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Post by Prometheus59650 on Apr 12, 2024 19:35:04 GMT
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Post by Garak Nephew on Apr 13, 2024 21:07:01 GMT
A wise man once said "comedy is tragedy plus time" and I can't think of better Trek proof for that dictum than Lower Decks.
Lower Decks could have ran forever, could have been our The Simpsons, a Trek improbability engine of enjoyment and engagement. LD is a twisted mirror to the magic of Star Trek. Never a point of entry but a curated vintage for the initiated. As The Simpsons is a distorted (truthful) image of the American psyche, Lower Decks is a sort of holodeck fantasy (equally truthful) of the Trek mind. All it needs is for you to take a symbolic plunge.
We trekkers fashion ourselves as very serious personalities, a stiff purveyors of knowledge and cultural insight, but in truth that veil can be a hubris that block us to see the possibilities. Is Lower Decks canon? It is a moot question. Is Lower Decks addressing issues of Trek relevance and advocacy? Yes. It is just our task to understand what comedy is (in universe) and what sort of instrument we need to interpret it.
Sorry if I sound kind of bitter, I just needed to get a little drunk to write this post, but many oldtimers (I am 51, so not sure if I am one of those... or maybe is a soul thing) on the Trek Sphere are now rejoicing about this demise (that says more about the current state of entertainment than about the actual quality of LD) and I say to them go and watch LD best season (S3), go and watch "Reflections" and "A Mathematically Perfect Redemption" and if you think that's utter crap then you and me do not speak the same Trek language; but, and this is important, THAT'S OK, Star Trek is vast, there's room for tribbles, and Apollo, and Edith Keeler, and Mudd, and Trelane, and for Rigel VII, and for Horta, there's room for Sulu, and for Eymorgs, and for Talosians, and there's room for Rutherford and Tendi. Yes, much have been said about Mariner and Boimler, but Lower Decks is really about Rutheford and Tendi, I welcome them to the Trek familiy.
I rather have ONE Mcmahan (a Trek Douglas Adams) before TEN Matalas.
I will be forever thankful that LD exist.
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Post by BeastBoy on Apr 13, 2024 21:13:30 GMT
Please don't kill me but Star Trek Prodigy is much better than LD.
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Post by Prometheus59650 on Apr 13, 2024 21:27:42 GMT
Please don't kill me but Star Trek Prodigy is much better than LD. So very much better.
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Post by Garak Nephew on Apr 13, 2024 21:48:59 GMT
Please don't kill me but Star Trek Prodigy is much better than LD. Prodigy found its own ground and I am happy for them, but they kind of put themselves into a corner with an the kid/adult trekker angle. Prodigy do not know who they are trying to addressed, but even with this ambivalence, I am happily awaiting S2 to drop on Netflix. LD will forever be my Trek animated series.
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Post by MrPicard on Apr 16, 2024 9:47:44 GMT
I've still only seen one or two snippets from Lower Decks and those made me want to run away screaming from all the cringe so yeah I'm not sad this is happening.
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Post by BeastBoy on Apr 16, 2024 9:54:58 GMT
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Post by Sehlat Vie on Apr 19, 2024 0:31:36 GMT
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Post by Prometheus59650 on Apr 19, 2024 15:41:53 GMT
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Post by Sehlat Vie on Apr 19, 2024 16:12:20 GMT
I'm only sad that it had five years...wish it were one. I half-keeed, of course. I know it has its fans, and I feel for them, but for the show itself?
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