Star Trek: Lower Decks

Although I'm sure no one is surprised to hear this from me on this point, it's a breath of fresh air to have gays acknowledged in Trek. It's a long time coming but I don't miss Rick Berman strangling the franchise on this point.

......that said, I wanted Mariner/Ramsay action

Some of this, however, I think comes from Shatner's ego and not the character as it was intended. I think that the original idea for Kirk was that he'd be sort of a father figure for the crew. Shat, however, is a raging egomaniac (though that may have changed since his recent trip), and he threw fits if someone got more lines than him, deliberately blew scenes where he had to give Takei's character a compliment about making captain, and who knows what all else.

I have a feeling that Kirk, as written, would happily go out drinking with Scotty and not be upset about any criticisms of Kirk that Scotty might have made after their second or third bottle of scotch. Kirk, as played by Shatner, would have laughed them off at the time, then when they'd both sobered up would have made Scotty's life a living hell for saying such things.

In Mariner's case, I think it's because she doesn't understand the level of dedication that people besides her have. She feels that she gets the spirit of what Starfleet is supposed to be better than someone who follows the rules to the letter like Boimler.

FTFY

Again, TWoK is a study in contrasts. Joachim dies on the bridge during battle, Spock runs to engineering to aid Scotty and winds up dying to save the ship (not merely just Kirk). I can't believe that folks really don't notice how blatant that it's a study on contrasts the movie is. I mean, you see Kirk, basically marooned in his apartment in SF, you see Khan marooned on Seti Alpha Five, Khan steals a ship, Kirk only reluctantly accepts command of a ship, Khan is bold and brash in attacking the Enterprise, while Kirk has to think hard about how to counterattack, Kirk listens to his second in command when Spock says to go into the nebula, while Khan seizes the controls so that the Reliant can fly into the nebula at full speed, and to name but one more instance out of the numerous ones we see in the film, both Kirk and Khan have low-ranking crew members tossed onto them by the shock of entering the nebula, Kirk's expression is one of, "Are you okay?" while Khan's is, "How dare you touch me?"

The first time I read this, I got Ramsay confused with Ransom. Blech.

I mean.... the ship's going to need a temporary replacement captain...

And who knows...

Hey, I ship that too I wrote a whole fanfic around Archer/Sato based on far less than what we got from that one episode in season 1. Imagine the hate sex!

Really glad she's pansexual so pretty much any ship is fair game to be canon.

Dammit, Captain Archer, not Sterling Archer

Although, that would be a crossover I'd watch

short treks-the trouble with edward

Son of a motherfuckin' bitch!!! I was just coming here to post that.

^ Anyway, this woman's channel is amazing, check it out WF.

I really liked that updated Excelsior variant in the finale. The people behind ship design in this show seem to get more leeway than they do in Picard.

Way behind on this and just finished S1 today.

At times Tawny Newsome's delivery as Mariner reminds me a lot of Patton Oswalt as Remy. Something about the cadence/inflection combination as she acts the lines.

It's awesome how much everyone involved with Lower Decks cares so much about making it feel like 90s Trek in every way.

Why does a Beckett Mariner cosplay involve Vulcan/Romulan eyebrows, and what the fuck is up with Crusher's eyes?

I think that's part of the drag makeup.

That's a side effect of the ghost candle. It's canon.

I’m guessing it comes out in the fall.

the wrath of peanut hamper??

The Excomps.

Season 3 premieres August 23rd

Also, season poster.



https://trekmovie.com/2022/07/13/star-trek-lower-decks-season-3-poster-and-release-date-revealed/

Ooh, Mogai-Class warbird. Don't feed it after midnight!

The Search For Rutherford? But they steal the ship to look for Freeman... hmm...

I thought it looked Romulan.

It's the same class as Donatra's ships from Nemesis.

New S3 clip: https://trekcentral.net/watch-new-star-trek-lower-decks-season-3-clip/

Riffing on PIC with the Boimler family vineyards. Also apparently Boimler is surrounded by beautiful women who want to jump his bones (Dammit Jim, I'm a doctor not an erection!) but he's either clueless or suspects they're only after him because he's heir to the vineyard?

Didn't we already know that he has access to everyone's personal logs from his holodeck recreation in Veritas, though?

Looking forward to seeing it!

Wait, I thought Boimler was from Modesto? I dunno that anything gets grown there

Still hyped for this!