I love Lower Decks but it certainly has this issue where the writers treat career development as the only meaningful character growth for the cast. Like they can't help but write strivers if that makes sense
Right? I kinda liked that Mariner didn't want a command position.
ugggggh they even tried to frame that as some kind of character flaw to be overcome
it's bad enough they made her related to the captain
oh yeah, there's this implication that she wouldn't still be in starfleet if her parents weren't embedded in command, but also she wouldn't be so reckless if she wasn't coddled by them? Kinda the wrong backstory to give your hyper competent, battle-scared soldier.
The problem with Star Trek is that it’s what the 60’s thought a utopia would be, and in the 60’s they thought that starship troopers egalitarianism with a little less xenophobia was that. Starfleet is literally the military, if Star Trek was made today the enterprise would be a purely scientific vessel with no guns on it, earth would be past anarchy in terms of societal development (Roddenberry originally wanted humanity to be an ascended hivemind on Earth and Starfleet is regular humans working in service to it).
I don’t like startrek because the definition of utopia has changed a lot and all the aliens are very bad allegories for different races. I don’t like the concept of fictional races in general. It was good for the time though.
Thanks. I feel the same way when I re-watch TNG. I could never exactly put my finger on it.
If you wanna do serialized star trek, you better be willing to pick up where DS9 left off. I want astropolitical drama that's equal parts optimistic and materialist, goddamnit!
I agree because they are no longer “lower decks”. They are ranking up and it’s dumb.
You're absolutely correct.
But I'd still rather watch it than any season of STD or Picard.
Yeah wasn't great. I also don't like that it made fan theories that Nick Locarno and Tom Paris are the same person impossible.
Yeah, Season 4 was my least favorite ngl. The quality of episodes was frankly subpar, even taking the bad season arc aside.
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