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Star Trek Animated Comedy Series Is In the Works (ew.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the to-boldly-go-where-no-one-has-gone-before dept.

Zorro shares a report from Entertainment Weekly: The first-ever official Star Trek comedy series has been ordered. CBS All Access has greenlit an animated series from Emmy-winner Mike McMahan, a writer on Adult Swim's sensation Rick and Morty The half-hour series is titled Star Trek: Lower Decks and will tackle the Federation from a comedic perspective, focusing "on the support crew serving on one of Starfleet's least important ships." Fans will recognize the Lower Decks title as referencing the name of one of the best episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation.

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  1. The Orville by bickerdyke · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The first-ever official Star Trek comedy series has been ordered.

    They should just allow The Orvile to use actual Trek artwork and names....

    Anyone else thinks that feels more Star Trek than Discovery*?

    *which is not bad and there shouldn't be a difference between classical technobabble explaining away everything or some magic mushroom stuff doing the same... but it feels more fantasy than Trek usually was.

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    bickerdyke
    1. Re:The Orville by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

      They should just allow The Orvile to use actual Trek artwork and names....

      Anyone else thinks that feels more Star Trek than Discovery*?

      *which is not bad and there shouldn't be a difference between classical technobabble explaining away everything or some magic mushroom stuff doing the same... but it feels more fantasy than Trek usually was.

      Completely agree with you. And my main issue with Discovery is less its fantasy tilt and has more to do with everyone being a screw-up, antagonists and protagonists alike. There isn't a single respectable character in that show, a show which belongs to a series that is supposedly based on human excellence.