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

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!