deadline.com wrote: The expansion of CBS All Access’ Star Trek universe continues with a two-season order to Star Trek: Lower Decks, a half-hour adult animated comedy series from Rick and Morty head writer and executive producer Mike McMahan, a long-time Star Trek fan. Star Trek: Lower Decks, which will focus on the support crew serving on one of Starfleet’s least important ships. .... “Mike won our hearts with his first sentence: ‘I want to do a show about the people who put the yellow cartridge in the food replicator so a banana can come out the other end.’
There seems to be two feeds of lower decks for some reason one with episodes missing and one without.
I'm seeing the same thing. Pretty weird.
It's baaaack.
Will try and get it watched at lunch
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 😁
There are four lights!
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^^^ 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.
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!
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.
WHEN IS THIS RELEASED
Today in the USA and tomorrow on amazon uk.
Ah, the age old "kick the godlike being in the groin" tactic.
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
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
Anyone know what time this goes up on Prime? Is it midnight or in the morning sometime?
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
Not on Prime yet. What an absolute balls.
First episode is up on Prime now.
Too late...
That episode was overly frenetic but still better than anything the past 4 seasons of live action have given us.
Awww 1 per week. Its like being in the 90ies all over again
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)
Watched....and it's still good.
I am very pleased. New Trek to look foward to every week for a while...outstanding :)
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.
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).
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.
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.
It's just like old Trek! Lol
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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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.
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.
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.
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