In Star trek, her being green is almost a dead giveaway, it seems like the enemy ships are always green. Of course, she's not a troublemaker but her family members are.
I think there had been theories that Tendi may have been one, or at least connected to one, like being tagged along with her family considering her unarmed techniques (or just military unarmed training), or I am mixing up with Expanse where Belters' ships--even pirates--are family-owned and tend to bring children to business. Or maybe her family--parents or grandparents--decided to stop being pirates and become officers and soldiers around when Orion joined the Federation.
@@powerist209 It used to be said that Orion Pirates and the Orion Military were the same thing. I think this will end up being the case, that Tendi's family are pirates and she basically ran away from home to join Starfleet
Given that this is supposed to be well after the Dominion War, it is possible that the Orions have changed a lot, becoming less aggressive and more diplomatic. Or it could be that the pirates were never a large part of the population, just the most aggressive and so if you meet an Orion ship in deep space 9/10 times it will be a pirate ship. This is also how i would explain why the Ferengi seem to change from Pre-TNG to the DS9 era. There was a small portion going around raiding other systems and it worked until they encountered the Federation and raiders quickly collapsed one after the other.
@@spectre111 Could also be due to the fact this was a post-Dominion-War Federation, where Starfleet may be less tolerant of pirates and could do something about it with their powerful fleets made to fight the Borg and Dominion at their disposal. The Orions may have decided piracy was not as profitable after A Federation Fleet warped in Orion space with this hail, "We come in peace, unless your pirates. In that case, red alert and prepare to fire on all pirate ships on my mark."
@@raw6668 I could imagine "Hostis humani generis" still being a thing even in the 24th century. But basically, that is what happened to the Vikings. Raiding wasn't working anymore so they had to find a new way of life, of course even in heyday of Viking raiders, the looting and pillaging was only half the operation. What's the point of a big pile of gold and jewels if there is nothing to spend it on?
D'Deridex are very territorial warbirds. If other D'Deridex enter their territory, they will intimidate them with their scanners. Only the D'Deridex with the strongest scanners can defend their territory.
"The D'Deridex both blessed & cursed with Stealth can smell the scent of Rivals & potential mating partners , but alas cannot see them ...thus it announces it's presence with some vigorous loud scanning. A Rival will then announce it's presence with some vigorous scanning of it's own before decloaking to challenge the Alpha D'Deridex. However a receptive Mate will show her desire by uncloaking & presenting her most vulnerable nether region to the Alpha for perusal & access." Dr. Daevad Aitenvoru "The Mating & Hunting Rituals Of The D'Deridex Of Remusa & Romula".
I work in events and we have extra name tags (misprints) and I use those instead of just throwing them away, they work pretty well. Oddly enough, in the future no one has name tags.
Everyone is talking about how cute tendi is meanwhile I'm thinking about the 4 de'deredex class that are just chilling and probably having homie discussion
Would be an interesting episode where, for some reason, whatever pills or periodical surgical procedure she needs to take to suppress the pheromones gets missed, people start treating Tendi better and she is about to get a promotion she always wanted and has to decide between getting what she always desired or doing the right thing and try to accomplish it on her own merits.
@@Popcultureguy3000 More likely it results in every man on the ship trying to violently murder each other to win her affection, resulting in massive riots and tons of injuries, but that's all the B-plot and nobody in the A-plot even realizes that's what's happening.
@@Beerbottles123 the only conclusion we can draw is that there is an even more elaborate story about soem romulan counter spy taking care of the cleaner
Given what you just saw with her facing off against the Romulans, I am pretty sure she knew she could take him and everyone else there if they tried anything
That one's great, but "Yes, that's correct" might be my favourite line delivery in the show. There's just no point arguing with her. Starfleet should send her on more covert missions. She's clearly unbreakable.
I haven't watched anything Star Trek before Lower Decks. I assume the names of the Romulans and Remans are a reference to Romulus and Remus - the, uh, guys who founded the Roman Empire or whatever? I dunno history.
@@shaojiezhang8276 In ST lore, the homeworld of their empire is indeed Romulus. But their closest other world, Remus, is home to a very warlike race named Remans. Used as cannon fodder and whatnot, plus the pansy Romulans don't like them much. Made a lot of in ST Nemesis, and they showed up once in Enterprise, season 4.
@@theborgqueen6891 I hope the Romulans at least took note of the Scimitar's design at least a little bit. Nice ship that was. I never did figure out why Starfleet didn't send the Enterprise support. Makes as much sense as anything in that movie did.
@@rommdan2716 I generally hate this show because they abuse Boimler and give so much praise to Mariner the Sociopath, but sometimes I watch clips for scenes like these because I recognize that there is a spark of great humor hiding among the crotch shots and sarcastic insults. I think a funny episode could center around Tendi, who is an Orion, going through some sort of hormonal cycle that is making all of the men on the ship go crazy for her (as Orion women can control their pheromones to get men to do their bidding, as seen in an episode of "Enterprise"). But I suspect that a lot of the writers for this show don't understand the significance of Star Trek in the greater cultural zeitgeist and therefore don't understand the proper style of humor that would fit in with this series, instead opting for standard Rick and Morty jokes with less existential dread. It's not awful like Discovery or Picard, which just desperately flex their "WE'RE FOR ADULTS ONLY!!!!" muscle to the point it brings the average intelligence of the human race down by ten whole IQ points, but I think if the creators for this show brought in some long-time ST fans who have plenty of criticisms for this series but think it's showing good potential at times, season 2 could be a riot. Unfortunately, the makers of modern ST prefer to just call the ones who dislike their episodes that are losing CBS millions of dollars per week racists or entitled manbabies. I'll be waiting for the pheromones episode in the future, though. They CAN'T claim to be ST fans and not realize the huge comedic potential that situation would have!
@@inktea256 "But I suspect that a lot of the writers for this show don't understand the significance of Star Trek in the greater cultural zeitgeist and therefore don't understand the proper style of humor that would fit in with this series" YEAH no, that's bull. The writers of this show have shows constant respect for the source material. It's a comedy show, but it's still got the heart of Trek. I hope you'll see that someday.
Part of me thinks that the reason Tendi is such a skilled fighter has to do with her Orion background. It'd be funny if she's the sweet 'Blacksheep' of her family that ran off to join Starfleet.
What would make it all the more hilarious is if she's the pride and joy of her family, like all her sisters, brothers and parents love her, and they were all blindsided by her joining Starfleet and just cannot possibly understand why she made that choice, rather than being lords of the slave market like them.
Wasn't one of the good Ent episodes about how the Orion females were actually vastly superior to the males, and the whole orion slave girl thing was a racket
@@override367 yes, they dominate the society via their pheromones. If you're played Stellaris basically think that co-evolution start almost, but while the males in the presence of their women are fairly servile to them are fairly competent and strong willed otherwise.
No, the hilarity comes from her not even being a "blacksheep" for joining Starfleet, most of her family including her Pirate Queen Mom support her choice, even if Mom's really doing it to get access to free Healthcare. No, it's because of her sociopathic little sister who use to push her into regrettable, horrifying actions that earned Tendi the Pirate Captain title of "D'Vana the Deplorable."
Looking at her and her sister, it looks like they were mostly trained for hand to hand / melee weapons combat. Makes sense for her to instinctively start throwing hands.
Several years later and still a great scene. The "Mistress of the Winter Constellation" aka Orion assassin and prime of the 4th largest dynasty house now "The Cleaner", de facto Starfleet spec ops operative.
I love the attention to detail and sets in Lower Decks...real sense of continuity in the designs. Example: The TNG-esq Romulan Bridge being used here, faithfully rendered in Cartoon form, complete with the readouts and brown/teal/green aesthetics, right down to the Commander's Chair with the orbs around the headrest! :D Haven't seen the rest of this episode, but I am really hoping Tendi ends up with a matching neck tattoo one of these days for her service in [BRRRP]-[BRRRRP] as Ens. D'vana "The Cleaner" Tendi!
Welp now it’s confirmed, Tendi’s family are pirates and are members of the Syndicate! No wonder it was so hard for her to get into Stafleet, not just the stigma and stereotypes but she was an actual pirate.
@@Ridgwaycer I don't think so. LD is set in 2380. That's only five years after Voyager's return. Presumably, Jack was already in Starfleet, during the events of Voyager.
The show either entertains you or it doesn't. No one is trying to personally offend you if it fails to entertain you. That makes no sense to do. All new Trek is designed to give its audience a different look. To quote Avery Brooks, "It's just a television show."
@@Simmons8519 J'Ula: Time skips in one ship. Somehow has more Disco era Klingons upon arrival than were in the actual show in every in game encounter. I'm calling it, they procreate via mitosis.
@@Lukos0036 Canonically "Disco" Klingons still exist in the modern day in Star Trek, they're just a minority. Same with the Kelvin ones. So they wouldn't necessarily all be part of House Mokai's contingent that got shot into the future. Especially as a great many of the ones that side with her are from minor houses.
What if the Cerritos had a "Trials and Tribble-ations" episode? Aka. The Cerritos time travel to an episode of a previous Star Trek show. You know what I think could be perfect? They time travel to Star Trek TAS, replicating the original Filmation "animation" of the 70's.
@@jd190d So glad most of us are in agreement. Now, which episode of TAS would be fitting for them to time travel? What could Mariner and Boimler could do in there? What could Tendi and Rutherford do too? Honestly, All I can think of is that If they all were travel to TNG, I feel like they would try to prevent Fletcher, the liar, from trying to kill Ricker because he personally "fired" him from the Titan. In TAS case, what could they do? All I can think of is Boimler fangirling about the TOS crew, while Mariner wonders where Chekov is and why is everything so pink, and I know that's not much.
Lower Decks takes place in 2380, seven years before the Romulan supernova, that is set as the back story to Picard. I almost hope they can stop the nova, so we won't have such a depressing future.
Come to think of it, who are those guys? Are they also Lowerdeckians who work in the ship? Invited mercenaries? Ransom's goons for special occasions? Or worse, Ransom's many exes?
Yes, the Cerritos is about 5,000 rungs below the Enterprise and Commander Ransom believes he's Commander Riker and tries way, waaaaaaay too hard. They've established that he cares though and is willing to break protocol and risk a court martial to save his people. That is the way of all of the characters in this show - they're ostensibly fuck ups (I mean, Boimler and Tendi aren't, they're just young), but when the shit hits the fan, the Starfleet comes out of them and the make it happen The show has gotten loads better since the first episode and we're still in season 1. TNG was ABYSMAL in the first season.
I guess as an Orion it's fine, though taking on Romulans hand to hand should be a pretty tall order. Then again, TNG and the other shows of the era seemed to forget that all the time.
@@tifforo1 That's in the game. Romulans are as strong as Vulcans, and as we see in Picard, are very good hand-to-hand fighters. But its not impossible for a human or other species of comparable strength to beat them in a fight if they are trained well enough. The trick is to take them down quickly with hard, focused strikes. Because in a prolonged fight, their greater strength will usually win out. So you need to beat them hard and fast.
@@alphanerd7221 No, Romulans and Vulcans are equal in terms of strength. Nothing suggests that they aren't. And we see many Romulans who are skilled fighters, most notably Elnor and the other members of the Qowot Milat. However, they aren't unbeatable in a fight. A trained human or someone from a species with similar strength levels can beat a Vulcan or Romulan in a fight. Its just very difficult to do so.
Section 31 is a rogue element of Starfleet Intelligence. And after the Dominion War, has been ostracized from the rest of the Federation. Its not uncommon for Starfleet to have crew perform black ops missions. The Enterprise in Next Generation did that frequently. As did the Defiant in Deep Space Nine. Starfleet personnel get a broad skillset in their training.
Once they suspected Mariner to be a badass assassin. But in fact it's Tendi. Feared and respected on Orion. Mistress of the Winter Consetllations. I love that title.
And yet L'xwana would be immediately drawn to her just the same. "Come dear, you simply must join me at the holo-spa; I've programmed it with an authentic Betazed mud bath. Tell me all about Orion; it's one of the few places I've never been to. And what's that fetching cyborg's name? Rutherford, was it? I can tell you have feelings for him. You can't keep things from an empath you know, but your secret is safe with me little one." They'd be best friends by lunchtime.
I don't know what's going on here I thought you was just supposed to beam us out? Yeah I don't know what's going on here." Me: but I'm not going to lie it's kind of hot
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Tendi being able to beat up the Romulans makes perfect sense now.
Being a member (a former Prime) of an Orion pirate family (the 5th most important one, too), Tendu is actually overqualified for that covert mission.
@@DABS-gx9pt oh come on, its not like she's some super orion assassin named Mistress of the Winter Constellations
In Star trek, her being green is almost a dead giveaway, it seems like the enemy ships are always green. Of course, she's not a troublemaker but her family members are.
"Are you so stubborn you're willing to risk DEATH BY EELS?"
"Yes, that's correct"
Love that answer...and he just gave up on trying to make her do it his way.
Stacy Tendi!
"For your information, some Orions haven't been pirates for nearly FIVE YEARS!" -Tendi
I think there had been theories that Tendi may have been one, or at least connected to one, like being tagged along with her family considering her unarmed techniques (or just military unarmed training), or I am mixing up with Expanse where Belters' ships--even pirates--are family-owned and tend to bring children to business.
Or maybe her family--parents or grandparents--decided to stop being pirates and become officers and soldiers around when Orion joined the Federation.
@@powerist209 It used to be said that Orion Pirates and the Orion Military were the same thing. I think this will end up being the case, that Tendi's family are pirates and she basically ran away from home to join Starfleet
Given that this is supposed to be well after the Dominion War, it is possible that the Orions have changed a lot, becoming less aggressive and more diplomatic.
Or it could be that the pirates were never a large part of the population, just the most aggressive and so if you meet an Orion ship in deep space 9/10 times it will be a pirate ship.
This is also how i would explain why the Ferengi seem to change from Pre-TNG to the DS9 era. There was a small portion going around raiding other systems and it worked until they encountered the Federation and raiders quickly collapsed one after the other.
@@spectre111 Could also be due to the fact this was a post-Dominion-War Federation, where Starfleet may be less tolerant of pirates and could do something about it with their powerful fleets made to fight the Borg and Dominion at their disposal. The Orions may have decided piracy was not as profitable after A Federation Fleet warped in Orion space with this hail, "We come in peace, unless your pirates. In that case, red alert and prepare to fire on all pirate ships on my mark."
@@raw6668 I could imagine "Hostis humani generis" still being a thing even in the 24th century. But basically, that is what happened to the Vikings. Raiding wasn't working anymore so they had to find a new way of life, of course even in heyday of Viking raiders, the looting and pillaging was only half the operation. What's the point of a big pile of gold and jewels if there is nothing to spend it on?
the mixing of redacted bleeps with profanity bleeps is genious
D'Deridex are very territorial warbirds. If other D'Deridex enter their territory, they will intimidate them with their scanners. Only the D'Deridex with the strongest scanners can defend their territory.
"The D'Deridex both blessed & cursed with Stealth can smell the scent of Rivals & potential mating partners , but alas cannot see them ...thus it announces it's presence with some vigorous loud scanning. A Rival will then announce it's presence with some vigorous scanning of it's own before decloaking to challenge the Alpha D'Deridex. However a receptive Mate will show her desire by uncloaking & presenting her most vulnerable nether region to the Alpha for perusal & access." Dr. Daevad Aitenvoru "The Mating & Hunting Rituals Of The D'Deridex Of Remusa & Romula".
@@KevinWarburton-tv2iy
Wasn't he a famous Orion Scientist?
Yes, he was, yes he was :)
Don't ever underestimate the Mistress of the Winter Constellations.
Or Orions in general.
Gives the word Cleaner a new meaning.
I like how Tendi's just overly competant but that attribute is just overshadowed by her starry-eyed personality.
I really want to know more about Tendi's childhood, and whether or female Orions still release pheromones
@@robkemp598 Oh that will likely pop up for some humor later
@@robkemp598 I'm betting that Tendi is an ex pirate.
The way she beat up those Romulan soldiers, it makes sense.
I am going more that we run into the rest of her family and they are super disappointed that she is not a slaving pirate like all her ancestors
Tendi really is the most adorable character in the series.
"I THINK YOU’RE HURTING THE EELS!"🥰😇
*[Stargate SG1 eel noises]*
Funny thing is she’s voice by Lord dominator from wander over yonder
-“Apologizing to the enemy? That’s cold Cleaner”
Bleep: “your playing some REAL f@cked up mind games”
That was the best part of the whole thing, great line deliveries on this show
She was the one first took out those two guards right?
- Do you know what I hate? Remans!
- Yeah, they're the worst.
I hope we appreciate that hundreds of years in the future after massive scientific advancements Tendi's using a lint roller
If it ain't broke, don't fix it, I guess?
I work in events and we have extra name tags (misprints) and I use those instead of just throwing them away, they work pretty well. Oddly enough, in the future no one has name tags.
This storyline gets a entire new meaning once you learn Tendi's backstory in Season 4.
Plot Twist: Tendi is a deep cover Section 31 Operative whose real memories have been suppressed. She IS the cleaner!!
BRUH
I mean she layed out 5 armed romulan soldiers with hand to hand combat
Yeah, where was the actual Cleaner that Ransom and the other operatives were expecting?
@@urbypilot2136 Tendi 'cleaned' them
Now that I think about it, her combat experience is probably from her younger days with the Orions
Everyone is talking about how cute tendi is meanwhile I'm thinking about the 4 de'deredex class that are just chilling and probably having homie discussion
They’re ScAnNing
They're talking about how much they hate Remans.
They communicate with scanning like Morse code
@@PerpetualGM Well we ALL hate the Remans, don't we?
There checking there sensoars
Tendi Does't Even NEED Orion Pheromones: You Will Love Her Just For Being Her.
Would be an interesting episode where, for some reason, whatever pills or periodical surgical procedure she needs to take to suppress the pheromones gets missed, people start treating Tendi better and she is about to get a promotion she always wanted and has to decide between getting what she always desired or doing the right thing and try to accomplish it on her own merits.
@@Popcultureguy3000 More likely it results in every man on the ship trying to violently murder each other to win her affection, resulting in massive riots and tons of injuries, but that's all the B-plot and nobody in the A-plot even realizes that's what's happening.
@@Popcultureguy3000 I'd be down for that episode concept.
@@nonspiderweb Only Rutherford is unaffected because he already has legit feeling for her and that's how she realizes it.
And sure enough we do find out in season 2 she doesn’t even have the pheremone ability.
What we don't see are the commanders of the D'Deridex class warbirds laughing their asses off at the ancient flying relic they're scanning.
Even when beating up romulans, tendi is SO CUTE!
Now im wondering what the actual cleaner thought when they turned up at the empty conference room!
My guess is the real cleaner is doing Tendi's job like it's happened all the time.
Cleaning the rooms I guess. One has to keep the cover if you are in section 31.
@@Beerbottles123 the only conclusion we can draw is that there is an even more elaborate story about soem romulan counter spy taking care of the cleaner
If beating up the enemy is cute then when Tendi finally kills she may become gorgeous!
@@Beerbottles123 "Just because I'm called the Cleaner doesn't you guys keep sticking me on janitorial duty..."
"You know who I hate? *REMANS* " LMAOOO
Yeah they're the *worst*
"Yeah, but I already did, soooooo..." I love Tendi's delivery of that line.
Given what you just saw with her facing off against the Romulans, I am pretty sure she knew she could take him and everyone else there if they tried anything
That one's great, but "Yes, that's correct" might be my favourite line delivery in the show.
There's just no point arguing with her. Starfleet should send her on more covert missions. She's clearly unbreakable.
"You know what I hate? Remans." It's actually darkly humorous.
I haven't watched anything Star Trek before Lower Decks. I assume the names of the Romulans and Remans are a reference to Romulus and Remus - the, uh, guys who founded the Roman Empire or whatever? I dunno history.
@@shaojiezhang8276 In ST lore, the homeworld of their empire is indeed Romulus. But their closest other world, Remus, is home to a very warlike race named Remans. Used as cannon fodder and whatnot, plus the pansy Romulans don't like them much.
Made a lot of in ST Nemesis, and they showed up once in Enterprise, season 4.
@@theborgqueen6891 I hope the Romulans at least took note of the Scimitar's design at least a little bit. Nice ship that was.
I never did figure out why Starfleet didn't send the Enterprise support. Makes as much sense as anything in that movie did.
@@theborgqueen6891 Makes sense, thanks. Been a while since I saw that there film.
@@shaojiezhang8276 Latin kingdom
OH GOD, THEY'RE SCANNING US AGAIN!!!
that was great and the glare Tendi's giving him near the end
I loved how more and more D'deridex cruisers kept appearing.
So as I was saying-
@@GoldPrince2468 AH!! THEY'RE SCANNING!!!
@@mitchfletcher2386
Tomato soup isn't a food but a-
Alien: (Annoyed) "Are you so stubborn that you're willing to risk death by eels?"
Tendi: (deadpan expression) "Yes, that's correct."
Tendi is pretty good at the Murder Bug Drinking Game
@@ryanhau1073 It was her first time! Guess she's just a natural!
Like I didn't need more of a reason to love this green skinned woman.
Also she is *T H I C C* bois!!
@@rommdan2716 I generally hate this show because they abuse Boimler and give so much praise to Mariner the Sociopath, but sometimes I watch clips for scenes like these because I recognize that there is a spark of great humor hiding among the crotch shots and sarcastic insults. I think a funny episode could center around Tendi, who is an Orion, going through some sort of hormonal cycle that is making all of the men on the ship go crazy for her (as Orion women can control their pheromones to get men to do their bidding, as seen in an episode of "Enterprise"). But I suspect that a lot of the writers for this show don't understand the significance of Star Trek in the greater cultural zeitgeist and therefore don't understand the proper style of humor that would fit in with this series, instead opting for standard Rick and Morty jokes with less existential dread. It's not awful like Discovery or Picard, which just desperately flex their "WE'RE FOR ADULTS ONLY!!!!" muscle to the point it brings the average intelligence of the human race down by ten whole IQ points, but I think if the creators for this show brought in some long-time ST fans who have plenty of criticisms for this series but think it's showing good potential at times, season 2 could be a riot. Unfortunately, the makers of modern ST prefer to just call the ones who dislike their episodes that are losing CBS millions of dollars per week racists or entitled manbabies.
I'll be waiting for the pheromones episode in the future, though. They CAN'T claim to be ST fans and not realize the huge comedic potential that situation would have!
.....yes that's correct.....
@@inktea256 The creator of the show is a long time Trek fan and the show is nothing like Rick and Morty though.
@@inktea256 "But I suspect that a lot of the writers for this show don't understand the significance of Star Trek in the greater cultural zeitgeist and therefore don't understand the proper style of humor that would fit in with this series" YEAH no, that's bull. The writers of this show have shows constant respect for the source material. It's a comedy show, but it's still got the heart of Trek. I hope you'll see that someday.
Part of me thinks that the reason Tendi is such a skilled fighter has to do with her Orion background. It'd be funny if she's the sweet 'Blacksheep' of her family that ran off to join Starfleet.
What would make it all the more hilarious is if she's the pride and joy of her family, like all her sisters, brothers and parents love her, and they were all blindsided by her joining Starfleet and just cannot possibly understand why she made that choice, rather than being lords of the slave market like them.
Wasn't one of the good Ent episodes about how the Orion females were actually vastly superior to the males, and the whole orion slave girl thing was a racket
@@override367 yes, they dominate the society via their pheromones. If you're played Stellaris basically think that co-evolution start almost, but while the males in the presence of their women are fairly servile to them are fairly competent and strong willed otherwise.
No, the hilarity comes from her not even being a "blacksheep" for joining Starfleet, most of her family including her Pirate Queen Mom support her choice, even if Mom's really doing it to get access to free Healthcare.
No, it's because of her sociopathic little sister who use to push her into regrettable, horrifying actions that earned Tendi the Pirate Captain title of "D'Vana the Deplorable."
"Syndicate and all."
What's really impressive is that when Tendi is taking on all of those Romulans she doesn't reach for phaser she takes them all on hand to hand
Looking at her and her sister, it looks like they were mostly trained for hand to hand / melee weapons combat. Makes sense for her to instinctively start throwing hands.
Several years later and still a great scene. The "Mistress of the Winter Constellation" aka Orion assassin and prime of the 4th largest dynasty house now "The Cleaner", de facto Starfleet spec ops operative.
I think they should make it a running gag where she keeps collecting cool nicknames and titles
@@metacob considering she may be about to clean house in her sister's realm, i would suggest "The Scourge"!
"Oh snap, that's the ship in my story!" Rutherford
I love the attention to detail and sets in Lower Decks...real sense of continuity in the designs. Example: The TNG-esq Romulan Bridge being used here, faithfully rendered in Cartoon form, complete with the readouts and brown/teal/green aesthetics, right down to the Commander's Chair with the orbs around the headrest! :D
Haven't seen the rest of this episode, but I am really hoping Tendi ends up with a matching neck tattoo one of these days for her service in [BRRRP]-[BRRRRP] as Ens. D'vana "The Cleaner" Tendi!
What I've really come to love about this series is thWHOA STOP I'M PICKING UP SCANNING!
"Check out this map, it's gonna lead us straight into the Neutral Zo-*BLEEP*-ne."
WHERE COULD THEY BE HEADED?!??
Welp now it’s confirmed, Tendi’s family are pirates and are members of the Syndicate! No wonder it was so hard for her to get into Stafleet, not just the stigma and stereotypes but she was an actual pirate.
“I do not know what’s going on here”
She’s pirating, duh.
FUCK YEA MISSTRESS IF THE WINTER CONSTELLATION THIS LAST EPISODE WAS SUCH A BUILD UP
The Rom*bleep*an neutral *bleep*?
Wonder what that could mean?
The Roman God alien neutral setting. Obviously.
That's one jacked Andorian
one of the few things I really liked about Enterprise is that they made Andorians out to be dangerous fuckers
@@override367 They also seem to go into military professions in Starfleet. Must be a leftover from the Imperial Guard days.
@ 1:46 Romulan bridge officer to Commander,"It's an older ship, but it checks out."
"Ah snap, that's the ship from my story!"
Also a big fan of: "Check out this map. It's going to lead us straight into the Neutral Zo-[bleep]-ne!"
Tendi's waifu level is rising
She's kind of dumb. She doesn't know what sand, dogs, the netrual zone & covering a 6 is.
@@TheMrPeteChannel which still doesn't negatively affect her waifu level
@@Valkires1 indeed! She's definitely relationship material!
I disagree, I don't like characters are built specifically to be Nerd Bait.
@Yuki BabaYaga What's Sad Is Weebs That Think They Can "Waifu" Is Some Highly Coveted Title And Not Just Something A Bunch Of Nerds Made Up.
Queen of the Winter Constellations defaulting to her basic pirate-queen skills
For some reason the fact that swear-words and secret-words have totally different censorship noises makes me laugh so hard
This makes a lot more sense now with the recent episode. (Season 4 episode 4)
Mistress of the Winter Constellations in her true form.
Did you see her on Deep Space 9? Holy shit!!!
Secret twist, Ransom is actually a section 31 operative.
That's obvious now at this point.
Makes sense. I'll bet his brother was Captain Rudolph Ransom, of the ill fated USS Equinox.
@@johnstaton894 Wouldn't being his son make more sense?
@@Ridgwaycer I don't think so. LD is set in 2380. That's only five years after Voyager's return. Presumably, Jack was already in Starfleet, during the events of Voyager.
Section 31 is gay.
Good to know sticky rollers are still a necessity in the 24th century.
The show either entertains you or it doesn't. No one is trying to personally offend you if it fails to entertain you. That makes no sense to do. All new Trek is designed to give its audience a different look. To quote Avery Brooks, "It's just a television show."
STO in a nutshell.
Not so. If it were they'd have destroyed a small fleet of ships crewed by thousands on the way out, THAT'S the STO way.
@@Simmons8519 J'Ula: Time skips in one ship. Somehow has more Disco era Klingons upon arrival than were in the actual show in every in game encounter. I'm calling it, they procreate via mitosis.
Common Endeavor: Defeat 50 Romulans
Wait I’m a captain now!? But I just graduated”. Ehhh you do fiiine
@@Lukos0036 Canonically "Disco" Klingons still exist in the modern day in Star Trek, they're just a minority. Same with the Kelvin ones. So they wouldn't necessarily all be part of House Mokai's contingent that got shot into the future. Especially as a great many of the ones that side with her are from minor houses.
And to find out 3 years later that Tendi is a trained Orion assassin.
I love how in her retelling of the story, Ransom's just waiting out the bleeps.
What if the Cerritos had a "Trials and Tribble-ations" episode? Aka. The Cerritos time travel to an episode of a previous Star Trek show. You know what I think could be perfect? They time travel to Star Trek TAS, replicating the original Filmation "animation" of the 70's.
That would be great. So much of this show pays great homage to Trek so that execution with the old animation would be perfect.
@@jd190d So glad most of us are in agreement. Now, which episode of TAS would be fitting for them to time travel? What could Mariner and Boimler could do in there? What could Tendi and Rutherford do too? Honestly, All I can think of is that If they all were travel to TNG, I feel like they would try to prevent Fletcher, the liar, from trying to kill Ricker because he personally "fired" him from the Titan. In TAS case, what could they do? All I can think of is Boimler fangirling about the TOS crew, while Mariner wonders where Chekov is and why is everything so pink, and I know that's not much.
Oh, oh. Yes... They go back to K7 and have to avoid BOTH the TOS crew AND the DS9 crew. No matter which way they turn, paradox!
@@jeremyclegg3588 ok, now that is just beyond perfection and nothing can convince me otherwise.
@@kalexkhan5086 I vote for giant spock episode.
2:04 Nice planet. It would be a shame if something happened to it...
Is Tendi a deep cover sleeper officer and is actually the cleaner?
You think she's Section 31 or a MACO?
She's The Cleaner,Alright: The Cleaner Of The Cobwebs Of My Heart.
@@JT5555 lol
@@Youcancallmeishmaell If she wasn't, she is now, whether she wants it or not!
@@walterdayrit675 She left a life of violence and just to be thrust back into it.
Lower Decks takes place in 2380, seven years before the Romulan supernova, that is set as the back story to Picard. I almost hope they can stop the nova, so we won't have such a depressing future.
I wonder how Ramson explained the fact he took a completely random newbie Ensign with him to this clearly classified black ops mission.
Starfleet knows who she is on Orion. If Orion master assassin want to join Starfleet and work her way up from the ground up thats all the better.
He shows hidden camera footage of her kicking the shit out of four Romulans in unarmed combat and asks "Any more questions?"
Looked like Tendi's Orion Pirate side took over. 💚
I just love Tendi. Her optimistic attitude is just the best.
Careful Tendi, your pirate-side is showing xD
I love lower decks :))
WHOA STOP WE'RE PICKING UP SCANNING
I like how everyone other than Ransom and Tendi have censors over their eyes
Come to think of it, who are those guys? Are they also Lowerdeckians who work in the ship? Invited mercenaries? Ransom's goons for special occasions?
Or worse, Ransom's many exes?
@@baabaaer starfleet intelligence operatives, bet they came from starfleet, not the ship!
Queen of the Winter Constellations
Tendi is so well-written. An Orion who is rebellious among the Orion...by being nice, friendly, open, a hugger, and joining Starfleet as a scientist.
So Starfleet still has bro-dudes huh? Good to know.
Everything Has Bro-Dudes. You Can Never Escape This Reality.
Yes, the Cerritos is about 5,000 rungs below the Enterprise and Commander Ransom believes he's Commander Riker and tries way, waaaaaaay too hard. They've established that he cares though and is willing to break protocol and risk a court martial to save his people. That is the way of all of the characters in this show - they're ostensibly fuck ups (I mean, Boimler and Tendi aren't, they're just young), but when the shit hits the fan, the Starfleet comes out of them and the make it happen
The show has gotten loads better since the first episode and we're still in season 1. TNG was ABYSMAL in the first season.
Only section 31 for some reason
Riker was the Bro-Dude King of Starfleet without having to say Bro or dude. Now he's an old man.
The entire cast is my favorite but I have a soft spot for Tendi.
And now we know why she's so badass.
So... what would happen if one of the other officers noticed there are phaser rifles hidden in the backrests of the chairs?
The scanning part had me in stitches
I love tendi she’s so cute
"The Neutral Zone bleeepppp" 🤣😂
You think they figured out their location the way the romulans were converging during the scanning
Lol she does the Black Widow legs around the head spin attack thing
It's called an hurricanrana.
I guess as an Orion it's fine, though taking on Romulans hand to hand should be a pretty tall order. Then again, TNG and the other shows of the era seemed to forget that all the time.
According to Star Trek: Armada, the Romulans suck at hand to hand. Even though they're basically Vulcans.
@@tifforo1 That's in the game. Romulans are as strong as Vulcans, and as we see in Picard, are very good hand-to-hand fighters. But its not impossible for a human or other species of comparable strength to beat them in a fight if they are trained well enough. The trick is to take them down quickly with hard, focused strikes. Because in a prolonged fight, their greater strength will usually win out. So you need to beat them hard and fast.
You are wrong. Romulans aren't particularly good at hand to hand.
@@GeneralKenobi75 The game doesn't count. Romulans are nowhere near as strong as Vulcans.
@@alphanerd7221 No, Romulans and Vulcans are equal in terms of strength. Nothing suggests that they aren't. And we see many Romulans who are skilled fighters, most notably Elnor and the other members of the Qowot Milat. However, they aren't unbeatable in a fight. A trained human or someone from a species with similar strength levels can beat a Vulcan or Romulan in a fight. Its just very difficult to do so.
Damn Tendi is a badass
0:10 I love how it's been like 1000 years or something and they still don't have a better way to clean chairs than a lint roller
One second Tendi is awkward has heck, the next she kicking serious ass.
I love Tendi!
This makes a lot more sense now with Tendi's season 2 backstory
I never understood why all those menial jobs are filled by enlistedmen like Chief Obrien. Why are officers doing shit jobs?
1:31-2:01
Playing against Terran be like
Here come the "Tendi is a Mary Sue" crowd in 5...4...3... Lol.
Nah,It's All About How Much We Want To Marry Her.
@@JT5555 Yep!
@@mitchfletcher2386 And None Of Us Are Wrong For It.>;3
Tendi really isn't a Mary Sue.
@@KhaosAdmiral she isn't. But you know how some people are.
Tendi is awesome.
Well, after the episode "we'll always have tom paris" Tendi's unexpected badassery makes more sense...
Who or where was the original "The Cleaner"?
it was [Bleep] obviously!
Gets into a brawl: finds it surprisingly rewarding; realizes violence could be the solution to everything.
“Violence is never *the* answer, but it’s always *an* answer.” - Starfleet’s unofficial motto, probably
Ohhhhh, Tendi's no stranger to violence. Quite the contrary, in fact...
I see their going after SCP- [redacted]
Damn not that
Cool your jets, he's non-anomalous. That red[REDACTED]ing ability, however...
The Neutral Z[redacted]one. Gee I wonder where that is
Plenty of important shit happens on starfleet s less important ship
exactly nobody suspects a thing
Omg they're scanning!!
I came here to leave a comm- WAIT. I’M SENSING SCANNING
She even does a Black Widow mid-air leg grip.
Why do they even sent the crew of Cerritos? Do they forget Section 31 exist?
Did you forget about Deep Space 9 exposing section 31?
Maybe the Cerritos is a Section 31 ship!
@@override367 Doesn't mean that they do not exist anymore.
It's classified!
Section 31 is a rogue element of Starfleet Intelligence. And after the Dominion War, has been ostracized from the rest of the Federation. Its not uncommon for Starfleet to have crew perform black ops missions. The Enterprise in Next Generation did that frequently. As did the Defiant in Deep Space Nine. Starfleet personnel get a broad skillset in their training.
I wonder if Tendi had to take a vow of celibacy, like the Deltan navigator, in TMP. Deltans also have a pheromone issue.
They probably take a suppressant to limit pheromone production.
Once they suspected Mariner to be a badass assassin. But in fact it's Tendi. Feared and respected on Orion. Mistress of the Winter Consetllations. I love that title.
Hey, an Andorian!
Red squad for LIFE!!!!!!
"Yes that's correct."
Somehow, I never thought of Starfleet having black-ops teams, but I suppose there is no reason it shouldn't.
2:58 and onward - So yeah, the best way I could put this is; "Wow, that was actually kind of hot!"
Why would they have to be quite, sound doesn’t travel through space?
I imagine luxana troi would be so unnerved because Tendis just so open with her feelings to the point mind reading Is redundant
And yet L'xwana would be immediately drawn to her just the same. "Come dear, you simply must join me at the holo-spa; I've programmed it with an authentic Betazed mud bath. Tell me all about Orion; it's one of the few places I've never been to. And what's that fetching cyborg's name? Rutherford, was it? I can tell you have feelings for him. You can't keep things from an empath you know, but your secret is safe with me little one."
They'd be best friends by lunchtime.
"The neutral BEEEEEP zone" 🤣
Green bean has a ninja degree and didn't tell anyone
She has a LOT of secrets, let's put it that way!
I don't know what's going on here I thought you was just supposed to beam us out? Yeah I don't know what's going on here."
Me: but I'm not going to lie it's kind of hot