6 Ups & 1 Down For Star Trek: Lower Decks 5.4 — A Farewell To Farms

We all love a mo-ment with Dr. Migleemo, but unfortunately his story this week felt just a smidge more out of place than Laris on Chaltok IV. That doesn't mean it wasn't funny — performative fainting and dissing the replicators and so forth — but was it necessary? No. I shudder like a tribble to say this, but we could perhaps have just spent the entire episode on Qo'noS.

It's gastronomy not astronomy for the Klowahkans, whose desire for space travel begins (and ends) with the stomach. The rest is hogfishing for compliments from Legnog and Gonald. Though we did get to visit Klowahka — Migleemo's homeworld — the problem, following the fainting, was it was all (over-)done through a series of performatives, making whatever constative a little too hard to swallow. And if Mariner didn't care by the end, then why should we?

That ending for Migleemo, tacked-on like the dessert you didn't want but were persuaded to order, left an equally odd aftertaste in the mouth. The food critics evidently didn't, but we all smelt the sh*t-oyster switcheroo and reveal coming a lightyear away.

I'm hardly giving a two-star review (assuming that's out of five for Legnog and Gonald), but if this is to be Migleemo's only story this season, he could have been afforded better than dodgy oysters and dodgy critics. Yes, I know. Physician… writer, plume thyself!