I agree to me she just embodies "This crazy friend you have, who's sometimes a bit much, but fun to hang out with, and always has your back"
Spoilers Star Trek: Lower Decks 1x01 - "Second Contact"
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I agree to me she just embodies "This crazy friend you have, who's sometimes a bit much, but fun to hang out with, and always has your back"
Perhaps not a laundry list, but a good chunk of Trials and Tribble-ations was Dax's namedropping.
Hot Damn! It was pretty good. It had a Futurama vibe in that you had a small group of quirky people in what should be a monotonous regime getting into outlandish adventures in a unexpected, yet fluid way. The characters also demonstrated a meta-level understanding that they're in a Star Trek series (with all the sci-fi tropes therein) without breaking the fourth wall too much and mugging for the camera, also like in Futurama. This is different to the more subversive and cynical tone of say Rick and Morty (not that that's a bad thing, it is a pretty funny show from the few episodes I've seen).
Did she do it all in one frantic, manic monologue that had nothing to do with the actual scene, characters or story?
NO.
Or did she do it in context, as it came up organically and as it was tied directly into the events she was experiencing?
Sheesh.
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Okay, cool. Not to me.
It's the first episode. It's a half hour show. Nothing much else on TV at the moment.
I was criticizing a joke for being bad, not because there was a joke.
If it's "a comedy", it should be funny. It wasn't.
I got lots to watch at the moment but this will help my Trek DTs for the next 10 weeks!
Jessie Gender's take on ep1 (the first section is spoiler free):
Did anyone actually die?
A cartoon is just a method of representing information or entertainment. It doesn't make a value judgment on how we should measure that information or entertainment.
By defining itself as a comedy, that just means the program is intended to induce laughter or at least amusement, more so than previous shows not defined as comedic in nature. But the comedy, at least in the first episode, isn't slapstick (...mostly) or parodic or even satirical. It's situational, based on the point-of-view of lower level officers in Star Trek's established cosmic horror universe.
If the intention of it being a "cartoon comedy" is that I treat it as lesser or even different than an average episode of Enterprise or Discovery or Strange New Worlds, then I refuse. Lower Decks is Star Trek, and Mariner said those jokes just as validly as Kirk quoted the Constitution or Archer spoke about gazelles.
The show is great, and the constant belittling of it as "just a cartoon/comedy" won't change my mind on the subject.
I didn't get the impression that anyone died.
There’s been a few Simpsons episodes rated that. I think you can say it’s for older kids
Ransom explicitly ate flesh, we even see him bite into one guy's neck. Presumably, the Rage Virus required saliva mixing into the bloodstream. If Ransom or whoever bit into the jugular, or another major vein or artery, then the person might bleed out before they could get fully infected.
Just on what we see, it would be highly likely that some died in the process of being attacked by rage victims. Although, they weren't zombies looking for flesh, so probably not more than a few. If, miraculously, no one died, that would make sense as well.
I've always thought that was a stupid idea, for the same reason anything depicting flying cars being the default is stupid. Too many failure modes, including those of human (or humanoid) fallibility.
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