Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Lower Decks | 5x10 "The New Next Generation" - eviltoast
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Season finale where lots of wild stuff happens!


Written by: Mike McMahan

Directed by: Megan Lloyd

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    3 days ago

    One has to dig into the novels for some of this, but Picard took his promotion to oversee the evacuation plans, so in theory, Starfleet already knows about the supernova and is beginning their initial evacuation effort.

    The Utopia Planitia fleet was a major project, but evacuations took place even before the fleet was built - Elnor’s colony was an evacuee settlement, and Laris and Zhaban stuck with Picard after he rescued them.

    I had been hoping that such a major re-evaluation of Starfleet’s mission would affect this show, but it was not to be.

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      3 days ago

      Which leads me to think this occurred before any of it. Or at the time they relegated their lower tier ships and starbase to this mission (explaining why we haven’t heard of California-class before). Everyone else is trying to help Romulus. Which of course we know the black hole created didn’t work, thus leaving the Prime Timeline without Spock.