Spoilers Lower Decks General Discussion Thread

I Just finished the first episode on prime, I don’t think this series is for me. Everyone seemed to be so hyper and manic. I don’t think I laughed aside from a mild chuckle in the opening credits.

I’ll probably watch the rest of the series out of my sheer ocd completionist mindset

 

*insert sensible chuckle meme here*
ETA:
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I was pretty meh on the first episode as well, but I thought the show improved as it progressed.

 

Yeah: the last three episodes are why I think so highly of it. It left me wanting more.

 

That is how I felt after the first episode and I did watch the rest of the episodes. The hectic pace and fast talking is reduced a bit in the later episodes but not enough. For me this series is not at the level of the live action Trek shows or even TAS, but it is an entertaining diversion while waiting for Discovery or Picard. The main character is annoying but Boimler is great.

 

Episode 1 IMO is the worst episode of the Season. It gets better as it goes on.

 

Just finished the first episode, and share the sentiments - far too manic and not particularly amusing.

Will give it a few more episodes to win me over.

 

I thought that, but I still haven't watched the last four.

 

EAS has put up his reviews.

https://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/episodes/low1.htm

Some of them surprise me, like I thought he would outright hate the Badgey episode, but he gave that a 6, meanwhile Vertias he gave a 2 which is the lowest score he gave for the season, mostly because he felt it was a straight up parody. He also did like most of the call backs to previous series

The man confuses me.

 

Sweet shit, that man refers to Mariner as a Mary Sue four times.
And I see he completely missed the point about the bleeped out profanities and is calling it "hypocrisy" for some reason.

 

Binged it all in one go, the first episode I think was just weird getting used to seeing the TNG era in animation, after I got used to it, absolutely loved it, honestly think its the best done and most well written set of Star Trek episodes in some time.

EAS' reviews of it are bizarre, and his reducing Mariner to a Mary Sue is ridiculous, that seems more like his problem than the writers.

 

Stopped reading at his review of the second episode, when he was lecturing that Starfleet officers should be complimenting each other...

Also I came across explicit Shaxs/T'ana art via Tumblr and now I'm scarred for life.

 

Go on...

 

Well, used to. Apparently CBS made them change the images to the promo art.

 

I noticed that. Yeah, while an interesting interpretation, those characters didn’t ever seem to “look quite right” (at least to me) when they were drawn more realistically in STO. I was glad when they switched them over.

 

I really hope they get all the voice actors to reprise their roles. They did for damn near everyone else that’s appeared since the beginning, so why not?

#BringBackShaxs!

Further, I hope, if they do missions with Lower Decks people, that they convey a humor in a similar vein to the show. STO suffers from a similar affliction to much of live-action Trek, taking itself too seriously at times. They may find a curious resurgence in player activity if they lightened up a tad-bit. I also not-so-secretly wish we could see LDS cameos in PIC, using the same actors, a little bit older, wiser, and maybe even senior command roles. A quick shot of the Miles O’Brien statue in Disco would be good too.

 

Hell, I'll settle for something like Admiral Vance talking about the Starfleet Greats, which he then starts with Miles O'Brien.