Spoilers Lower Decks General Discussion Thread

[Mage]

I have a feeling you’ll have to wait out Discovery’s run.

I DON'T WANNA!!!! :P Then again, Disco season 3 should be awesome.

 

[Tuskin38]

So 6 months passed between Episode 1 and episode 8.

We didn't get stardates for episodes 9 or 10.

 

[RAMA]

Mike McMahan is fun to listen to, even if you're not sold on the series.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mike-mcmahan/id1530092198?i=1000493620485

 

[BillJ]

Gonna miss the Thursday morning laugh sessions with my wife and son.

 

[Ometiklan]

Following RAMA's post in the LDS "No Small Parts" thread:

My final grades for the show(0-10):
1. "Second Contact"-6
2. "Envoys"-6
3. "Temporal Edict"- 5
4. "Moist Vessel"-5
5. "Cupid's Errant Arrow"-6
6. "Terminal Provocations"-6
7. "Much Ado About Boimler"-6.5
8. "Veritas"-3
9. "Crisis Point"-3
10. "No Small Parts"-9

Final grade: 5.55

After a couple of re-examinations, my final grades are (Note: I am a huge TNG fan):
1. Second Contact: 10
2. Envoys: 8
3. Temporal Edict: 9
4. Moist Vessel: 8
5. Cupid's Errant Arrow: 9
6. Terminal Provocations: 7
7. Much Ado About Boimler: 10
8. Veritas: 8
9. Crisis Point: 10
10. No Small Parts: 10

Average: 8.9
I have become a huge fan of the series (more so than the uneven, but still good, Discovery and Picard), and would gladly rewatch any of this series at any time (except maybe "Terminal Provocations", as my least well liked).

 

[Tuskin38]

Jack Quaid has started recording for Season 2

https://twitter.com/JackQuaid92/status/1319678567261884417

 

[The Wormhole]

Are the other actors recording their lines? I know from Star Wars Clone Wars and Rebels that dialogue for a particular episode is usually recorded roughly a year prior to the airdate. Assuming Lower Decks operates similarly, we could be looking at a fall premiere for season 2.

 

[Tuskin38]

Are the other actors recording their lines? I

Yes, Tawny Newsome mentioned in the opening segment of Monday's episode of the Official Star Trek Podcast that she's started voice work on Season 2. I don't know how far in advance from the release of the episode those openings are recorded.

 

[SolarisOne]

Yes, Tawny Newsome mentioned in the opening segment of Monday's episode of the Official Star Trek Podcast that she's started voice work on Season 2.

More Beckett Mariner is ALWAYS welcome.

 

[BillJ]

I rewatched "Second Contact" last night, and it hit me during the opening "Captain's Log" by Boimler showing the senior staff that Shaxs' is no longer with us.

 

[BillJ]

After a couple of re-examinations, my final grades are (Note: I am a huge TNG fan):
1. Second Contact: 10
2. Envoys: 8
3. Temporal Edict: 9
4. Moist Vessel: 8
5. Cupid's Errant Arrow: 9
6. Terminal Provocations: 7
7. Much Ado About Boimler: 10
8. Veritas: 8
9. Crisis Point: 10
10. No Small Parts: 10

Average: 8.9

Incredible that there isn't a bad episode in the bunch. Best first season for me since TOS.

 

[ScottJ85]

I have to admit I’m really enjoying all the callbacks and references. Sometime, I just want to be pandered to.

 

[frankieteardrop]

I've been making my way through the She-Ra: Progressive of Power podcast and there was a lot of unexpected Trek talk in a recent episode. The episode features M. Willis, one of the show's writers, who also happens to write for Lower Decks. She talks a lot about LDS and Trek in general, but something she said about writing for LDS really stuck out to me and I thought others here might appreciate it:

"Lower Decks is obviously a comedy, but what's nice is it's made by a bunch of people who are Star Trek fans first and we all really love the material. Whether it's people like me who grew up with it, or --- some of our writers are coming to it fresh and have fallen in love with it in the last year. It's really coming from a place where we're not punching down on Star Trek. People have done that, it's easy. We're not interested in that space. We're more interested in 'what is it like to be a fan of Star Trek and now you're a Starfleet officer who knows all of the great heroes of that world and is as much of a fan of Kirk and Picard and Sisko and Janeway as the fans are themselves?'"

The interview starts around 4:02 and they get into Trek pretty much right away.

 

[Tuskin38]

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[The Wormhole]

Anyone care to post relevant highlight of the interview for those of us who don't have two hours to spend watching YouTube videos?

 

[Tuskin38]

To be fair, it is audio only

I listened to it all, but I really can't remember a lot of it.

A couple of Season 2 things, As of that recording, episode 9 is in animatic stage, and the first 4 episodes have been sent off to colouring.

Shax's replacement apparently 'makes sense', whatever that means.

Oh and the Pakleds will be back.

 

[137th Gebirg]

Never in a million years would I have ever expected any show runner within the Trek franchise make the Pakleds a believable adversary, let alone a substantial recurring threat.

And yet...

 

[Tuskin38]

Oh and another thing, their ships are called 'Battle Harpies'

 

[Tosk]

Shax's replacement apparently 'makes sense', whatever that means.

An existing character, most likely. Will Dorn get to up his record?

 

[Tuskin38]

Anyone care to post relevant highlight of the interview for those of us who don't have two hours to spend watching YouTube videos?

TrekCore did a highlight article

http://blog.trekcore.com/2020/12/mike-mcmahan-shares-new-updates-on-star-trek-lower-decks-season-2/