9 Ups & NO Downs From Star Trek: Lower Decks 5.7 — Fully Dilated

5. UP — Move Over Matt Damon

Star Trek Lower Decks Fully Dilated T'Lyn Tendi
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Forget those crappy potatoes on Mars, this Carbon-Creeked Vulcan has got alien agriculture down to perfection (and scaled-up to gigantic proportions). "I simply isolated certain traits and accelerated growth with local fertilisers." In other words, she is the one-and-only T'Lyn. She didn't just juggle rocks for the first time either, no problem, "algorithmic tossing". She also built a windmill! On Earth in the 1950s, they just played pool!

In what was one of the most understated, but hilarious, moments of the whole episode, T'Lyn could be seen casually pulling a cart to market, crammed to the brim with her massive melons, grapes, and what looked like giant carrots. A certain nonchalance is a trait all Vulcans try to master. Though not your typical Vulcan, T'Lyn always excels at casual coolness to the utmost comic effect. It is simply impossible not to like her as a result.

Then, of course, there was the fruit-est of all fruits — the "shnoop fruit" — from which T'Lyn had derived a "natural protein filament enhancer" for those bounces and curls. Just because you're grounded on an alien world doesn't mean you can't look good. Or, rather, make the locals look good, and get rich at the same time.

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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.