STAR TREK: LOWER DECKS Review — "Of Gods and Angles"

The crew of the USS Cerritos are faced with a classic diplomatic mission in “Of Gods and Angles” as Captain Freeman and her crew work to bring peace between two races of photonic beings, the Orbs and the Cubes.Seemingly standalone from the multiversal storyline running through this season, this episode is a fun comfort food episode of Lower Decks — there’s some good character work, some funny jokes, and enough stakes to be engaging. And while it doesn’t touch on the quantum fissure storyline at all, it’s the latest in the show’s “misfit character needs to fit in” genre.The most interesting character in this week’s episode is Ensign Olly (Saba Homayoon), the half-human, half-Greek god Starfleet officer descended from the alien beings encountered by Captain Kirk and the crew of the Enterprise in “Who Mourns for Adonais?” Ensign Olly’s backstory dances around the direct connection to “Who Mourns…” but the concept of the entities from that episode having children with mortals is not new to...