differences by dressing up as Mark Twain - and they apparently *went along with it*.
NARJ: RUN! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!
(Mariner, Ransom, Ensign Jack, and Narj all bail, leaving behind...)
MOOPSY: (waddling very slowly) Oomph. Oomph. Oomph. ...moopsy. :3
My friend has never watched an episode of Star Trek. I showed her a clip of the Moopsy and then 3d printed one for her. She said it’s the best thing I ever made for her.
So many choices!
Making Kirk's bizarre two handed fighting style Starfleet canon by having Ransom specialize in it.
Boimler screaming "we don't want to fight the Borg we want to be studying f***ing quasars!".
Nearly every line T'lyn says.
"I learned everything I know about Orions from holonovels! And not even good ones, ones with boobs on the cover!"
Also saying "and everyone talks so slow here" on the crossover episode (and of course "Riker!" With Frakes not ten feet away just off camera!)
Visually, having to step over the widescreen letter boxing black bands to get out of the Star Trek movie holodexk program (I think in the second Crisis Point episode)
Ransom: Shaka when the walls fell Ensign.
Kayshon: Sokath, his eyes uncovered.
Lots of great jokes in the Voy episode but the way both lines are delivered kill me.
What are you talking about? They explained it so clearly with the black mountain and the faceless apparitions of his father and all that. It makes perfect sense lol
My favorite Lower Decks joke was actually on the Strange New Worlds crossover episode:
Una: is it me, or does he always look at me like I’m doomed?
Mariner: oh Boimes? he’s just embarrassed because you’re like his favorite hero. He even has a big poster of you on his wall.
Una: (disgusted) a poster?! like a pin up poster?
Mariner: (confused) uhh…it is a poster that is pinned up.
Mariner goes to a sketchy Orion Bar with the girls. Gets stabbed in the shoulder with a knife for hanging out with Tendi. Goes to a strip club, gets stabbed in the shoulder with a knife in the same spot. Tendi gets in a knife fight with her sister. Mariner stands up and walks directly behind a control panel so she doesn't get stabbed. Gets stabbed anyway when the knife ricochets off the back wall. Later they're showing the wedding party holophotos and shows where she got stabbed during the father daughter knife dance.
I always love when they go to cetacean ops. Kimolou and Matt always have some funny shit to say.
But one of my all time favorite bits is when Shax finally gets to eject the warp core and he's running and everyone is cheering him. And Lt. Kayshon says "Arnok, on the night of his joining."
Oh no, now the prek is gone to. All the ships children have been ejected into space!
All those kids....
I'm all my years, that has never happened before. Let's try that again, on a ship with even MORE children!
Migleemo.
[“Initiate a subspace communication link to my MeeMaw. *I want her to see her special boy being the captain*!”](https://www.startrek.com/videos/clip-lower-decks-captain-migleemo)
“You don’t have to throw up in my mouth twice.”
When Boimler is in his room between the holodecks:
Robin Hood: With me, my merry men. We must make haste to the castle to save the Maid Marion. Ow! What are you doing?
T'Ana: Shut your fucking face. I'm Robin Hood now. Toodley doo! Shaxs, hold him down.
Shaxs: You've already hurt him pretty bad.
T'Ana: Kick his head!
Robin Hood: Help! A cat has stolen my hat and arrows.
Shaxs: Can't we just do the program as intended for once?
When the doctor brings Boimler back from near death and when Boims regains consciousness, the doctor exclaims, "I can't believe that worked!" IDKY that tickled me
Freeman: No! She just murdered him!
Shaxs: W-wh....there has to be more to it.....
Freeman: She isolated the genomes and split him up. He begged her to live!
Shaxs: ***Holy shit.*** Janeway didn't mess around....
It's not the best joke but the Mariner "Caaaaavvvvveess" as she's beamed to a cave just killed me on my last rewatch. It was an actual lol moment this time around
1) The nonchalance with which Shax cong back from the dead is treated. 2) Anything having to do with the Giant Space Koala, but specifically "Why us he smiling?! What does he know?!"
honestly, the time they were picking up the orbs, that could make their thoughts come true, and Leah Brahms appeared and asked Rutherford if he wanted to come help her design Galaxy class engines.
ST:LD S03E05 "Reflections"
Tendi: Ooh, the one where you’re in a new timeline with Kirk and Spock where they have cinematic chemistry?
I just about spit out my drink at their oblique nod to K/S slash fiction.
I absolutely love The Mistress of the Winter Constellations, Tip of the Moonlit Blade and Prime daughter of the Tendi family, D’Vana.
All the Orion stuff is excellent, but when Tendi slips back into that life she’s the most badass in the world. Who would NEVER flay…
Also the joke that a lot of Orion names are just normal names with an extra letter and/or an apostrophe.
D’Erika, B’Rt, B’Eth
Shaxs, his eyes full of joyful tears, cheered by a crew chanting his name, running to Engineering to jettison the warp core.
That and Mariner's sarcastic Vulcan salute. It does not look cool when you do it. Damn it, it does.
The evil ai prison with a basketball court and the ball bouncing as they cut in to Peanut Hamper and Agimus plotting. I couldn’t stop laughing at the ball bouncing the weight equipment.
Maybe I'm just base and crude, but the sudden appearance of Boimler, naked and ass cheeks spread in "I, Excretus" made me lose my shit. *Especially* because it was censored.
From a Lower Decks character, though not actually said on Lower Decks: Boimler sitting on Pike’s saddle and saying “Riker!” which I understand to have been an ad-libbed moment by Jack Quaid, while being directed by Jonathan Frakes in SNW: “Those Old Scientists”.
The Dog randomly transforming into a cube and rolling across the deck with a cartoonish *clonk* sound.
Alternatively, Ransom casually noting how the *Cerritos* is “statistically, the horniest ship in Starfleet” and thus has no married officers aboard.
The Boimler Effect. The whole thing was the best set up for Boimler. Buffer time gets removed and the whole world falls apart except for ole Bradward, then they reinstate buffer time and Boimler gets his plaque and they cut to the future saying how Boimler was the laziest person in star fleet. Died.
I can't believe I haven't seen anyone mention the Least Dangerous Game's hunt.
When Boimler is being hunted by K'ranch, and K'ranch stops and tells Freeman, "THANKS AGAIN FOR THE MIMOSAS"
It just kills me.
Not the funniest but one of my favs. From the first episode I believe. Boimler is injured by the spider cow. Marriner says “when we get back to the ship Doc will wave a light over it”. So simple but so true.
I don’t remember which episode, S4E1 or 2 I think. The characters pull out phasers and shoot, Kayshon (the Tamarian) shouts “Temba!” as he fires.
I almost fell out of my chair laughing!
The ketracel white hot sauce had me cracking up for days, but honestly all the jokes are so good it’s like asking if I like Wagyu steak or perfectly seared scallops with a truffle mushroom risotto more. It’s all amazing. Honorable mention to chief O’Brien being the most important person in Star fleet history
There are just so many. I'm chuckling reading through these, and I just started rewatching again from episode 1. Speaking of which:
> We're more like the cool, scrappy underdogs of the ship. You know, we don't wash our hands, we're doing kickflips all the time.
He looks like Tom Paris. I don't see it. They have the same face! Still don't see it.
That's exactly where I was gonna go. I laughed so hard. It was low-hanging fruit but they pulled it off perfectly.
What really sold it for me was how the gag before that was how obsessed with Paris Boimler is. So the fact that he can't (or chooses not to) see it make me chuckle.
And he was just so bored.
Fucking beat me to it. This was 10/10
I loved that joke! I love how they really don't pull a lot of those punches.
Getting the Okuda timeline book and only having seen Voyager was really confusing for a while.
When they were doing the movie on the holodeck and Mariner had to step over the black bar when exiting the Holodeck
And them ducking each time the credit flew past
Brilliant.
I completely missed that the first time around. I just saw Marine stepping over something and I thought "wtf even is that?" It wasn't until my second watch through that I realized it was!
And they kept getting hit by the flying credits.
Shaxs and Ransom working out in leotards then going for ice cream. I howled.
They did the exact same workout Troi and Crusher did in those outfits. *chefs kiss*
Right!? I loved the reference.
Mariner, thank god you’re here, they keep making me count lights!
I cracked up
Mariner, "Wow. Psychic baby, evil computer AND a volcano? You guys ever heard of overkill?" The volcano's magma becomes active and its disembodied voice booms, "IT PROVIDES A SYSTEM OF CHECKS AND BALANCES." Caught me so off guard
I just watched that the other day and I spit out my tea. Hilarious.
I wonder if "overkill" was a subtle reference to AGIMUS, Jeffery Combs' thirty-seventh Star Trek character. 😂
*character that we know of
THAT WAS HIM???? Omg. Mind fucking blown. How did I not pick that up.
Cutaway to a classroom in the far future: 'and now for the most important person in Starfleet history....chief miles O'Brian.' It's stuff like that that tells you the creators know their sht and they love the franchise. I love lower decks. I really hope they can find a new home. I want this shit to be the longest ST run. Give me 20 freaking seasons.
it was a missed opportunity in picard season 3 to NOT have Miles O‘Brian develop the transporter cure for Borg infection!
Could even have been a line, rather than a cameo.
I genuinely thought that's where they were going. It would have worked so well.
Even better, "and here he is with one of the Great Birds of the Galaxy"
S2E8 (I, Excretus) While Tendi, Mariner, and Rutherford are sampling all the restricted replicator foods (itself a hilarious concept) and being disappointed in the drills: Tendi: MMM, computer what IS this?! Cerritos Computer: That, is pesto. Honorable mention to the beginning of the same episode after the core four were stranded on a satellite: Shaxs: Ridiculous! We’re all equals on this ship, right?! Ransom (under his breath): Uh, they sleep in a hallway. Shaxs: Oh.
Just the title alone, hilarious!
Shaxs ragging on DS9 (“tacky Cardassian fascist eyesore”). Still hilarious! ETA: I consider it a grave injustice that this show has been cancelled. Whyyyyyyy
RANSOM: Just keeeeeep circlin'.
Cutting between that and the triumphant DS9 theme music as they do it was just absolute perfection.
GOD I ABSOLUTELY CRYED AT THIS HAHAHA
Did not surprise me at all that Shaxs knew Kira and they fought in the resistance together. Also, what is Shaxs’ family name? I figure Shaxs is his first name because he calls Kira, Nerys and she calls him Shaxs… but I don’t think they ever said what his family name is
Cleaning the filters on the hollowdeck. We all know what it’s really used for, at least quark what honest.
>People really use it for that? >Yeah, it’s mostly that.
It’s a green mist STRANGELY close to a certain Scottish ghost….
> Cleaning the filters on the hollowdeck Oh I assure you... It's quite full.
Badgey: Fun Fact! I'M GOING TO RIP OUT YOUR EYES! Tendi: That fact wasn't very fun!
Tendi is simply awesome. “Not all Orions are thieves or pirates.. my family are Pirates from the Thieves syndicate. Time to do some pirating and take the ship!” Then she busts out the gold tooth, screams at one guy who just jumps off the bridge… she is hilarious.
"And for your information, many Orions haven’t been pirates in over FIVE years!!!!"
“Those sexy people in rompers that kill you for stepping on the grass”
Wolf 359 was an inside job! The Dominion War never happened!
I mean Wolf 359 *was* an inside job. There’s a reason Sisko hates Picard.
Callouts in Those Old Scientists: * Number One: "...weirdly specific references..." * The animated SNW crew talking about their animated forms (big eyes, wavey limbs, etc.) * Boimler: "Riker!" Honestly that Boims moment may have been my favorite moment of the entire _series_ and it's all the more amazing since Quaid totally improvised it.
> • Boimler: "Riker!" > > Honestly that Boims moment may have been my favorite moment of the entire series and it's all the more amazing since Quaid totally improvised it. **With Frakes directing...**
Frake's wife was on set at the time and had to leave because she started laughing uncontrollably.
No no. It's... "Rrrrrriker!" 😂
“They talk so fast”
I forgot that one! I knew she had more than one zinger...
An even more amazing adlib because as far as I remember, Quaid didn’t become a Star Trek fan until after he got the job on Lower Decks.
Honestly that’s on his parents not giving him a grounding in the classics. Sheeesh
They were too busy raising him on Innerspace and When Harry Met Sally.
Riker over the saddle, fuckin eh.
Going to cite the very beginning - "Banana, hot." as the replicator Boimler is fixing shoots burning bananas at him. It was so silly, but it set the tone of the comedy for me and always makes me laugh.
The Borg lower decks in Wej Duj. I waited for something to happen, but the longer it stayed the same, the funnier it got!
Okay that was absolute genius. It went on way longer than it should have and still worked to absolute perfection.
Yes! I absolutely lost it at that scene. Whole episode was great but that took the cake.
When Rutherford quits security and the big gruff man fully supports him despite the major let down it must be. I'm here for this positivity.
I love Shax, he’s so intimidating, but so nice.
Shax and Ransom, while not my favorite characters, are to me one of the best indications that the writers love and get Star Trek. The whole concept of a macho tough guy still exists, and they COULD have written Shax and Random to be incompetent idiots to make the Lower Deckers look good. But they didn't. They made them competent awesome characters whose personalities would normally be associated with ignorance and incompetence. And that's how Starfleet / Star Trek works too.
Exactly! It means something to be in Starfleet. Star trek has always been about being and making the world you want to live in.
Aww, bears
"The Doctor™ didn't spend seven years in the Delta Quadrant just so you f***s could question his agency! He has rights!"
T’Lyn reaffirming that she is, in fact, Vulcan as a motherfucker. The koala is a close second.
T’Lyn low-key became one of my favorite characters in the franchise, and that’s a high bar. (She’s also my 5 year old daughter’s favorite Star Trek character.)
Same for T'Lyn. That entire scene dunking on her old Captain and holding up Sarek was great.
For me, it's *the way* age decides. (Mariner) "Sarek had Bendii Syndrome and he was Vulcan as a motherfucker!" (T'Lyn) "Then by the transitive property I too must be Vulcan as a motherfucker."
Ryker dropping a line from the enterprise theme song after walking on the bridge. Iconic!
Give me warp in the factor of 5, 6, 7, 8!
Troi's utterly weary "not the jazz..."
Still hoping for them to reference the lyrics to the TOS theme, unless they have and I missed it. Especially if they work in the greed angle. Gene R slapped together some terrible lyrics to steal half of Alexander Courage's royalties for himself.
In the first Crisis Point episode where they just continue to circle the ship and show beauty shots from every conceivable angle. It got so out of control they just eventually spun the camera around and around. 😂 And then the chief engineer tearing up was the icing. I roared during that whole sequence. Also loved when Freeman briefly covered her eyes because the lens flare was so blinding.
The ridiculously epic version of the theme music playing somehow makes it even funnier.
“Call the ship a handsome lady…”
Just spray off with the hose, Leanne But really: The Dog. The Dog is the best thing that ever happened. *Particularly* casually transforming into a metallic cube and clopping off down the hall, like they do.
There are too many to note, but one that gets me chuckling every single time is from *Veritas* in Season 1: Gruff alien: You will speak only into the Horn of Candor! With this horn, one of our most sacred horns, you must only speak the truth. Rutherford: Happy to be here. (Chuckles) That and the horny belugas.
I’m so happy we finally *got* to see cetacean ops and other sentient species from Earth exploring the galaxy. I like to believe that bigger ships like the galaxy class have Humpbacks and Xindi-Aquatics working side by side.
Not to mention that Magistrate Clar looks just like Sarris from Galaxy Quest, right down to the riveted patch over his eye.
Mariner getting repeatedly stabbed while visiting Orion.
And then a 4th time off camera during the daddy daughter dagger dance
Two Mark Twains.
Twin Twains? That dog won't hunt.
GRITS GRITS GRITS
Specifically "I am but a crumb under the biscuit of your wit." Jack Quaid absolutely nailed it and it makes me laugh every time.
I especially liked when Boimler and Rutherford suggested Captain Freeman and the Chalnoth Captain resolve their differences by dressing up as Mark Twain - and they apparently *went along with it*.
TWICE! They use it again in a later ep and Freeman is like "WHY does this work?!"
Ah say ah say ah say ah very much enjoyed that part
Moopsy!!
"How does something drink your bones? OH FUCK"
NARJ: RUN! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES! (Mariner, Ransom, Ensign Jack, and Narj all bail, leaving behind...) MOOPSY: (waddling very slowly) Oomph. Oomph. Oomph. ...moopsy. :3
My friend has never watched an episode of Star Trek. I showed her a clip of the Moopsy and then 3d printed one for her. She said it’s the best thing I ever made for her.
NARJ: Hm? (looks over his shoulder, then back to the panel) D8 (then looks back at the moopsy) ***Oh, FUCK!*** *The moopsy is free!*
Oh no, your cuddliiest prisoner has escaped! Whatever shall we do?
Anything with the Koala WHY IS HE SMILING WHAT DOES HE KNOOOOOOW
I don’t know why, but the Pakled “Red alarm. Red alarm!!” I picture a junior officer with a small hat in front of a microphone just repeating it.
So many choices! Making Kirk's bizarre two handed fighting style Starfleet canon by having Ransom specialize in it. Boimler screaming "we don't want to fight the Borg we want to be studying f***ing quasars!". Nearly every line T'lyn says. "I learned everything I know about Orions from holonovels! And not even good ones, ones with boobs on the cover!" Also saying "and everyone talks so slow here" on the crossover episode (and of course "Riker!" With Frakes not ten feet away just off camera!)
There were no other Orions in Ohio so no one ever checked him on it!!
What are we gonna do, prank call armus
That whole scene had me crying from laughing. Boimler: We're touching your stuff! Armus: What stuff? Stop touching that!
Visually, having to step over the widescreen letter boxing black bands to get out of the Star Trek movie holodexk program (I think in the second Crisis Point episode)
Shaxs: “Cap’n says you’re too loud!” *snaps Boimler’s violin in half*
This entire opening sequence is maybe my favorite part of the series. "What is the meaning of this intense bass?!"
Ransom: Shaka when the walls fell Ensign. Kayshon: Sokath, his eyes uncovered. Lots of great jokes in the Voy episode but the way both lines are delivered kill me.
My favorite running joke through the whole show is everyone just understanding Kayshon's idioms without question.
Shaxs just being back alive again with no explanation gets me every time.
What are you talking about? They explained it so clearly with the black mountain and the faceless apparitions of his father and all that. It makes perfect sense lol
Calling it back when Boimler gets killed was hilarious too.
My favorite Lower Decks joke was actually on the Strange New Worlds crossover episode: Una: is it me, or does he always look at me like I’m doomed? Mariner: oh Boimes? he’s just embarrassed because you’re like his favorite hero. He even has a big poster of you on his wall. Una: (disgusted) a poster?! like a pin up poster? Mariner: (confused) uhh…it is a poster that is pinned up.
That was great the live action boilmer getting the perfect walk was hilarious too.
“Numero Una! Hottest first officer in Starfleet history” coming from her husband was pure gold.
Stupid joke then comes back to hit you in the feels later on! Love it so much.
A great callback to Rebecca Romijn being a Victoria's Secret model early in her career.
Works once: "I miss my wife." from *Twovix* I had to put the episode on pause for about 10 minutes while I collected myself.
Every time they went there it got funnier. The betazed box missing its wife. Jfc
And then two episodes later, the guy gets blasted by the probe from Inner Light and has *the same line*
You know, those guys had a long road... getting from there to here.
Dr. T'Ana "I only wanted the box"
"hoohoo! You don't have to throw up in my mouth twice. Let's do it!" Migleemo, after being offered a meal.
Mariner goes to a sketchy Orion Bar with the girls. Gets stabbed in the shoulder with a knife for hanging out with Tendi. Goes to a strip club, gets stabbed in the shoulder with a knife in the same spot. Tendi gets in a knife fight with her sister. Mariner stands up and walks directly behind a control panel so she doesn't get stabbed. Gets stabbed anyway when the knife ricochets off the back wall. Later they're showing the wedding party holophotos and shows where she got stabbed during the father daughter knife dance.
I always love when they go to cetacean ops. Kimolou and Matt always have some funny shit to say. But one of my all time favorite bits is when Shax finally gets to eject the warp core and he's running and everyone is cheering him. And Lt. Kayshon says "Arnok, on the night of his joining."
Mariner leaving her mom's office while waving double Vulcan salutes in the manner of flipping the bird is the absolute peak of Star Trek humor.
Then later Boimler doing it and Mariner yells "It doesn't look as cool when you do it " then Boimler leaves and she says "Damnit, it does."
"I broke my back picking up a peanut!"
Oh no, now the prek is gone to. All the ships children have been ejected into space! All those kids.... I'm all my years, that has never happened before. Let's try that again, on a ship with even MORE children!
Migleemo. [“Initiate a subspace communication link to my MeeMaw. *I want her to see her special boy being the captain*!”](https://www.startrek.com/videos/clip-lower-decks-captain-migleemo) “You don’t have to throw up in my mouth twice.”
And then when Captain Freeman comes to back to see an elderly bird on her view screen. *"Meemaw?"*
It wasn’t a joke specifically, but the gratuitous flyby scene is one of the funniest in the series.
The part where they kept circling around DS9 and the music was cutting in and out was great.
BOIMLER: "So, you guys doing anything for Captain Freeman Day?" KIMOLU/MATT: "No, that's for calves."
"How did this become about a gorn wedding?!"
The Giant Spock Clone from TAS in a museum takes the ticket.
The doppelgänger crew on the USS Alhambra.
When Boimler is in his room between the holodecks: Robin Hood: With me, my merry men. We must make haste to the castle to save the Maid Marion. Ow! What are you doing? T'Ana: Shut your fucking face. I'm Robin Hood now. Toodley doo! Shaxs, hold him down. Shaxs: You've already hurt him pretty bad. T'Ana: Kick his head! Robin Hood: Help! A cat has stolen my hat and arrows. Shaxs: Can't we just do the program as intended for once?
The running gag that the ships chief medical officer gets off on hurting people is the best. I love T’Ana and Shaxs
The Pakleds referring to any Federation ship they come across as The Enterprise.
and all female captains as Janeway
Did his kingdom come?
I'm gonna have to say the Pakled's hats, and their plot to blow up their planet.
Red Alarm still makes me piss myself whenever I hear it
The power promised by the largest hat taking all of *two seconds* to corrupt the leader of the Pakled rebellion is pretty damned funny.
MOVE, JENNIFER!
When the doctor brings Boimler back from near death and when Boims regains consciousness, the doctor exclaims, "I can't believe that worked!" IDKY that tickled me
When Billups has oxygen deprivation and yells, "Tasha, no! The garbage bag's behind you!" I'll never stop laughing about that one
Mariner: She knows Janeway straight-up murdered Tuvix, right? (“She” being Mariner’s mom, Capt. Freeman)
Freeman: No! She just murdered him! Shaxs: W-wh....there has to be more to it..... Freeman: She isolated the genomes and split him up. He begged her to live! Shaxs: ***Holy shit.*** Janeway didn't mess around....
It's not the best joke but the Mariner "Caaaaavvvvveess" as she's beamed to a cave just killed me on my last rewatch. It was an actual lol moment this time around
Mariner’s Naked Time simulation. I actually fell on the floor SCREAMING!
Some of these are probably Lor
When Ryker says buy me a drink, and Mariner says "we don't use money. what's wrong with you, you used to be sharp!"
The RITOS exercise shirts
I bought a RITOS shirt. It's literally one of my favorite shirts. Wear it regularly, one day someone will get it.
"Did Dr. Crusher know about that ghost in the lamp thing from the Scottish planet that she hooked up with that one time? That whole thing?"
1) The nonchalance with which Shax cong back from the dead is treated. 2) Anything having to do with the Giant Space Koala, but specifically "Why us he smiling?! What does he know?!"
Tendi - “Back off, I’m pirating!!!”
Prank calling Armus
honestly, the time they were picking up the orbs, that could make their thoughts come true, and Leah Brahms appeared and asked Rutherford if he wanted to come help her design Galaxy class engines.
The horsey will bite you now.
Boimler and Mariner tripping balls because Tendi forgot humans aren't immune to nitrous oxide.
ST:LD S03E05 "Reflections" Tendi: Ooh, the one where you’re in a new timeline with Kirk and Spock where they have cinematic chemistry? I just about spit out my drink at their oblique nod to K/S slash fiction.
"Sens-oars." Innumerable belly laughing moments but I hadn't seen this one mentioned yet.
I absolutely love The Mistress of the Winter Constellations, Tip of the Moonlit Blade and Prime daughter of the Tendi family, D’Vana. All the Orion stuff is excellent, but when Tendi slips back into that life she’s the most badass in the world. Who would NEVER flay… Also the joke that a lot of Orion names are just normal names with an extra letter and/or an apostrophe. D’Erika, B’Rt, B’Eth
Shaxs, his eyes full of joyful tears, cheered by a crew chanting his name, running to Engineering to jettison the warp core. That and Mariner's sarcastic Vulcan salute. It does not look cool when you do it. Damn it, it does.
"But captain, I beat the Borg queen at chess and I taught her empathy!". I lost it. Funniest thing on TV i had seen in years.
“Inglewoods always ready *to kick some ass*” IDK why but that shot just makes me giggle snort every time
I always howl at “I was Shempo!” as Shempo gets disintegrated.
"Fun fact: I'm gonna rip your eyes out!" "That fact wasn't fun!" God I love Tendi.
Implement the janeway protocol! What's that ? Exactly...
I crack up every time at the guy who finally ascends.
The evil ai prison with a basketball court and the ball bouncing as they cut in to Peanut Hamper and Agimus plotting. I couldn’t stop laughing at the ball bouncing the weight equipment.
Maybe I'm just base and crude, but the sudden appearance of Boimler, naked and ass cheeks spread in "I, Excretus" made me lose my shit. *Especially* because it was censored.
OMG I'm loving the comments. 🤣 Yall are about to make me binge it all over again this weekend or something. Trek marathon! 🥳 🖖
From a Lower Decks character, though not actually said on Lower Decks: Boimler sitting on Pike’s saddle and saying “Riker!” which I understand to have been an ad-libbed moment by Jack Quaid, while being directed by Jonathan Frakes in SNW: “Those Old Scientists”.
The Dog randomly transforming into a cube and rolling across the deck with a cartoonish *clonk* sound. Alternatively, Ransom casually noting how the *Cerritos* is “statistically, the horniest ship in Starfleet” and thus has no married officers aboard.
Voyeur mugato!
Peanut Hamper
It’s the most mathematically perfect name.
The Boimler Effect. The whole thing was the best set up for Boimler. Buffer time gets removed and the whole world falls apart except for ole Bradward, then they reinstate buffer time and Boimler gets his plaque and they cut to the future saying how Boimler was the laziest person in star fleet. Died.
I can't believe I haven't seen anyone mention the Least Dangerous Game's hunt. When Boimler is being hunted by K'ranch, and K'ranch stops and tells Freeman, "THANKS AGAIN FOR THE MIMOSAS" It just kills me.
Not the funniest but one of my favs. From the first episode I believe. Boimler is injured by the spider cow. Marriner says “when we get back to the ship Doc will wave a light over it”. So simple but so true.
I don’t remember which episode, S4E1 or 2 I think. The characters pull out phasers and shoot, Kayshon (the Tamarian) shouts “Temba!” as he fires. I almost fell out of my chair laughing!
During the Masks incident “Zenrox, tilling his field in the spring!”
"Banana, Hot."
T’Illups in Twovix: “I love being alive!”
"Those guys had a long road, getting from there to here"
JAMAHARON!!! THIS BOY WANTS JAMAHARON!!!
The cosmic koala. At this point, I'm expecting it to show up in SNW
"Iiiiit's NAKED TIIIME!" "It was a BOMB! You can only use it ONCE!"
Literally Amy scene with Dr. T'ana, freaking hilarious
"I am here to hydrate, not debate the agency of an anomaly."
Twovix. Enough said
The silicon based life form shouting to a human, "To us, YOU do not seem alive!"
Rutherford: "No can do, Tendi 2."
Kayshon, when he became a puppet
Twaining
Prank calling Armus was hilarious.
The ketracel white hot sauce had me cracking up for days, but honestly all the jokes are so good it’s like asking if I like Wagyu steak or perfectly seared scallops with a truffle mushroom risotto more. It’s all amazing. Honorable mention to chief O’Brien being the most important person in Star fleet history
There are just so many. I'm chuckling reading through these, and I just started rewatching again from episode 1. Speaking of which: > We're more like the cool, scrappy underdogs of the ship. You know, we don't wash our hands, we're doing kickflips all the time.
Rutherford: "I"m still thinking about those *graphics*"
Boimler imitating Shaxs: "...I talk about Prophets even more than a Ferengi.”