Assorted thoughts and observations as I watched (reposted from the other place):

• Oh, shit, we've got a space-ring!
• Don't you hate it when the god-computer starts lagging?
• Ransom: Hidden art critic.
• Boimler leading an away mission. What could go wrong?
• "Everything that has ever occurred is science stuff."
• "And or dismemberment"
• Was that fucking NOMAD?
• Lancelot the Ferret.
• The update is going to screw it all up, isn't it?
• Yep.
• I love how the artists just go and start painting the fallen freeze-cloud.
• Is this the first time that the Kzinti ensign has talked?
• Blindfolded saber fight!
• "A mountain, or possibly a volcano has appeared." (boom) "Ah, it is a volcano."
• T'Lyn is great.
• Move Along Home
• "He overdosed on Ketracel white"
• "BRADWARD, NO!"
• OH GOD, IT'S A KOALA!"
• Very 2001
• "You never forget your first death."

Observations and thoughts as I watched (initially posted at the other place):

• We begin with "Twovix".

• Holodeck waste material, AKA jizz, poop, and god knows what else.

• Oh, hey, T'Lyn!

• DAT VOYAGER THEME!

• Oh, hey, the probe from the one with the whales!

• Neelix cheese!

• Shit did get freaky.

• Oh shit, they're going to Tuvix Billups and T'ana!

• "Janeway straight-up murdered Tuvix."

• MACROVIRUS.

• The Pike Thing, of course.

• "Back in the 70s"

• "Captain, I caution against socializing with the organism."

• So many VOY deep cuts.

• "Holy shit. Janeway didn't mess around."

• Macrovirus of Borg. And robotic warp salamander of Borg.

• "Water, room temperature."

• This is definitely T'Ana's side of T'Llups.

• Oh god, they tuvixed the Matt the whale! Wait, what about Kimolu? Is he alright? Is he okay?

• A Tuvixy meatball!

• Heh, the real solution to the Tuvix conundrum was just to keep merging until it's a nonsentient blob of meat so there is no murder, so to speak.

• Oh god I just realized that we're going to get so much Tuvixy fanart.

• Bizarre series of Voyager-themed obstacles.

• SHE GOT A PIP

• Beckett Mariner receives the fate worse than death for her: promotion.

• Nothing ever good happens "somewhere in Klingon space"

• RIP Klingon lower-deckers.

And now, episode 2:

• Heh, Romulan lower decks.

• Goodbye, Romulan lower deckers!

• Heh, those 80s workout stuff.

• Oh, cool, Boimler still has his Tom Paris tplate!

• Please tell me Denty has a Memory Alpha page.

• The Nacelle is right there!

• Non-botanicals

• I have just met Moopsy but I would die for it.

• Oddly enough, this is the SECOND time this year that a Jack Quaid character looked at a VERY bright light. Shoutout to my boy Richard Feynman, the one man crazy enough to watch a nuclear test without goggles.

• Okay, I would no longer die for the moopsy.

• Tucker Tubes! Good old Trip got stuff named for him!

• The Ad Astra Per Aspera poster!

• I do feel like Starfleet would have better soundproofing, but then again this is the Cerritos.

• RIP corn guy.

• LIVIK!

• Aww, D'Vana Tendi giving orders.

• Teeth as bread crumbs.

• Heh, the humans really are the worst.

• Hah, he could have just used the viewports.

• Overall, I think I liked this second episode more, even though I loved the VOY fan service.

Given Archer's test pilot background, I'd like to think he was from Hammondsport, the hometown of Glenn Curtiss.

James is Sam Kirk’s brother, who was introduced in the episode “Where No Man has Gone Before”.

Deep cut. Love how they continue to flesh out these obscure characters from Trek canon!

We see lieutenant Mitchell in the captain’s chair, I believe for the first time.

Kind of hoping they promote Rong Fu to a regular simply so that she is no longer the only bridge crew person who isn't.

IKS par’Machstreet Boys

This is canon now.

I feel like Lower Decks might be able to pull it off.

I kind of thought playing the TOS theme was like meant to be the music played after the final curtain as the actors take their bows and people start leaving the theater.

Oh, c'mon, why do you have to do Frakes so dirty like that?

”But flipping it open’s the best part.” Pike is objectively correct.

Okay, that part is true.

My personal philosophy is DEATH TO THE OPPOSITION.

Edit also how could I forget what seems an inspiration of this episode MAS*H

Yes, definitely had a MASH vibe.

"We must personally attack Burrito Truck and his sanity." -The people behind SNW

I can only presume that you are currently doing "Those Old Scientists" but may die in the process.

Great as always. Especially love the escalation of things you show with "stuff that Kirk is good enough at chess to win money for"