Star Trek: Lower Decks is still blasting at warp 9 in its fourth season, delivering a fast-paced animated series packed with clever Trek humor and surprisingly thoughtful character development. The show is overall carefully crafted, colorful, and fun, with an aesthetic that perfectly complements its tone. Lower Decks is also not afraid to poke fun at tropes and independent fleet-sized elephants in the room
Read MoreStar Trek: Lower Decks season 4 may be ending this week, but the adventures of the crew of the USS Cerritos are just getting started. At New York City Comic Con earlier this month, showrunner Mike McMahan sat down with us for a roundtable interview to chat about the series and what’s in store for our favorite animated crewmen. In our
Read MoreParamount+ once again keeps up with its animation hits, this time with the return of the USS Cerritos crew. The trailer for Star Trek: Lower Decks season 4 recently came out during San Diego Comic-Con in July, and the poster for this season is a reference to Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home! What has been an overall consistent series manages
Read MoreStar Trek: Lower Decks celebrated its third season premiere today with the release of the first episode titled “Grounded.” The animated series follows a group of low-ranking officers from the USS Cerritos. It’s full of smart-Trekkie humor with just the right amount of snark and even a hint of subversiveness. Lower Decks packs a ton of character development into less than half an hour
Read MoreThis past weekend was the first in-person San Diego Comic-Con since 2019, and attendees delighted in many exciting panels, including a splashy Hall H presentation from the folks behind Star Trek. Fans have been eager for new content since Star Trek: Strange New Worlds wrapped up its season 1 finale a few weeks ago, and Paramount+ did not keep them waiting. The main
Read MoreThe season 2 premiere episode of Star Trek Lower Decks pays homage to an original Star Trek episode, in its own wacky animated style, while keeping it original enough to be highly entertaining. This show and its characters are “not your Dad’s Star Trek” for sure, and so perhaps not for everyone, but myself being an old Star Trek: The Next
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