187. Free-Range Organic Facial Hair (LD 5.01 and 5.02)

Anika and Liz meet their alternate timeline duplicates, who are exactly the same except Fake Anika is super right-wing and Fake Liz has a luscious beard.

It's time! For the Star Trek: Lower Decks fifth season premiere!

Liz: I don't ship Rutherford/Tendi/T'Lyn
61 seconds later…
Liz: I ship Rutherford/Tendi/T'Lyn

• Remembering Jeri Taylor
• New York Comic Con: Anika has been in the presence of greatness (Carol Kane)
• Is Lower Decks getting tired, or is it Liz who is too tired to feel joy? 
• Beard Boimler and Otherford
• We are learning SO MUCH about Orion culture! 
• INCOMING HUMOURLESS FEMINIST KILLJOY MOMENT: Maybe October 2024 is not the right time for a subplot about controlling what a pregnant woman does?
• Anika has a Bointer for you: always try to avoid anything that makes you sound like J. D. Vance