Spoilers Lower Decks Season 05x10 "The New Next Generation"

[jian]

Damn, I really need to see this.

 

[jian]

I really enjoyed the finale, but the previous episode delivered the best and clearest statement of Star Trek’s way of doing science fiction in a few lines of dialogue.

Do you mean this bit? If so I thoroughly agree.

“We don't need to meet new species."
"Okay, then why bother exploring at all?"
"To better understand ourselves. It's fun to learn about aliens, but learning about Humanity, that's something else. I've met Humans who've built rings around the sun. I've met others whose ships are the size of continents. I'm learning about what Humans can be. Mapping our potential. So far, it's limitless."

 

[sevenbastard]

I watched the whole show, but I'm not a big trek fan so I missed a lot of the jokes.

That said part of the reason I'm not a trek fan is all the time travel and multi verse junk ( and taking it all so seriously). So this show basically playing it all for laughs and pointing out how obsurd it is made me appreciate the show. Thus my assessment Lower Deck was a show you can enjoy as a Trek fan or as not a Trek fan.

 

[Ryujin]

I watched the whole show, but I'm not a big trek fan so I missed a lot of the jokes.

That said part of the reason I'm not a trek fan is all the time travel and multi verse junk ( and taking it all so seriously). So this show basically playing it all for laughs and pointing out how obsurd it is made me appreciate the show. Thus my assessment Lower Deck was a show you can enjoy as a Trek fan or as not a Trek fan.

The multiple universes thing was used quite sparingly, until "Discovery" turned it into a season(s?) long thing. The same with time travel. I think that "Lower Decks" definitely lands better with more Trek knowledge, but is still otherwise funny.

 

[jian]

Really liked the whole season and sorry to see it go, but on the other hand the sitcom format did make it repetitive - what character development do we have to undo this week so Boimler or Mariner can go crazy again, that sort of thing. The last episode was a good finale but all the work was done by the penultimate episode, Fissure Quest, which was just amazing on every level, and so full of fan Easter eggs. T’Pol and Trip married! Garashir! Kim gets promoted! And so on.

 

[Mallus]

Do you mean this bit? If so I thoroughly agree.

“We don't need to meet new species."
"Okay, then why bother exploring at all?"
"To better understand ourselves. It's fun to learn about aliens, but learning about Humanity, that's something else. I've met Humans who've built rings around the sun. I've met others whose ships are the size of continents. I'm learning about what Humans can be. Mapping our potential. So far, it's limitless."

That’s the one!

 

[jian]

Just read the latest Lower Decks graphic novel by Ryan North and it’s a doozy. Warp Your Own Way is a choose your own adventure book which basically simulates those episodes and storylines where one character keeps on running through different timelines, which all end in disaster and sends her back to the beginning to try again. Mariner is having one hell of a day.

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It then subverts this when you realise that you can’t advance the storyline without cheating - you have to go to a page that none of the choices lead to in order to get to the real plot.

It’s also extremely heartfelt and poignant at the end - quite unexpected but very much in keeping with the series. I’d really recommend it.