Star Trek: Lower Decks (animated series)

Evade · 12-06-2021 9:15am

Rawr wrote: »

I wonder if that Yeager Class was due to Revell's Voyager model kit range. (Which I remember being a seperate license than AMT had with the rest of Star Trek.

I had Voyager from that range, the Kazon raider and Kazon torpedo-ship. The last ship in the range was the Maquis ship. None of them maintained a similar scale, so I can easily imagine a gigantic Maquis vessel that you could glue onto a Voyager saucer.

That's exactly where it came from. I'd imagine doing stuff like that now would be a licensing nightmare especially for kits from outside the franchise like all the star destroyer kits littered around various Star Trek series.

AMKC · 12-06-2021 9:42am

Deleted User wrote: »

Always thought they needed 2 nacells to form the warp field

Yes that is how Gene Roddenberry intended it to be but then from I suppose late TNG, DS9 on that changed. The Freedom class was at the Battle of Wolf 359 as seen in the wreckage not that it would have been able to do much a bit like driving a 1 litre car with a ton of brickets on a trailer behind it. I doubt it would get very far.
That is what was good about Star Trek it had rules it was just a pity they were never written down and set in stone. The writers would have had to be more creative then instead of just getting lazy with some stories and episodes. They have all since been broken.

AMKC · 12-06-2021 9:48am

Rawr wrote: »

I wonder if that Yeager Class was due to Revell's Voyager model kit range. (Which I remember being a seperate license than AMT had with the rest of Star Trek.

I had Voyager from that range, the Kazon raider and Kazon torpedo-ship. The last ship in the range was the Maquis ship. None of them maintained a similar scale, so I can easily imagine a gigantic Maquis vessel that you could glue onto a Voyager saucer.

It's not a Voyager saucer. That would imply that that saucer came from a Voyager class ship. It did not. It came from an Intrepid class ship and so it's a saucer from an Intrepid class of ship that was never finished which to me if you have half a ship built does not make that much sense. Surely finishing that ship would have made more sense than sticking two totally different ships together and would also be a far superior ship than the kit bash too. I know the in canon reason was Starfleet need more ships quickly and just stuck anything together and the other real world reason was budget.

Evade · 12-06-2021 10:49am

AMKC wrote: »

the other real world reason was budget.

If it was solely down to budget they would have used models they had already, I think they did it to flesh out the fleets even more so it didn't turn out like the end of Picard.

Time could have been an in universe factor in these types of ships, there are others like the Centaur and Curry types, where a capable ship now is better than a perfect ship later.

It happened in the real world too, the Imperial Japanese Navy tried to convert all sorts of ships in to aircraft carriers instead of waiting to build new ones which ranged from mixed to disastrous results.

Cookie_Monster · 14-06-2021 11:47am

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Always thought they needed 2 nacells to form the warp field

Each galaxy class style of nacelle has 2 lots of warp coils in it so a single one is in fact a pair.

Also Starring LeVar Burton · 20-06-2021 12:02am

Finally got around to sitting down and watching all of Lower Decks...

At the start of the season I thought it was mostly just fine, but damn by the end they had won me over completely. That Finale!!! Excellent stuff.

pixelburp · 23-07-2021 7:27pm

New trailer, aired during comic con

https://mobile.twitter.com/StarTrek/status/1418630537212747779

Stark · 24-07-2021 10:21am

Jeffrey Combs is going to make a guest appearance as an evil computer in one of the episodes.

pixelburp · 24-07-2021 10:57am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117655156#Comment_117655156

As if the show didn't already need more validation as the closest in spirit to Trek, one of its most cherished and liked jobbing guest actors will turn up.

AMKC · 24-07-2021 3:10pm

That looks brilliant and even better than season 1. Can't wait. When does it drop. Also Duncan McKNeill as Tom Paris in it again kinda cool.

Stark · 24-07-2021 10:56pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117656011#Comment_117656011

August 12th

Also Starring LeVar Burton · 24-07-2021 11:15pm

It is nice to be excited about the return of a Star Trek series again, and feeling confident we're definitely gonna be in for a good time, compared to Discovery and Picard.

AMKC · 24-07-2021 11:18pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117657671#Comment_117657671

Yes it is. Not long to wait either that's great. Must watch season 1 again before it.

Rawr · 25-07-2021 10:53am

Well, that looks like I might enjoy it again. Actually looking forward to new Trek, can you imagine?!!

Yet again, I wonder if Kurtzman kept his distance for this one. The talking Tom Paris plate suggests....yes.

Stark · 25-07-2021 10:52pm

Heh, just got the Nemesis reference at 1:30 :)

pixelburp · 04-08-2021 8:33pm

Episodes for this are going to appear on Amazon from August 13th, one day after US broadcast. Noice. If short notice!

Rawr · 04-08-2021 11:46pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117706984#Comment_117706984

Awesome, can watch them on an actual app this time instead of ~~pirating~~ watching them in...other perfectly legal ways....

05-08-2021 7:34am

Is primevideo missing episodes of the 1st season?

TheValeyard · 05-08-2021 11:49am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117708439#Comment_117708439

Just had a look there and I see all 10 episodes.

05-08-2021 11:58am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117709566#Comment_117709566

They were missing for me, last week, when doing a watch which actually registered as a legit view.

Prime is bloody random, at times, with it's viewing permissions

flazio · 08-08-2021 1:07pm

There seems to be two feeds of lower decks for some reason one with episodes missing and one without.

Stark · 08-08-2021 6:42pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117723332#Comment_117723332

I'm seeing the same thing. Pretty weird.

CastorTroy · 12-08-2021 9:18am

It's baaaack.

Will try and get it watched at lunch

pixelburp · 12-08-2021 9:29am

Happy to wait 'til it appears on Amazon; can we try and keep spoilers within that mindset - given I doubt I'm the only one who'll wait the day 'til it appears Au Naturelle as it were 😁

ilovesmybrick · 12-08-2021 10:40am

There are four lights!

corkie · 12-08-2021 12:17pm

See link below for how to create spoilers <<<< edited

^^^ Just trying to workout how to spoiler stuff now

Read the how to. And got it working.

Ignore this post nothing here, yet to watch.

ilovesmybrick · 12-08-2021 12:23pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117742114#Comment_117742114

I had to do a bit of searching around the site to work out how it's now done. Highlight the text you want to tag and you can select it from the format button to the left and then find the dropdown.

It's a bit of a pain!