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LOW · SEASON 11×10

No Small Parts

NOMADIC PICK · ESSENTIAL VIEWINGRiker, Pakleds and a real finale.
FIRST SHOWN (US)
8 October 2020
ON
CBS All Access
STARDATE
None given
DIRECTED BY
Barry J. Kelly

WRITTEN BYWritten by Mike McMahan

IN BRIEF

SPOILER-FREE

Gossip sweeps the Cerritos after a secret slips out, just as a Starfleet distress call leads the ship into a fight with an unexpectedly dangerous old enemy.

SYNOPSIS

SPOILERS
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At Beta III, Boimler confronts Mariner about her mother, unaware his combadge is still on, and soon the whole crew knows she is the captain's daughter. Responding to a distress call, the Cerritos finds the USS Solvang destroyed by the Pakleds, now armed with stolen technology. The Pakleds attack the Cerritos and wound Freeman, and Mariner takes charge, arming the crew from her hidden stash of contraband weapons. Rutherford has Badgey build a computer virus, but Badgey sabotages the upload. Shaxs and Rutherford board a Pakled ship to finish the job. Shaxs tears out Rutherford's implant to complete the upload, sends him to safety and dies when the ship explodes. The USS Titan, under Captain Riker, arrives to drive off the remaining Pakleds. Rutherford has lost his memories, Mariner and Freeman agree to work together, and Boimler accepts a promotion to the Titan, leaving Mariner furious.

DID YOU KNOW?

  1. 01The episode opens at Beta III, the world ruled by the computer Landru in the original series episode “The Return of the Archons”.
  2. 02The Pakleds first appeared in The Next Generation's “Samaritan Snare”. McMahan reimagined them as a genuine threat.
  3. 03Memory Alpha notes Jonathan Frakes and Marina Sirtis became the first actors to play the same Star Trek characters on five different series.
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