I am EXTREMELY late to this party (just started watching it today) but this show is hilarious.
I have cats. I’m not afraid of Moopsy.
But would you want to be Moopsyamount?
I was wondering why Ransom was wearing the boob-accenting leotard!
Moopsy has become my cat’s new nickname.
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.
“Ah. It is a volcano.”
Cool callback to the black mountain.
In the subtitle it says (speaking koala).
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?
It’s the whale-loving probe from The Voyage Home.
If you look, you can see the little ball come out of the hole.
Thank you. 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
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 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.
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.
Yeah, “Move Along Home,” “The Inner Light” and whatever Betazoid episode had the gift box (Troi’s arranged marriage?).
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.
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.
Same with me. Like in the first episode of the current season, I had to look up who Michael Sullivan was.