8 Ups & NO Downs From Star Trek: Lower Decks 5.2 - Shades Of Green

6. UP — Blazzards, Varsity, Blues

Star Trek Lower Decks Shades of Green Orion Pirate Queen Blazzard
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What in the cordons-bleus!? Is that a new purple Pokémon? No, it's a "blazzard". What's that, you say? Don't really know. Does it matter? Not in the slightest! This delightfully silly creature was not the only addition to the (yet more) Orion lore in Shades of Green. D'Vana and D'Erika having been summoned, we also got to meet the Orion pirate queen. Definitely an UP, in the air, on a throne, held by four beefy Greens and Blues.

The Blue Or-ee-ons are going by "House Azure" now, of course. My apologies! Although, "Bulls**t! […] And it's pronounced Or-eye-on," as D'Erika said. Nothing like hanging a sweary lantern on it!

None too happy with the war between both houses ("no new booty flowing into the Syndicate"), the Orion queen proposes a different solution — "a sail ship race through the Excellon Nebula" as the ancient Orions did.

A link perhaps (in age) to the D'Var type ship in Dos Cerritos, and also in a nice nod to Deep Space Nine's Explorers, we find out that Orions "haven't used sail ships in hundreds of years". Luckily, D'Erika did "varsity solar sailing in high school".

Now, won't somebody PLEASE feed the blazzards!

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Jack has been a content creator for TrekCulture since 2022, and a Star Trek fan for as long as he can remember. He has authored over 170 articles, including one of TrekCulture's longest, and has appeared several times on the TrekCulture podcast. He holds a first-class honours degree in French from the University of Sussex, a master's with distinction in Language, Culture and History: French and Francophone Studies and a PhD in French from University College London (UCL). He has previously worked in the field of translation. His interests extend to science-fiction television and film more widely. His favourite series is Star Trek: Voyager, followed closely by Stargate SG-1.