This week on
Sci-Fi Adventures I'm writing about
Star Trek: Lower Decks, the second of the two new
Trek series to debut in 2020! We did well for
Trek in the 90s, but we've never had two series launching in the same year like this, and we've definitely never had four series releasing new eps in the same year (
Short Treks,
Picard,
Lower Decks and
Discovery). That's still only 33 episodes in total, so we're a little short of the 50+ eps and a movie we were blessed with in the Golden Age of
Trek, but it's getting there.
Lower Decks is also the first animated
Star Trek series since 1974 and the first
Trek series to be named after a seventh season episode of
Star Trek: The Next Generation. They could've gone with
Star Trek: The Pegasus, and made it about a young Will Riker, or
Star Trek: Masks, about a group of vigilantes, but I think they made the right choice. Much better than
Star Trek: Sub Rosa.
The series is set in 2380, putting it ten years after the episode that inspired it, but it's still firmly in my beloved
Next Gen era, even more so than
Star Trek: Picard. It starts a year after
Star Trek: Nemesis, and a few years after the end of
DS9 and
Voyager, so I've basically been waiting for this since 2003.
Anyway, these are my authentic first reactions to all ten episodes in season one, written before I had any idea what was coming next. I'll be following the same
SPOILER rules as the episodes themselves: basically anything that happened in
Trek up to this point is fair game. Unless it happened in the future.
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