Grounded (episode)

For other uses, see Grounded.

"Grounded" is a Star Trek: Lower Decks episode, the premiere of LD season 3 released on 25 August 2022 on Paramount+.

Description[]

Mariner enlists her friends on a rogue mission to exonerate her mother as Captain Freeman faces a military tribunal for the destruction of Pakled Planet.

References[]

Characters[]

Morgan Bateson • Brad Boimler • Les Buenamigo • Zefram Cochrane (hologram) • Carlton Dennis • Alonzo Freeman • Carol Freeman • Gary (Ensign) • Gavin • Genevieve • Grubdin • Lianne • Mandel (Commander) • Mandolina • Beckett Mariner • Jack Ransom • Sylvia Ront • Rumdar • Sam Rutherford • Shaxs Drazon • T'Ana • D'Vana Tendi • Tuvok • verugament

Referenced only: Sonny Clemonds • Jane • Edward Jellico • James T. Kirk • Mith bin Tong

Starships and vehicles[]

USS Cerritos (California-class) • Joshua Tree (shuttlecraft) • Phoenix replica • Akira-class starship • Federation fighters

Referenced only: USS Archimedes

Locations[]

Earth (Sol star system, sector 001, treaty boundary Quadrant 0, the galaxy's Alpha Quadrant): Bozeman (Montana) • Golden Gate Bridge • New Orleans (Sisko's Creole Kitchen)

Referenced only: Big Strong City (Pakled Planet) • Jupiter (Sol star system) • Romulan Neutral Zone (the galaxy's Beta Quadrant)

Races and cultures[]

Bajoran • Caitian • Human • Orion • Pakled • Vulcan • Zakdorn

Referenced only: Klingon • Lapeerian

States and organizations[]

Buffalo Solar Knights • London Kings • Starfleet

Other references[]

carbon • Fermat's last theorem • Ketracel White-Hot • World War III

Appendices[]

Related media[]

TNG movie, novelization & comic adaptation: First Contact: A replica of the Phoenix is used for Bozeman's "Ride the Phoenix" ride. The Cochrane hologram is also voiced by James Cromwell^MA. The T'Plana-Hath was also part of Historical Bozeman's playground.

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Connections[]

Star Trek: Lower Decks episodes
season 1	"Second Contact" • "Envoys" • "Temporal Edict" • "Moist Vessel" • "Cupid's Errant Arrow" • "Terminal Provocations" • "Much Ado About Boimler" • "Veritas" • "Crisis Point" • "No Small Parts"
season 2	"Strange Energies" • "Kayshon, His Eyes Open" • "We'll Always Have Tom Paris" • "Mugato, Gumato" • "An Embarrassment Of Dooplers" • "The Spy Humongous" • "Where Pleasant Fountains Lie" • "I, Excretus" • "wej Duj" • "First First Contact"
season 3	"Grounded" • "The Least Dangerous Game" • "Mining the Mind's Mines" • "Room for Growth" • "Reflections" • "Hear All, Trust Nothing" • "A Mathematically Perfect Redemption" • "Crisis Point 2: Paradoxus" • "Trusted Sources" • "The Stars at Night"
season 4	"Twovix" • "I Have No Bones Yet I Must Flee" • "In the Cradle of Vexilon" • "Something Borrowed, Something Green" • "Empathological Fallacies" • "Parth Ferengi's Heart Place" • "A Few Badgeys More" • "Caves" • "The Inner Fight" • "Old Friends, New Planets"
season 5	"Dos Cerritos" • "Shades of Green" • "The Best Exotic Nanite Hotel" • "A Farewell To Farms" • "Starbase 80?!" • "Of Gods and Angles" • "Fully Dilated"

Timeline[]

published order
Previous episode: First First Contact	Lower Decks episode produced	Next episode: The Least Dangerous Game
Previous episode: First First Contact	Lower Decks episode aired	Next episode: The Least Dangerous Game
chronological order
Previous Adventure: First First Contact	Memory Beta Chronology	Next Adventure: The Least Dangerous Game
Previous Adventure: First First Contact	Voyages of the USS Cerritos	Next Adventure: The Least Dangerous Game

External link[]

Grounded (episode) article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.

Memory Beta, non-canon Star Trek Wiki