Star Trek: Lower Decks 1.10

No Small Parts

The Cerritos is getting ready to leave Beta III when Captain Freeman discovers that Mariner and Boimler are still on the planet. Boimler breaks the news to Mariner that he knows that the captain is her mother just as the Cerritos is trying to contact them. Everyone aboard learns the secret pretty quickly and starts treating Marniner like royalty.

The Cerritos gets a distress call from the USS Solvang. They rush in to help but it is too late. The Solvang has been destroyed by a Pakled ship which is in the process of salvaging pieces from the Solvang. The Pakled ship quickly turns its attention toward the Cerritos and starts to rip it apart.

Star Trek: Lower Decks 1.09

Crisis Point

Mariner violates the Prime Directive (never to interfere with the natural development of a civilization). Captain Freeman orders her to go to therapy. Mariner follows her orders but questions the value of the sessions.

Boimler is preparing for his evaluation with Captain Freeman. He programs the holodeck to help him prepare for the interview. Mariner, Tendi, and Rutherford are also in the holodeck when Boimler takes over. Mariner reprograms the holodeck to use the data that Boimler had collected and creates a movie experience for them to enjoy, Crisis Point: The Rise of Vindicta.

Star Trek: Lower Decks 1.08

Veritas

The bridge crew (Freeman, Ransom, Shaxs, T'ana, Billups) are put on trial on the planet K'Tuevon Prime and the lower decks crew (Mariner, Boimler, Tendi, Rutherford) are called to testify. One by one the lower deck crew members tell their version of what they remember. There were lots of aliens including Romulans, Vulcans, and Q. There was a secret mission into the neutral zone. There was a Roluman bird of prey. There was a tank of eels. In the end it turns out to be much ado about nothing.

Star Trek: Lower Decks 1.07

Much Ado About Boimler

Tendi creates a dog that isn't really a dog. Boimler helps Rutherford test some improvements to the transporter and winds up a freak. Tendi, the dog, and Boimler are sent to Division 14, the medical mysteries division. Captain Freeman is replaced temporarily by Captain Ramsey, a friend of Mariner, is surprised to learn that Mariner is only an ensign.

Thoughts

Rutherford was in this one but not as much as Boimler, Tendi, and Mariner.

Star Trek: Lower Decks 1.06

Terminal Provocations

The Cerritos deals with a Drookmani scavenger ship that is trying to collect pieces of a Federation starship that has been drifting is space for over a century.

Fletcher, a lower decks ensign, messes with a computer core of the Cerritos, creates a huge problem, and then tries to do everything he can to avoid solving the problem or admitting to what he did. Mariner and Boimler work together to try and fix the mess that Fletcher created.

Rutherford tries to help Tendi learn how to spacewalk using a program he created for the holodeck. Something goes wrong. Rutherford and Tendi get trapped in the holodeck. They have to  run for their lives from Badgey, a computer generated helper that Rutherford created. Badgey looks like a life sized version of the badge that everyone wears on their chest. It turns homicidal when the holodeck malfunctions.

Star Trek: Lower Decks 1.05

Cupid's Errant Arrow

The Cerritos works with the Vancouver to help implode a moon that is threatening to destroy a planet. Captain Freeman has to negotiate with the locals who are opposed to the destruction of the moon for various reasons despite the danger it poses.

Tendi and Rutherford go gaga over the T-88, the latest tricorder, and almost get permanently transferred to the Vancouver.

Boimler gets to spend some time with Barb, his girlfriend. Mariner is instantly suspicious of Barb and spends the rest of the episode trying to figure out why Barb is interested in Boimler.

Star Trek: Lower Decks 1.04

Moist Vessel

Captain Freeman tries to make Ensign Mariner's life miserable so that she will ask for a transfer. Freeman starts by assigning her to all the worst assignments on board the Cerritos but when that doesn't work she promotes her.

Tendi ruins a ceremony that Lieutenant JG O'Connor, another crew member, is performing. It was supposed to end with him ascending to a higher plane of existence. She tries to make it up to him. She tries to get him back on track but he refuses to accept her suggestions or gifts.

Everything goes haywire aboard the Cerritos while it is helping the Merced to tow an ancient generation ship. Molecular fluid from aboard the generaion ship spreads to the Cerritos and the Merced. The fluid is capable of creating life from inorganic matter.

Star Trek: Lower Decks 1.03

Temporal Edict

Boimler rats out the rest of the crew when he is cornered by Captain Freeman in the turbolift. She wants to know about buffer time. He explains it to her and she reacts by making it against the rules to use buffer time. This drives everyone nuts except Boimler who loves it.

Mariner goes on an away mission to Gelrak V with Commander Ransom and several other members of the crew. They accidentally insult the locals, in part because of Captain Freeman's temporal edict. The people of Gelrak imprison them and insist that either Mariner or ransom will have to fight Vindor, the Genrakian champion.

Star Trek: Lower Decks 1.02

Envoys

Boimler and Mariner escort a Klingon to a peace conference. The Klingon gets drunk and steals the shuttle after they land. Boimler and Mariner spend most of the rest of the mission looking for the Klingon and the shuttle.

Rutherford tries his hand at jobs aboard the Cerritos other than engineering. He's great at some of them, sucks at most of the others, and ultimately decides to return to engineering. His whole reason for trying the other jobs was in the hopes that he would be able to spend more time with Tendi.

Star Trek: Lower Decks 1.01

Second Contact

Ensign D'Vana Tendi joins the crew of the USS Cerritos. She is shown around by Ensigns Beckett Mariner and Brad Boimler before they are sent planet side as part of an away team. Ensign Sam Rutherford is on a date with Barnes in the ship's lounge when Commander Jack Ransom returns from the planet with an insect bite that causes him to transform into a flesh eating zombie.

Everything goes nuts aboard the Cerritos for a while. Rutherford and Barnes manage to continue their date and avoid getting bitten although in the end they both come to the realization that they aren't interested in one another.