Star Trek: Lower Decks
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Our Review
The funniest Star Trek ever made, and secretly one of the most faithful. An animated comedy about the junior officers, the ensigns who keep starships running while the bridge crew takes credit, created by Mike McMahan, who loves Trek enough to make the jokes land because they’re true. The Cerritos, a California class ship that handles second contact missions (the boring, vital work of maintaining paradise), is a perfect setting: boring ship energy gives the show its underdog soul.
Mariner (Tawny Newsome), the brilliant, insubordinate captain’s daughter working twice as hard to avoid promotion, and Boimler (Jack Quaid), the by the-book striver who wants to be captain so badly it radiates off him, are one of TV’s great comic duos. By season 3 the show stops being a parody and becomes genuine Trek, the live action crossover with Strange New Worlds is fan service perfection.
Verdict: Watch it. The Trek series that understands the utopia is funnier when someone has to schedule the holodeck time.
