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.’
I've re-watched the first 2 seasons over the last few days and agree with all of this. You can tell the writers know their stuff and "get" Star Trek, while still managing to do something new that moves things forward. The animation and ship design is great too - including the Cerritos which I wasn't originally a fan of!
Can't wait for more. In the meantime though, if ye haven't already, check out Prodigy as well. It too manages to move the VOY story forward in a way that this does for the TNG/DS9 era.
Great show, things like this are important for the IP, a way for the IP to at times acknowledge some of the sillier stuff it’s done. It’s my wife’s first Star Trek show actually, besides a half-foray into DS9 and I have to turn to her every 2 minutes that they reference something absurd and have to be like “…ohhhhh yeahhhh…. That happened” and it’s usually in reference to something dumbbbbbbb like, Kes ascending on voyager lol. She saw that episode later when we started watching season 4 for 7 of 9 content and she was like “ohh that’s a thing that actually happens” in relation to that lower decks episode with the people ascending. I fell out of my chair laughing at Tom Paris rhino charging a “Kazon!” And had to explain why
That's funny I actually didn't connect that ascending episode with Kes. Was there actually a Voyager episode where Tom Paris rhino charged a Kazon? I can't really remember. Though they did capture the "Kazons look like humans who need a bath" aesthetic with the dishevelled Boimler.
There were lots of little fourth wall nods in that episode, like Boimler referring to Voyager as VOY (because it's shorter/easier) as we all do! :)
Tom would be racist to Kazons, they took over the whole ship with a suicide bomber etc.
We have a return date - 25th August
That's a class poster. Love their take on The Search for Spock.
Clip posted on Tawney Newsome's TikTok
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMN5G6HwV/?k=1
Yay, Romulans. Here's hoping thruples and real fake doors will never be brought up again.
It's back baby. Just when nu Trk seemed like a total wasteland, Strange New Worlds and Lower Decks came along
I'm delighted...but concerned. Isn't this a little too quick to throw together a season of an animated show? I know they're using a load of computerized tricks to make it, but I'd hate to think that they'd burn themselves out. This is the best Trek we've got going at the moment and I'd like to see it going for a good long while.
Really looking forward though. It's nice to approach a new season of Trek again, somewhat sure in the knowledge that it will be some good television.
Animation-wise, the last 10 years or so have dramatically reduced the turnaround time for TV animation (One only has to look at the rapid output of Gravity Falls and Own House on Disney. Absolutely beautiful animation).
However, writing-wise, yeah, I'm torn. Strange New Worlds really buzzed me again for more Trek. I love Lower Decks. And want more. NOW!!! At the same time, I don't want them churning through their plots too quickly.
So, yeah, It's a bit of a Schrodinger TV show: Give me ALL your plots NOW and ALSO continue for years!!
Exactly this. I'd rather they take their time. I can wait for a good thing, and I remember the old gaps between seasons of weekly Trek on TV. This was the norm, and I could live with it. I'm guessing this absolute need to have new Trek EVERY week on Paramount+ is what's pushing this mad dash to get Trek shows out quickly. I feel that this may be a bad mistake. Without breaks, I fear that everyone is just going to get burned out. The production, the network and the viewers. Nothing at all wrong with waiting a good few months for the next season.
It may worry you to know so that vocal recording for season 4 has already started.
If they are done with Season 3, I guess it makes sense. If they can keep the quality up at this pace, my undying respect goes to these people...but I do fear a burnout.
Come on Paramount, just get the Discovery bunch to binge produce 30 episodes of Micheal cry-whispering at her crew and let those talentless hacks burn themselves out. Give the real talent a couple a breathers FFS.
I wouldn't be too surprised if after (or even before) the first season got a good reception, they just kept working, riffing on ideas, and coming up with solid outlines for future episodes. For all we know they've got a fully fleshed out 5 or 6 season bible laying out the trajectory of the show.
Looking at the two seasons so far, they've got a fairly large roster of writers, who are each only writing one or max 2 episodes per season. So, especially given that each ep is only around 25 pages, there's been plenty of time for that broad range of writers to put together a few seasons worth of content without a drop in writing quality (hopefully!).
There's only 10 22 minute episodes a year which easy faily easy pace compared to a lot of series.
I just knew that was gonna be the plot.
Comic Con trailer; god damn that DS9 gag was good lol
2009 movie scene. My word. Looks like the real Martock is there as well.
Looking forward to it.
Looks like Rutherford's been shopping at the same place Jake Sisko did.
That DS9 gag at the end was perfection, and they did a great job on the station
That looks brilliant!
I never knew I needed to see that wormhole again until I saw it.
The new season looks amazing. Every bit of that was exciting.
Seems like the goal lies wide open for a Quark cameo, at least. After all, if the crew are having to draw between the lines, where else would you go?
To get fitted fort a new suit.
Robinson is 80 years old; that would be awesome. Going to try and dampen my hype on this cos the possibilities for a fun cameo are endless.
Is that not a Garak cameo
Watching it again the Delta Flyer is at ~45 seconds and to dash my own hopes of everyone's favourite tailor showing up Captain Freeman is in command when they arrive at DS9 so whatever renegade STIII-ness is going on in the first few episodes they're probably back in Starfleet by then.
As well as the shenanigans of stealing the Cerritos, the poster is leaning heavily into Search for Spock.
