Spoilers Lower Decks General Discussion Thread

[The Wormhole]

In general, CBS All Access stuck to weekly episode releases of all their shows, so it stands to reason that as Paramount+ that will continue. The one exception seems to be season 2 of The Twilight Zone, which did get the whole season dropped at once. But that might have just been a tactic to burn the season off since they were planning on cancelling the show.

 

[Enterprise is Great]

It would be nice if they dropped a 70 minute first episode like Disney+ is doing with Star Wars The Bad Batch.

 

[The Wormhole]

Of course, The Bad Batch's premiere is on May 4th, so the extended premiere is partly to celebrate Star Wars Day.

 

[Tuskin38]

Interview

https://trekmovie.com/2021/05/13/in...ek-easter-eggs-and-coordinating-with-prodigy/

The writers of all the shows work and talk together to make sure they're not stepping on each other's toes.

The events of Lower Decks are 'exaggerated'. They all happened in the Star Trek universe, but are exaggerated and all that through the lens of the style of show that Lower Decks is.

The security chief in Season 2 will be a species we've seen before, but one we've never seen in Starfleet before.

 

[The Wormhole]

The security chief in Season 2 will be a species we've seen before, but one we've never seen in Starfleet before.

And suddenly I'm thinking of that Xindi-Reptilian character design that was floating around online last year.

 

[Tuskin38]

And suddenly I'm thinking of that Xindi-Reptilian character design that was floating around online last year.

Didn't that turn out to be Fan Art?
It was just someone practicing drawing in the Lower Decks style.

 

[fireproof78]

The events of Lower Decks are 'exaggerated'. They all happened in the Star Trek universe, but are exaggerated and all that through the lens of the style of show that Lower Decks is.

Makes perfect sense. That's how I treat most of Star Trek.

 

[BillJ]

Makes perfect sense. That's how I treat most of Star Trek.

That's how I treat all of Star Trek. It is entertainment, not a history of the future.

 

[Tuskin38]

Well lower decks is even more exaggerated than the live action shows then

 

[matthunter]

The security chief in Season 2 will be a species we've seen before, but one we've never seen in Starfleet before.

Did we ever see a Cardassian in Starfleet? Or a Romulan?

The former might be interesting, given the boots they are filling.

I really want a Horta though.

 

[Tuskin38]

Did we ever see a Cardassian in Starfleet?

For pre-32nd century starfleet, only in an parallel reality seen in TNG: Parallels

 

[matthunter]

For pre-32nd century starfleet, only in an parallel reality seen in TNG: Parallels

Ta, I knew we had somewhere.

Romulan, how would you know (unless they said "cheeky feckers!")?

 

[Grendelsbayne]

Saavik was often considered half-Romulan by some people, though it wasn't proven by anything canon.

 

[137th Gebirg]

It was, at the very least, "soft canon". A scene was filmed and cut for the final release, but made it into some post-theatrical TV airings, along with the extended Preston scene (the Scotty nephew reveal and something about Kirk being as blind as a "Tiberian Bat"), the "That man is my son!" / "Fascinating" climbing scene, amongst others. Since it made it onto some (small) screens in various markets, I would personally consider Saavik's Romulan heritage canon.

It is the human thing to do.

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[The Wormhole]

I had a thought that maybe it could be a Breen, then they could make it running joke of everyone always having seemingly one-sided conversations with him, as he responds to everything with that Breen chatter noise which the characters will somehow understand but the audience can't. Sort of like the grown-ups in Charlie Brown. Or Chewbacca.

 

[Tuskin38]

I had a thought that maybe it could be a Breen, then they could make it running joke of everyone always having seemingly one-sided conversations with him, as he responds to everything with that Breen chatter noise which the characters will somehow understand but the audience can't. Sort of like the grown-ups in Charlie Brown. Or Chewbacca.

Plus not knowing what his Homeworld is like.

 

[BillJ]

Well lower decks is even more exaggerated than the live action shows then

Have you watched the live action shows?

 

[137th Gebirg]

[Laughing in Kirk-fu]

 

[MakeshiftPython]

Have you watched the live action shows?

Anyone that tells me TOS isn’t exaggerated in any way is kidding themselves. Just the style of acting alone is VERY different from how modern screen acting is done. Most acting 50 years ago were still done in the style of stage acting where you had to go big for the back audience. “Naturalistic” acting was only something that caught on in the latter half of the 20th century and beyond.

 

[Tuskin38]

I just assume he meant Lower Decks is exaggerated compared to the live action shows as a base.