Just Finished Lower Decks
Just Finished Lower Decks
This show was honestly such a special gem. 💜💜💜
I'm going to miss all the cleverness, great writing, and loads of fun. I wish I could be friends with all the characters. Boimler and Mariner's relationship is so wonderful. I want IRL friends like all of them. 🙃
So long Lower Deck.
Engage the core.
Wasn't this the highest rated nu trek? Smart move by paramount to kill something so popular.
We demand 7 seasons!
I don't think there's any question that it was well-liked by the fandom.
However, I used to check in with Parrot Analytics fairly frequently - they're a site that purports to measure the overall "demand" of a series through a variety of means that I don't fully understand...but the industry uses their metrics.
"Lower Decks" was typically the second-lowest "in demand" new series - only "Prodigy" had a lower score.
That said, the demand for all of the new series was categorized as "outstanding."
I will never begin to understand how and why execs make the decisions they do.
No idea if it was most popular, but i wouldn't have thought so. The humor seemed directed mostly towards existing fans. I cant imagine they brought in many new viewers. I'd love to be surprised though.
Yeah, I hate to say it, but it makes sense from a bean-counter's perspective. Lower Decks seemed to mostly target hardcore fans, and hardcore fans will already be subscribing to watch SNW. If its not gaining them any extra subscriptions, they don't care about it.
Section 31 and Academy are both trying to court people outside of the existing fandoms. Certainly not very successfully in the case of Section 31, but the reasoning at play is pretty clear.
Yeah, I agree. I think it's my favorite Star Trek.
LOWER! DECKS!
LOWER! DECKS!
LOWER! DECKS!
LOWER! DECKS!
TEAM SPIRT!
COMMUNITY!
LOWER DECKS!
Buffertime episode was the one where I became hooked.
The show consistently delivered until the very end, at least for me.
My only petty gripe is when I recently rewatched an episode: Riker comments about seeing Archer and the gang in the holodeck and now that I've seen ENT...I don't want to be reminded of the finale. I told you it was petty!
5 seasons and a movie, make it so!
2 movies.
Lower Decks earned it's place in the One Good, One Bad cycle(at least a tongue-in-cheek poke at it).
A fun, animated Star Trek movie, full of fun and team spirit and community might hit just right in July 2026
Ooh! I didn't hear about a possible movie. Is it a sure thing?
I have no idea, but I hope so haha
Engage the core.
No, no. Don't you dare go to warp on a workout joke!
It had me rofl. 😁💜
So perfect.
It's my favorite Trek since DS9. I need to re watch it. I was annoyed by Mariner and Boimler during the first episodes. But they had fantastic character development that made the first episodes necessary.
Lower Decks for sure has the most DS9 energy of anything that isn't DS9. They even gay married Garak and Bashir!
I have serious love-hate for her.
I did too! Watched it on initial release but skipped the finale, then watched a second time with the finale. Like a lot of Trek it is even better the second time, there is a shocking amount of attention to detail for a silly cartoon.
My favorite aspect that LDS really nailed was that it regularly turned a Trek trope on it's head, and the "twist" in so many episodes turned out to be a positive well-intentioned misunderstanding instead of an ulterior motive.
I wish I could be friends with all the characters
This is the mark of a truly great show
Indeed. 💜
great show, a classic for sure. I think all the scripts were written in all caps tho.
They even poke fun at themselves for that when Boimler/Mariner time travels and remark how slowly and quietly everyone speaks
Ha! Because of all the cartoon energy? 😁
Man what are the odds??? I just finished the last episode today too! I've been dragging along on this last season because, ya know, last season and all, but it did certainly end with quite a bang.
Same. I didn't want to rush it. Savor it, you know.
It left me with the good feels.
I just did earlier this week!!