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    Have you watched Lower Decks?

    It’s not a show to get new audiences into Trek like Prodigy. Lower Decks is written by fans for existing fans of TNG era Trek. It is non stop obscure Trek jokes.

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      They apparently don’t like LD because it has “chest-bumping admirals” which… okay? It’s a cartoon. It’s not supposed to be serious.

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        It’s amazing to be that a show as diverse in themes as Star Trek could lose fans because they decided to make a few jokes.

        Hot take: People who can’t appreciate Lower Decks were never really fans.

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        I don’t even recall the chest-bumping or “shield ups, shields down” song they’re referring to, but apparently it’s such a big deal that the other 39 episodes are garbage without even seeing them.

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      Watched the trailers, hated them, watched a single episode and turned it off halfway. Disco wasn’t written by fans and I’m having a hard time believing that lower decks was.

      I LOVE the episode lower decks, the series is awful

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        You watched half of one episode. You can’t claim the series Lower Decks is awful after watching half of one episode.

        The writers wrote a joke where a character comments that Nick Locarno looks just like Tom Paris. It takes a fan to write that joke. It takes a fan to understand that joke.

        Maybe you just didn’t get the inside jokes they throw out every 5 minutes.

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          I’ve watched every TOS TNG ds9 voy and ent episode more times than I can count, I even watched shades of gray twice. I have thousands upon thousands of dollars in merch, models, books, thousands of trading cards. Yeah, I’m a fan who draws the line at wearing a uniform but that’s about it.

          I watched half a season of discovery and decided I tortured myself enough. I regret pushing myself through watching Picard all three seasons, that is a lot of hours I won’t be getting back and it pretty much ruined TNG for me. I started watching prodigy and decided I had enough of the crap, and I’m not wasting my time anymore in getting disappointed and having so much great history being shat on.

          If prodigy made a funny injoke, then yay. After seeing the producers of discovery proudly proclaiming that they aren’t trek fans, don’t know it but love the platform to push their political views I feel like I’m just about done with star trek. I haven’t even watched the classic episode anymore, that’s how much of a turn off the entire experience had been.

          I started watching the Orville and immediately fell in love with a show that is startrek in all but name. Go watch that, it showsbthe love.

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            If prodigy made a funny injoke, then yay

            ??? This is about Lower Decks, not Prodigy.

            I didn’t even need to watch a single episode of Prodigy to know it wasn’t for me. Prodigy was created to expand the market to children. I explicitly called out Trek shows that are about marketing to new demographics as compared to Lower Decks which was written for existing TNG/DS9/Voyager fans.

            Orville had many, many episodes of Family Guy humor jokes that needed to be slogged through before finding it’s footing.

            I agree that Orville is the best current Trek. But I don’t understand your Lower Decks comments. You said you watched half of one episode, then you confused it with Prodigy. Have you actually watched Lower Decks or do you have it confused with Prodigy?

            https://youtu.be/b-gudZBXmI0?si=7GxrTp88SowaPxlY