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Lower Decks Is the Star Trek Show That Got Its Finale Right This Year
This year has already given us two brand new Star Trek shows, with a returning third imminently on the way. But of the two that have now come on gone — Star Trek: Picard and Star Trek: Lower Decks — only one’s grand finale managed to temper gleeful nostalgia with a sense of earned character…
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Star Trek: Lower Decks Took a Serious Turn, and Really Earned It
Seven episodes into Star Trek: Lower Decks, the show has found itself in a comfortable, if at times frustrating, groove. We have a plot for one half of our Lower Deckers, we have a subplot for the other, and in both, there are lots of fun trope poking. It’s all very earnest and silly fun.…
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Lower Decks’ Romantic Farce Asks What Happens When You’ve Seen Too Much Star Trek
So far, Star Trek: Lower Decks has found itself striking a pretty fine balance between jabbing at its franchise’s nerdiness and truly embracing it. But this week, in perhaps its closest move yet to comedic farce, it ponders an interesting question: what happens when a Star Trek character has seen too much Trek for their…
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On Star Trek: Lower Decks, Everyone’s Just a Bunch of Adorable Nerds
Star Trek has a reputation as the “serious” sci-fi adventure series for a reason. Put away your whizzbang space-dogfights and your glowstick swords, this is the franchise where serious science happens! Diplomatic talks! Sample analysis! Everyone’s basically a bunch of geeks. That’s not a bad thing, of course — and this week’s Lower Decks leaned…