History DeconstructedTrope / StarTrekLowerDecks

Much like Mariner's MilitaryMaverick tendencies, this comes to a head in "Trusted Sources", when the sudden arrival of a reporter sends her into [[TheNeidermeyer Neidermeyer]] mode. She cancels leisure activities, tries to enforce bedtimes, suddenly changes shifts around, and hastily blames and punishes Mariner for seemingly making her and the ''Cerritos'' look bad in an interview. It turns out Mariner did no such thing, and Freeman's rash handling of the situation is seized upon by the reporter and used to paint her in an extremely negative light, which contributes to the ''Cali''-class almost being decommissioned in "The Stars At Night".

** Deconstructs SlaveToPR. Deconstruction and something Beckett Mariner inherited from her mother, the captain, though in the opposite way. Beckett has been in Starfleet most of her life and is fully qualified to take command if her mother is incapacitated. Mariner also has a strong desire to stay where she is and refuses promotion. The problem that she must be viewed as a loose cannon to anyone that can promote her, which means staged accidents, mistakes, embarrassing stories, borderline castastrophies, and of course open insubordination to superiors. All of which reflect bad on friends and family alike, which pushes them away and isolates Beckett more and more over time.

* Deconstructs {{Determinator}}. Much like Boimler, when D'Vana Tendi gets an idea in her head she will not stop until she does it. The problem is when this happens it always results in more danger, bodily harm, and unnecessary complications than are necessary. Ranging from hunting friends down to remove body parts, to visiting violent pirate dens, to even willingly cracking open her own limbs.
* Capt Carol Freeman Deconstructs SlaveToPR. Something she has passed down to her daughter, though in the more traditional way. Capt. Carol Freeman is fundamentally a good person, but she is ambitious and a glory hound with a strong desire to advance her career. While this is very much expected in a quasi-military organization like Starfleet, the problem is that Capt. Freeman has shown on many occasions a willingness to endanger her ship, her crew, and even her own life just for the chance of increasing her standing in Starfleet, only to be snubbed each and every time. This comes also to a head in "Trusted Sources", when Freeman hastily blames and punishes Mariner for seemingly making her and the ''Cerritos'' look bad in an interview. It turns out Mariner did no such thing, and Freeman's rash handling of the situation is seized upon by the reporter and used to paint her in an extremely negative light, which contributes to the ''Cali''-class almost being decommissioned in "The Stars At Night".

* "[[Recap/StarTrekLowerDecksS3E09TrustedSources Trusted Sources]]" Deconstructs SeenItAll. The crew's desensitization to things like [[Recap/StarTrekLowerDecksS2E02KayshonHisEyesOpen being turned into a puppet]], [[Recap/StarTrekLowerDecksS3E04RoomForGrowth the captain having a meltdown over engineers not relaxing to her satisfaction]], and [[Recap/StarTrekLowerDecksS2E01StrangeEnergies the first officer gaining god-like powers and attempting to eat the ship]] results in most of them not realizing that a lot of their experiences sound ridiculous out of context and as a consequence not recognizing that they need to word their anecdotes ''very'' carefully, resulting in them accidentally painting themselves as a bunch of unprofessional morons who can't stop getting into trouble. They also accidentally reinforce it when they accuse someone who only had praise for the ship of besmirching them with no evidence. Their actions as a whole almost end up getting ''their entire class'' decommissioned, and the only reason it doesn't come to that is because the class' replacement turns out to be [[ArtificialStupidity unable to follow the Prime Directive]] and [[AIIsACrapshoot dangerously emotionally unstable]].

* Lieutenant Levy deconstructs ConspiracyTheorist. Believing that sort of thing causes you to come off as an InsufferableImbecile, ''especially'' when you start espousing your beliefs to people who went through the events you're talking about and know you're talking complete nonsense. This has resulted in Levy being unpopular with his shipmates, on one occasion ruining a date with then-Ensign Mariner. Military and quasi-military organizations also don't want someone like that in charge of people for various reasons, meaning [[PassedOverPromotion Levy's Starfleet career has hit a brick wall]]; it's implied that the only reason he still ''has'' a career is because he's, in Boimler's words, [[DitzyGenius an "outside-the-box math genius"]], and notably, Boimler, a lieutenant ''junior grade'', appears to be in charge of the mission despite Levy outranking him. It also leads to any [[TheCuckoolanderWasRight intuition you have]] being ignored because your "intuition" is historically not credible.

* Lieutenant Levy deconstructs ConspiracyTheorist. Believing that sort of thing causes you to come off as an InsufferableImbecile, ''especially'' when you start espousing your beliefs to people who went through the events you're talking about and know you're talking complete nonsense. This has resulted in Levy being unpopular with his shipmates, on one occasion ruining a date with then-Ensign Mariner. Military and quasi-military organizations also don't want someone like that in charge of people for various reasons, meaning [[PassedOverPromotion Levy's Starfleet career has hit a brick wall]]; it's implied that the only reason he still ''has'' a career is because he's, in Boimler's words, [[DitzyGenius an "outside-the-box math genius"]], and notably, ''Lt. jg.'' Boimler is in charge of the mission despite Levy outranking him. It also leads to any [[TheCuckoolanderWasRight intuition you have]] being ignored because your "intuition" is not historically credible.

* Lieutenant Levy deconstructs ConspiracyTheorist. Believing that sort of thing causes you to come off as an InsufferableImbecile, ''especially'' when you start espousing your beliefs to people who went through the events you're talking about and know you're talking complete nonsense. This has resulted in Levy being unpopular with his shipmates, on one occasion ruining a date with then-Ensign Mariner. Military and quasi-military organizations also don't want someone like that in charge of people for various reasons, meaning [[PassedOverPromotion Levy's Starfleet career has hit a brick wall]]; it's implied that the only reason he still ''has'' a career is because he's, in Boimler's words, [[DitzyGenius an "outside-the-box math genius"]].

* "[[Recap/StarTrekLowerDecksS4E09TheInnerFight The Inner Fight]]" Deconstructs MildlyMilitary--or the specific type of the trope that Starfleet is. Cadets go in expecting to largely be exploring the galaxy, but then something like [[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine the Dominion War]] happens and suddenly those cadets are unexpectedly forced to defend the Federation from a war of conquest and end up surrounded by death and destruction. Even in peacetime, ensigns may hear that one of their Academy friends was killed in an espionage mission in hostile space without being adequately prepared for the devastating news. The former happened to Mariner ''right after [[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS7E14LowerDecks the latter]]'', and the result is severe PTSD that sent the poor woman into a self-sabotaging and self-destructive downward spiral designed to prevent her from having to send one of her friends to their death.

* Beckett Mariner has deconstructed many tropes.

* "[[Recap/StarTrekLowerDecksS4E09TheInnerFight The Inner Fight]]" Deconstructs MildlyMilitary--or the specific type of the trope that Starfleet is. Cadets go in expecting to largely be exploring the galaxy, but then something like [[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine the Dominion War]] happens and suddenly those cadets are unexpectedly forced to defend their worlds from a war of conquest and end up surrounded by death and destruction. Even in peacetime, ensigns may hear that one of their Academy friends was killed in an espionage mission in hostile space without being adequately prepared for the devastating news. The former happened to Mariner ''right after the latter'', and the result is severe PTSD that sent the poor woman into a self-sabotaging and self-destructive downward spiral designed to prevent her from having to send one of her friends to their death.

'''Rutherford''': They didn't even realize what they were doing!

* Lieutenant Levy deconstructs ConspiracyTheorist. Believing that sort of thing causes you to come off as an InsufferableImbecile, ''especially'' when you start espousing your beliefs to people who went through the events you're talking about and know you're talking complete nonsense. Military and quasi-military organizations also don't want someone like that in charge of people for various reasons, meaning [[PassedOverPromotion Levy's Starfleet career has hit a brick wall]]; it's implied that the only reason he still ''has'' a career is because he's, in Boimler's words, [[DitzyGenius an "outside-the-box math genius"]].

* Lieutenant Levy deconstructs ConspiracyTheorist. Believing that sort of thing causes you to come off as an InsufferableImbecile, ''especially'' when you start espousing your beliefs to people who went through the events you're talking about and know you're talking complete nonsense. Military and quasi-military organizations also don't want someone like that in charge of people for various reasons, meaning [[PassedOverPromotion Levy's Starfleet career has hit a brick wall]].