Nmyownworld<p>Season 1, Episode 2, "Envoys"</p><p>🖖🏾 Mariner has her own way of dealing with malevolent life forms.</p><p>🖖🏾 Boimler is so proud and happy to escort the Klingon General K'orin. Mariner is not impressed with Boimler's assignment.</p><p>🖖🏾 Rutherford has been crawling through the ship's Jefferies tubes for a week, and is happy about it.</p><p>🖖🏾 Rutherford agreed to watch a pulsar with Tendi, which conflicts with his engineering duties. To keep his promise to Tendi, Rutherford decides to quit Engineering, even though he loves Engineering.</p><p>🖖🏾 Mariner is joining Boimler on the mission assignment with the Klingon.</p><p>🖖🏾 Rutherford tells Chief Engineering Officer Billups that he wants to transfer out of engineering. This makes Billups mad! Wait, no it doesn't. Billups and the rest of the engineering team is supportive.</p><p>🖖🏾 Boimler is in a dress uniform, nervously wanting to make a good impression on K'orin. Mariner is neither nervous, nor interested in making a good impression.</p><p>🖖🏾 Mariner started a fight with K'orin! Boimler panics!</p><p>🖖🏾 No, Mariner and K'orin are friends from back in the day. Boimler wonders back in what day, as he and Mariner are about the same age.</p><p>🖖🏾 K'orin and Mariner are drinking, and singing a Klingon song in shuttle. Where did they get those flagons they're drinking out of?</p><p>🖖🏾 K'orin wants to stop by an area called Little Qo'nos on the planet. Boimler says his orders are to take K'orin directly to the Federation embassy on the planet. Mariner, who has seniority on this mission, orders Boimler to go to Little Qo'nos.</p><p>🖖🏾 Uh, oh. K'orin steals the shuttle. He steals a lot of things, according to Mariner.</p><p>🖖🏾 Starfleet comms don't work on the planet. Boimler and Mariner have to make their way on foot, going through various cultures marketplaces. Not all of whom are friendly towards Starfleet.</p><p>🖖🏾 The Boimler speed-walk!</p><p>🖖🏾 Boimler makes a bad impression in the Klingon sector. Mariner gets them out of it.</p><p>🖖🏾 Boimler bumps into a Taxor, tries to apologize using the Taxor language, but what he says insults the Taxor. Mariner gets them out of it.</p><p>🖖🏾 Rutherford has transferred to Command, and Ransom is training him. Rutherford demonstrates no Command instincts.</p><p>🖖🏾 Back on Tulgana IV, Boimler is seduced by a woman. The woman is an Anabaj, and wanted to lay eggs in Boimler's throat. Mariner gets them out of it.</p><p>🖖🏾 Boimler learns by reading books. Mariner suggests he learn by doing. Boimler wants to stick with books.</p><p>🖖🏾 Back on the Cerritos, Rutherford has transferred to the science division, and is working with Dr. T'Ana. Things do not go well. Dr. T'Ana suggests he join security.</p><p>🖖🏾 Shax puts Rutherford in a holodeck fight simulation against Borg. Rutherford's implant kicks in, and provides him with excellent combat skills. Shax welcomes Rutherford to security.</p><p>🖖🏾 On Tulgana IV, Mariner and Rutherford are in the Andorian sector, still looking for K'orin. Mariner advises caution, and keeping a low profile. Boimler disregards her advice.</p><p>🖖🏾 Boimler sees an elderly Andorian being beat up by two other Andorians. Mariner tries to stop Boimler, but he rushes in and breaks up the fight. The elderly Andorian is actually a Vendorian shapeshifter, and a thief. The Vendorian escapes.</p><p>🖖🏾 The Andorians start a fight with Boimler, that spills over to becoming a full on bar brawl. Mariner gets them out of it.</p><p>🖖🏾 Upset that Mariner knows so much more than he does about different cultures, and after the day he has had, Boimler decides to quit Starfleet. Mariner tries to talk him out of it, but Boimler throws away his combadge.</p><p>🖖🏾 Back on the Cerritos, Rutherford realizes he wants to be in Engineering, and asks to transfer out of security. This makes Shax mad! Wait, no it doesn't. Shax and the rest of the security team is supportive.</p><p>🖖🏾 Back on Tulgana IV, Mariner and Boimler encounter a Ferengi. Mariner thinks he is a Bolian. Boimler says he isn't. Boimler exposes the Ferengi's intent to rob them, and chases him off.</p><p>🖖🏾 Boimler and Mariner find the shuttle!</p><p>🖖🏾 K'orin is passed out drunk in the shuttle. Boimler and Mariner dump him off at the Federation embassy.</p><p>🖖🏾 Mariner asks Boimler to keep the Ferengi encounter between the two of them. Boimler says yes. Next scene, Boimler is in the Cerritos lounge entertaining crew members with how Mariner was almost hornswoggled by a Ferengi. Mariner takes the ribbing for a while, and then leaves Boimler to his moment.</p><p>🖖🏾 Also in the Cerritos lounge, Rutherford tells Tendi that he couldn't leave Engineering, and won't be able to watch the pulsar with her. Tendi says she'll watch it on her PADD in the Jefferies tube with Rutherford.</p><p>🖖🏾 Mariner is in her bunk, on a call with the Ferengi who tried to rob them on the planet. He is a friend of Mariner's, and she set the situation with him up to boost Boimler's self-esteem, and stop him from leaving Starfleet. Ah, Mariner. That was so nice.</p><p>A great episode that combines two story arcs, acknowledges past Star Trek cultures, and expands on the personalities of the Lower Decks core four -- Mariner, Boimler, Rutherford, and Tendi. Some fast paced story telling, without seeming too crowded. A funny, and touching, episode.</p><p><a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/LowerDecksRewatch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LowerDecksRewatch</span></a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/StarTrek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StarTrek</span></a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/LowerDecks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LowerDecks</span></a></p>