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Speaking of star trek, I'd highly recommend "lower decks" to anyone who is repulsed by the latest live action horror show. It's kind of funny that a lower budge

by tomxor 4y ago

Speaking of star trek, I'd highly recommend "lower decks" to anyone who is repulsed by the latest live action horror show. It's kind of funny that a lower budget cartoon has managed to be more authentic, original and well written all at the same time - it manages to pull off making fun of the old franchise while also being nostalgic about it. For any true star trek fans, the only real new star trek show is lower decks imo.

dmix 4y ago
As a Star Trek fan I found Lower Decks to be one of the worst of the bunch. It seemed targeted at kids/teenagers though so I reserved judgement. To each his own.
f1refly 4y ago
Lower decks is okayish in the sense that it can only be watched if you enjoy (or tolerate, for that matter) high school humor. I'm regularly meeting with friends, we currently watch Voyager and sometimes shove in an episode of lower decks here and there when it's getting late. It's alienating everyone enough to take a long break afterwards. The characters are all hyperactive and constantly screaming, including the senior officers, most episodes feature or are about shit, piss or sex in some way. It's good in the sense that it doesn't throw away everything you like about the older series and try to ruin them retroacticely like Picard did. That doesn't make it a good series though.
hedora 4y ago
I was pleasantly surprised by the old Star Trek: The Animated Series I think it was targeted at kids, but they had an all-star series of writers.
- philistine 4y ago
  The repeating music reused in every episode just flashed in my head.
unsupp0rted 4y ago
I would say the reverse, while agreeing with most of what you wrote. It pulls off making fun of the old franchise while also being nostalgic about it. But it’s simplistic with characters who are so dumb and childish that there’s no Star Trek in Lower Decks either. Not a single character on the show is an adult. They’re all edgy and nerdy tweens vying for influence in the middle school yearbook club… in adult bodies. This includes the captain and bridge crew. Lower Decks would be a phenomenal Star Trek if they would mentally age all the characters by 10 ~ 20 years, especially the captain, XO, security officer and every alien.
- tomxor 4y ago
  > But it’s simplistic with characters who are so dumb and childish that there’s no Star Trek in Lower Decks either. Well... i wouldn't completely disagree, but it's a cartoon comedy so it seems fitting, the characters might be dumb and simplistic but they make fun of themselves; unlike Discovery where the characters are also dumb and simplistic yet pretentious and serious with terrible acting making it unbearable.
  - unsupp0rted 4y ago
    Lower Decks might be an excellent cartoon comedy by some measures, but it's not very good Star Trek for the same reasons. The whole thing with Star Trek is competent "culturally evolved" professionals exploring the universe and representing the best of us. There's no way any Starfleet character from Lower Decks could have made it through the academy entrance exam or psych eval from TNG. They're not competent and they're driven by childishness, which is what makes the show a comedy and not good Star Trek.
lelanthran 4y ago
> Speaking of star trek, I'd highly recommend "lower decks" to anyone who is repulsed by the latest live action horror show. I wouldn't. I tried, not once, not twice, but three times to watch it. The speech from all characters is just way to fast for me to understand. I actually reinstalled Far Cry 2 (which was widely lambasted for speech being too fast) to compare, and the speech in lower decks is a lot faster than Far Cry 2.

by tomxor 4y ago

dmix 4y ago

As a Star Trek fan I found Lower Decks to be one of the worst of the bunch. It seemed targeted at kids/teenagers though so I reserved judgement. To each his own.

f1refly 4y ago

Lower decks is okayish in the sense that it can only be watched if you enjoy (or tolerate, for that matter) high school humor. I'm regularly meeting with friends, we currently watch Voyager and sometimes shove in an episode of lower decks here and there when it's getting late. It's alienating everyone enough to take a long break afterwards. The characters are all hyperactive and constantly screaming, including the senior officers, most episodes feature or are about shit, piss or sex in some way. It's good in the sense that it doesn't throw away everything you like about the older series and try to ruin them retroacticely like Picard did. That doesn't make it a good series though.

hedora 4y ago

I was pleasantly surprised by the old Star Trek: The Animated Series I think it was targeted at kids, but they had an all-star series of writers.

philistine 4y ago
The repeating music reused in every episode just flashed in my head.

unsupp0rted 4y ago

I would say the reverse, while agreeing with most of what you wrote. It pulls off making fun of the old franchise while also being nostalgic about it. But it’s simplistic with characters who are so dumb and childish that there’s no Star Trek in Lower Decks either. Not a single character on the show is an adult. They’re all edgy and nerdy tweens vying for influence in the middle school yearbook club… in adult bodies. This includes the captain and bridge crew. Lower Decks would be a phenomenal Star Trek if they would mentally age all the characters by 10 ~ 20 years, especially the captain, XO, security officer and every alien.

tomxor 4y ago
> But it’s simplistic with characters who are so dumb and childish that there’s no Star Trek in Lower Decks either. Well... i wouldn't completely disagree, but it's a cartoon comedy so it seems fitting, the characters might be dumb and simplistic but they make fun of themselves; unlike Discovery where the characters are also dumb and simplistic yet pretentious and serious with terrible acting making it unbearable.
- unsupp0rted 4y ago
  Lower Decks might be an excellent cartoon comedy by some measures, but it's not very good Star Trek for the same reasons. The whole thing with Star Trek is competent "culturally evolved" professionals exploring the universe and representing the best of us. There's no way any Starfleet character from Lower Decks could have made it through the academy entrance exam or psych eval from TNG. They're not competent and they're driven by childishness, which is what makes the show a comedy and not good Star Trek.

lelanthran 4y ago

> Speaking of star trek, I'd highly recommend "lower decks" to anyone who is repulsed by the latest live action horror show. I wouldn't. I tried, not once, not twice, but three times to watch it. The speech from all characters is just way to fast for me to understand. I actually reinstalled Far Cry 2 (which was widely lambasted for speech being too fast) to compare, and the speech in lower decks is a lot faster than Far Cry 2.