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.’
The Orville needs to get back. The pandemic allowing two seasons of LD to be developed is running the risk of Orville becoming redundant
It's coming. They have it all shot. It will be out soon again.
At least we have a spiritual succeser which is better than nothing at all even if it is a cartoon and on average about 22mins long.
I enjoyed the latest one. I liked how Section31 seem to be known about during wartime.
Had a couple of laugh out loud moments, was nice to have a boimler and Rutherford episode.
Hard to believe but a cartoon is the authentic Trek in years.
Also, there is definitely more to Mariner and her back story.
Another good episode with some fun ups and downs. Of course the rumours would prove to be false, but getting there was entertaining. The Tendy stuff was fun again, glad they're trying to give her and Rutherford more to do.
As to The Orville, cool that others enjoy it but Seth McFarlane has been a huge blemish on the show, while the slavish devotion to TNG era Trek and TV made it feel like empty fandom. Lower Decks' approach feels more organic, working in the lineage while charting its own course.
Last episode was probably the one I laughed most at so far this season. Anything got to do with Dr. Cat seems to work for me and the scene in the log was my kind of immature humour
Yeah I find Dr. Cat very funny. I lolled when she did the typical cat thing of hiding under the shuttlecraft and hissing/swiping at Tendi. Also "I admire your newconfidence. Now GTFO of the way, this isn't your patient".
Was there another dig at Discovery in this episode? "He's using the power of Math!".
I do think they are getting small digs in alright. I wonder do they think their market are the viewers who are a bit disillusioned with Discovery.
Maybe it's the writers and show runners own frustration, with DSC
A lot of the show is about laughing at the tropes and absurdities of the older Trek so Discovery should be fair game. Boimlers speech a few weeks back did seem a bit more vicious than normal though (but also correct as far as I'm concerned)
Yeah. Lower Decks has laughed at all of Trek's foibles, Discovery hasn't been unique, only perhaps the most deserving of mockery.
A dig at the spinning next would be nice.
I know Mariner is pretty much Lower Decks' version of her, but taking a dig at Michael being the single most powerful and influential character in all of Trek wouldn't be a bad thing.
I'm not really looking for Lower Decks to be the anti Discovery to be honest. I just want to enjoy the show in its own right.
Spock is the man he is thanks to her after all 😂
Mid Season Trailer!
Duplicate Boimler!!
Borg!!!
Star Trek Lower Decks "An Embarrassment of Dopplers" Episode 5
Did they re use scenes from earlier episode of driving through a station.
Richard Kind has one of those voices that just suits this kind of character.
2.5: That was mostly daft but very funny and lots of shoutouts and nostalgia! 🙂
Now you've to grow a beard! 😁😂
Was great to see
Shelby
Ye just watched it. Not the greatest episode and certainly not the funniest in fact I don't think I laughed once on that whole episode and I could do with a good laugh. A 2 out of 10 from me for that episode.
The space station and the other ships were cool do
Not one of my favourites but still very enjoyable and a lovely ending.
We're were just debating over on the Picard thread why doesn't everything hover in Star Trek and low and behold, the buggies are back.
I enjoyed it. Not as funny as previous, but I did enjoy the Doopler and the voice of Richard Kind, always liked his role on Stargate Atlantis and a few other things.
felt a little heavy of the references this week, they need to dial it back a bit I reckon.
Daedalus ship docked at the station, how are those heaps still going?
One of those actors that if you hear their name, you can immediately hear their voice in your head 😁
Bit more of a straight faced episode this week but as is the weekly mantra, the character stuff worked well and put the other shows to shame. Boimler and Mariner's conflict handled nicely with the fallout from the Titan Betrayal. Crazy how much I like Mariner now, compared with those opening, first episodes.
We were commenting here how Mariner is a good example of character growth - I almost gave up on the show initially, I disliked her so much but they've rounded her out. They also have her form proper, balanced friendships. It's so much better than the almost Messiah level they treat Burnham with in Discovery.
I was the opposite in the sense I thought it was going to be Boimler + sidekicks and his "good guy" thing was going to get tired quick. Thankfully though they have grown his character too and he is definitely conflicted about leaving the Titan
I was kind of smiling a bit at the end of that episode. It certainly wasn't the strongest episode, and the Dooplar joke became tedious, but after that bar-scene I got the sense of a proper Trek crew who belonged together and who I wanted to see more of. I've missed that, we haven't had that in a while.
I've found the first half of season 2 to be a bit underwhelming so far. The episodes are solid, and they've kept a solid focus on the relationships between characters. But there hasn't been any of the stand out moments, e.g. the movie satire episode, or the finale. The first season followed the same pattern, so I'm hoping the second half of season 2 will show a bit more ambition.
The fly round of the ship in the "movie" episode was the most perfect piece of Trek satire we will ever see
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