Lower Decks is just Family Guy for Trekkies. “Hey Boimler, remember that time Captain Picard was trolled by a Mariachi Band?” You know the fandom is desperate when they mistake fanservice for good writing.
Worf is a great example of how the silly from those old shows is not the same as the silly from Lower Decks. He was practically a self-parody by the end of his run, but worf always took whatever nonsense was happening seriously, so the audience followed.
In Lower Decks, we see an angry Klingon try to Kill Boimler and everyone seems to think it’s funny or they just don’t care. It’s one thing for the writers to make up silly shit for the characters to deal.with and another thing for the characters to take nothing seriously. I never felt like the stakes were real in Lower Decks. In TNG, when Data dresses up like Sherlock Holmes and Moriarty develops sentience, that meant something to Data. Silly premise, firmly rooted by the stakes for the character.
Lower Decks is just Family Guy for Trekkies. “Hey Boimler, remember that time Captain Picard was trolled by a Mariachi Band?” You know the fandom is desperate when they mistake fanservice for good writing.
More like Lower Standards
Worf is a great example of how the silly from those old shows is not the same as the silly from Lower Decks. He was practically a self-parody by the end of his run, but worf always took whatever nonsense was happening seriously, so the audience followed.
In Lower Decks, we see an angry Klingon try to Kill Boimler and everyone seems to think it’s funny or they just don’t care. It’s one thing for the writers to make up silly shit for the characters to deal.with and another thing for the characters to take nothing seriously. I never felt like the stakes were real in Lower Decks. In TNG, when Data dresses up like Sherlock Holmes and Moriarty develops sentience, that meant something to Data. Silly premise, firmly rooted by the stakes for the character.