Sep 18, 2023 · In Lower Decks season 3, episode 3 "Mining the Mind's Mines", Lt. Commander Steve Stevens (Ben Rodgers) references the koala after being turned to stone, and in Lower Decks season 3, episode 8 "Crisis Point 2: Paradoxus", a holodeck character invokes the koala in joyous blessings.

Jul 25, 2023 · The koala gag begins in Lower Decks Season 1, Episode 4, "Moist Vessel." Ensign Tendi inadvertently disrupts an "ascension" ceremony in which fellow crew member Lieutenant O'Connor intends to reach to a higher state of being.

So why is the energetic outline of a friendly Koala hovering out in space? The answer is that it’s a specific reference to another Star Trek series airing on Paramount Plus, Star Trek: Lower Decks. A Koala is first referenced in the fourth episode of Star Trek: Lower Decks season 1.

In the Lower Decks version of the Star Trek Universe logo animation introduced in "Grounded", a koala-like figure can be seen hidden in the background nebulae.

Sep 19, 2023 · The space koala is one of Star Trek: Lower Decks' daffiest running jokes. Lower Decks brings the koala back and uses the idea in an intriguing new way. Lower Decks' koala homages David Lynch's Twin Peaks in a disturbingly familiar way.

In Lower Decks S1E4 ("Moist Vessel"), one of the characters ascends and he declares that the universe rests on the back of a koala. Lower Decks is trying to be funny and poke fun at ST.

A koala was a marsupial native to Earth. A horned koala-like creature was among the lifeforms kept in Narj's Miraculous Menagerarium in 2381. (LD: "I Have No Bones Yet I Must Flee") A god-like entity resembling a koala was witnessed by several …

Jul 3, 2022 · Giant Koala Deity has now appeared in two episodes of Lower Decks. To me, it makes G.K.D. cannon and has completely flipped me out re-watching older ST series knowing this is all going down on the back of a giant Koala. Why IS he smiling? What does he KNOW!?

Aug 28, 2020 · As he begins to transcend time and space, he reveals that the entire known universe is actually being carried around on the back of a giant, cosmic, smiling koala. The Lieutenant is freaked out by the koala's unnerving smile, and before he can divulge the secret of life, he then disappears, his transformation fully complete.

Ascention - The Universe Is Balanced On The Back Of A Giant Koala - Star Trek Lower Decks 1x04