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Lower Decks Eulogizing (startrek.website)
submitted 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

What’s your eulogy for Lower Decks?

Here’s mine: I wasn’t sure about Lower Decks for a well - I’d never been into the adult animation genre, and when I first heard of it, I had initially seen it as the wrong direction for Star Trek.

Finally, in late 2023, I watched it for the first time and was surprised to enjoy it.

Then came the crazy month of March 2024. I got rejected from all my dream schools, putting me in a sullen mood. I returned to the show and suddenly started resonating with Boimler as someone who had ambitions - some naive, some not - that weren’t always fulfilled, while I found the Cerritos to be kind of an analogue to the state school I would end up at.

Then, at the end of that month, a close family member shared their advanced pancreatic cancer diagnosis, and they passed a month after. That was when my attachment to Lower Decks solidified - I turned to it as a comfort show and really started to appreciate it. I think I’ve rewatched it twice since then - one randomly in the summer, and one to refresh my memory for the final season that began while I was doing the (mediocre) paint job for a 3D-printed combadge for a costume:

Overall, it’s probably my second favorite show in the franchise at this point, only behind DS9. I’m sure I’ll rewatch it plenty times more, though maybe a bit more sparingly - just one more this year to cope with the emptiness of no more new episodes. 🤭

Lower Decks! Lower Decks!

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

No Star Trek show loved Star Trek more than Lower Decks.

I hope this is not the last time we see these characters. Between losing Prodigy and Lower Decks it has been sad for Star Trek as of late.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago

I agree. Experience bij, Paramount!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 hours ago

Of all the souls I have encountered in my travels, theirs was the most ... trekian.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 12 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

My favorite joke from the finale

[–] [email protected] -1 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

That better be a fake image otherwise you just posted a giant spoiler.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 hours ago

It’s not a spoiler. It’s from season one.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Not fake, just ~4 years old spoilers. Also, there's a twist after that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Oh this isn't from the new season? I do not remember this scene. 💀

[–] [email protected] 6 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

The time when they had to upload a virus to the Packlad ship.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago

Oh, now I'm sad remembering it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 18 hours ago

Lower Decks! Lower Decks!