Lower Decks: Crisis Point

[Fianna]

https://sfdebris.com/videos/startrek/l109.php

We need more psychology by way of Looney Tunes.

[Riedquat]

This one really does say that Mariner is seriously, seriously messed up.

[CharlesPhipps]

I like how Tendi is going from, "This will be fun!" to "Okay, Mariner, you're going full spree killer."

[Procstar]

This one really does say that Mariner is seriously, seriously messed up.

That later gets followed up in future seasons.

If anything, Mariner is a basket case of issues, though we still don't know how she got to that point.

[Procstar]

I like how Tendi is going from, "This will be fun!" to "Okay, Mariner, you're going full spree killer."

Yeah. The holodeck adventure / video game got a lot less fun in between the wanton killing and torture implications.

[stryke]

If anything, Mariner is a basket case of issues, though we still don't know how she got to that point.

Combo of her being one of the kids on the Enterprise D (not confirmed yet but it makes too much sense given what we know about her past) followed by her likely first joining Starfleet at the height of the Dominion War would likely play a big part of it.

[CrypticMirror]

This one really does say that Mariner is seriously, seriously messed up.

That later gets followed up in future seasons.

If anything, Mariner is a basket case of issues, though we still don't know how she got to that point.

I kinda feel like we do. Like Chuck said in a prev review, she is a Starfleet trust fund kid. She's been indulged and favoured, and never felt any real consequences. It is S3 before she truly starts getting pushback on this from her parents, who have explicitly said they are protecting her from consequences, by no longer giving her that protection, and she's slowly actually starting to shape up. We don't need to go that deep into her psyche to find any trauma, and in fact her "trauma" might actually be the lack of any trauma. We see this all the time in the Real World with the kids of the obscenely rich, or just in regular kids whose parents are in a position to shield them from consequences and unwilling to not indulge them all the time.

It is natural to push limits, to find where those limits actually are. Every kid does it. The problem comes in where they don't get pushback, don't have limits set, so the behaviour is constantly pushing and constantly transgressing. That is Mariner, she has the 25thC version of Affluenza.

[Procstar]

If anything, Mariner is a basket case of issues, though we still don't know how she got to that point.

Combo of her being one of the kids on the Enterprise D (not confirmed yet but it makes too much sense given what we know about her past) followed by her likely first joining Starfleet at the height of the Dominion War would likely play a big part of it.

Seems possible, concerning who she knows in Season 2 and 3. They're pretty important canon characters connected to that conflict, so she could've been a combatant in that war.

[Procstar]

This one really does say that Mariner is seriously, seriously messed up.

That later gets followed up in future seasons.

If anything, Mariner is a basket case of issues, though we still don't know how she got to that point.

I kinda feel like we do. Like Chuck said in a prev review, she is a Starfleet trust fund kid. She's been indulged and favoured, and never felt any real consequences. It is S3 before she truly starts getting pushback on this from her parents, who have explicitly said they are protecting her from consequences, by no longer giving her that protection, and she's slowly actually starting to shape up. We don't need to go that deep into her psyche to find any trauma, and in fact her "trauma" might actually be the lack of any trauma. We see this all the time in the Real World with the kids of the obscenely rich, or just in regular kids whose parents are in a position to shield them from consequences and unwilling to not indulge them all the time.

It is natural to push limits, to find where those limits actually are. Every kid does it. The problem comes in where they don't get pushback, don't have limits set, so the behaviour is constantly pushing and constantly transgressing. That is Mariner, she has the 25thC version of Affluenza.

I can buy your argument. Freeman and her father also see that too, which is why they give her the ultimatum.

That being said, she does seem to have some trauma behind her, considering some of her experiences (ex: her friend being eaten by a shapeshifter) and who she knows (ex: Worf, Kira and Quark).

...so I don't think she is just a rich poser. She does have genuine Starfleet skills to back up her years of time in the force. She was also implied to have been a very good cadet in her day - something happened though that made her want to underachieve and be an annoyance to command staff.

[hypocratus]

For me it isn't just the holodeck program. I can understand using the holodeck to work through psychological issues. The thing for me is forcing your "friends" to experience as well, without asking them first.