brad boimler
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Lower Decks’ AI Antics Offer a Mathematically Imperfect Redemption
Lower Decks does a lot with its love of story threads and nods to past Star Trek, but when it comes to carving out its own true additions to the trope canon those results are often a little mixed—and, weirdly enough, have so far largely focused on one very specific trope, in the form of…
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Watch the Lower Decks Crew Freak Out About Voyager, As They Should
So far, given its setting, Lower Decks’ particular areas of Trek fanservice have focused on the likes of The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine—give or take the occasional spacetime jaunt to Strange New Worlds. But in its season four premiere, the show is going to be casting its loving eye on the other Trek…
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Star Trek: Lower Deck’s Mike McMahan Breaks Down Season 2’s Themes and That Epic Finale
Another season of Star Trek: Lower Decks has come to an end, but this time, the show has evolved into a whole new level of trials and tribulations for the crew of the Cerritos. To look back on season two and unpack some of those twists from the finale, Gizmodo chatted with showrunner Mike McMahan…
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Star Trek: Lower Decks Gave Us a Happy Ending with Sex and an Evil Computer
A lot of Star Trek: Lower Decks has been about taking classic setups and premises from series past and reframing them or poking holes with loving fun. So it’s rare to see the series riff on not one, but two fun stalwarts of the past and not really play them for laughs — even if…