# Star Trek Lower Decks **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** tv-shows-scripted, star-trek-paramount\ **Created:** [July 14, 2020, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-lower-decks/915340 "2020-07-14T21:53:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 23
**Author:** ![mozchron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@mozchron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mozchron)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2023, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-lower-decks/915340/443 "2023-09-10T00:58:44Z")
I am EXTREMELY late to this party (just started watching it today) but this show is hilarious. ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2023, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-lower-decks/915340/444 "2023-09-11T20:35:01Z")
I have cats. I’m not afraid of Moopsy. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2023, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-lower-decks/915340/445 "2023-09-11T20:56:31Z")
> [@Catamount](#): > > I have cats. I’m not afraid of Moopsy But would you want to be Moopsyamount? ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2023, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-lower-decks/915340/446 "2023-09-12T02:36:22Z")
[![](https://i.postimg.cc/L4C4N8Fc/img-1-1694485801541.jpg) ](https://i.postimg.cc/L4C4N8Fc/img-1-1694485801541.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2023, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-lower-decks/915340/447 "2023-09-12T03:55:21Z")
I was wondering why Ransom was wearing the boob-accenting leotard! ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2023, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-lower-decks/915340/448 "2023-09-12T03:56:52Z")
> [@Catamount](#): > > I have cats. I’m not afraid of Moopsy. Moopsy has become my cat’s new nickname. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2023, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-lower-decks/915340/449 "2023-09-14T15:48:18Z")
Love episode 3. Allamalay lemon meringue. Eat a bag of Borg dicks, motherfucker. Also, now there has been an orbital shown in both Trek and Wars. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2023, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-lower-decks/915340/450 "2023-09-14T17:31:52Z")
“Ah. It is a volcano.” ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2023, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-lower-decks/915340/451 "2023-09-14T21:42:50Z")
Cool callback to the black mountain. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2023, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-lower-decks/915340/452 "2023-09-14T22:35:01Z")
In the subtitle it says (speaking koala). ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2023, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-lower-decks/915340/453 "2023-09-14T23:32:43Z")
I wasn’t expecting to see the Space Koala this early in the season. I love how the battle in the credits among the Federation, the Borg Cube, and the Crystalline Entity gets bigger each season. I think I saw a couple of Romulan Birds of Prey this time around, but I can’t identify the other ships. What is that big sushi-roll looking thing? ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2023, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-lower-decks/915340/454 "2023-09-14T23:41:33Z")
> [@Catamount](#): > > What is that big sushi-roll looking thing? It’s the whale-loving probe from _The Voyage Home_. If you look, you can see the little ball come out of the hole. [![](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/startrek/images/9/9c/Cetacean_Probe_2411.jpg) ](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/startrek/images/9/9c/Cetacean_Probe_2411.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2023, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-lower-decks/915340/455 "2023-09-14T23:58:34Z")
Thank you. I know I’ve watched _The Voyage Home_ but all I remember is that I didn’t like it. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2023, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-lower-decks/915340/456 "2023-09-15T01:31:32Z")
> [@Catamount](#): > > I know I’ve watched _The Voyage Home_ but all I remember is that I didn’t like it. “Well, double dumb-ass on you!” –Captain Kirk ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2023, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-lower-decks/915340/457 "2023-09-15T17:39:11Z")
I’m struck by how horrible of a captain Freeman is, and incompetent the Federation is. An entire world is dependent on an ancient computer that needs maintenance and a captain who minored in archaic technology and her regular engineering team is who you send? I know this is just a cartoon and played for laughs but the laughs don’t work as well for me when they rely on that level of Federation and the Captain’s idiocy. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2023, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-lower-decks/915340/458 "2023-09-15T18:02:45Z")
> [@DSeid](#): > > I know this is just a cartoon and played for laughs The only difference between this and other Trek shows **is** that it’s played for laughs. All the captains in all the shows regularly and foolishly insert themselves where they don’t belong. ---
**Author:** ![Llama\_Llogophile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@Llama\_Llogophile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Llama_Llogophile)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2023, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-lower-decks/915340/459 "2023-09-15T18:30:12Z")
> [@DSeid](#): > > I’m struck by how horrible of a captain Freeman is, and incompetent the Federation is. An entire world is dependent on an ancient computer that needs maintenance and a captain who minored in archaic technology and her regular engineering team is who you send? > > I know this is just a cartoon and played for laughs but the laughs don’t work as well for me when they rely on that level of Federation and the Captain’s idiocy. The whole point of the show, IMHO, is right there in the title. Every other form of Star Trek is about hyper competent super people using magical technology. There has to be SOMEBODY who just isn’t on board with the whole over-achieving thing. That they have personified this with a likable character, Beckett Mariner, is pretty great. It could have been much more cynical, but instead it’s sort of lovable along with the fact that the whole show is an affectionate homage to all things Star Trek. Speaking of which, I thought I knew my Trek. But I’m finding there are many references and in-jokes that I have to look up. The people who write Lower Decks are doing some seriously deep cuts. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2023, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-lower-decks/915340/460 "2023-09-15T20:00:49Z")
> [@Llama\_Llogophile](#): > > Speaking of which, I thought I knew my Trek. But I’m finding there are many references and in-jokes that I have to look up. The people who write Lower Decks are doing some seriously deep cuts. Yeah, “Move Along Home,” “The Inner Light” and whatever Betazoid episode had the gift box (Troi’s arranged marriage?). > [@DSeid](#): > > An entire world is dependent on an ancient computer that needs maintenance and a captain who minored in archaic technology and her regular engineering team is who you send? The captain assumed that the repairs would be simple - a mistake, but non-Kirk captains in Starfleet have been known to make errors of judgment, like beaming his crew to a planet when there was a planet-destroyer in the system, or not anticipating that Scotty might be working with Kirk to steal the Enterprise. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2023, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-lower-decks/915340/461 "2023-09-15T20:07:15Z")
Considering the ridiculousness (and cartooniness!) of LD, which I love, in my headcanon it’s an animated recreation of the REAL stories of Mariner, Boimler, Rutherford, and Tendi, with assorted embellishments for storytelling purposes. The only bits of the REAL Mariner and Boimler we’ve seen were in the SNW crossover episode. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2023, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-lower-decks/915340/462 "2023-09-15T20:07:24Z")
> [@Llama\_Llogophile](#): > > Speaking of which, I thought I knew my Trek. But I’m finding there are many references and in-jokes that I have to look up. The people who write Lower Decks are doing some seriously deep cuts. Same with me. Like in the first episode of the current season, I had to look up who [Michael Sullivan](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Michael_Sullivan) was. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-lower-decks/915340.md?page=22) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-lower-decks/915340.md?page=24)