Spoilers The clip from Envoys shows what is wrong with Lower Decks

[NCC-73515]

It would be great if the tricorder turned out to be some kind of evil device, or that the thing keeps existing in the tricorder

 

[Turtletrekker]

The fan base is so from day one.

Allow me to one-up you. This wonderful piece came from a self-described Star Trek superfan in Best of Trek magazine number three, early 1980, in regards to the redesigned Klingons in Star Trek The Motion Picture. Just replace the name Roddenberry with Kurtzman and it could have been written by some Fanboy yesterday.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.re...k_superfan_leslie_thompson_writing_about_the/

 

[fireproof78]

Allow me to one-up you. This wonderful piece came from a self-described Star Trek superfan in Best of Trek magazine number three, early 1980, in regards to the redesigned Klingons in Star Trek The Motion Picture. Just replace the name Roddenberry with Kurtzman and it could have been written by some Fanboy yesterday.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.re...k_superfan_leslie_thompson_writing_about_the/

Well, they're not wrong...those TMP Klingons were ugly.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Allow me to one-up you. This wonderful piece came from a self-described Star Trek superfan in Best of Trek magazine number three, early 1980, in regards to the redesigned Klingons in Star Trek The Motion Picture. Just replace the name Roddenberry with Kurtzman and it could have been written by some Fanboy yesterday.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.re...k_superfan_leslie_thompson_writing_about_the/

It even has the ever popular "we're supposed to sit back and accept it" line!

 

[Turtletrekker]

It even has the ever popular "we're supposed to sit back and accept it" line!

Right? As Quark once noted, "The more things change, the more they stay the same."

 

[F. King Daniel]

“Like I would wish for something without batteries!”

was that a sex toy joke in a Star Trek show?

OMG any true Trekkie knows they don't use batteries in the future.

They use sarium krellide power cells as per the TNG Technical Manual. Cancel this show right now.

 

[Jadeb]

So far, this show works as light Star Trek entertainment for trekkies, not all that different from a couple of the Trek Shorts.

This is one thing I like about it. Discovery was desperate to reinvent Star Trek to appeal to non-fans (while keeping the Trekkies paying), but this show is content to be what it is: light Star Trek entertainment for Trekkies.

It’s nice to have a show that’s confident in its identity and audience instead of being strategically engineered to be all things to all people. I’ve had enough of that from Trek over the last 10 years.

 

[Mudd]

We never saw it again. It's possible that it disappearing the way it did into the Captain's torso is a setup for a development the next time we see her?

That we see a glowing blue dot exit her chest in one of the next two episodes and mutter: "Not doing THAT again!!"

Is that going to require the dreaded "Previously on Star Trek: Lower Decks like anyone fucking cares?"

 

[cooleddie74]

It's worked in other Trek series.

 

[Rhodan]

So what would you do with the malevolent energy creature for 25 minutes? It's a fly-by scene and how much more parody can really be eked out of that scene? If the whole LD series can do scene after scene, and given the whole of Trek has how many iconic tropes in which to parody in a new fashion? (the klingon with the eyepatch she referred to may not be General Chang but the Klingon that's in next week's episode. That's a nice twist, interweaving bits and pieces indirectly like this...)

I would make Mariner ask for something silly, but a little more memorable. Anyway, this was for me just bad cold opening, fortunately, it went up from there.

 

[Mudd]

It's worked in other Trek series.

I was so glad that The Orville didn't do it at the beginning of "Identity Part II."

 

[fireproof78]

It's worked in other Trek series.

As we all know if new Trek does it its bad. If Old Trek does it its cool