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I died. This made me laugh for 5 minutes. I couldn't breathe. (lemmy.ml)

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[-] FrostyCaveman@lemm.ee 61 points 1 year ago

Lower Decks is certainly fast, loud and in-your-face funny. But what I was completely not expecting is for it to be so respectful and adoring of what came before in the franchise. I thought originally, ah yeah one of those “fast edgy animated comedies”, it surely would be derisive and treat Trek like a joke itself, but actually, no it does not. It’s a comedy set in the Trek universe, it’s not a comedy where Trek is the punchline.

[-] wingsfortheirsmiles@feddit.uk 19 points 1 year ago

Mike McMahan is a lifelong Trekkie and it shows! Whilst I do wish the references to other shows were toned down a smidge in favour of building new lore I always enjoy them hah. "Not the 'Gazer!"

[-] ricecooker@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 year ago

I feel the same way. The writers do such a good job integrating ST lore that it just really displays their knowledge and respect for the universe.

Off the top of my head:

random references to made up Star Trek words and concepts, like Ponfarr and Chadeetch (I'm not looking these words up)
getting to revisit 1 off species. Everyone loves the metaphor aliens (TEMBA ARMS WIDE OPEN) so it's fun to bring them back and poke fun. It's basically the Airplane scene ("Excuse me miss, I speak jive.")
Characters are very aware of various ways to die as red shirt

It's a fun show

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