Spoilers Star Trek: Lower Decks 2x04 - "Mugato, Gumato"
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Not Transformers: The Movie.
Correct me if I am wrong but Shaxs was the only one to die in the whole series and now he's not even dead anymore... Sounds like a cartoon to me.
Tell that to the crew of the Solvang.
Maturin, a member of an unnamed alien species, has as much right to call himself a Scotsman has any human born in the region.
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Maturin
No one died on Archer's Enterprise until the third season. Is that a cartoon?
Honestly, these past two episodes are all about how Mariner is actually terrible at anything other than hurting things.
She should be in security but she is in Command for no reason other than her parents.
People are not forgetting it's a cartoon. There is just a very narrow criteria for Star Trek and there is no room for pedestrian humor or unprofessional characters. Star Trek must always strive for TWOK or City on the Edge of Forever style greatness or it is unworthy.
Tongue partially in cheek. Lower Decks is certainly not above criticism but some are quite ridiculous for what presents itself as a comedy.
I'm sure Shanx has eaten worse things than Mugato poo during the Occupation.
No one among the main cast but there are plenty who've died on the worlds they visited. Like In "Dear Doctor", the ironically named, where Phlox decides that "evolution" has decided that he shouldn't help people that were dying by the millions even if he found a cure for their illness. Kinda weird. I mean why was he even trying to find a cure, to begin with? My guess is for the satisfaction of letting people die while withholding the power that would allow him to save them... Sounds like a villain, doesn't it?
Speaking of which I never realized that we were seeing Debobulans until they inflated their faces like blowfish.
Shaxs is a lunatic. Another sign that this is a cartoon. A crazy loon like this would never have been admitted in Starfleet, to begin with. Only in Lower Decks...
Another sign this is a cartoon is the fact it's a cartoon.
Let's give credit where credit is due, Phlox hoped the alien Black Death would result in the destruction of the race's ruling class and the rise of the underprivileged people living in squalor on the other continent. Who knew that Phlox was a revolutionary anti-capitalist who wanted the rich to be slaughtered? Apparently not the writers.
But, seriously, Old Trekkie, I hope you realize no one is taking Lower Decks' zanniness seriously because...it's a cartoon.
And that it is BETTER to be zanny than just animated Star Trek live action.
You should be a detective.
Yep. It's a wacky office comedy in Star Trek's universe. I hope it gets WEIRDER not less.
And the best part is: it's canon. The silliness is just as canon as DSC's and PIC's grim seriousness.
Yes, it's zany. I'll give you that.
I am not sure it changes anything. Canon keeps contradicting itself all the time.
And even if the show is a "cartoon", what are the it? It's no more or less a legitimate form of Storytelling than live action. To state that something is less just because it is animated is arrogance with no basis in reality.
It is kind of fun to imagine how much of this zaniness would be kept if the characters would make a live action appearance in, say.. Picard.
In theory, they could also turn up in a holo novel adventure in Discovery.
Hell, Discovery could even keep the cartoon format by doing a Who framed Roger Rabbit style holo program.
In theory, they could also turn up in a holo novel adventure in Discovery.
Hell, Discovery could even keep the cartoon format by doing a Who framed Roger Rabbit style holo program.
Before they could do that they would have to cast a slew of acceptable lookalikes... That could take some doing.
Not to mention that they would have to dub them all with the voices of the voice actors.
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