Haven’t watched any new Star Trek. Loved TOS through Enterprise and only recently started getting the books. Amazing they put someone in charge who attacks fans and doesn’t seem to care about Star Trek. Well I guess that’s normal now
Lower Decks has been the most Trek thing going at the moment. That's where all the writers who cared went, I think.
The first episode did irk me, though. Redoing the whole "Officer and its Kid" dynamic is tired enough, but anyone who doesn't understand that whether something is "farm equipment" or "weaponry" is entirely in how it's being used at the moment and declares how much they "hate authority" should never have graduated Starfleet Academy in the first place. Show gets better from there, though, esp. from the second season on.
Nobody in the Lower Decks crew should have made it past the academy. Starfleet is meant to be the best of the best, not an extended gap year for a group so belligerent and incompetent they shouldn't be put in charge of raking leaves in autumn let alone being stationed on an intergalactic starship that a handful of safety features from going back in time and/or destroying localised space.
Starfleet is meant to be the best of the best, but we all know that for every Archer or Sisko, there's nine, ten, dozens of plodders or absolute shits. That's one reason why I love Attack Pattern Tuggs, it's Trek, and lovingly so, but it shows a crew of misfits and burnouts who fly those old ships that get a few seconds of screen time in the shows.
we all know that for every Archer or Sisko, there's nine, ten, dozens of plodders or absolute shits
The problem with the main cast is most of them are the literal best Starfleet has, more so than the general elite nature of the organisation. Even just the captains highlight the to the extreme.
Archer is the first warp 5 captain. The flashback episode regarding Robinson shows it was an extremely competitive contest as it was so important to Starfleet and humanity as a whole.
Picard commands the flagship of the fleet. His face is basically Starfleet at that point.
Sisko is taking over a still smouldering powderkeg with Bajor immediately after the end of the Cardassian Occupation.
Kirk is considered to be a tactical genius by both Starfleet and other alien empires.
Of the main lineup Janeway ends up being the only one who isn't someone special. She's meant to be tracking down her tactical officer and gets stuck 70'000 light years away because of it. While the idea of how other captains might have faired is brought up a few times, like with Captain Ransom and the USS Equinox that was in the same situation, it was still people that weren't meant to be there so we're out of their depth a lot of the time by design.
Everyone else is still meant to be highly competent even if they end up being one of the background crew or the actual lower decks as the TNG episode did first. Those crewmen showed they weren't just brainless cogs in a machine when one of them figured out the bridge officers were setting up a secret mission instead of just testing phaser fire on a shuttle because the blast patterns were being done in a way to fake live fire damage.
Instead Lower Decks ends up with a crew that should be arrested for treason at a minimum, court martialed, and probably spaced for the safety of everyone else in Starfleet.
Haven’t watched any new Star Trek. Loved TOS through Enterprise and only recently started getting the books. Amazing they put someone in charge who attacks fans and doesn’t seem to care about Star Trek. Well I guess that’s normal now
Lower Decks has been the most Trek thing going at the moment. That's where all the writers who cared went, I think.
The first episode did irk me, though. Redoing the whole "Officer and its Kid" dynamic is tired enough, but anyone who doesn't understand that whether something is "farm equipment" or "weaponry" is entirely in how it's being used at the moment and declares how much they "hate authority" should never have graduated Starfleet Academy in the first place. Show gets better from there, though, esp. from the second season on.
Nobody in the Lower Decks crew should have made it past the academy. Starfleet is meant to be the best of the best, not an extended gap year for a group so belligerent and incompetent they shouldn't be put in charge of raking leaves in autumn let alone being stationed on an intergalactic starship that a handful of safety features from going back in time and/or destroying localised space.
Starfleet is meant to be the best of the best, but we all know that for every Archer or Sisko, there's nine, ten, dozens of plodders or absolute shits. That's one reason why I love Attack Pattern Tuggs, it's Trek, and lovingly so, but it shows a crew of misfits and burnouts who fly those old ships that get a few seconds of screen time in the shows.
The problem with the main cast is most of them are the literal best Starfleet has, more so than the general elite nature of the organisation. Even just the captains highlight the to the extreme.
Archer is the first warp 5 captain. The flashback episode regarding Robinson shows it was an extremely competitive contest as it was so important to Starfleet and humanity as a whole.
Picard commands the flagship of the fleet. His face is basically Starfleet at that point.
Sisko is taking over a still smouldering powderkeg with Bajor immediately after the end of the Cardassian Occupation.
Kirk is considered to be a tactical genius by both Starfleet and other alien empires.
Of the main lineup Janeway ends up being the only one who isn't someone special. She's meant to be tracking down her tactical officer and gets stuck 70'000 light years away because of it. While the idea of how other captains might have faired is brought up a few times, like with Captain Ransom and the USS Equinox that was in the same situation, it was still people that weren't meant to be there so we're out of their depth a lot of the time by design.
Everyone else is still meant to be highly competent even if they end up being one of the background crew or the actual lower decks as the TNG episode did first. Those crewmen showed they weren't just brainless cogs in a machine when one of them figured out the bridge officers were setting up a secret mission instead of just testing phaser fire on a shuttle because the blast patterns were being done in a way to fake live fire damage.
Instead Lower Decks ends up with a crew that should be arrested for treason at a minimum, court martialed, and probably spaced for the safety of everyone else in Starfleet.