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Star Trek: Lower Decks Showed Everyone How the Other Half Lives
Paramount+’s animated Star Trek: Lower Decks has already done a fantastic job of really diving into the internal conflict and privileges of the typical Starfleet bridge crew and the tough lives our lower deckers live. But just as much of this season has been about building on the bonds between our four heroes, this week…
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On Star Trek: Lower Decks, Literal Dirty Work Isn’t Quite Its Own Reward
The animated Star Trek: Lower Decks has always put the divide between the big, important jobs of being bridge crew in stark relief to the actual nitty-gritty work of being the entry-level employees of a ship — especially a ship that features in a show as weird as Star Trek in the first place. But…
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Lower Decks Offers a Perfectly Star Trek Answer to How to Live in Starfleet’s Duality
When CBS revived Star Trek and promptly turned it into a swath of new series about boldly going, these myriad projects all found themselves grappling with a familiar question. It’s one that’s underpinned over half a century of the franchise: is Starfleet a scientific organisation, or a military one? The time has come for Paramount+’s…
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Star Trek: Lower Decks’ SDCC 2021 Trailer Sets Phasers to Fun
Star Trek: Lower Decks was one of our surprise favourites last year, and it’s back and looking better than ever for round two. And that means more jokes, more delectably silly references to Trek’s past, and more earnest Starfleet vibes than you can wave an accidentally-set-to-disintegrate phaser at.