Spoilers Star Trek: Lower Decks 1x01 - "Second Contact"

[fireproof78]

I think many of us take life way too seriously when we’re younger. Then we get old and realize we aren’t getting out alive.

So, you're saying many of us are like Boimler?

 

[Admiral Jean-Luc Picard]

No reason your review of “Second Contact” somehow warrants its own thread, so I merged it with the already existing review and discussion thread where us mere mortals post our hot takes.

I wasn't reviewing the episode. I was failing to grasp just how immature the show is.

 

[BillJ]

I was failing to grasp just how immature the show is.

I don’t find it any more or less mature than the rest of the franchise.

 

[137th Gebirg]

^^^ This,

 

[Michael]

I wasn't reviewing the episode. I was failing to grasp just how immature the show is.

You do you.

 

[eschaton]

I might be thick, but I just realized that the entire episode can be more or less seen as a character focus/arc for Ensign Boimler, who transforms from being a goody-two-shoes looking to suck up to the boss to a slightly more cynical version of himself once he realizes the authority figures don't even know his name.

 

[1001001]

I wasn't reviewing the episode. I was failing to grasp just how immature the show is.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Yup. Saw a Star Wars exhibit at 26 and was grinning the whole time. The older I get the more I realize how important play is.

I went to the Monterey Bay Aquarium (aka the Cetacean Institute) once and they had a STIV exhibit. I was grinning like a kid.

 

[Tuskin38]

Saw this pointed out on Trekyards Easter Egg/References video, this almost looks like the Nomad probe (in the background)

 

[matthunter]

The problem isn't that it's different. Adults aren't this childish.

Absolutely. You'd never expect a Starfleet officer to fake their own death and frame a superior officer, just because of a grudge.

Or that a starship captain might hold enough anger at a contemporary that they feel the need to "beat the tar out of them".

Or beat a fellow officer at baseball.

Or remove the guy YOU put in charge of the refit of a ship as captain just because you got bored in an Admiral's office.

Nah, none of those things would EVER happen.

 

[Noname Given]

Chekov was also apparently partial to Vodka ... er... soda pop (Trouble With Tribbles), and we still don't exactly know the precise nature of Tranya, even though it has been shown and mentioned several times throughout multiple series.

Those people even forgot this exchange (from one of the MOST loved Trek feature films):

KIRK: Romulan Ale! Why, Bones, you know this is illegal.

McCOY: I only use it for medicinal purposes. I got aboard a ship that brings me in a case every now and then across the Neutral Zone. Now don't be a prig.

KIRK: Twenty-two, eighty-three.

McCOY: Yeah well it takes this stuff a while to ferment. Here now, gimme. ...Now you open this one.

AND/OR

STVI:TUC:

SPOCK: I doubt that our own behaviour will distinguish us in the annals of diplomacy.

KIRK: I'm going to sleep it off. Please let me know if there's some other way we can screw up tonight.

McCOY: I'm going to find a pot of black coffee.
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KIRK: Valeris, do you know anything about a radiation surge?

VALERIS: Sir?

KIRK: Chekov?

CHEKOV: Only the size of my head!

And if you need a TNG era reference:
TNG S6 - "Relics":

SCOTT: I don't know what it is, exactly, but I would be real careful. It's real
(Picard knocks it back in one)

PICARD: Aldebaran whiskey. Who do you think gave it to Guinan?

Tsk, tsk - all these 'Star Trek Fans' who really don't know their own Star Trek...

 

[137th Gebirg]

Precisely!

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

I finally saw episode 1. It's more Adult Swim or Robot Chicken than the trailer made it out to be, so better than I thought it would be.

I give it a solid 8.

 

[Trekker4747]

And, see, there it is. My entire point.

Criticize the show, say you don't like the humor, and you get accused not wanting to have fun and thinking everything should be all serious and stiff.

 

[urbandefault]

I think the point is, it's perfectly fine to dislike something. But if you don't like it, why hang in the forum thread and repeatedly exclaim that you don't like it? That's what draws the fire. If I don't like something, I might read the thread and say I didn't like it, but (most times) I can let it go. Even if I keep reading, there's no reason to keep saying I didn't like it.

But that's just me.

 

[Lord Garth]

Adults aren't this childish.

I've got stories. Both on the house-party front (including stuff I've done) and on the workplace front. I work in A/V. You have no idea how many co-workers I've had who've gone gaga over the latest and the greatest tech.

I've also been a lighting and sound technician for theater. If you meet a theater actor who's not at least a little bit childish, they're acting in front of you right then and there. Actors will go out of control if you let them.

 

[fireproof78]

And, see, there it is. My entire point.

Criticize the show, say you don't like the humor, and you get accused not wanting to have fun and thinking everything should be all serious and stiff.

Or, you know, it's an exaggeration. You know...OTT.

I've read that phrase somewhere.

 

[Lord Garth]

Criticize the show, say you don't like the humor, and you get accused not wanting to have fun and thinking everything should be all serious and stiff.

Then show that you're not all serious and stiff. Don't just say it, show it. Don't be one-note. People only respond to what they see.

Let me put it to you another way.

Picard: Mr. Worf, I'm ordering you to relax.
Worf: I AM RELAXED.
(Reaction from Picard)

 

[Admiral Jean-Luc Picard]

Prime example of childish humor. Character psychoticly flails around Klingon sword until accidently carving out a chunk of a co-worker's leg she just met. Could you see Tom doing that to Harry?

 

[fireproof78]

Prime example of childish humor. Character psychoticly flails around Klingon sword until accidently carving out a chunk of a co-worker's leg she just met. Could you see Tom doing that to Harry?

Yes.