Star Trek: Lower Decks (animated series)

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

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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!

pixelburp · 12-08-2021 12:41pm

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

No, those old tag formats don't work anymore - see here for a howto https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058199126/how-can-i-a-users-guide-to-the-new-site#latest Basically there's a formatting option in the text editor now.

TheValeyard · 12-08-2021 12:50pm

WHEN IS THIS RELEASED

corkie · 12-08-2021 1:10pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117742281#Comment_117742281

Today in the USA and tomorrow on amazon uk.

CastorTroy · 12-08-2021 2:18pm

Ah, the age old "kick the godlike being in the groin" tactic.

corkie · 12-08-2021 3:23pm

Strange Energies! Taking Gary Mitchell to the extreme with Jack Ransom

Enjoyable! Name of episode gives the plot away. Opening of episode was

hologram deck stupidity

Slydice · 12-08-2021 11:20pm

2.1: That was fun! The link to

Gary Mitchell didn't feel as ominous as Gary Mitchell did 😄

really liked

the Riker bit even if it was so short

FunLover18 · 12-08-2021 11:26pm

Anyone know what time this goes up on Prime? Is it midnight or in the morning sometime?

Cookie_Monster · 13-08-2021 1:04am

if its the 13th on US time for us here in NZ am gonna be pissed...

Beers and Lower Decks is sorta the plan tonight

FutureGuy · 13-08-2021 8:10am

Not on Prime yet. What an absolute balls.

Stark · 13-08-2021 11:55am

First episode is up on Prime now.

13-08-2021 12:16pm

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Too late...

That episode was overly frenetic but still better than anything the past 4 seasons of live action have given us.

pah · 13-08-2021 12:48pm

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The whole show is frenetic, that's the style. Still, great trek imo

Cookie_Monster · 13-08-2021 1:04pm

Awww 1 per week. Its like being in the 90ies all over again

13-08-2021 1:17pm

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Yeah but this one was at the levels of the season finale without half as much at stake. Still great but dialled one notch too high (for me anyway)

Rawr · 13-08-2021 4:46pm

Watched....and it's still good.

I am very pleased. New Trek to look foward to every week for a while...outstanding :)

flazio · 13-08-2021 5:47pm

I'd say Netflix are scratching their heads as to why there's been a spike in viewings for The Old Scientists episode Where No Man Has Gone Before.

Rawr · 13-08-2021 6:25pm

Also...is it just me, or is it very noticeable that Lower Decks is the only new Trek show that has the proper Phaser Beem effect we've been used to over the years. Instead of those annoying piffy "Pew!-Pew!" phaser cannons they've had in practically all of the new live-action shows lately. (I don't count Defiant's Phaser cannons in that gripe, those were actually awesome).

AMKC · 14-08-2021 12:06am

Just started watching it. Am loving the start. You can tell these guys love Star Trek and lots hints too plus that ship.

9 minutes in oh Mariner lol.

Great Easter egg there with the Strange Energies.

I liked the pears talk lol and the talk about Boimler was gas. I kept expecting to see him and then ye.

The poor commander do lol. Marineer really hit the spot ouch lol.

pixelburp · 14-08-2021 10:54am

The holodeck opening was great, the reveal of it as cardio a good punchline. And yeah, Jennifer seems annoying.

The rest was kinda meh TBH, it doesn't quite gel without Boimler as the prissy foil to Mariners chaos. And I just can't warm to Rutherford and Tendi. They're fine, but rarely feel "main cast" enough. Too bland in spots, though Tendi's occasional deviation into mad scientist can be funny (such as her dog last season).

Still great to have a proper Trek show, even if it's a nominal comedy. Crazy how hyperactive and action packed it is, WITHOUT sacrificing those Trek genetics. It does more with less runtime than the 40 minute live action shows; shows that feel like they don't trust the audience enough.

TheValeyard · 14-08-2021 4:45pm

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It's just like old Trek! Lol

PogoRach · 15-08-2021 4:54pm

Enjoyable Season 2 opener. The references to classic Trek are always welcome, and the parallels to the season 1 premiere of Lower Decks itself were great. Looking forward to see how the rest of the season plays out.

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Evade · 15-08-2021 7:45pm

Lots of nice details in the holodeck opening. It's still baffling how the animated series can do that and the live action ones don't seem to care.

Rawr · 16-08-2021 6:50am

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And that those deals were generally dead on right. When they boarded that Miranda and I saw the bridge I couldn't believe the respect for detail there.

Further evidence I feel of Kurtzman keeping his distance. He is incapable of not somehow f*cking up this kind of respect for Trek without being physically absent.

pixelburp · 16-08-2021 7:18am

It isn't just Kurtzman that's absent from Lower Decks IMO, it's arguably the whole executive tier of the studio. Disco and Picard are two big-ticket, headline live action items; they're the priority and the blockbuster sentiment is absolutely poisoning the well here about what's either allowed or expected from Trek. The silly 20 minute cartoon doesn't factor cos the executives don't care - they won't sell subscriptions on that compared with "hey look we got Captain Picard back!"; while they're all still clinging onto the idea that the 2009 reboot is what people want. The brand is a tool for gratification, not a launchpad for stories.

Kurtzman may need to go but he's absolutely there because of his link with the Kelvin'verse, and the rot starts from above him. Mike McMahan could get the keys to the kingdom but I guarantee he'd be under twice as much pressure as Kurtzman to thread the needle. Maybe if The Expanse wasn't technically a niche flop to the Paramount execs (to pick the best examole of adult space opera from TV, and I would put money that that's how it's seen), the studio would be making more efforts towards mixing brains with the action. Even Lower Decks shows you can have the Trek energy within a high tempo narrative.

Evade · 16-08-2021 10:10am

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Even from the opening shot with the Galor class and the Cardassian phasers and door controls were spot on too.

Rawr · 16-08-2021 10:38am

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Not the mention the nods to the Dominion in there too. Everything, damn near everything was well considered.

I also kind of enjoyed them conflating the Starfleet chevron with the Nike symbol. It's on the sweatbands, and even the soles of their shoes,

odyssey06 · 16-08-2021 8:34pm

Mike MacMahon also wrote the short Trek episode 'Escape Artist' which I thought was v good... has a similar vibe to Lower Decks

Greyjoy · 19-08-2021 11:20am

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I felt like the first season dialed back that frenetic style a bit as the series progressed and it became a much better show. They could have balanced the A/B stories better in this episode - instead of Tendi & Rutherford show what's happening with Boimler aboard the Titan. Maybe even reverse expectations by not having the Titan be an all-action, all-danger commission for Boimler.

pixelburp · 19-08-2021 11:44am

I think the sooner Boimler gets off the Titan the better; Season 1 worked better when he and Mariner were sparking off each other. 'Cos they're a clear, definitive Odd Couple arrangement so without Boimler Mariner didn't work for me. While the other two just aren't interesting enough to hold the group together.

CastorTroy · 19-08-2021 12:33pm

Ah, such a Boimler thing to do.

Oh, and such gratuitous nudity

Slydice · 19-08-2021 10:21pm

2: That was just an all round enjoyable episode. My nostalgia getting hit on overload. Jokes, action, Star Trek and more!

That was hilarious that Rutherford had the clone bet😄

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117775616#Comment_117775616

I was totally thinking about Starship Troopers!

breezy1985 · 20-08-2021 9:55am

A great episode for the Easter eggs but I found it a bit low on laughs again. Love how they solved Boimler on the Titan and much better than my guess that he was just gonna chicken out.

My big takeaway was that a lot of the "lessons" in the episode were a direct kick in Discos groin. Boimlers speech about why he loves Starfleet (Trek), what he hated about Titan and Mariners plot about always wanting to be in charge and never letting her crew members take the lead

McGiver · 20-08-2021 10:11am

Binge watched the whole S01 + S02E1. Had a several serious laughs. Great Trek show and very canonical, I'd say.

One has to know a lot of the canon to appreciate many of the jokes.

Star Trek: Lower Decks (animated series)

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