We’re working into some outdated mates this week in Star Trek: Decrease Decks season 5 episode 4 “A Farewell to Farms.” We’ve bought Klingons! We’ve bought oaths! We’re finding out an area gap! There are duties to satisfy and permissions to achieve, so seize your glass of bloodwine and be a part of me for my assessment of Star Trek: Decrease Decks season 5 episode 4 “A Farewell to Farms.”
Good day Ma’ah, My Outdated Good friend
Keep in mind Ma’ah from Star Trek: Decrease Decks season 4 episode 9 “The Interior Struggle?” His was the Klingon ship that was taken by Nick Locarno. He’s again once more this week, disgraced and again on the farm along with his brother, Malor. There are some attention-grabbing questions concerning the why of Mariner and Boimler becoming a member of Ma’ah in his ceremony to regain his captaincy.
Positive Mariner says she owes him, however does she owe him a lot that she AND Boimler have to tackle this ceremony with him that may result in their deaths? The reveal on the finish of the necessity to analyze the “gap in house” with the permission of a Klingon Captain makes extra sense, however I’ve bought to agree with Ma’ah. That’s lots for analyzing an area gap!
What I respect concerning the duties that Boimler, Mariner, Ma’ah, and Malor should face is that we get to see Boimler’s Klingon fanboy tendencies come into play. Citing the information of the painstick voltage saves them. Mariner will get in on this too, mentioning the ceremony of conscription as a technique to circumvent Bargh. It’s actually intelligent.
Moreover, this is perhaps essentially the most Klingon I’ve heard in a contemporary Star Trek episode since season one in every of Star Trek: Discovery. We even have a pleasant callback to Star Trek: Decrease Decks season 1 episode 2 the place Mariner and Boimler escort Klingon envoy Ok’orin along with his presence right here. Decrease Decks does callbacks effectively and it’s solely becoming that it continues to take action in its last season.
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A Chef of the Thoughts
Star Trek: Decrease Decks season 5 episode 4 “A Farewell to Farms” additionally introduces us to different Klowahkans–Sir Legnog and Madame Gonald. To begin with, studying that Klowahkans invented warp journey to find “unusual new meals” is hilarious. It additionally makes all of Dr. Migleemo’s meals puns make a lot extra sense.
As somebody who enjoys cooking and has a delicate palate, all of the meals terminology and jokes made me chortle. “Their work goes past umami!” “They’ll write me into the Guide of the Flavorless!” Nothing worse than being flavorless. There’s additionally the matter of the made up meals terminology, like “plorpful” and “gizzulet.” What on the earth does that imply? I find it irresistible. I’m simply glad we found out that Sir Legnog and Madame Gonald had been simply a few fakers. I’d have hated to see Dr. Migleemo and his whole household “banished from The Nice Seating Chart!”
It is a enjoyable sidequest from our principal plot, however I like that we’re getting a bit little bit of growth for our aspect characters too, not simply our principal characters. Star Trek: Decrease Decks season 5 has performed effectively in that regard, actually giving extra growth to our secondary forged. Dr. Migleemo is certainly a “chef of the thoughts,” displaying how psychological well being can have an effect on our feelings and bodily talents. I sit up for what the remainder of the season brings.
Closing Ideas
Star Trek: Decrease Decks season 5 episode 4 “A Farewell to Farms” is an attention-grabbing episode for the sequence. We don’t have our common opening credit. We’re growing secondary characters, and giving small hints to bigger developments, whereas nonetheless making all of the episodes really feel standalone.
Whereas I’ve loved all of the episodes of Decrease Decks this season, they’ve felt a bit disjointed save for the small connecting thru-line of the “house potholes.” I don’t suppose that is the final time we’ve seen Ma’ah this season both.
I’ve a sense he’ll need to return the favor to Mariner earlier than the tip of the sequence. Lastly, we be taught that somebody is making the dimensional rifts. They’re not a pure incidence. It wouldn’t be the primary time in Star Trek that somebody was making a bunch of house potholes. We’ll simply must hold watching to seek out out why.
Lastly, there may be one very foolish visible nod that I observed in Star Trek: Decrease Decks season 5 episode 4 “A Farewell to Farms.” They use the identical mugs for bloodwine as is utilized in Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds season 2 episode 1 “The Damaged Circle.” I really like that they’re nonetheless utilizing these identical mugs a century in a while Q’onos.
The subsequent episode of Star Trek: Decrease Decks will air on November 14, 2024, on Paramount+.