STAR TREK: LOWER DECKS
SEASON 4, EPISODE 4
SEASON 4, EPISODE 4
Something Borrowed, Something Green
Series: Star Trek: Lower Decks - (2020 - 2024)Season: 4
Episode #: 4
Original Airdate: September 21st, 2023
Writer(s): Grace Parra Janney
Director(s): Bob Suarez
Guest Stars
Kari Wahlgren as L’Kar
Fred Tatasciore as Risik
Vanessa Marshall as D’Bora
Gabrielle Ruiz as Ltjg. T’Lyn
Kimiko Glenn as Madame G
Nolan North as as B'Rt Tendi
Eric Bauza as Coqqor
Lauren Tom as Shona Tendi
Debra Wilson as Z'oto
Ariel Winter as D'Erika Tendi
Stardate: Unknown
Synopsis
An Orion supply ship runs into the mystery vessel which had previously destroyed both Klingon and Romulan ships. The Orion ship faces a similar fate — all systems failed before being blazed into nothingness. Meanwhile, on the Cerritos, Tendi has finished all the day’s work and is given leave from Captain Freeman to attend her sister’s wedding. Tendi is keen to not attend, however, as she abhors the traditions and the requirements for family photos in belly-dancer outfits. T’Lyn and Mariner want to go with her, to learn about Orion culture (for the Vulcan High Command in T’Lyn’s case, and avoiding future foot-in-mouth errors in Mariner’s).
Rutherford and Boimler are roomies to the extent of accepting sleep-engineering and finishing each other’s sentences… until they fall out over whose turn it is to water their bonsai tree. Tendi’s family live in a castle, with many slaves to carry the girls on a sedan couch, and are the fifth richest family in the Syndicate. It turns out Tendi’s sister, D’Erika, has been kidnapped — a normal Orion tradition — but not at the right time. Tendi must launch a rescue mission as Prime Daughter, while she continues trying to downplay any non-Starfleet-type behavior.
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Rutherford and Boimler’s relationship deteriorates further when they both choose to play Mark Twain on the holodeck. Tendi, meanwhile, leads the girls to a nightclub, Madame G’s. Inside, the proprietor of the venue, Madame G, throws a dagger and hits Mariner in the shoulder. Opposing her, Tendi engages in a murder-bug drinking game from which she eventually ends up saving Madame G. Back on the Cerritos, Boimler and Rutherford find that both of them discoursing as Mark Twain actually improves their relationship.
Tendi and company track D’Erika’s ex to a pheromone/fetish dungeon, where the dominatrix there hits Mariner with another knife. The ex says D’Erika was last seen around the starship graveyards.
Boimler and Rutherford are called up to help Freeman negotiate with a Chalnoth captain who wants to scan a nebula that will soon disappear, which Freeman also wants to scan. Boimler and Rutherford make a suggestion… and next thing you know, both the Chalnoth and Captain Freeman are visiting the holodeck as Mark Twain, for a discourse. This goes badly, until the alien wants to know what a bonsai is.
Tendi brings Mariner and T’Lyn to a ship resembling the U.S.S Raven and admits that, when all she wanted to do was explore space, she was trained as a teenage assassin. D’Erika then appears, having kidnapped herself to lure Tendi into a trap. Oh, and, yes, Mariner catches another blade in the same shoulder as the previous two.
The Chalnoth is shown the bonsai… and suddenly eats it as an offering. He then allows the Cerritos to observe the nebula. Mid-sword-fight, D’Erika admits she had to kidnap herself to be sure Tendi would come home, because she left to pursue science. Both girls praise the other’s skills and then fly the ship they’re on to the wedding. T’Lyn discards her report to the High Command, as sending it without the subject’s consent would be unethical.
Back on the Cerritos, the two groups of lower deckers swap reports. Boimler and Rutherford, disappointed to have missed the pirate wedding, decide to simply talk over their feelings in future disputes. This actually means a piano-off, with them both dressed as Mozart…
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