We've updated our operating systems and speedrun the allamaraine game, and now Anika and Liz are sitting down to discuss the third episode of the fourth season of Lower Decks, "In the Cradle of Vexilon"...

• We don't mind a bit of a workplace hierarchy now and then
• Liz has a WHOLE THEORY about how Captain Freeman's command style is why Beckett Mariner is the way she is
• We go off on a tangent about Voyager, specifically about that time Naomi Wildman died and was replaced by a duplicate. So, um, if dead baby chat is not for you, skip from 13:30 to 14:40!
• Ransom the art critic: chef's kiss
• Is a Gorn wedding the solution to ALL problems? Yes