It's Star Trek for the modern brainless and "so random" audience/tourists that Rick and Morty catapulted into everyones' faces and through every other franchise trying to capitalise on the low denomination hook.
There's literally a scene involving someone commenting "X is either the nicest person ever or an evil shapeshifter that will try to eat you". Immediately followed up by X turning into an evil shapeshifter and trying to eat the person, because "lol so random" as per modern day Deadpool, Harley Quinn, and other retarded writers trying to be quirky.
"the nicest, smartest, handsomest guy on this ship [..] or you're a Harvongian shape-changer." As soon as she mentioned the name, it appeared to trigger a reaction from the creature, as Niko became entranced, and his eyes popped out as the skin of his body split bilaterally as the snarling Harvongian within exposed its true identity and immediately grabbed Angie in its mouth and began to consume her.
I watched I think 2 episode of SNW (and then the musical episode a year later) and I didn't like it.
Don't care about Prodigy.
Quit Picard after Season 1.
Lower Decks I have watched all of and I enjoyed the vast majority of it. I have no idea if you'll like it. I guess to me, somehow, even with modern wokeisms (and there are modern wokeisms) and all the cartoon zaniness, it SOMEHOW manages to feel more "Trek" than anything else in nutrek. There are many deep cuts and references that go back as far as ToS, and they're done in a way that makes me feel like the writers of Lower Decks actually like Star Trek.
The rest of Nutrek makes me feel like the writers hate Star Trek and would rather be writing something, anything, else, but this is the only job they got, so they're going to shoehorn their dumb shit and daddy issues into it and oh yeah, there is a klingon, but now klingons are lame and gay.
If you have the time it's worth looking up other threads on here from the last few years so you can get a range of reviews about the show.
Personally...
The LD crossover did nothing but cement my absolute loathing of that show because the characters were so unprofessional any one of them should have been shot for insubordination, treason, attempted highjacking, attempted grand larceny, and attempted interference with the timeline.
And those were just from that episode.
The show comes off more like hipsters larping in Star Trek than what a functioning spaceship crew should be.
You're not wrong there. The engineer going full Johnny Somali and literally twerking on a monument during an away mission on a random alien world exemplifies that issue. Might not have been chief engineer yet at that point but regardless it was the kind of behaviour that should result in the immediate dismissal of anyone from a spacefaring body, providing they are even lucky enough to survive as the idiot in question was almost lobotomised for his actions.
Isn’t lowerdecks like…the gayest of the bunch? (I’ve only seen discovery S1, S2, and SNW first episode)
Is there actually anything salvageable?
"Lower Decks" is their "Rick & Morty" ripoff. It's alright.
I like the character designs and the balanced fan service, but it's too often peppered with woke BS like all the rest.
It's Star Trek for the modern brainless and "so random" audience/tourists that Rick and Morty catapulted into everyones' faces and through every other franchise trying to capitalise on the low denomination hook.
There's literally a scene involving someone commenting "X is either the nicest person ever or an evil shapeshifter that will try to eat you". Immediately followed up by X turning into an evil shapeshifter and trying to eat the person, because "lol so random" as per modern day Deadpool, Harley Quinn, and other retarded writers trying to be quirky.
I quit Discovery after S1 and hated it.
I watched I think 2 episode of SNW (and then the musical episode a year later) and I didn't like it.
Don't care about Prodigy.
Quit Picard after Season 1.
Lower Decks I have watched all of and I enjoyed the vast majority of it. I have no idea if you'll like it. I guess to me, somehow, even with modern wokeisms (and there are modern wokeisms) and all the cartoon zaniness, it SOMEHOW manages to feel more "Trek" than anything else in nutrek. There are many deep cuts and references that go back as far as ToS, and they're done in a way that makes me feel like the writers of Lower Decks actually like Star Trek.
The rest of Nutrek makes me feel like the writers hate Star Trek and would rather be writing something, anything, else, but this is the only job they got, so they're going to shoehorn their dumb shit and daddy issues into it and oh yeah, there is a klingon, but now klingons are lame and gay.
Hmm, might have to give it a shot sometime then.
Thanks
If you have the time it's worth looking up other threads on here from the last few years so you can get a range of reviews about the show.
Personally...
https://kotakuinaction2.win/p/16c1uh1wUa/x/c/4TwQqLjhJT9
... I'm not a fan, if you can tell 🙄
Cheers, thanks for sharing - sounds like the problem I had with The Orville
You're not wrong there. The engineer going full Johnny Somali and literally twerking on a monument during an away mission on a random alien world exemplifies that issue. Might not have been chief engineer yet at that point but regardless it was the kind of behaviour that should result in the immediate dismissal of anyone from a spacefaring body, providing they are even lucky enough to survive as the idiot in question was almost lobotomised for his actions.