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Star Trek LD - Season 1 - Episode 08

Star Trek LD - 1x08 - Veritas

Originally Aired: 2020-9-23

Synopsis:
Mariner, Boimler, Tendi, and Rutherford are caught off guard when aliens force them to testify about a series of seemingly unrelated events.

My Rating - 1

Fan Rating Average - 5.17

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Factoids
- Kurtwood Smith, who plays Clar in this episode, also played Annorax in Voy: Year of Hell and the President of the Federation in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.
- With this episode, Q has now appeared in four Star Trek shows: TNG, DS9, Voyager, and Lower Decks.

Remarkable Scenes
- The clumsy censoring in Tendi's flashback.
- Tendi functioning well under pressure on the secret mission.
- The Q cameos.

My Review
While the Q cameos were charming and there are some nice moments of levity in Tendi's flashback, the rest of the episode is a jumbled mess. The surprise twist at the end inexplicably turning the tone from scary to goofy on a dime bends suspension of disbelief to the breaking point especially given that the episode opens with the characters being abducted and put into a cage against their wills and later threatened with "death by eels." There are countless intentional holes in the plot thanks to the numerous out of context flashbacks that aren't connected together in any coherent way making the whole story quite hard to follow. Yes, the story intentionally favored mystery over suspense, but just because it was intentional doesn't mean it was good idea. Moreover, much of the plot was once again driven by Rutherford's implant's magic superpowers and once again no attempt was made to explain why he has the implant, why it's so powerful, and why more people don't get them. Plus the marathon of references to previous Star Trek episodes reverted to the pilot's tendency to overload us will banal surface level one liners rather than anything substantive. A real clunker.

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