I did kind of... I've always wanted to learn more about what it's like for the regular crew in Star Trek episodes, especially with the bullshit they have to put up with in the more stupid episodes like the one where the Next Gen crew de-evolves.
Agreed.It'll live or die based on the arcs of the characters more than one-off jokes. There's supposed to be some pathos around people joining Starfleet only to realize most never get to be heroes. And not everyone can be a scientist utterly obsessed with their work for its own sake.
I can see the "jokes" in these cuts having a very different connotation depending on the context.
This isn't even remotely my cup of tea and I may actually skip it altogether.
But I don't mind. I'm enjoying both Discovery and Picard. And Strange New Worlds is likely to be a banger as well. I'm spoiled rich as a Star Trek fan. It's OK that this exists.
You mean like the rest of the show's and movies outside of JJ's?
There is nothing in the trailer that feels out of place in the Star Trek universe. I could make a supercut of ridiculous, stupid Star Trek moments that would make Lower Decks seem like the most grounded Star Trek series in comparison.
Oh, that's what they are calling the Pike show. I am hoping that one will scratch the old TNG itch.
Yep.CBS/Paramount still have no clue what to do with Star Trek and why people like the series in the first place.
If anything what new trek is missing are the crazy and funny episodes like the Q or Holodeck ones
I'm sorry to cause you such discomfort but I'm quite grateful for the Trek renaissance and will continue supporting it. While I agree that the best of the franchise is likely behind us, Discovery and especially Picard have been hits in my household.
I'm sorry to cause you such discomfort but I'm quite grateful for the Trek renaissance and will continue supporting it. While I agree that the best of the franchise is likely behind us, Discovery and especially Picard have been hits in my household.
It's been over 21 years. Why would you expect it back now? Especially from an animated property of all things.The way this franchise has been handled since Discovery is tragic.
I'm increasingly confident that thoughtful, contemplative, and intelligent Trek - the kind best embodied by DS9 - is firmly dead and won't be coming back.
At that point aren't you just making a straight up Trek show that's more expensive than any season of a Live action show?could be ok, but i would rather trade it for Anime trek done by Xebec in the style of Yamato 2199 to be honest.
How do you know that? No one ever wants to spend money on animated shows.Just makes me mad, they could do an animated show not limited by budgets and they do this
Eh, I don't know if I agree with that given the "quality" of Discovery and Picard.
Anything they do with the franchise is fine by me as long as they make good products. So far CBS AA has failed completely at that.
Not limited to aliens that look like they human except for random junk glued to their face.How do you know that? No one ever wants to spend money on animated shows.
I'll probably watch it but I'd just really like a new Trek that feels like Trek.
I wish I had enjoyed them. I hated Discovery S1, so didn't bother with S2. As for Picard, I thought it was the worst thing Star Trek has done. I'd rather watch The Final Frontier and all of Voyager than a single episode of Picard.I'm sorry to cause you such discomfort but I'm quite grateful for the Trek renaissance and will continue supporting it. While I agree that the best of the franchise is likely behind us, Discovery and especially Picard have been hits in my household.
Personally I think comedy like this is a complete mismatch for the Star Trek brand.
This looks like a long-form SNL skit of Star Trek.
Not to be That Guy, but one of the main things I find appealing about the Star Trek franchise is the SciFi and the moral issues the show is able to tackle. When Star Trek is on its game, it makes you question societal norms and how we value life and what we consider a life-form worthy of protection and consent. If you just want SciFi fantasy junk food, that's what Star Wars is for.
I agree with those that said, the brand holders simply don't know what to do with the Star Trek franchise, which is an utter shame considering what's going on in the world today.
I'm a big Star Trek fan but let me tell you that only 3-5 episodes out of every 20+ episode season are more than schlock. This franchise rarely makes you think of anything or challenge you in an interesting way. It's heavily anthologized one off schlocky adventures where people devolve onto cave men, get turned into children by transporter accidents or where supervillains are created because the computer acts more like a genie than an actual computer.
Rick Berman and Brannon Braga had no fucking clue what they were doing and they were hated by the Trek community in a similar fashion as the Game of Thrones showrunners are hated by their community.
Star Trek as a franchise is being put on this pedestal as something that it rarely ever was and I feel like CBS' new efforts are being compared to some fictional thing that people have built in their mind by watching the same 10-15 high quality episodes over and over.
The stuff that happens to the ship in Lower Decks is the same stuff that would happen to the Enterprise, Defiant or Voyager on a weekly basis. We just see it from the viewpoint of quirky outsiders who aren't involved in the decision making on the bridge. If anything I wish it was even more mundane and character based, because they used to market this as taking place on a ship that scans anomalies and charts space so that the Enterprise doesn't have to. I'm okay with this though and weirdly enough, if you look at the reactions in this thread, it might be closer to old Trek this way than it would have been.
I'm a big Star Trek fan but let me tell you that only 3-5 episodes out of every 20+ episode season are more than schlock. This franchise rarely makes you think of anything or challenge you in an interesting way. It's heavily anthologized one off schlocky adventures where people devolve onto cave men, get turned into children by transporter accidents or where supervillains are created because the computer acts more like a genie than an actual computer.
Rick Berman and Brannon Braga had no fucking clue what they were doing and they were hated by the Trek community in a similar fashion as the Game of Thrones showrunners are hated by their community.
Star Trek as a franchise is being put on this pedestal as something that it rarely ever was and I feel like CBS' new efforts are being compared to some fictional thing that people have built in their mind by watching the same 10-15 high quality episodes over and over.
The stuff that happens to the ship in Lower Decks is the same stuff that would happen to the Enterprise, Defiant or Voyager on a weekly basis. We just see it from the viewpoint of quirky outsiders who aren't involved in the decision making on the bridge. If anything I wish it was even more mundane and character based, because they used to market this as taking place on a ship that scans anomalies and charts space so that the Enterprise doesn't have to. I'm okay with this though and weirdly enough, if you look at the reactions in this thread, it might be closer to old Trek this way than it would have been.
Must be another way they had to make O'Brien suffer. The only enlisted man in Starfleet.