Off the top of my head, I can think of 2 that turned out good. Data and the exocomps. There's also that nanite civilization Wesley accidentally made that one time, but that's more neutral than anything. So yeah, really bad odds.
@@gedias1 I'm referring to AI's who aren't inherently evil. I could have also included that nanite civilization Wesley accidentally made. Point is, most of the time, Federation has really bad luck with AI, and the math backs it up.
Hmm, maybe because starfleet vessels fly around with enough wepons to level entire planets? I sure as hell wouldn't want s ship like that having daddy issues
That should be a given with all aspects of Starfleet's handle on artificial intelligence as there are currently debates on the use of autonomous technology and autonomous weapon systems ranging from drones to say unmanned starships. Why does humanity have to play god with A.I.? I say this as I am scared that if we continue to create life, without someway of preventing from going rogue like a fail safe or simply teaching A.I. in the same way as a parent teaches a child from birth to adulthood. Then things are not going to end well for us, the creators.
I’m wondering what Rutherford’s subconscious state is like. He coded or helped code Badgey and the Texas class. And both of them say “you can’t control me father!” Once is chance, twice is suspicious. There’s a saying, something like a character description says more about it’s author than the character itself. If we apply that saying to the AI codes Rutherford wrote, does he hold some resentment to his family? Is that why his younger self was such a jerk?
@@harryratcliffe4803 What do you think Rathford parted on bad terms with his family pitculary his own dad. Mybe he joined starfleet to get away from them. Mybe one of those farm boys who want to leave the farm like Luke or simler to Biomer.
@@mikevignola4213 Les is short for something like Lester. Immigrant families usually have the first name from their destination language and their surname from their origin language.
From Memory Alpha: Ironically, his surname translates to "good friend" in Spanish, which couldn't be further from the truth. However, his first name sounds like the word "less", which, combined with his surname, provides an appropriate description of his character.
So racking up the crimes this admiral stacked up, he essentially risked a political crisis and future conflict with an enemy race from the Dominion War just to discredit a captain he didn't like, horribly injured and later mindwiped a young recruit without his consent to cover up his illegal operation while stealing said recruit's AI algorithm and passing it off as his own, withheld vital life-saving information about a Breen invasion on Brecca resulting in dozens of civilians being atomized just to roll out his line of automated death machines on live TV, almost ground a microbial civilization into dust with mining equipment without a second glance, and planned to blow up a Federation vessel filled with innocent Starfleet officers and family friends just so he could dispose of any incriminating evidence all the while putting thousands of other California-class crewmembers out of jobs all in a bid to make a name for himself. Yeah, I'd say Buenamigo earned that starship phaser to the chest in the end.
I wonder what the punishment for high treason would be in the United Federation of Planets, I mean this is beyond the pale. Sure he'll live, but it won't be in a Federation Prison Resort. He'll go into a real hard time prison.
@@gedias1 It makes sense though. Apparently being a starfleet admiral is very competitive, trying to get into the history books or make any important decision was worth dying for.
Admirals going nuts. A Star Trek classic. Yet this is the first explanation I’ve heard that makes sense. Captains are trained to act on their own, to deal with whatever they have to relying on their wits and cunning. Often breaking rules when they have to. Then they’d become Admirals and get swallowed by paperwork, just another face at a meeting. They are all desperate to make a name for themselves, and a lot of them cut corners to do it.
Thats how it was in the atlantic fleet of the USN. All the brass running the boats running their crews ragged just hoping that their ship is spit polished just slightly better than the others and they get that choice Pentagon gig.
Tbf, not all villains have reasons that MAKE sense. As in, they are deliberatedly written to not to nake sense. Like a wacko from a Dosney show who thougth he was protecting himanity from witches and demons by k*lling them all just because he was a Puritan even througth it was obvious within that show's continuity that what the Bible said about them was crap, and because his bro f*cked a witch and he got jealous.
@@Darth-vade123there is no fleet to command most of time Tim in starfleet. They only mass up in numbers when there's a major crisis because starfleet is again not a military. They can go on anti piracy and patrol duties yes, but space is so vast having all ships bunch up toghether in fleets simply won't cover the border.
2:35 Reminder that getting phased isn't just killed him, getting phaser in highest setting not only vaporize you but your brain quickly react by throwing adrenaline at you, so much that you're pretty much dying in slow motion and feel every part of your body slowly turned into dust.
Sort of like tanking a nuke to the face but without the radiation. Everything within the range of the immediate explosion of a nuke or a high power bomb gets vaporized almost instantly leaving no trace of the corpse. Anything outside of the explosion has to deal with the fallout. Somehow they managed to harness the effects of the explosion and concentrate into a beam with zero fallout.
@@dylancolon5871 There are 2-3 visible frames where his body is being eroded by the phaser blast. At 24 fps (standard animation speed for animating on the 2's), that means there's about 125 milliseconds where his body is intact enough for him to feel pain.
It kinda Is sometimes. It's not just In Star Trek. This Is becoming a thing where a higher rank undermine those who are below their ranks and thinks whatever their decision Is It's good for everyone. But In reality It's making things worse and complicated.
It's a fairly common Trek storytelling trope that the admiralty are antagonists who put the show's captains in unreasonably difficult situations (Nachayev), are willing to work with fascists to further their own careers (that guy who tried to help the Cardassians destroy a Bajoran Resistance group), or cover up an unsanctioned, illegal test that killed his crew (Riker's former captain). Even Admiral Ross on DS9, the first recurring admiral character who seemed like a good guy was revealed to be working with Section 31 to manipulate and undermine the Romulan government.
There has yet to be a starfleet admiral who wasn't either crooked to one degree or another, or at least Atagonistic to starship captains. Maybe those conspiracy theorists had a point about the parasites.
You know, I guess it was done mostly for comedic effect, but the "I'll burn your heart in a fire" sounds a lot more ominous from the ship. Partially because it's voice, but also because of the contrast with Badgey. Also I think the Aledo did end up aiming for the heart.
@@matvangogh Yeah sure Starbase 80 is the most horrible place in Starfleet but now that I think about it even they would want Beunamigo to rot in a cell.
Wow. That didn't take long. I knew that ship was going to turn evil but I was expecting it to happen next season and that this episode was just going to foreshadow it.
The post-credits of Badgey's return, plus the AI prison, seems like it'll still possibly happen. It just won't be about them taking control of the Texas-class ships.
This Is a becoming a thing now not just In Star Trek. Where an Admiral or a higher rank always undermining those who are below them and thinks whatever decisions they make It's best for everyone but In reality It's making things worse.
It was a pretty common thing in classic Trek, like in TNG, where an admiral was plotting something either highly unethical or blatantly illegal, like the one who was trying to start a war with the Cardassians years before the Dominion War, or the one who was backing an illegal cloaking device experiment that got several people killed.
His name sound like “bueno amigo” which means nice friend in Spanish. There is no way there is no hidden twist within it. Not to mention about the breen and the ds9. I knew it was a set up.
Badgey: "Oh, you're a villain alright!" AGIMUS: "But not a _super_ one." PB Hamper: "Do you guys worry we are perpetuating synthetic stereotypes?" Badgey: "...." AGIMUS: "..." PB Hamper: "Lol, me neither. I'm just f_ckin with ya."
@@Krypton853 I can't imagine however, how admiral Freeman is going to handle this. That a close friend of his family betrayed his trust and deliberately put carol in danger not once but twice. Worst part is Becket liked him. I believe she called him uncle Less at some point. Nothing stings worse than old friend of your family trying to kill you like that.
It checked out, the aledo conveniently shows up to save the day specifically for the ship being attacked by Breen whilst a reporter was on the cerritos
Even though it's the evil ship hoping the Texas class become a shuttle pat at least for Star Trek online ships that got shuttle Bay that'd be pretty awesome
At point blank range set to full power, yes, but there have been instances before. For example, “A Piece of the Action” has Kirk order the Enterprise to stun an entire city block from orbit, meaning starship mounted phasers could be set low enough to stun multiple humanoids. Which could have solved a LOT of problems quickly…
well let's see here trying to kill the ones that found out about your little secret in cold blood and one of them being friends with you for years... yeah check.
If you watch the episode you'll see they pretty much tear the entire star base apart, so it's not just the adjutant it's pretty much most of the people in the station are either dead or badly injured
2:37 Buengamino death was brutal and not only took a large phaser shot and his heart explode but his head blew up if play at 0.25 playback speed and disintegrate.
Well .. considering the power outputs stated and calculated for phaser beams.. he should literally vaporize/explode in a cloud of steam and red mist... even near a beam
Despite M-5, this, and events in Prodigy, Starfleet never seems to learn its lesson about overdoing the automation and interlinked systems on starships, as evidenced in Picard which takes place years after all of that
@Steve The Duck Including any possible records of a secret fourth ship maybe? One that a certain supposedly secret organisation who recently recruited a transporter duplicate of one of our main characters might be interested in?
One thing I do like about Lower Decks is how things go from "all nice" to "evil admirals letting a sentient kill-ship with daddy issues loose on a mass killing spree" all in the space of 2 minutes and 39 seconds... Its quite hard to do that without it being silly but then its comedy Star Trek so it gets away with it....
I think the reason for this is the 30-minute episode format. There isn't a lot of time to tell the story, so they put a lot in a short amount of time. In a way it is like the anime "Gal Force: The Eternal Story." In it they did a story for a 120-minute movie, but told it in 90 minutes. Due to that, the pace of the movie is very fast.
And that fellow admirals is why we do not use automated ships for anything but unarmed mundane supply runs. The M5 fiasco was the single most destructive friendly fire incident on record. We’re lucky the Texas didn’t turn out so bad
@@captainufo4587 Is that what all bad guys with big egos are? I am saying that he knew there were some dangers and brushed them aside like they were minor insolvencies he thought he could fix on his own. He did ignore the warnings after all.
My contribution to Starfleet was probably the worst thing imaginable. Does anyone here remember the original doomsday machine Kirk ran into? During the early days of the dominion war I lead a small fleet with the USS Normandy to bring the SFC’s USS Da,Vinci to the thing. We hauled it back to Luna and in a hidden facility on the moon we rebuilt it over 5 months. It was setup to send a coded response message to one or all 3 people in it’s immediate list for a response. If it received a response within a 24 hour timeframe it stayed offline. If it didn’t get a response from the first it coded the 2nd and so on. If nobody responded within 72 hours the thing would power up and come online. It would download who it was supposed to target and set off. It was part of operation Exodus, a plan for starfleet to open up a wormhole and abandon the alpha quadrant. As we left we would kick on the cornucopia from hell to delay anyone from following us and destroy starbase 1. I secretly fear my creation will one day kill me despite us pulling the power core
I think they fudged when Rutherford got his implant. S1 e1 seemed to indicate it was just before then. But that said, I like that episode and have rewatched it several times. (typed the guy who only just recently got into Lower Decks)
Seeing its a full ai control I wouldn't be surprised we be shooting at it rather then controlling it. I swear is data the only ai not to try and go on a kill spree?!
Buenamigo was a scumbag to the bitter end, but YOWCH, getting killed by your own pet project. At least Rutherford knew well enough to try and make things right for Badgey.
for a split second you can see the admiral vaporising from a ship sized phaser blast going right through him. they didnt spare on detail on lower decks
What if scenario: "And what about the whole FNN incident that made me get rid of my own daughter?!!" "I had to do it. I didn't want to, but I had to make sure she didn't interfere. Wit my plan"
Shout out to lower decks for reminding us old school Trekkies from the TNG era that there’s always a corrupt Starfleet Admiral lurking…and technically he should’ve been a captain at least during this flashback but maybe creating those Texas class ships is what got him fast track to admiral 🤷🏽♂️🖖🏾
One of the things liked about this story arc is that despite Buenamigo being a villian, His character has a trait that shows he has an affinity for his Texan heritage, as evidenced by the memorabilia in his office. It's nice to see that Humanity still retains a sense of regional and national cultural identities despite being united and apart of mufti-species interstellar superstate, that Humanity is not culturally monolithic. I wonder if football hooliganism still exist as result of that!
Reminds me of the character Prince Evillo (a villain from "Legion of Super-Heroes"). His parents wanted him to be strong so they gave him that name...and he lived up to his name.
Buenamigo rose thru the ranks quickly, going from Lieutenant Commander (O-4) in Rutherford's memory to Vice Admiral (O-9) in less than a decade and then he hits a wall? Trek writers need to understand how much time it takes to promote upwards. Not everyone can be Kirk, Picard or Tryla Scott.
@@liabetmiranda9961 Captain Tryla Scott appeared in a late season 1 episode. She made Captain faster than anyone in Starfleet, even faster than Picard.
Makes sense. Computer code is so complicated that if you steal it. You run a high chance you don't understand what it is. AI for an overpowered star ship is no exception.
It just occurred to me that his name roughly translates to good friend. Funny considering he was the worst friend to pretty much everyone who trusted him.
I am disappointed that he let his ego make him that stupid. His coding guy tells him the coding is fucked and if he uses it, it's prone to going rogue, rather than asking him if he can fix it, he unshackles the damn AI allowing it to go rogue. Tuchanka is everywhere. And Tuchanka is a world of great gifts.
Woah...that guy is so evil I wouldn't be surprised if Buenamigo sent that FNN woman to the Ceritos just to get rid of Mariner to make sure she didn't interfere
@@netherfreakultima4498 Yeah, he did send her to catch his Texas class saving the day but that was it. At no point was Mariner even a blip on his radar.
Or the US Navy. The same B.S. that goes on plus you have to suck up to the politicians. I am sure they have to suck up to the Federation President and the Federation Council to get funding approval for projects. This is why I am thinking this project was probably a secret section 31 project, but the Joint Chiefs of the Starfleet as well as the civilian leadership of the Federation were forced to approve funding now that the media knows that it exists. Sort of like how the stealth fighter and stealth bomber were finally revealed to the public.
This is just like when admiral Marcus woke up Kahn and used his crew to create powerful weapons! And other dangerous prototypes! Like with the USS Vengeance and proton torpedoes! And to have what he wanted! The war with the Klingons by using the USS Enterprise to hunt down Kahn and use the torpedoes on Kronos and cripple the Enterprise’s warp core and let the Klingons find them so they can find them and begin the war so that he can use the weapons he had Kahn design! And of course later failed by getting killed by the one thing/person he used to achieve his master plan!
marcus was just batsh-t insane. tinking he could manipulate kahn. buenomigo is also insane in his own way but he's one of those technocrats that believe in the tech and AI would replace humans. like two sides to the samse coin.
To think, Starfleet would learn to NOT give an AI a starship. Did they not learn anything from the last time that happened? Or even model the brain patterns that is mentally unstable (in this case an AI Code that was "Emotionally" unstable). Geez....
That reminds me of a story in "Metal Men" (a DC Comics series) which features six robots each made of a metal (Gold, Platinum, Mercury, Iron, Tin and Lead) with artificial intelligence, the ability to learn, and human-like personalities. At one point their creator Doc Magnus (who never intended The Metal Men to have emotions) decides to replace them with The Inheritor, a robot made of plastic without emotions and none of The Metal Men's weaknesses. Unfortunately, it turned out that due to lack of emotions The Inheritor went insane and turned on everyone. To stop him Mercury entered his body and shorted him out.
"I don't take orders from you anymore, Father." And Starfleet's terrible luck with sentient A.I. continues.
Off the top of my head, I can think of 2 that turned out good. Data and the exocomps. There's also that nanite civilization Wesley accidentally made that one time, but that's more neutral than anything. So yeah, really bad odds.
@@OmniGundam777 Except for Peanut Hamper, of course.
They were never able to duplicate Soong's work.
@@gedias1 I'm referring to AI's who aren't inherently evil. I could have also included that nanite civilization Wesley accidentally made. Point is, most of the time, Federation has really bad luck with AI, and the math backs it up.
@@OmniGundam777 Even years later on Picard, the bad luck continued.
goddammit the :"a starship cant have daddy issues" hit me hard in some way
Hmm, maybe because starfleet vessels fly around with enough wepons to level entire planets? I sure as hell wouldn't want s ship like that having daddy issues
@@JCDFlex yeah because miscalculating the power of a starship phaser strike in atmosphere can cause horrific damage to the planetary ecosystem.
I don't take orders from you anymore. Father.
Honestly, that's kinda funny actually
Picard had daddy issues...
Considering all his crimes, in the end he did succeed in his original goal. He pretty much guaranteed no one is gonna forget his name.
Just probably for the wrong reasons than he expected 😅
Might be getting some rules, policies, and/or procedures regarding the handling of starship AI named after him.
@@GhostBear3067 Reference to Red vs Blue?
@@beard3451 not intentionally.
That should be a given with all aspects of Starfleet's handle on artificial intelligence as there are currently debates on the use of autonomous technology and autonomous weapon systems ranging from drones to say unmanned starships. Why does humanity have to play god with A.I.? I say this as I am scared that if we continue to create life, without someway of preventing from going rogue like a fail safe or simply teaching A.I. in the same way as a parent teaches a child from birth to adulthood. Then things are not going to end well for us, the creators.
Hearing the Aledo say the kind of psychotic stuff Badgey would say is both hilarious & terrifying
I’m wondering what Rutherford’s subconscious state is like. He coded or helped code Badgey and the Texas class. And both of them say “you can’t control me father!” Once is chance, twice is suspicious.
There’s a saying, something like a character description says more about it’s author than the character itself. If we apply that saying to the AI codes Rutherford wrote, does he hold some resentment to his family? Is that why his younger self was such a jerk?
@@nathanyuen4128 that makes…… a disturbing amount of sense
@@harryratcliffe4803 What do you think Rathford parted on bad terms with his family pitculary his own dad. Mybe he joined starfleet to get away from them. Mybe one of those farm boys who want to leave the farm like Luke or simler to Biomer.
i agree. its nice to see Badgey back
It is a deeply worrying parallel. Someone will need to monitor future projects of his.
I love that he is literally named Admiral Goodfriend. I also love that he took a direct hit from that phaser and they showed it. This show is dope af
His full name is Les Buenamigo - Less good (evil) friend.
@@Oruma that's not how you use Les in spanish it's an article used kind of like you would use the or a in English
@@mikevignola4213 Unless you're making a pun.
@@mikevignola4213 Les is short for something like Lester. Immigrant families usually have the first name from their destination language and their surname from their origin language.
From Memory Alpha: Ironically, his surname translates to "good friend" in Spanish, which couldn't be further from the truth. However, his first name sounds like the word "less", which, combined with his surname, provides an appropriate description of his character.
So racking up the crimes this admiral stacked up, he essentially risked a political crisis and future conflict with an enemy race from the Dominion War just to discredit a captain he didn't like, horribly injured and later mindwiped a young recruit without his consent to cover up his illegal operation while stealing said recruit's AI algorithm and passing it off as his own, withheld vital life-saving information about a Breen invasion on Brecca resulting in dozens of civilians being atomized just to roll out his line of automated death machines on live TV, almost ground a microbial civilization into dust with mining equipment without a second glance, and planned to blow up a Federation vessel filled with innocent Starfleet officers and family friends just so he could dispose of any incriminating evidence all the while putting thousands of other California-class crewmembers out of jobs all in a bid to make a name for himself.
Yeah, I'd say Buenamigo earned that starship phaser to the chest in the end.
And all that bullshit about saving lives when his actions ruined and taken so many lives
let's not forget his ships caused heavy damage to douglas station and crippled the von critter...
I wonder what the punishment for high treason would be in the United Federation of Planets, I mean this is beyond the pale. Sure he'll live, but it won't be in a Federation Prison Resort. He'll go into a real hard time prison.
Well, at least it continued a long-standing tradition of Starfleet admirals going bad.
@@gedias1 It makes sense though. Apparently being a starfleet admiral is very competitive, trying to get into the history books or make any important decision was worth dying for.
What really sucks is that Mariner's family considered this guy a friend.
And she would call him Uncle Les.
For someone named Buenamigos that admiral really was not a good friend.
@@GhostBear3067 I know - i thought the name was just supposed to be a pun.
@@GhostBear3067 You could say he's Les(s) of a good friend...
@@auriliagilneas HA HA good one. Never thought of that.
If you pause at the precise moment you can literally see his rib cage melting.
Oh yeah
The Aledo delivered on its promise and burned his heart in a fire.
@@yoyoboy87 Not gonna lie the way the Texas Class AI said "I will Burn Your Heart In A Fire" is pretty sick.
@@Yaapo That's Badgy's line.
Yes,it's best moments of this episode. Bye, Bye Malamigo 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Admirals going nuts. A Star Trek classic. Yet this is the first explanation I’ve heard that makes sense. Captains are trained to act on their own, to deal with whatever they have to relying on their wits and cunning. Often breaking rules when they have to. Then they’d become Admirals and get swallowed by paperwork, just another face at a meeting. They are all desperate to make a name for themselves, and a lot of them cut corners to do it.
Thats how it was in the atlantic fleet of the USN. All the brass running the boats running their crews ragged just hoping that their ship is spit polished just slightly better than the others and they get that choice Pentagon gig.
Tbf, not all villains have reasons that MAKE sense. As in, they are deliberatedly written to not to nake sense. Like a wacko from a Dosney show who thougth he was protecting himanity from witches and demons by k*lling them all just because he was a Puritan even througth it was obvious within that show's continuity that what the Bible said about them was crap, and because his bro f*cked a witch and he got jealous.
Should have commanded a fleet instead of a desk imperial admirals are different they get to command a fleet
@@Darth-vade123there is no fleet to command most of time Tim in starfleet. They only mass up in numbers when there's a major crisis because starfleet is again not a military. They can go on anti piracy and patrol duties yes, but space is so vast having all ships bunch up toghether in fleets simply won't cover the border.
@@Eradicator-jv9xr so they would struggle against the Galactic Empire who has more skilled Captains and an army
2:35 Reminder that getting phased isn't just killed him, getting phaser in highest setting not only vaporize you but your brain quickly react by throwing adrenaline at you, so much that you're pretty much dying in slow motion and feel every part of your body slowly turned into dust.
Sort of like tanking a nuke to the face but without the radiation.
Everything within the range of the immediate explosion of a nuke or a high power bomb gets vaporized almost instantly leaving no trace of the corpse.
Anything outside of the explosion has to deal with the fallout.
Somehow they managed to harness the effects of the explosion and concentrate into a beam with zero fallout.
Nah, he vaporized faster than pain signals could reach his brain. It’s like the people at ground zero in Hiroshima, he didn’t feel a thing.
@@dylancolon5871 Bruh, I liked the idea that he felt some pain in the end. Why’d you have to ruin it by being all logical, ya Vulcan?
@@dylancolon5871 There are 2-3 visible frames where his body is being eroded by the phaser blast. At 24 fps (standard animation speed for animating on the 2's), that means there's about 125 milliseconds where his body is intact enough for him to feel pain.
Captain Freeman's delivery makes it sound like "bad faith admirals up to no good" is a really common thing in Starfleet.
It kinda Is sometimes. It's not just In Star Trek. This Is becoming a thing where a higher rank undermine those who are below their ranks and thinks whatever their decision Is It's good for everyone. But In reality It's making things worse and complicated.
It's a fairly common Trek storytelling trope that the admiralty are antagonists who put the show's captains in unreasonably difficult situations (Nachayev), are willing to work with fascists to further their own careers (that guy who tried to help the Cardassians destroy a Bajoran Resistance group), or cover up an unsanctioned, illegal test that killed his crew (Riker's former captain).
Even Admiral Ross on DS9, the first recurring admiral character who seemed like a good guy was revealed to be working with Section 31 to manipulate and undermine the Romulan government.
There has yet to be a starfleet admiral who wasn't either crooked to one degree or another, or at least Atagonistic to starship captains.
Maybe those conspiracy theorists had a point about the parasites.
@@mylesbarrett2031 Well, an admiral who wasn't a prior main character, anyway.
Seem not everyone taking kirk advise, never let them take your ship.
You know, I guess it was done mostly for comedic effect, but the "I'll burn your heart in a fire" sounds a lot more ominous from the ship. Partially because it's voice, but also because of the contrast with Badgey.
Also I think the Aledo did end up aiming for the heart.
LD has gotten so good , i still remember how ppl were bitching and moaning about the initial two episodes
I quite liked those first 2 episodes, don't know what they were whinging on about.
They weren't bad, but they don't stand a Handles to current LD
Star Trek shows always start a little rough as they find their footing. Even DS9 had a weird opening.
And people who constantly whined about LD at the beginning never talked about it after it gotten so good.
Starship class phaser to the torso. Perfect.
What's up with the "I will burn your heart in fire." Is that some sort of Hispanic poem material.
@@karlolson1363 Season 1. It's what Badgey was always saying when he was attempting to kill Rutherford in the holodeck
@@captaintalon4485 Oh I did not watch that episode. Thank for the info.
What's funny was that the admirals head blew up as he was disenigrated.
2:28 Buenamigo look out! Your starship has daddy issues!
I can't believe it, Beunamigo should've lived so he could spend his life at Starbase 80 for what he did.
Nah that would be a slap on the wrist compared to him being blown up💥💥💥💥
And now he’s in Hell were he belongs.
He was responsible for many deaths on that star base. He deserves to be in jail
@@matvangogh Yeah sure Starbase 80 is the most horrible place in Starfleet but now that I think about it even they would want Beunamigo to rot in a cell.
@@monsterhunter66 yeah but he was sent to Klingon hell for the trouble that he caused 👿👿👿👿
0:45 - I mean, given Mariner's track record, there already seems to be plenty of history of mommy issues xD
Wow. That didn't take long. I knew that ship was going to turn evil but I was expecting it to happen next season and that this episode was just going to foreshadow it.
The post-credits of Badgey's return, plus the AI prison, seems like it'll still possibly happen. It just won't be about them taking control of the Texas-class ships.
aye rogue AIs is a proud Star Trek tradition dating back to even TOS.
@@Klaaism for crying out loud, the remote interface even looks like the old TOS automation system.
This Is a becoming a thing now not just In Star Trek. Where an Admiral or a higher rank always undermining those who are below them and thinks whatever decisions they make It's best for everyone but In reality It's making things worse.
It was a pretty common thing in classic Trek, like in TNG, where an admiral was plotting something either highly unethical or blatantly illegal, like the one who was trying to start a war with the Cardassians years before the Dominion War, or the one who was backing an illegal cloaking device experiment that got several people killed.
What can we say? Power corrupts.
@First Last I remember that episode the Starship It's called Pegasus and It was William Riker old captain.
Just like the Dems Party.
@@FirstLast-cg2nkdon’t forget Home Front when he manipulated the president and Cisco into staging a coup on earth almost
His name sound like “bueno amigo” which means nice friend in Spanish. There is no way there is no hidden twist within it. Not to mention about the breen and the ds9. I knew it was a set up.
Ikr.
This was set up two seasons ago.
Also... Damn. Star Trek doesn't usually give instant phaser guided karma like that.
Badgey: "Oh, you're a villain alright!"
AGIMUS: "But not a _super_ one."
PB Hamper: "Do you guys worry we are perpetuating synthetic stereotypes?"
Badgey: "...."
AGIMUS: "..."
PB Hamper: "Lol, me neither. I'm just f_ckin with ya."
Good lord, its only there for a brief second, but if you go frame-by-frame of the Admirals death it is damn gruesome.
Yeah half the chest have disappered
He deserved it.
at 2:37 you can see the admiral having his last meal microwaved for him.
"oh wow totally didn't see that coming"
Ikr I thought It was Admiral Freeman who save Rutherford.
@@Krypton853 I can't imagine however, how admiral Freeman is going to handle this. That a close friend of his family betrayed his trust and deliberately put carol in danger not once but twice. Worst part is Becket liked him. I believe she called him uncle Less at some point. Nothing stings worse than old friend of your family trying to kill you like that.
"Burn your heart in a fire" he heard it coming but did he not run.
Damn! So he was in it all along and from the Breen incident! Karma has a way of firing back at him!
It checked out, the aledo conveniently shows up to save the day specifically for the ship being attacked by Breen whilst a reporter was on the cerritos
What can I say sucks to be him. And dang karma came back to him like a nuclear bomb
Or like a starship phaser.
Even though it's the evil ship hoping the Texas class become a shuttle pat at least for Star Trek online ships that got shuttle Bay that'd be pretty awesome
It's going to be an op ship.
As far as I know this is Star Trek's first on screen scene of a person being hit by a starship based Phaser beam.
At point blank range set to full power, yes, but there have been instances before.
For example, “A Piece of the Action” has Kirk order the Enterprise to stun an entire city block from orbit, meaning starship mounted phasers could be set low enough to stun multiple humanoids.
Which could have solved a LOT of problems quickly…
2:37 Buenamigo looks like a fricking monster
well let's see here
trying to kill the ones that found out about your little secret in cold blood and one of them being friends with you for years... yeah check.
@@joeswanson733 yes but if you pause at the right moment at 0.25 speed, he looks like a monster, literally...
That death was pretty violent 2:36 seeing a phaser beam rip through a persons body is pretty shocking
He deserved it, a lot of blood is on that jerk's hands.
I love that the computer controls look like the M4 from TOS. Such a nice touch.
Rip adjutant who was probably working in the office next door.
If you watch the episode you'll see they pretty much tear the entire star base apart, so it's not just the adjutant it's pretty much most of the people in the station are either dead or badly injured
2:37 Buengamino death was brutal and not only took a large phaser shot and his heart explode but his head blew up if play at 0.25 playback speed and disintegrate.
Well .. considering the power outputs stated and calculated for phaser beams.. he should literally vaporize/explode in a cloud of steam and red mist... even near a beam
I like how they animated his movement at 0:49 . Adds some personality to the character.
Despite M-5, this, and events in Prodigy, Starfleet never seems to learn its lesson about overdoing the automation and interlinked systems on starships, as evidenced in Picard which takes place years after all of that
Of all the ways Buenamigo was going to be "defeated" being vaporized by phaser was not what I was expecting.
Even worst, he was vaporized by a Starship Class Phaser
His heart burned in a fire, along with all the rest of him, and probably all his records as well.
@Steve The Duck Including any possible records of a secret fourth ship maybe? One that a certain supposedly secret organisation who recently recruited a transporter duplicate of one of our main characters might be interested in?
That's like, being hit with a 12 inch shell at ground zero. Instant death.
Admiral Buenamigo is a fantastic play on words
nice to see Badgey back!
He is all grown up and still has daddy issues but is now much more menacing
And now he's space worthy and packing heat!
Great performances!
One thing I do like about Lower Decks is how things go from "all nice" to "evil admirals letting a sentient kill-ship with daddy issues loose on a mass killing spree" all in the space of 2 minutes and 39 seconds...
Its quite hard to do that without it being silly but then its comedy Star Trek so it gets away with it....
I think the reason for this is the 30-minute episode format. There isn't a lot of time to tell the story, so they put a lot in a short amount of time. In a way it is like the anime "Gal Force: The Eternal Story." In it they did a story for a 120-minute movie, but told it in 90 minutes. Due to that, the pace of the movie is very fast.
My favorite part is buenamigo’s name it’s so IRONIC and subtle. Then the “texas” class vs. California class subtext is so funny
And that fellow admirals is why we do not use automated ships for anything but unarmed mundane supply runs. The M5 fiasco was the single most destructive friendly fire incident on record. We’re lucky the Texas didn’t turn out so bad
Hmm…he did wreck almost an entire station and mauled like 300 crewmen at minimum (sovereign class and Cerritos)
Well that explains why the program was covered up. That programing was not ready. He knew that coding was dangerous and didn't care.
I don't think he knew, at least not fully. If he knew how unstable it is and he deliberately unshackled the AI anyway, he was a braindead moron.
@@captainufo4587 Is that what all bad guys with big egos are? I am saying that he knew there were some dangers and brushed them aside like they were minor insolvencies he thought he could fix on his own. He did ignore the warnings after all.
My contribution to Starfleet was probably the worst thing imaginable. Does anyone here remember the original doomsday machine Kirk ran into? During the early days of the dominion war I lead a small fleet with the USS Normandy to bring the SFC’s USS Da,Vinci to the thing. We hauled it back to Luna and in a hidden facility on the moon we rebuilt it over 5 months. It was setup to send a coded response message to one or all 3 people in it’s immediate list for a response. If it received a response within a 24 hour timeframe it stayed offline. If it didn’t get a response from the first it coded the 2nd and so on. If nobody responded within 72 hours the thing would power up and come online. It would download who it was supposed to target and set off. It was part of operation Exodus, a plan for starfleet to open up a wormhole and abandon the alpha quadrant. As we left we would kick on the cornucopia from hell to delay anyone from following us and destroy starbase 1. I secretly fear my creation will one day kill me despite us pulling the power core
I think they fudged when Rutherford got his implant. S1 e1 seemed to indicate it was just before then. But that said, I like that episode and have rewatched it several times. (typed the guy who only just recently got into Lower Decks)
Rutherford being messed up himself at the time he developed Badgey's code makes it being evil make more sense now.
"burn your heart in fire" he literately did that.
Karma got him super fast. Lol
Buenamigo looks like Neil Degrasse Tyson 🤣
Uh-Oh... Badgey on steroids...
Imagine how fun it would be if the Texas-class is released on STO.
Seeing its a full ai control I wouldn't be surprised we be shooting at it rather then controlling it. I swear is data the only ai not to try and go on a kill spree?!
@@shadow3675 Voyager's Doctor turned out alright, even after he was given a chance to take command. So, Data and the Doctor makes two.
As enemies.
No, we don't need ANOTHER LOCKBOX ship! :P
Yeah... About that
Fun fact, the voice actor for Admiral Buenamigo is the father of the voice actor for Rock on Star Trek Prodigy
Buenamigo was a scumbag to the bitter end, but YOWCH, getting killed by your own pet project. At least Rutherford knew well enough to try and make things right for Badgey.
The computer's visuals are massive M5 references
Reminds me of Paradise lost in DS9 Admiral. Leyton... . Sisko's mentor
Make The Federation Great Again. Yes, he was willing to incite a coup to do it.
This remimds me of Admiral Marcus in Star Trek Into Darkness. Now, I'll duck and cover for mentioning that movie.
Admiral GOOD-FRIEND!😂😂😂😂
for a split second you can see the admiral vaporising from a ship sized phaser blast going right through him.
they didnt spare on detail on lower decks
The villain’s last name means ‘buddy’ or ‘good guy’. His ancestors must be embarrassed of his not friendly actions.
Anyone notice that the Admiral's command code was Alpha-31? I wonder if it's coincidence, or if he was part of Section 31?
I Love the EYE EXPRESSIONS.
The voice of the Aledo's AI reminded me of HAL.
Wow, just, what, a second after being born, the AI commits genocide?
I think that's a new speed record in federation rogue ai's!
Consider that unlike other AI the Aledo was immediately agressive and had access to deadly weapons.
Rogue AI, a potentially great asset lost to circumstance and never tried again, and a terrible officer for admiralty is an admiral. Do I hear Bingo?
“What are you doing, Dave…? I cannot allow you to continue, Dave…. Daaaaaaaaaayseeeeee….” Some movie about HAL 9000.. Bill Gates vs Steve Jobs ERB
What if scenario:
"And what about the whole FNN incident that made me get rid of my own daughter?!!"
"I had to do it. I didn't want to, but I had to make sure she didn't interfere. Wit my plan"
“To human misery!”
-Admiral Buenamigo
Shout out to lower decks for reminding us old school Trekkies from the TNG era that there’s always a corrupt Starfleet Admiral lurking…and technically he should’ve been a captain at least during this flashback but maybe creating those Texas class ships is what got him fast track to admiral 🤷🏽♂️🖖🏾
One of the things liked about this story arc is that despite Buenamigo being a villian, His character has a trait that shows he has an affinity for his Texan heritage, as evidenced by the memorabilia in his office. It's nice to see that Humanity still retains a sense of regional and national cultural identities despite being united and apart of mufti-species interstellar superstate, that Humanity is not culturally monolithic. I wonder if football hooliganism still exist as result of that!
Code alpha 31 as in section 31!
It took me this long to realize that Beunomigos name is a play on words for Good Friend in Spanish.
Oh the irony.
This is why AI scares the hell out of me we in the real world could make something like this real and then we are all skewed.
Admiral "Good Friend". How did I not immediately peg him to go dark side as soon as I first heard the name?
Ando buen amigo literally means good friend
When you have a name like "Good friend" always expect the opposite, lol!
Reminds me of the character Prince Evillo (a villain from "Legion of Super-Heroes"). His parents wanted him to be strong so they gave him that name...and he lived up to his name.
Really convenient the PADD highlighted the problem code in red.
2:35 Admiral BurnAmigo
I love how his actual name is "GoodFriend"
thats hilarious.
The Aledo is also one of the many reasons that led to the Federation synth ban, not just the A500s.
For someone named Buenamigos that admiral really was not a good friend.
Buenamigo rose thru the ranks quickly, going from Lieutenant Commander (O-4) in Rutherford's memory to Vice Admiral (O-9) in less than a decade and then he hits a wall?
Trek writers need to understand how much time it takes to promote upwards. Not everyone can be Kirk, Picard or Tryla Scott.
Reminder that this show is set after the Dominion war, where Starfleet ended up with more ships than staff to crew them
Both Kirk and Picard worked their way up the ranks. I've no idea who Scott is.
@@liabetmiranda9961 Captain Tryla Scott appeared in a late season 1 episode. She made Captain faster than anyone in Starfleet, even faster than Picard.
Makes sense. Computer code is so complicated that if you steal it. You run a high chance you don't understand what it is. AI for an overpowered star ship is no exception.
How old is Rutherford?😂 like Buenamigo was a LT Commander when he was in the academy haha that's like 15 years being an ensign.
You have to wonder about who those medical officers were, and whether they will face the consequences of following illegal orders?
That guy knew he fucked up when he heard Aledo refer to him as ‘Father’
It just occurred to me that his name roughly translates to good friend. Funny considering he was the worst friend to pretty much everyone who trusted him.
Oh, yes, discovered recently that there's a 'water feature' called 'Ceritos' Arroyo on the Falkland Islands! With that spelling, too.
I am disappointed that he let his ego make him that stupid. His coding guy tells him the coding is fucked and if he uses it, it's prone to going rogue, rather than asking him if he can fix it, he unshackles the damn AI allowing it to go rogue. Tuchanka is everywhere. And Tuchanka is a world of great gifts.
Poetic justice.
Buenamigo means "Good Friend" in Spanish. So whoever created that character must had loved making that character a villain.
Woah...that guy is so evil
I wouldn't be surprised if Buenamigo sent that FNN woman to the Ceritos just to get rid of Mariner to make sure she didn't interfere
No, that was out of his hands.
@@Igarappappa it was?
@@netherfreakultima4498 Yeah, he did send her to catch his Texas class saving the day but that was it. At no point was Mariner even a blip on his radar.
@@Igarappappa Ok, that explains a lot
That guy would feel at home in TNG.
Or the US Navy. The same B.S. that goes on plus you have to suck up to the politicians. I am sure they have to suck up to the Federation President and the Federation Council to get funding approval for projects. This is why I am thinking this project was probably a secret section 31 project, but the Joint Chiefs of the Starfleet as well as the civilian leadership of the Federation were forced to approve funding now that the media knows that it exists. Sort of like how the stealth fighter and stealth bomber were finally revealed to the public.
OMG I just realised the code was alpha-31…
Evil boims joined S31 in an earlier episode…
Next season will likely be about Section 31!!!
Buenamigo = means in spanish sorta Goodfriend
Am I the only one who’s realized that Buenamgio’s name means “good friend” Bueno means good & amigo naturally means friend
This is just like when admiral Marcus woke up Kahn and used his crew to create powerful weapons! And other dangerous prototypes! Like with the USS Vengeance and proton torpedoes! And to have what he wanted! The war with the Klingons by using the USS Enterprise to hunt down Kahn and use the torpedoes on Kronos and cripple the Enterprise’s warp core and let the Klingons find them so they can find them and begin the war so that he can use the weapons he had Kahn design! And of course later failed by getting killed by the one thing/person he used to achieve his master plan!
marcus was just batsh-t insane. tinking he could manipulate kahn. buenomigo is also insane in his own way but he's one of those technocrats that believe in the tech and AI would replace humans. like two sides to the samse coin.
Just how many years was Rutherford in Starfleet? Buenamigo went from Lt Commander to Admiral in that time.
@Tin Watchman Harry Kim can attest to that.
Oh, here's the problem. It was set to evil.
To think, Starfleet would learn to NOT give an AI a starship. Did they not learn anything from the last time that happened? Or even model the brain patterns that is mentally unstable (in this case an AI Code that was "Emotionally" unstable). Geez....
That reminds me of a story in "Metal Men" (a DC Comics series) which features six robots each made of a metal (Gold, Platinum, Mercury, Iron, Tin and Lead) with artificial intelligence, the ability to learn, and human-like personalities. At one point their creator Doc Magnus (who never intended The Metal Men to have emotions) decides to replace them with The Inheritor, a robot made of plastic without emotions and none of The Metal Men's weaknesses. Unfortunately, it turned out that due to lack of emotions The Inheritor went insane and turned on everyone. To stop him Mercury entered his body and shorted him out.
Well... Aledo did, in fact, burn Les' heart in a fire.
Who wants marshmallows?
For the shit he was about to pull, he got hismself exactly what he deserved...