191. The Coffee Machine Cleaning Cycle of the Federation (LD 5.07 and 5.08)

Anika and Liz are briefly trapped on a world where months pass in the space of seconds, which gives us a lot of time to talk about how great Carol Freeman is.

Yes, we're talking about Star Trek: Lower Decks' "Fully Dilated" and "Upper Decks". We liked one of these episodes! Mostly!

• "Fully Dilated" was a personal attack aimed at us
• Why is Tendi so out of character this season? 
• The Boimler and Rutherford subplot felt like a throwback to TNG_S8, but what works as a 140-character tweet is less successful spread over 22 minutes of animated comedy
• If you're going to put T'Lyn in the T'Pol role and then make boob jokes, they should be … funny
• "Do you know how mid an episode has to be for Data to be our favourite part?"
• We liked "Upper Decks" a lot! 
• But doctors withholding pain medication is not funny
• Freeman continues to be the best captain