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Oct 25, 2024 · Streaming on: Paramount Plus Episodes viewed: 2 of 10 Since 2020, Star Trek: Lower Decks has boldly gone where no Star Trek series has gone before: checking in with the regular folk in Starfleet ...
Feb 20, 2024 · Season 3 is the best Star Trek show of the year. Star Trek: Lower Decks does not go boldly where no franchise series has gone before, and that’s what makes it brilliant. by Ryan Britt.
- Ryan Britt
With Tawny Newsome, Jack Quaid, Noël Wells, Eugene Cordero. The support crew serving on one of Starfleet's least important ships, the U.S.S. Cerritos, have to keep up with their duties, often while the ship is being rocked by a multitude of sci-fi anomalies.
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Lower Decksreturns with a funny, strong episode that finds time to explore our characters as well as the fallout of the season one finale. WARNING: Spoilers below!
Same ol’ Lower Decks
Lower Decksliterally hit the ground running for season two. Seeing no need to make big changes or course-correct, showrunner and episode writer Mike McMahan shows a level of trust in himself, his cast, and the audience. This is an animated Star Trek comedy and if you are cool with that and liked how they did it in season one, then you are going to like this too. There is even an element of a reset button in “Strange Energies.” McMahan promised that season two would “pay the bills” left over f...
Star Trope
While McMahan clearly worships at the altar of Trek, especially TNG, this show also comments on some of the tropes of the franchise. This is a welcome element of a series that should not be afraid to explore or expose things that may not make sense—or might even justify some ridicule. This episode exemplifies Lower Decks‘ ability to find the humor in Star Trek. Mariner’s comment about knowing Starfleet crewmembers aren’t supposed to have interpersonal conflicts even though she openly hates Je...
Final thoughts
A strong season opener that weaves character moments with plot and humor satisfyingly quenches the thirst after a drought of new Star Trek that began in January. Lower Decksis as good as ever, without fixing what wasn’t broken. Having Jack Ransom out front in a big way was a welcome difference, with Jerry O’Connell stepping up in a big way to carry much of the episode. Noël Wells also delivers a fun performance that showed some range rarely seen in season one. Fans of season one should be hap...
Random stuff 1. Fred Tatasciore is still named in the main credits, despite Shaxs having died at the end of season one and not appearing in this episode 2. The opening credits now feature Pakled ships, joining the battling Romulan and Borg ships from the original credit sequence 3. The new Pakled ships are called Battle Harpies 4. The USS Cerritos ...
Nov 3, 2023 · The fourth season of Star Trek: Lower Decks isn’t the show at its peak, but it’s well worth a watch. Something interesting always happens four seasons into a Star Trek show – or it certainly did during the 1990s era of the franchise.
Oct 7, 2021 · SPOILER-FREE REVIEW. In the penultimate episode of season two, Lower Decks has a lot of fun shaking things up with an ambitious episode that pays off with great character moments and season...
