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.’
Even from the opening shot with the Galor class and the Cardassian phasers and door controls were spot on too.
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,
Mike MacMahon also wrote the short Trek episode 'Escape Artist' which I thought was v good... has a similar vibe to Lower Decks
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.
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.
Ah, such a Boimler thing to do.
Oh, and such gratuitous nudity
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😄
I was totally thinking about Starship Troopers!
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
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.
That was another great episode. Loved all the references to past Star Trek episodes and Villians.
I also loved how they took the micky out of Discovery.
I thought the Titan looked great too and loved how they solved the Boimler problem lol. It will be interesting next time we see the Titan.
I loved the new characther to the Taimerian.
I see Lower Decks is continuing the great Star Trek Tradition of ranks being almost irrelevant. The new chief of security is a lieutenant junior grade, the officer at the station when he walked onto the bridge was a full lieutenant.
I think I'll have to go over the collections a few times it was so packed with references.
Not my work but here is a good breakdown of the collection
Mars Perseverance rover
Betazoid gift box
Child's sculpture of Picard’s head
Ktarian game headset
Baseball and bat
M-113 creature (salt vampire)
Trombone
Possible statue of Apollo?
Khan’s Starfleet delta insignia necklace
Terran Empire flag
Various bladed weapons (bat’leth, mek’leth, kar’takin, lirpa, ushaan-tor, Klingon sword, rapier)
SS Valiant disaster recorder
Picard’s attempted still life painting (reverse image)
Possible parody of the Doctor’s painting of a reclining Seven of Nine
Kadis-kot board
Various animals (whale, shark, rhino)
Kurlan naiskos
Cases of Chateau Picard
Trident scanner
Filter mask
Possible Horta egg?
Odo-like bucket
Poker visor
Torpedo casing
TOS red-shirt and skirt uniform (Uhura's?)
Kataan probe
Data’s Masaka mask
Data’s painting of Spot
Various skeletons (Giant Spock, Abraham Lincoln, Excalbian)
Ronin-like candle
Yep, did not predict that Boimler resolve... but it was perfect.
The shade thrown at Discovery was brilliantly done.
Brave too considering Kurtzmann is executive for all new Trek
In this scenario, all that "executive" means is he gets a pay cheque and IMDB credit, not a chance Kurtzman actually watches or pays any sort of attention to Lower Decks... 😂
I missed the Discovery shade, what point in the show was it?
Boiler resolution was brilliant
Very good episode again!!
It genuinely is proper Trek just with added humour and madness.
Well they never directly name Discovery, but the majority of the B-plot with Boimler on the Titan and what it means to him to really be Starfleet was all very much a sly dig at Discovery (and Picard).
I would have preferred if the Boimler resolution was left to the next episode with the Cerritos doing a bit of second contgact and finding him and connecting the set up dots from the last episode.
Hopefully there'll be more scenes with William Boimler and the Titan. It felt so amazing seeing Commander Riker again. Frake's "Picard" appearances just felt cheap and nasty, especially with the copy pasta ship. Despite being a cartoon, William Riker of the Titan felt real.
Was it not a dig at the Titon books?
Also I love how gung-ho happy Riker is, you can tell Frakes is having a great time doing it
Much better episode than last week's, and good the team is back to its proper equilibrium. The character moments were nice though, the little lessons feel so much more effortless. It's maddening how much better this show deals with the dissonance between the exploratory ideals of Starfleet and the action adventures therein.
As to the "shade"? Eh, maybe. I could see how it might be a dig at the Kurtzman shows but it was gentle and generalised enough. Be nice if some pennies dropped in those other production teams but I doubt it.
In TV circles I believe it's the opposite of film, in that the executive producer roles are more hands on than the producer ones.
If it's about Titan then it is a very niche in joke even by Lads standards.
I'm definitely going with the Discovery angle cause its more fun
Yeah. When coupled with Mariner being called out for taking charge all the time, doing overly risky "plans", and not giving her crew-mates any scenario to propose more efficient/safe solutions.
Anyone think that the cast aside ops crew member will come back to haunt them?
Where can I watch this?
It's on Amazon Prime, every Friday.
Nah, not necessarily, really depends on how many people are listed as Producer and which of them is also the Showrunner (Mike McMahan in this case - its his baby). Lower Decks has 6 producers, and having spent years working in the television industry myself, I'd wager Kurtzman has sweet feck all to do with this and is Executive Producer in name only. His production company has the rights to the franchise, so he might call a meeting every now and again with the hands on producers to hear them say things are ticking over well, but it'd be essentially the equivalent of Jeff Bezos rocking up to an Amazon warehouse and asking the foreman in passing if things were well, would surprise me if Kurtzman even bothered watching it.
This show is for mouth breathers
Yes I agree that would have been a much better resolution. As it was it all felt a bit rushed.
I disagree. I enjoyed seeing Riker in Picard but will agree that the cut and paste scenes if the ships in last episode was cheap and nasty.
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