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Feb 20, 2024 · In Season 3, Star Trek: Lower Decks does not go boldly where no franchise series has gone before, and that’s what makes it brilliant.
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Sep 14, 2023 · Star Trek: Lower Decks follows the USS Cerritos, looking at those junior members who work well below the famed bridge. The series follows Beckett Mariner, Brad Boimler, D'Vana Tendi, and Sam...
But also a happy one, as there are still 10 more episodes of Star Trek: Lower Decks to come in fall 2024. Mike McMahan was a guest on Awards Radar's Extended 'Verse podcast to chat about Star Trek
Nov 7, 2023 · A painstakingly earned connection to a classic episode, poignant, thrilling, and deliberately silly. It's incredible television, and does things with the Star Trek formula that just couldn't ...
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Updated: Aug 16, 2021 3:37 pm
Posted: Aug 12, 2021 2:30 pm
Star Trek: Lower Decks season two premieres Aug. 12 on Paramount+. Below is a spoiler-free review of the first five episodes.
When Star Trek: Lower Decks dropped last year, there was no question that the series was lovingly brought to life by people who know their Trek inside and out. Where it faltered was thinking hyper-fast delivery and overly busy episodes was a fun, sustainable watch. Gratefully, creator Mike McMahan (Solar Opposites) allowed the show to mellow out by the end of its first season, giving us a lot more depth for both the stories and characters who live and work in the bowels of the U.S.S. Cerritos. In season two, Lower Decks continues that balanced groove with even more confidence in mixing comedy with away mission hijinks and character progression.
In particular, Beckett Mariner (Tawny Newsome) is more fun to be around this season because she’s not just dragging crewmates Brad Boimler (Jack Quaid), D'Vana Tendi (Noël Wells), and Sam Rutherford (Eugene Cordero) into an endless string of ill-considered adventures. She’s still a purposefully rebellious screw-up who leaps before thinking, but the new episodes also give us more quiet moments where she reveals what her abrasive walls are really all about.
IGN's Scott Collura gave the series premiere of Star Trek: Lower Decks an 8/10, writing that it's "a great addition to the pantheon of Gene Roddenberry’s universe, and one clearly guided by the hand of a creator who truly loves and knows Star Trek... The future looks bright for Lower Decks indeed."
Speaking of Boimler, the season opens with Mariner stewing with mighty resentment after he abruptly left to accept a promotion on Captain William Riker’s (Jonathan Frakes) U.S.S. Titan. How he’s doing in his new gig, and the physical and emotional hole he left behind is played to great effect in the first half of the season. It says a lot about the writing maturity of the series to have choices like the one he made have real stakes, and then play out as such when many comedies would just blow past anything that messy.
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When Boimler does return, it proves how far this ensemble has come in truly endearing itself to us. Still a big ball of anxiety, he clearly tames Mariner’s boundless energy and impulsiveness. And he’s also the perfect nerd compliment to good kids Tendi and Rutherford. Together, they tease, challenge and better one another, which makes even their dumbest screw-ups fun to watch. They’re also true believers in the goals of the Federation, which is endearing, hopeful and would certainly make Gene Roddenberry proud.
When Star Trek: Lower Decks dropped last year, there was no question that the series was lovingly brought to life by people who know their Trek inside and out. Where it faltered was thinking hyper-fast delivery and overly busy episodes was a fun, sustainable watch. Gratefully, creator Mike McMahan (Solar Opposites) allowed the show to mellow out by...
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Star Trek: Lower Decks doesn’t skip a beat as the "lower deckers" of the U.S.S. Cerritos continue to bond, reveal more of themselves and do stupid stuff in space.
Tara Bennett
With Tawny Newsome, Jack Quaid, Noël Wells, Eugene Cordero. The support crew serving on one of Starfleet's least important ships, the U.S.S. Cerritos, have to keep up with their duties, often while the ship is being rocked by a multitude of sci-fi anomalies.
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