Given the fact that The Dog is capable of not only speech but able to think for itself enough to not tell Tendi they were a mistake means The Dog was 100% fucking with the rest of the crew by creeping them out
Probably but I also like to think partly she wanted to show off her cool skills because dogs love showing off being praised. I can’t help but assume Tendi praised her for her weird abilities so…
Given the creature can abuse its genetic malleability to turn into a metal cube I think it is safe to say Dvana Tendi might have stumbled upon the earliest stages of genetic engineering technology the founders used to make themselves into shape-shifting living liquid lifeforms way back before they founded the dominion and I think she deserves a science award for that.
@@liamzakhaev that doesn't really go against or for your point. i think the idea of a species making itself into goo is pretty cool, and its a fun fan theory. like at some point they went and end of evangelioned themselves. thats hilarious
@@weldonwin again, yet, remember, Tendy took down several romulans at a moments notice while on a stealth mission, we have no idea what that dog is capable of
"That's exactly what I was going for!" I mean, I suppose I get it. Building an absolute abomination with help from starship-grade computers is probably easy, just input parameters and let the computer puzzle out the rest. But hand-building a dog? Would be rather nifty, to say the least.
me on first watch: Dr. T'Ana is a science pro and knows a weird science experiment when she sees one! me on second watch: Ohhh Dr. T'Ana is just strongly prejudiced against dogs :)
Because one person was slightly reckless? And nothing bad happened afterwards anyway. Also, genetic engineering was banned throughout Federation. That was one of the criteria for acceptance.
@@toysmostwanted Not every Orion is a member of the Syndicate, a fact that she actually yells at Mariner for casting her as a pirate in her holo-movie... she does look amazing in that Orion Pirate costume though
@@neolexiousneolexian6079 Which is close to confirming something I have suspected a while, that Tendi basically ran away from home. She hates violence, hates intimidating people, in other words, she hates everything about the Syndicate and joined Starfleet as an act of rebellion and in order to help people.
I always thought that her naming the dog "The Dog" was a sendup that they never gave The Doctor a name that stuck for seven seasons of Voyager. But "I know! I just didn't want you to worry!" is one of my favorite lines in the series so far alongside, "No, get outta here, Q, we are done with random stuff today! We're not dealing with any of your Q bullshit!"
Tendi - extremely high intelligence stat but used wisdom as a dump stat... One of my favourite animation characters + plus that snigger at 0:47 was so cute!!
I like to think that the reason it doesn't do things around Tendi is because she is projection The others treat it as a nuisance and not a dog, so it becomes a monster, but Tendi treats it as a dog, a good dog, so that is what it becomes
God bless Tendi, she's so damn innocent. If her Orion pheromones ever activate, every male on the ship will go berserk fighting other males for her favor, and she'll be clueless.
I'm gonna guess they wouldn't have even let her on a ship without thinking of someway to counteract that. I mean LD is meant to be comedy more than logical so I wouldn't be surprised if they find a way to work it into the plot anyway but surely some sort of pheromone blockers would be nessicary for her to be allowed into a small tin in space full of people suceptable to her influence, intentional or otherwise. Edited for glaring distracting grammatical error.
actually i'm pretty sure that star fleet created some sort of vaccine for it's personnel can't remember where or when but it is a thing although it's also not 100% effective
@@numinous123 oh, you count the old movies based on tv show? I've always just called them 1 to 10. So, I'm talking about the fifth tos movie (I know its name in my native language, but I'm not sure it's the same in english)
You missed the scene where she's in the background tearing up the Division 14 ship while Boimler is getting chased. I didn't catch it until the second time I watched it and it sent me when I did.
That reminds me of this line from this movie with a Dragon in it about how the dragon was questioning the human's choice to call him "Dragon" just using a language he didn't speak.
Reminds me of Milo Murphy's* pet in "Milo Murphy's Law". He named his dog "Dee-Oh-Gee." Later in the series he meets a girl who is a female version of himself with a pet pig named "Pee-Eye-Gee." *Milo Murphy is a descendent of the man who created Murphy's Law, where anything that can go wrong will go wrong. He is cursed to have continual bad luck where everything goes wrong for him. As an example, once a year he gets 500 pre-approved excuse slips to cover all of the injuries he will receive in that year.
@@spencersholden Pretty sure TNG still holds the trophy for worst episode ever in Trek - "Code of Honor" Written by Katharyn Powers who also wrote (funnily enough) the SG1 episode "Emancipation" which is pretty much the exact same plot - just with a different racial group being stereotyped.
@@HaddaClu Part of the problem was the director of that episode. Originally, some of the guards were supposed to be white, but the director changed it to make EVERYONE black instead. It's still a poorly-written episode, though.
@@MichaelBradley1967 nah, peanut hamper was a traitor. Maybe if The Dog and Peanut Hamper fight to the death, that would be alright. And only if The Dog wins.
At the end of this particular episode, Tendi meets a real dog who does a very dog like thing and licks her face. Tendi is disgusted by it and says the dog is a "weirdo".
I've always wanted to see any of the Star Trek crews tackle Red Dwarf villains, especially the Polymorph Imagine this Geordi: It's from earth, man made, some kind of genetic experiment gone wrong. Data: Apparently it was an attempt to create the ultimate warrior, a mutant that could change shape to suit it's terrain and deceive it's enemies. Riker: So what went wrong? Data: It's Insane! (Flash of Space Lightning in the background)
@@mattevans4377 Dax: It's from earth, man made, some kind of genetic experiment gone wrong. Bashir: Apparently it was an attempt to create the ultimate warrior, a mutant that could change shape to suit it's terrain and deceive it's enemies. Sisko: So what went wrong? Bashir: It's Insane! (Flash of Space Lightning in the background)
@@spyrofan9681 Quark: I've said a lot of things about you Odo, but you were never a danger to this outpost. Now let's get you that drink you paid for earlier but never got. Odo: I don't recall buying a drink. Quark: Of course you did, but the Red Alert happened the second money changed hands. Odo: I'm sure it did.
One of my favorite parts of this episode was the reveal that they actually WERE going to a resort planet, the guy in charge was just bad at social situations or something
The best part of this entire Escapade isn't even shown in this clip; when an actual dog licks tendy after the last scene shown here, she gets grossed out because it licked her, which is something she has no idea that normal dogs actually do all the time LOL
This is the best Star Trek show I have ever seen in recent years. My order is TNG Lower Decks Voyager and Discovery. TOS DID NOT MAKE MY MIST CAUSE I HAVE YET TO WATCH IT
Did that dog give anyone else flashbacks to that TNG episode, where there is that shapeshifter that replaces people and then took the shape of the dog?
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Given the fact that The Dog is capable of not only speech but able to think for itself enough to not tell Tendi they were a mistake means The Dog was 100% fucking with the rest of the crew by creeping them out
Lmao
Probably but I also like to think partly she wanted to show off her cool skills because dogs love showing off being praised. I can’t help but assume Tendi praised her for her weird abilities so…
Yeah watching it back now she was definitely fucking with them.
Or it gained sentience after one of the "Bathroom breaks".
@@Draqer probably that honestly
"I know, I just didn't want you to worry!"
Despite all of the abominations, she have a pure soul of a golden retriever...
She was the most dog a doggo could be.
Tendi got the most important thing right. The soul of the doggo.
I love Golden Retrievers. They're wonderful friendly dogs.
@@akkristor it's just like lower decks. it does alot that trek wouldn't do, but it keeps the soul
She's the goodest of good boys.
I think Tendi's references for her dog are from fictional Earth movies like Air Bud, Up, and The Thing.
This makes *too* much sense.
Air Bud was my favorite dog movie growing up, and I thought about that as well
Ofc the Dog is my favorite character
To be fair none of those movies would have been made in their timeline
"A dog and his boy"
Because Tendi showed The-Dog nothing but love, it matured without any resentment or malevolence. It's just like Tendi herself and loves her back.
To bad Mewtwo could not have that kind of maker.
@@timezerohour8864 Good on Mewtwo for finding his own way to live in peace on that island, though.
I think if mad scientists treated their experiments better they wouldn't turn in them so much.
@@timezerohour8864 If only mewtwo could find a place to settle down... th-cam.com/video/_nYrjqhK5dM/w-d-xo.html
Imagine that a reverse Frankenstein.
The dog ramdomly and casualy turning into a cube broke me.
I had to pause the show because i was laughing too hard.
Same. I was in tears!
Aaaaanyway...
OMG I know right! WHY did I find that so FUNNY?!!
me too, so funny
That and the flashing barks. Its such a minor detail but I couldn't stop laughing.
"Hey! You ARE a freak :D"
"I Know, I just didn't want you to worry:D"
😆 🤣 😂
I love her “HEY!” Lol
My life summed up.
Like maker like creature 😂
Best dog ever
Given the creature can abuse its genetic malleability to turn into a metal cube I think it is safe to say Dvana Tendi might have stumbled upon the earliest stages of genetic engineering technology the founders used to make themselves into shape-shifting living liquid lifeforms way back before they founded the dominion and I think she deserves a science award for that.
the founders/changelings evolved that way
There's a reason Dr. T'ana is having her train to be a science officer.
@@liamzakhaev who's to say they didn't view genetic engineering as evolution
@@pzdizzle because they don't exist.
@@liamzakhaev that doesn't really go against or for your point. i think the idea of a species making itself into goo is pretty cool, and its a fun fan theory.
like at some point they went and end of evangelioned themselves. thats hilarious
It is a little worrying that Tendi created a fully sapient life form as a science project, but at least it didn't try to kill everyone
Rutherford needs to take notes.
Yet
@@emperormajorian112 But The Dog is such a good girl, just like her creator
@@weldonwin again, yet, remember, Tendy took down several romulans at a moments notice while on a stealth mission, we have no idea what that dog is capable of
@@emperormajorian112 But Tendi took down the Romulans because she thought she was being ordered to. She hates violence
I absolutely adore the Dog turning to fly away and just slowly dog-paddling through the air.
I've never seen the cube part before, almost died laughing. It just, turns into a cube and keeps going, that is amazing
"... anywayyy..."
Happens in Red Dwarf a few times.
I kinda love that one part of a dog Tendi got right was their mirroring of the owners moods, The Dog has all of Tendi's enthusiasm.
"That's exactly what I was going for!"
I mean, I suppose I get it. Building an absolute abomination with help from starship-grade computers is probably easy, just input parameters and let the computer puzzle out the rest. But hand-building a dog? Would be rather nifty, to say the least.
*Input lifespan parameters*
Me: Make them live forever
@@Ecroose a second shorter than it's owner, so that it can never be lonely.
The fact that "the dog" is voiced by commander shepard still blows my mind.
More like Commander Retriever
I'm Commander Shephard, and this is my favorite dog on the citadel
Do you know who voiced the president in Rick and Morty (it's commander Anderson)
@@normanpotter5184 you mean the guy from The Cape?!
What!?
me on first watch: Dr. T'Ana is a science pro and knows a weird science experiment when she sees one!
me on second watch: Ohhh Dr. T'Ana is just strongly prejudiced against dogs :)
THIS...... is why Earth outlawed genetic engineering. *shudders* among several reasons.
You can't fool us Mr Bush, we know it's you.
"HuMaN-aNiMaL hYbRiDs"
All tomorrow
Because one person was slightly reckless? And nothing bad happened afterwards anyway. Also, genetic engineering was banned throughout Federation. That was one of the criteria for acceptance.
They’re jealous, they’re holding us back!
I take it you’ve watched the movie Splice.
I like that even the dog is worried about Anthony
I swear the Dog was doing all that John Carpenter stuff to mess with them.
Haven't watched this series beyond the snippets on TH-cam, but I love Tendi. She's a warm, beautiful, green ray of glorious sunshine.😁
So weird since she's from the Orion Syndicate.
@@toysmostwanted Not every Orion is a member of the Syndicate, a fact that she actually yells at Mariner for casting her as a pirate in her holo-movie... she does look amazing in that Orion Pirate costume though
When they put her on the classified mission... by accident. That was one of the funniest moments of the show.
@@weldonwin Tendi, it turns out, probably is/was a member of the Syndicate, though. The Orions call her the Mistress of the Winter Constellations.
@@neolexiousneolexian6079 Which is close to confirming something I have suspected a while, that Tendi basically ran away from home. She hates violence, hates intimidating people, in other words, she hates everything about the Syndicate and joined Starfleet as an act of rebellion and in order to help people.
Those last two lines.
This is what a true bond between sapiens and animals looks like
🥰🐶
I hope she can visit her during leave
I always thought that her naming the dog "The Dog" was a sendup that they never gave The Doctor a name that stuck for seven seasons of Voyager. But "I know! I just didn't want you to worry!" is one of my favorite lines in the series so far alongside, "No, get outta here, Q, we are done with random stuff today! We're not dealing with any of your Q bullshit!"
or that it was inspired by The Thing.
Tendi - extremely high intelligence stat but used wisdom as a dump stat...
One of my favourite animation characters + plus that snigger at 0:47 was so cute!!
She’s a good person.
You knows it nice to see a creature and its maker getting along and happy with each other and it not be strange.
Learn from Tendi, Dr. Frankenstein.
@@nackteHintern He ain't even a doctor, just a pretentious dropout
This just makes me wonder what animals on Orion are like, if Tendi though all of this was normal.
I guess Anthony tried to travel with warp 10
If The Dog is ever seen again, she'll be helping patients via animal therapy.
I want to see her protecting people with her freaky John Carpenter's "The Thing" powers.
Assuming they're not reason they need therapy in the first place...
The cube rolling away and the eyes flying away with bat wings ... dear god, my laughter was causing physical pain.
It's like the deer Alan Dracula from Infinity train 😆
"HEY!!! You ARE a freak!"
"I know!!"
A convo I'm familiar with lol
I like to think that the reason it doesn't do things around Tendi is because she is projection
The others treat it as a nuisance and not a dog, so it becomes a monster, but Tendi treats it as a dog, a good dog, so that is what it becomes
Weird shape shifting furry animal tht defies physics and would be something out of a alien sci-fi horror = a dog
Idk if tht math checks out
Animals do that where she's from (I think). in her mind the math does check out.
I mean, it worked in The Thing :P
God bless Tendi, she's so damn innocent. If her Orion pheromones ever activate, every male on the ship will go berserk fighting other males for her favor, and she'll be clueless.
She's kind and seeks validation, but not dumb. I'm pretty sure she'll know how her own biology works.
I'm gonna guess they wouldn't have even let her on a ship without thinking of someway to counteract that. I mean LD is meant to be comedy more than logical so I wouldn't be surprised if they find a way to work it into the plot anyway but surely some sort of pheromone blockers would be nessicary for her to be allowed into a small tin in space full of people suceptable to her influence, intentional or otherwise.
Edited for glaring distracting grammatical error.
@@joeyshears1483
They could
Work it in
And have Rutherford be immune, cause of cbyog nose
actually i'm pretty sure that star fleet created some sort of vaccine for it's personnel can't remember where or when but it is a thing although it's also not 100% effective
According to her, she's "not that kind of Orion"
An impossibly adorable creature atomically created to be the most precious thing in existence, and her pet dog!
The first appearance of an Edosian (Division 14 guy) in Trek TV since the navigator Lieutenant Arex in Star Trek: The Animated Series.
Also, the ship's Doctor, is a Katian, also from the animated series
@@weldonwin They also had a pair of Katian's in the Star Trek reboot movies.... but they were only there for Kirk to bang.
@@numinous123 and I think there was also one in the fifth movie
@@temporaneo617 Are you talking about the Original Series? Or the Next Generation?
@@numinous123 oh, you count the old movies based on tv show? I've always just called them 1 to 10. So, I'm talking about the fifth tos movie (I know its name in my native language, but I'm not sure it's the same in english)
Can we appreciate she basically rewrote DNA...casually
She was playing God as a hobby. Eat your heart out, Frankenstein.
OK.... Aren't there really BIG laws against gene modification in Star Trek?
Maybe there's a loophole for scratch builds?
Nah test on humanoid species was banned but nothing else
I feel like there aren't any laws against using it on either plants or animals.
So that mean the federation can create space marines
@@kyvilfongkot6372 Oh... definitely. They did something similar when Sung created his supermen. That was just the first step.
We need The Dog in STO.
definitely as a combat pet and companion
Whoa this. STO is getting increasingly boring. Stuff like this would make it stand out a little.
You missed the scene where she's in the background tearing up the Division 14 ship while Boimler is getting chased. I didn't catch it until the second time I watched it and it sent me when I did.
I like to think Tendi watched "The Thing" and assumed that was a normal dog.
Coming back to this I kind of wish they'd kept the dog around as a non talking pet polymorph
tendi -the one person that thinks learning about genetics to be easier than learning facts about dogs
She named her dog The Dog. Fun fact, one guy in Poland (Józef Piłsudski) had a dog named Pies (dog in english) and cat named Kot (cat in English)
That reminds me of this line from this movie with a Dragon in it about how the dragon was questioning the human's choice to call him "Dragon" just using a language he didn't speak.
@@JaelinBezel I think that this might be a Dragonheart movie, but I'm not sure. Could you check? Because I'm interested in this movie
@@piotrwisniewski70 Yeah I think that was it but I wasn't sure so I didn't name it.
@@JaelinBezel That was Dragonheart 1.
Reminds me of Milo Murphy's* pet in "Milo Murphy's Law". He named his dog "Dee-Oh-Gee." Later in the series he meets a girl who is a female version of himself with a pet pig named "Pee-Eye-Gee."
*Milo Murphy is a descendent of the man who created Murphy's Law, where anything that can go wrong will go wrong. He is cursed to have continual bad luck where everything goes wrong for him. As an example, once a year he gets 500 pre-approved excuse slips to cover all of the injuries he will receive in that year.
I feel this dog represents every dog that it’s owner leads conversations with he don’t bite as you climb a car.
It's the Voyager Salamander!
Voyager might be my favorite show but that episode was the literal worst!
@@spencersholden Pretty sure TNG still holds the trophy for worst episode ever in Trek - "Code of Honor" Written by Katharyn Powers who also wrote (funnily enough) the SG1 episode "Emancipation" which is pretty much the exact same plot - just with a different racial group being stereotyped.
@@HaddaClu Part of the problem was the director of that episode. Originally, some of the guards were supposed to be white, but the director changed it to make EVERYONE black instead. It's still a poorly-written episode, though.
@@spencersholden In my opinion it's only the second worse episode because of the incredible racist mess that was Code of Honor.
She didn't make a dog, she made a god.
Cernunnos is shaking
i see what you did there
I don’t think the chief medical officer doesn’t like the dog just because it’s a freak of nature, I think they just don’t like dogs
I say both.
I really hope we get to see The Dog again in future episodes. At least one time...
Teamed up with Peanut Hamper maybe?
@@MichaelBradley1967 nah, peanut hamper was a traitor. Maybe if The Dog and Peanut Hamper fight to the death, that would be alright.
And only if The Dog wins.
@@telavivjake with her powers she tear that traitorous toaster apart.
Could someone please get her an actual dog?
At the end of this particular episode, Tendi meets a real dog who does a very dog like thing and licks her face. Tendi is disgusted by it and says the dog is a "weirdo".
That last line hit home!
You're a freak
Me : "I know ! I just didn't want you to worry!"
Tendi: Aww she’s such a good girl.
I've always wanted to see any of the Star Trek crews tackle Red Dwarf villains, especially the Polymorph
Imagine this
Geordi: It's from earth, man made, some kind of genetic experiment gone wrong.
Data: Apparently it was an attempt to create the ultimate warrior, a mutant that could change shape to suit it's terrain and deceive it's enemies.
Riker: So what went wrong?
Data: It's Insane! (Flash of Space Lightning in the background)
Insert your favorite Trek Crew
I feel it would work better with the DS9 crew
@@mattevans4377
Dax: It's from earth, man made, some kind of genetic experiment gone wrong.
Bashir: Apparently it was an attempt to create the ultimate warrior, a mutant that could change shape to suit it's terrain and deceive it's enemies.
Sisko: So what went wrong?
Bashir: It's Insane! (Flash of Space Lightning in the background)
@@spyrofan9681 Worf: [Cracks knuckles] Someone get me my ass-whooping stick.
@@spyrofan9681
Quark: I've said a lot of things about you Odo, but you were never a danger to this outpost. Now let's get you that drink you paid for earlier but never got.
Odo: I don't recall buying a drink.
Quark: Of course you did, but the Red Alert happened the second money changed hands.
Odo: I'm sure it did.
they should be lucky "The Dog" is not those other Polymorph from Red Dwarf.
One of my favorite parts of this episode was the reveal that they actually WERE going to a resort planet, the guy in charge was just bad at social situations or something
I just saw this today and I already miss The Dog.
An eldritch abomination with the pure, shining soul of a golden retriever.
Sure, why not?
"Polymorph Dog"
You mean biblically accurate dog?
EASILY my favorite part of Lower Decks, across all three seasons. Just evergreen. I'm obsessed.
I can't even begin to explain how hard I laughed at 1:08-1:16 when I first watched this episode.
"You have been an exemplary creator!" Oh, my heart!
I love Golden Retrievers. They're wonderful friendly dogs.
Even in the 24th century cats and dogs are still beefing
*Carpenter does a movie*
Lower Deck writers: "Write that down! Write that down!"
2:00 Thank you, Lower Decks, for reminding me of "Threshold".
I think I saw her ancestor in Space Dandy.
1:08 for the cube
Wait. A red dwarf polymorph? Cool
In the end, she really was a good dog
I absolutely love this show.
I love that everything in this show is canon
This episode feels like a fever dream and I love it!
Tendi probably watched underdog and assumed that is what all dogs are like.
It's horrifyingly cute.
The best part of this entire Escapade isn't even shown in this clip; when an actual dog licks tendy after the last scene shown here, she gets grossed out because it licked her, which is something she has no idea that normal dogs actually do all the time LOL
This is the best Star Trek show I have ever seen in recent years. My order is TNG Lower Decks Voyager and Discovery. TOS DID NOT MAKE MY MIST CAUSE I HAVE YET TO WATCH IT
I don't care what she is but she's a good girl. And I would honestly love to have The Dog as an actual pet.
I updated "The Dog"
Tendi is so naive and happy it is adorable.
Such a good doggo.
Polymorphic dog. That's pretty cool
Bring back The Dog!
"Hey! If it wants a barny we'll give one, one swift knee in the happy sack it'll drop like anyone else".
That's the ticket 🤣😂
"Hey! You ARE a freak!"
"I know!" :3
She basically created a version of _The Thing_ with a happy ending! 🤣
It’s the Thing but if the Thing was good.
Most of the freaks could have been fixed with a star gate...wait wrong universe
Amazing transformation
Of course they can talk... 2:50 but just... well they're a bit shy... 😁
God the neck break caught me off guard so bad I hit my head on my wall
I really hope we get to see her again
Dead Space memories intensify
The fact that The Dog chose not to say anything just cos she didn't want Tendi to worry says a lot about how Tendi treated her.
Awww how adorable and sweet🐕🐕🐶🐶🐾🐾❤️❤️🥺🥺🥺
I'd still give it head pats.
I know dogs can stand but they at least struggle doing so its just oh thank goodness i can finally get up
1:08 had me dying! 😂 I had to pause the episode.
0:54 Total unexpected for it xD JFC!
Tendi saying "we're here under protest" in the most perky way possible sent me.
Did that dog give anyone else flashbacks to that TNG episode, where there is that shapeshifter that replaces people and then took the shape of the dog?
Gotta admit, I kinda want one
This show is underrated
That face of Boinler when the dog change into cube. Do we still in sf show ?
Definitely my favorite episode😊
Thanks to this episode, I tend to call our Dog just 'The Dog'.
You'll let us know if the dog changes into anything?