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Season 2 – Star Trek: Lower Decks. 2021 Sci-Fi Comedy Adventure Animation. TRAILER for Star Trek: Lower Decks: Season 2 Trailer. List. 100% Tomatometer 12 Reviews. 80% Popcornmeter...
- 7. Where Pleasant Fountains Lie
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By Tara Bennett
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
Aug 12, 2021 · Paramount+'s 'Star Trek: Lower Decks' continues to be a treat for anyone who appreciates a good Darmok joke.
Star Trek: Lower Decks. The USS Cerritos encounters a familiar enemy. Tendi helps a struggling recruit find her footing. As the U.S.S. Cerritos crew has downtime during a long warp trip, a Klingon ship and a Vulcan one find themselves unknowingly heading to an encounter with the Starfleet ship.
Aug 12, 2021 · Anomaly consolidation day on the U.S.S. Cerritos leaves the Lower Deckers with mixed emotions. Captain Freeman attempts to negotiate peace on the Pakled home world. Read More
Aug 12, 2021 · Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 2, Episode 1 – Debuted Thursday, August 12, 2021. Written by Mike McMahan. Directed by Jason Zurek. SPOILER-FREE REVIEW. Lower Decks returns with a...
Apr 2, 2024 · Warp me, indeed – right through Lower Decks season 2! Strange Energies – What should be a routine second contact mission goes full TOS in a hurry, as first contact with an ancient totem morphs Comm. Ransom into an insane god manifesting as a giant head terrorizing the Cerritos.
