YMMV / Star Trek The Next Generation S 7 E 14 Lower Decks

• Funny Moments:
  • After Riker reveals his flush.
    Geordi: I can not believe it!
    Riker: I'm your worst nightmare.
  • When Taurik makes a thinly veiled joke about the Cardassian Occupation of Bajor... in front of a Bajoran. (To non-Treksperts, that's essentially the same as making a Holocaust joke to a Jewish person.)
    Lavelle: Promotion. Promotion. Promotion.
    Taurik: You can't seriously believe that what you're doing will influence the outcome of your evaluation.
    Ogawa: It's a time-honoured strategy, Taurik.
    Sito: The Vedeks of the Janalan order maintain a round-the-clock chant for the benefit of the Bajoran people.
    Taurik: Considering the history of your planet, that doesn't exactly validate what he's doing.
  • When they're talking about Lavelle going up and talking to Riker in Ten-Forward.
    Taurik: He's convinced that Commander Riker doesn't like him.
    Ben: (accusing) Did you crash this ship into something?
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • Joret became a Starfleet spy in the hopes of preventing further conflict between Cardassia and the Federation. A few years later, Cardassia joins the Dominion and wages a catastrophic war that brings both sides to their knees anyway. By all appearances, Sito's death turned out to be All for Nothing.
  • Picard mentions in his speech to the crew how "[Sito's] loss will be deeply felt by all who knew her." As we later learn in Lower Decks, a certain someone will continue to be haunted by her death over a decade after the fact.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: A show about four ensigns on board a star ship who have no clue what the senior staff are doing. They later took idea and made an animated series about it.
• Once Original, Now Common: The idea of taking a cast of lesser to unknown supporting characters and having them take over the main narrative of a show was far from a common practice at the time the show was made. Behind-the-scenes there was considerable debate over whose episode it was supposed to be, until Michael Pillar gave them the go-ahead make it primarily about the ensigns. It wasn't until more Myth Arc driven shows started becoming the norm, with episodes that excluded members of the main cast for the sake of A Day in the Limelight becoming fairly standard.
• Tear Jerker: Picard's announcement at the end confirming the death of Sito is one of the most heartbreaking moments on the show. That little gasp from Nurse Ogawa makes it worse.