84. The Boimler Who Became The Other Boimler

Anika and Liz check in on season 2 of Star Trek: Lower Decks. And ... maybe it isn't for us? And that's okay!

Along the way, we talk about:

• Walking the line between responding to fans versus pandering
  
• We have feelings about the depiction of Orion women in Lower Decks … and, in fairness, most of Trek
• We have even stronger feelings about the Ferengi here. "Why???" is a feeling, right?
• We're also not into the Pakleds!
• This remains a Beckett Mariner stan podcast
• Liz is still lukewarm on Boimler, but Anika finds him charming and appreciates the meta genius of making him a Tom Paris fan
• Where are the NGOs in the Star Trek universe?
• We talk about Kai Winn for a while because we love her

It's the episode where we had to cut out a twenty-minute chat about police procedurals because not even we could pretend it was on topic!