Star Trek: Lower Decks

[JohnC]

Star Trek adult animation. From Rick and Morty head writer Mike McMahan. It'll focus on the support crew on one of Starfleet's least important ships.

 

McMahan is also the guy behind that twitter account which posted fake episode plots for an eighth TNG season.

[revlob]

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I want to do a show about the people who put the yellow cartridge in the food replicator so a banana can come out the other end

 

I can't be alone in thinking this is a terrible idea.

[Papaya Dance]

Sounds like an animated red dwarf. I love trek and dwarf but this sounds terrible. Hope to be proven wrong. Also hope it's not canon. Please don't let it be canon.

[Meh]

I like the idea. Star Trek's always had the biggest bestest ships as the focus, so this could be fun.

[Mr Cochese]

They’d have to go some way to make it less true to the spirit of Trek than Discovery.

[JohnC]

They've announced some details. I can't say I'm familiar with regular voice actors other than a few exceptions, so I don't know this cast or if they are regular on other shows.

[JohnC]

[GwiDan]

It’s TNG era?

[JohnC]

13 minutes ago, GwiDan said:

It’s TNG era?

Apparently 2380. Nemesis is supposed to be 2379. 

[Vespa Alex]

Bring it on. Even if I don't love it there will be entertainment in watching the internet lose it's mind.

[Garwoofoo]

I'm on board with the concept but it's got exactly the same cheap animation style as all modern American cartoons so I kind of hate it a bit already for that reason alone.

[Sarlaccfood]

I know it’s just a light hearted spin-off but that ship design is rough. 

[Eighthours]

Well, those characters certainly look wacky, eh?

[Captain Kelsten]

They're all but one pulling the exact same face. Terrible choice. 

[James Lyon]

13 hours ago, Garwoofoo said:

I'm on board with the concept but it's got exactly the same cheap animation style as all modern American cartoons so I kind of hate it a bit already for that reason alone.

 

Looks like Ctrl+Alt+Del: A Star Trek special.

[Nick R]

21 minutes ago, James Lyon said:

Looks like Ctrl+Alt+Del: A Star Trek special.

 

[James Lyon]

That age old question of why does all anime look the same reflected back at us.

[Robo_1]

On 02/07/2020 at 09:22, Eighthours said:

Well, those characters certainly look wacky, eh?

 

Exactly my first thought. 

[Garwoofoo]

Trailer alert. Looks shit, and annoying.

 

https://streamable.com/ds72si

[Waggo]

Yeah shit and annoying is a pretty much perfect description.  Think I will be swerving this one.

[Festoon]

26 minutes ago, Garwoofoo said:

Trailer alert. Looks shit, and annoying.

 

https://streamable.com/ds72si

 

Christ, that's awful.

[Vespa Alex]

I quite liked it. 

[thesnwmn]

11 minutes ago, Vespa Alex said:

I quite liked it. 

Me too. I mean it doesn’t look amazing but I’m happy to try anything Star Trek that isn’t the movie aspiring turgid, complicated messes of Discovery and Picard (the later had its moments). Maybe sitcom (animated or not) is really where the franchise needs to be to recapture what I think was actually good about it (comfortable relaxed viewing where you never really knew what to expect each week).

 

I like the idea of something set away from the decision making. I think ideally it could be interesting to see smaller lives play out whilst the back drop is the bigger missions of the ship. But I suspect they’ll fail to do that at least sometimes and these ‘nothing’ crew members will somehow end up more involved in each mission than they should.

[Eighthours]

It should be like those Chief O’Brien cartoons.

 

Trailer was alright, though. Is this coming to Netflix/Prime over here?

[JohnC]

Doesn’t appear to have a UK release announced yet. 

[Papaya Dance]

That looks a hundred times better than Disco and Picard.

 

Still looks fucking shite though.

[Mogster]

I can't say I laughed at any of that, but hopefully the show itself isn't quite so frenetic and annoying all the time. Either way, it's still not bloody Star Trek is it?

[Nifta]

 

[layten]

Yea, this is looking fucking terrible.

[James Lyon]

More like an upper decker?