Star Trek – Billy Glenn Hoya

This is not an exhaustive collection of Star Trek Christmas Ornaments, but it’s the ones I have. So here it goes!

8. Enterprise E / Sovereign Class

I’m with Captain Freeman on this one: I do not like the Sovereign Class ships. They just look hokey to me.

7.Voyager / Intrepid Class

I have mixed feelings about Intrepid Class ships, with their goofy, gel-based computer networks, and the pointless moving nacelles, which the ornament doesn’t even have.

6. Enterprise-D / Galaxy Class

I grew up with the Enterprise-D, so I kinda have a soft-spot for it. Though the whole saucer-separation was a bit hokey, it was still a solid ship.

5. Romulan Warbird

I loved these guys. The inside of them reminds me of a 90’s mall. Oddly, kitbashed Warbirds turn up in random places, like the 1980’s reboot of The Twilight Zone episode Quarantine.

4. Klingon Bird-of-Prey

How can you not love this one? I don’t think the style of the bird-of-prey has changed much over the run of the series. It makes a pretty good ornament.

3. Enterprise / Constitution Class

Just the plan ol’ Enterprise – no bloody A, B, C, or D. When you watch the original pilot for Star Trek, it looks like they were going to be a lot more ambitious with the ship at first, but scaled it back a bit. No matter – we love you all the same.

2. USS Defiant

The Defiant is one of my favorite ships of the Star Trek universe. Tough and fast. And it makes a great ornament too!

1. Galileo / F-Type Shuttlecraft

I loved the original Galileo from The Original Series. The ornament has a button on it that delivers a message from Mr. Spock: “Shuttlecraft to Enterprise, shuttlecraft to Enterprise. Spock here. Happy Holidays. Live long and prosper.”

I finally got the last season of Lower Decks. Here’s my ranking of it’s episodes Even the worst episodes, I really liked. I am kinda sad … I think The New Next Generation was a little glimpse of what a Season 6 could have been.

The Best Exotic Nannite Hotel
- Mariner and Jennifer are still dating? Also: nannites? And: Boimler’s joins Ransom and Billups in a search of a missing admiral.
- The A-side story is kinda meh. The thing that really makes this episode Mariner and Jennifer bickering the whole way.
- I know others have said they didn’t like the way Jennifer got dumped originally – I personally didn’t have any strong feeling about it. But it’s great that they listened to fans and revisited it in a really cool way which has TOTALLY happened to me.
A Farewell to Farms
- Boimler and Mariner help Ma’ah get back in space! The B-Side story is for the birds.
- I love how excited Boimler is to be on Qo’noS and that it’s his stupid fanboy knowledge of Klingon culture that saves the day.
- I really love this episode because it’s just one of those episodes that give you a peak into the average Klingon life. Kinda that world building that you don’t really get outside of maybe Deep Space 9.
Fissure Quest
- Alt-Title: A Fist Full of Kims
- Transporter-Accident Boimler commands a ensemble crew from around the mult-verse, including a ton of Kims, in trying to figure out who’s opening the space fishers.
- One thing that Lower Decks does great is giving us these fan service episodes that don’t feel like fan service. We get caught up on T’Pol, find out what would happen if Kim got promoted, and ship Garak and Bashir.
Fully Dilated
- It’s a fun-time planet! There’s a purple head (it’s Data’s!) T’Lyn and Tendi accidentally try to out-science each other. Mariner tries to have a fulfilling experience but winds up with just a soap flute.
- I guess we should just be thankful that Boimler and Rutherford didn’t “Jim Henson’s The Lower Deck Babies” our team.
- Number of Fully Functional Jokes Made: A disappointing 1.
Shades of Green
- Tendi and Company are in a pirate race! B-Side: Boimler’s team is kidnapped by rich people upset about capitalism collapse.
- While I don’t think they really explore it, what happens when a planet crosses the post-money/scarcity economy is kinda an interesting one and maybe one of the other Treks can cover sometime.
The New Next Generation
- Previously on Star Trek Lower Decks: W. Boimler direct the crazy fissure to the Prime Universe. The Cerritos is dispatched to close it.
- While I agree with Kimolu and Matt that Ma’ah is hot, I think Malor is hotter.
- I’m not sure when they got the message that Lower Decks wasn’t getting renewed … but I get the feeling that Fissure Quest was supposed to be the last episode in the season with closing the fissure starting the sixth season. In that light, I think it’s a great episode. Having Boimler and Mariner competing for the Number 1 spot would have made a great Season 6. But as a close to a season, it kinda leave you wanting.
Dos Cerritos
- Space Shenanigans results in the crew meeting an alt-Cerritos were Mariner is the captain. B-Side: Tendi does pirate stuff and finds out her sister is preggers!
- A good start to the season that sets Boimler’s arch going.
Of Gods and Angles
- Zeus’ … eh … Granddaughter? Cubes versus Spheres and a baby one that looks like something I made in shapez. You think you’d flip for the B-Side, but it just bites you in the ass.
- I still laughed through this one but … it kinda felt … done before? I feel like TNG had the whole Romeo and Juliette thing a couple of times?
STARBASE 80?
- Zombies and being tricked into repairing a starbase.
- I have mixed feeling about this one. I do like Starbase 80 getting retcon as a “Place of Second Chances,” but it also makes me question Mariner’s judgement of the place. It doesn’t seem that bad. Did she even set foot on the base?
Upper Decks
- Things Happen. The End.
- I think out of all the episodes … this one just kinda felt … meh? Still laughed … but it just felt … ok?