Watched the first two episodes of 'Lower Decks'.
You're supposed to 'rock out' with the death metal loving 'black female lead', while laughing at the danger-hair beta male. The subtext is so obviously woke that I fail to see why some of you tried to give this a pass. Perhaps it will get better later on, but you'll have to suffer through all the 'I got this' college/social media female humor throughout.
The Joss Whedon quippy writing, the uber-competent females, the obnoxious black female captain, the obnoxious black female lead, and the less than impressive male side characters.
This show is also part of the hostile take over of the Star Trek franchise by left-liberal feminist writers.
There's your problem.
The first two episodes are the worst episodes of the entire series.
The series really picks up with episodes 3 and 4, to the point I watched all 30 episodes of the first three seasons--all that existed at the time--before I had to cancel Paramount Plus for unrelated reasons.
However, I hear the series' quality fell off a cliff in season 4, including making two DS9 characters gay for each other, despite no evidence of this prior.
So it seems that, by coincidence, I got out at the right time.
Would you say, in hindsight, that this was time well-spent?
A fair question.
I would say yes, because my goal was to give the series a fair shot, and I saw there was certainly potential here as a self-parody.
Don't get me wrong, it's nowhere near the greatness of TNG or DS9. It's not even as good as Enterprise. But aside from those first two episodes, what I saw, I enjoyed.
And then reportedly it all came crashing down. That crossover with Strange New Worlds was SUCH a weird idea--though now Jack Quaid has something in common with Matthew Lillard, in that he has played the same character in both live action and cartoon form.
Lillard became the official voice of Scooby-Doo's Shaggy after Casey Kasem couldn't perform full-time anymore, and Lillard was perfect for the role.
Thank you. You never hear this perspective, because 99% of what you can find out easily and quickly is focused on the beginning shit, and still most of those that can get past that find it irrevocably tainted by those episodes.
Where are you at, with Trek--so I can get a feel for your tastes--the different series. Where I am is finally watching TOS fully for the first time, just into the second season, but it's already my favorite. I grew up with and had great affinity for TNG, though as an adult I find it very hit-or-miss, and the miss is surprisingly cringe. Liked the (even-numbered) movies well enough. Watched some DS9, some Voyager, first season of each I'd say, and thought it was okay, but not enough to keep going, mostly because of changing television-viewing habits rather than quality concerns. Hate the reboot movies, hate pretty much all ST content after First Contact, 1996.
I've seen just about all of TNG, about half of TOS, and most of Voyager.
I even enjoyed much of Enterprise, but there's some bias there as I'm a Scott Bakula fan thanks to another show I adore, Quantum Leap. "In a Mirror, Darkly" may be the greatest Mirror Universe episodes of all, though.
DS9 is a big hole in my viewing experience, but I'm going through it now, and am early in season 2.