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Episode Analysis | Star Trek: Lower Decks | 5x01 "Dos Cerritos" and 5x02 “Shades of Green” (startrek.website)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This is the Daystrom Institute Episode Analysis thread for Lower Decks 5x01 Dos Cerritos and 5x02 Shades of Green.

Now that we’ve had a few days to digest the content of the latest episode, this thread is a place to dig a little deeper.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The concept of a Starfleet magazine is super interesting - I wonder what it takes for information to get cleared for publication.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Starfleet seems to have an interesting relationship with the media, giving privileged access to reporters who are willing to make at least some of their subjects look bad. Low-ranking officers also evidently know a whole lot about weird and embarrassing things that other crews have done, so at least basically mission logs must be relatively easy to access.

There are counterexamples, but on the whole, it doesn't seem like the kind of information that would matter to that magazine is controlled much at all.