''Just imagine how proud Captain Picard will be when he hears what you've pulled off!'' The idea that Picard would have been in any way proud about something like that shows how little Locarno understood who he's talking about.

Shannon Fill returned as Sito Jaxa after almost 30 years and even though she had retired from acting. Excelsior!

Awww. Mariner was such a Boimler in her younger days. Makes me wish she hadn't went through dealing with the Cardassians and the Dominion war and the fallout from that... Poor kid. She just wanted to be an astronaut and became a soldier instead.

I know we're mainly focused on Mariner and Sito, but hearing Nick Locarno tell Wes "just imagine how proud Captain Picard will be when he hears what you pulled off" really adds on to how much Wes feels he let down Picard in that episode.

So basically Mariner was a Boimler back at the academy. No wonder she took him under her wing. Made me tear up a bit.

I always knew she was a nerd on the inside, from her thinking the warp core is super cool, to thinking Boimler looked good doing his Vulcan salute, but war and trauma can change a person. hopefully we see more of her nerd side next season! (and here's hoping Tendi makes her return near the end of next season!)

So this is why she took boimler under her wing he’s who she wishes she still was. Man that’s lot unpack character wise but wholesome knowing she’s been doing it to protect him and keep him from becoming like her whether she knew it or not.

I love how we actually get to see the poor Cadet that dies, this is such a great story trope of the Bomb under the table that no one knows exist sort of tension

I like how Wesley smiles when Mariner shows up.

OK, seeing Mariner pre-traumatized, I'm starting to think she and Tendi followed opposite life paths. Mariner: Started out as a happy explorer, got traumatized, became a jaded badass. Tendi: Started out as a badass pirate queen, discovered science, became a happy explorer.

If you look closely at the beginning of the clip, Boothsbey, the gardener, is in front of the tree. Great attention to detail!!!

It’s weird but nice to finally see what Joshua Albert looked and sounded like.

Wesly trying to sound young is hilarious to me

this one scen fills in so much backstory for Marriner the reason she took boimler under her wing is cause he was EXACTLY like she was in her early career

Oh my god, young Mariner is Boimler. o.O

Mariner as a gushy bubbly school girl, it's uncomfortably charming.

Tying references for tng and enterprise into the same scene glorious. And the fact that mariner knew wesley Makes it even better

If fan-service is well done and works well, then I'm in. And using Sito's death as a reason for Mariner's self-sabotaging behavior fits pretty well. I also like that we finally get to see Joshua Albert, the cadet who died during the Kolvoord Starburst maneuver. There's just one thing which might be a minor continuity goof: When Sito stood up for herself to Picard in "Lower Decks", she mentioned she didn't have any friends at the academy after the events of "The First Duty". Meaning either Sito exaggerated or Mariner also turned her back on her and wasn't completely honest about it with Ma'ah. Also, I've noticed that one member of Nova Squadron Jean Hajar is absent in this sequence.

Seeing comments pointing out that Mariner is likely 30+ at this point. I will remind that the Federation has a much higher life expectancy for people than they do in real life right now. That middle age is considered 50 until 90, then you are considered 'old. Life expectancy is between 130 to 150 as of the TNG era as far as I recall. So while she is in her 30s, she's still "young" by their measure.

Saw a comment elsewhere that they did a great job making Cadet Albert look like the (late) actor who played Cmdr. Albert (Ed Lauter). Really beautiful attention to detail.

What a tribute to one of my fav bajoran...

0:35-0:38 Picard: wanna bet son… 😡

I forgot Mariner Isnt *always* the tough jockette she think she Is woth her nerider side to her.

You can tell how charming Locarno is and how he’s got Nova Squad thinking this plan is in their best interest when, in reality, he only wants to take this risk for him. I’ve known a few Locarnos in my life and, believe me, they’re capable of making you think they’re your best friend but screw you over if it’ll benefit them.

He’d definitely have been one of those captains that gets their entire ship killed and than tries to weasel out of any responsibility. Ego is a trait no commanding officer should indulge in unless it’s tempered by the desire to help, Kirk always had an ego but he always would try and save people.

Anyone else come here right after re-watching “The First Duty”?

I love this flashback it's so cool we get to see this.

0:04 Ah, I guess Jean Hajar is in the episode after all. At least I'd like to believe that's her waving to the rest of Nova Squadron before running the other way.

I do hope Mariners nerd side she tries to hide comes out more in season 5. Then the group can all go admire the warp core together.

Mariner geeking out over the Xindi is so cute.

0:27 The sound booth really brings out a different voice in the actors, like how people speak differently over the phone. I don't think Wes had this kind of vocal energy at any point in Wheaton's _TNG_ career. The same went for Newsome and Quaid when they did the crossover episode. People shout and enunciate more when they're looking at a microphone instead of another person.

This scene could have been so tasteless and tone deaf (a'la Family Guy), but in fact is played brilliantly as poignant and tragic peppered with the show's winning humor. It shows the overlooked brilliance of the series.

'ittle Mariner is so cute! Look at her shes gonna be a space badass one day but now shes 'ittle!

Considering that Wil managed to do a convincing teenage voice, can we have him be the LD's Q?

Yes, they all went out with a bang! Except Wesley. He 'ascended'.

Mariner with her sempai. Very Cute.

I really want to see a prequel movie about Mariner during the Dominion War; how she went from being a bright, chirpy, Boimler-type here to the cynical jerk-with-a-heart-of-gold she was at the start of the series. Maybe show her going on a secret mission with Riker, General K'orin, and Quimp the Ferengi.

This show is incredible.

It’s nice to see mariner as a peanut 😊

It won’t be easy, staying here on campus, everybody knowing what you did. You have hard times ahead of you. 😢

I do appreciate the fact they tied this show into homaging the original Lower Decks episode was a “chef’s kiss”

"Josh are you sure?" "Eessh" RIP Josh...RIP.

This was such a great scene!

Hearing Shannon Fill's voice, almost 20 years after leaving acting. It really hits you and as Spock once said: "There are always possibilities" It's just a stranger than fiction sort of thing...where Fill talked about how nervous she was in Lower Decks, to now...a series named after that episode and her return. I wonder if she felt as if life was coming full circle. Not many of us have such an opportunity, so seeing someone have such an opportunity, happy for her. I always felt Sito's death in Lower Decks to be an afterthought and trivialized...also for Picard to be so irresponsible in giving an ensign such a dangerous mission. This is about as close to 'righting a wrong' as we will ever get.

Sito Breaks my heart. And Picard TNG Lower Decks in the top 5

They'll remember... end caps covering the end of this video 😵

I love seeing characters from live action Star Trek in cartoon form.

in the blackest night, no klingon shall escape my sight

I mean, his wish was granted. No one will forget Nova Squadron... the name was of course, retired in disgrace.

Oh my God she was just like Boimler

If Mariner started the academy at 18, 13 years ago, then that means she is about 31 right now

I kinda wondered what sort of path Mariner would've taken had Nova squadron actually did pull off the starburst maneuver.

Mariner Look so young and cute ❤❤❤❤

I wonder how old Mariner was back then when she went to the academy.

I wonder how Mariner at first handle hearing that her hero recklessly got one her teammates killed and then conspirer to coverup? Then what did do when Sito was getting ostracize and possibly builled by the other cadets?

You know, it would have made sense for Tom Paris to have just been him in Voyager, seeing how Tom was so hyper competent at everything despite supposedly being a dropout, being a former Nova Squadron candidate totally tracks for that. I'm pretty sure there was some BS about royalties being payed to a writer to keep using the character name, which is why they used to the same actor but made him a different character right?

I cant believe tgey got alk the voice actresses and actors. And kond of weird how they tie a tragic event to somewhat humor into it.

Does anyone think Nick kinda looks like Tom Paris or is it just me?

I appreciate the motivation they tried to give Mariner, but it’s a little funny that she could go through the entire Dominion at DS9 can’t be that tortured by what happened to Zito.

Nova Squadron did not end up doing well. 😬

Those are some old-ass sounding cadets.

0:21-0:42 Is it just me or do those animation frames seem too fluid? So it reminded me of the animation style used for the movie America The Motion Picture ',:v

Sito Jaxa was Bajoran right?- If so, that makes her death all the more sad given she was killed by Cardasians - given there species’ histories.

I feel like maybe Sito will still be alive next year in S5

academy mariner is cute

How old is Mariner there. And hoe old is she in the Main Show?

Hearing Nick talk kinda makes it obvious that Starfleet should have seen the ego on this guy would get people killed. He did and then tried his best to worm his way out of it. Imagine if he ever actually got into Starfleet, he probably would have everyone on his first ship killed by some idiotic ploy.

Am i the only one sad that Locarno died? I was preferred he was arrested and sent to jail, to see others to graduate and fly, while him will never see the stars again.

So wouldn't this make Mariner around 40 in LD?

Coincidentally, I was in Air Force ROTC at the same time Wesley was attending Starfleet Academy. Wesley got scandalized by the Nova Squad accident, and then shortly later I got disciplined for a sexual harassment charge. Later, Wesley defied Captain Picard and quit the academy. The shortly later, I got disenrolled for pulling a prank on my university. So my skeletons in the closet with ROTC mirrored Wesley’s dirty laundry with Starfleet Academy.

So Mariner got the Metamorphosis/Emergence treatment but with war?

Where's the fifth member, the one who died during the event?

So 13 years means that Mariner's in her later 20s/early 30s?! (I assume you wouldn't start at Starfleet Academy until you are at least 13-14)

None remembers Nova. Green Core matters.

and no one ever did

I can't help but feel that this should have Been Boimlers story and would explain why he's such a prude for the Rules!

Sito who died horrible....

Is Mariner friends with every single main character in Star Trek? It's kinda weird.

I wish Hajar could have been there (looked like her at a distance running off before getting close to the group). That said, this scene feels a little too wink/nudge since the audience is essentially familiar with where this is going. Frankly, it would have been better if it took place before Locarno proposed the Kolvoord Starburst maneuver so we could really see this group without anything clandestine hovering around them that makes Wesley or Josh nervous or bothered. Might better show how Nick was a huge cult of personality to the squad that could lead the other 4 to such immoral behavior. After all, if we see them as all good friends, it makes it that much stronger to believe that there is guilt and remorse when you get to _TNG: “The First Duty”_ over the loss of one of their own and equally the fact they have no one to blame but themselves for not wanting to be the turd in the punch bowl because they were so arrogantly blinded by Nick’s charm that they could pull it off and just went along.

How old is mariner 40 and still an ensign

The crew from lower decks seems to have more adventures than some captains and the bridge crew. This negates the premise of Lower Decks where the crew always complains of getting the worse responsibilities.

It was such a waste,to just kill her off on next generations. Just when she was at the beginning of her redemption ark.

This proves that Mariner is in love with Boimler ♪Boimler and Mariner Sitting in a tree. K-I-S-S-I-N-G♪

All of NU TREK is awful crap by Star Warsians who think they can come and annex Trek, but this little clip...huh! That was a bit interesting. Aside from that wierd chatter mouth girl who interrupted, I thought this was perceptive. I'm intrigued

Rick and Morty Trek is total garbage.

Meh...bad episode.

Here we go. One of the reasons why this show sucks. They have to magically insert Mariner into everything. She is nails on a chalkboard annoying along with Boimler. The faster this show gets shitcanned the better.

Why didn't they have Cadet Hajar in the episode if they were gonna have the other 4 people in it with Mariner? They had Wes, Nick, Sito, Josh, and Mariner?? lol