Poll Should Lower Decks acknowledge modern Trek?

[matthunter]

I mean I think DISCO is rife for making the kind of jokes that make Lower Decks fine. Not because I dislike Disco but because I love it.

And you could make Picard ones too.

Boimler: Holy crap, according to these readings, the Sun of Romulus is going to explode and kill everyone.

Mariner: Eh, leave it.

Boimler: What?

Mariner: What, like the Romulans are going to ignore their sun exploding. That's like people on Earth ignoring green house gasses.

Boimler: Oh right. *chucks datapad*

Slight nitpick - it wasn't Romulus' star that went nova but Hobus. The shockwave just traveled FTL for some reason (STO says coughIconianscough). Otherwise, Spock wouldn't have had time to build the Jellyfish and the Red Matter thingy at all and still reasonably be blamed for not arriving in time.

 

[Charles Phipps]

Slight nitpick - it wasn't Romulus' star that went nova but Hobus. The shockwave just traveled FTL for some reason (STO says coughIconianscough). Otherwise, Spock wouldn't have had time to build the Jellyfish and the Red Matter thingy at all and still reasonably be blamed for not arriving in time.

Yeah but Picard retconned it.

 

[F. King Daniel]

Slight nitpick - it wasn't Romulus' star that went nova but Hobus. The shockwave just traveled FTL for some reason (STO says coughIconianscough). Otherwise, Spock wouldn't have had time to build the Jellyfish and the Red Matter thingy at all and still reasonably be blamed for not arriving in time.

Picard's first episode made it clear it was the Romulan sun that went nova. It doesn't make much sense that way (absorbing the nova as Spock planned to would leave Romulus without a sun, dooming everyone just the same), but it didn't do begin with either

 

[seigezunt]

I love Disco, and I think its over-the-top nature would make it a perfect target for LDs jokes. Bring it on.

And for any concerns about continuity getting screwed up by references to a show in production, that's exactly why I hope they do it. They'd make a gag out of it, like the return of Shaxs.

What I love about this show is that they obviously know and adore the franchise, but they don't let it stand in the way of the fun. As it should be.

 

[F. King Daniel]

A few episodes ago we got a female version of the Prototype Saru multieyed design as Shelby's number one and a gold Discovery uniform on sale, and today we got the Daystrom Institute as it appeared in Picard season one.

They decided that yes, they should and will acknowledge modern Trek

 

[Charles Phipps]

I mean all Star Treks should be ripe for mockery. Its all in good fun.

Rutherford: Have you noticed shrooms are growing in Jeffrey's tube 11#?

Tendi: Ooo, maybe it's an attempt to subvert the warp 9 barrier by contacting a mycineal realm.

Rutherford: I think a sewage pipe broke.

 

[Albertese]

I want Strange New Worlds to make Lower Decks references.

--Alex

 

[Turtletrekker]

A few episodes ago we got a female version of the Prototype Saru multieyed design as Shelby's number one and a gold Discovery uniform on sale, and today we got the Daystrom Institute as it appeared in Picard season one.

They decided that yes, they should and will acknowledge modern Trek

The lettering for the sign for Quarks Bar in An Embarrassment of Dooplers also matched the lettering for the Quark's bar on Freecloud.

 

[WarpTenLizard]

If "Enterprise" is allowed into canon then so is everything else.

Of course LD takes place before PIC, but they can still reference the Romulan samurai nuns and Seven beginning her career as a Fenris Ranger. Admiral Clancy and her Tarantino-type cussing would actually fit better with this cartoon than with a serious "Star Trek" show. In fact, I don't think "Lower Decks" will ever truly be complete, until Clancy says "Shut the **** up Boimler!" Or just exclaims, "My God, the sheer (you-know-what) hubris!"

As for STD, there are plenty of jokes to be made: how oddly extravagant Starfleet uniforms were for a brief period, between Archer and Kirk; Michael Burnam's "Eraserhead" hairdo in the first season; how delicious Kelpians are (for real, ever since that Mirror Universe episode, I can't look at Saru without getting hungry for Clam Chowder or Chicken Dumpling soup); and a crew of literal space cadets traveling via magic mushrooms.

I do enjoy both STD and PIC, and for that reason i want them included in "Lower Decks."

 

[Charles Phipps]

Picard's first episode made it clear it was the Romulan sun that went nova. It doesn't make much sense that way (absorbing the nova as Spock planned to would leave Romulus without a sun, dooming everyone just the same), but it didn't do begin with either

To be fair, a few days before everyone freezes to death and evacuating however many you can is a lot better than instant vaporization.

 

[Turtletrekker]

In preview images from next week's episode, Captain Freeman is wearing a blue shirt that says "Ritos", an obvious nod to the "Disco" shirts that the Discovery crew wore.

https://trekmovie.com/2021/10/04/pr...ailer-from-star-trek-lower-decks-episode-209/

 

[fireproof78]

In preview images from next week's episode, Captain Freeman is wearing a blue shirt that says "Ritos", an obvious nod to the "Disco" shirts that the Discovery crew wore.

https://trekmovie.com/2021/10/04/pr...ailer-from-star-trek-lower-decks-episode-209/

Love it!

 

[Nerys Myk]

Looks like Final Frontier is getting a little love.

 

[F. King Daniel]

Looks like Final Frontier is getting a little love.

My headcanon is that those rocket boots go with the Spock helmet we saw at the end of season 1, I wonder if they'll link them

 

[Charles Phipps]

I think a bigger question is: SHOULD MODERN TREK ACKNOWLEDGE LOWER DECKS?



When will Picard point out that he got only one slice of pizza with every replicator meal as an ensign? When will we see the California class? What will happen when we discover the Stargazer was a Second Contact vessel and that was why he wasn't promoted for 22 years?

 

[Tim Thomason]

Looks like Final Frontier is getting a little love.

#CanonizeRockMan

 

[Freman]

I would love it if a Discovery era Klingon would show up so they can finally give us an explanation as to why they looked like that in an era where the Klingons were supposed to look like humans due to the Augment Virus.

 

[fireproof78]

All likelihood not all Klingons looked like humans.

 

[Turtletrekker]

I would love it if a Discovery era Klingon would show up so they can finally give us an explanation as to why they looked like that in an era where the Klingons were supposed to look like humans due to the Augment Virus.

Reconstructive cranial surgery. It's right there in the text at the end of the two-part Enterprise story that explained the smooth foreheads. We've all seen how humans can get extremely creative with tattoos and piercings. These Klingons just got extremely creative with their reconstructive surgeries. It was a fashion statement. No more, no less.

 

[The Wormhole]

Boimler: "That's a Klingon? Why does he look so different than all the other Klingons we've seen?"
Mariner: "Who cares?"