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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. don't support CBS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I canceled my CBS ALL access after they sent a cease and desist letter to a fan made enterprise exploration game called Stage 9.

  2. Re:You dropped your pacifier by bickerdyke · · Score: 2, Interesting

    There's too many transgenders!! There's too many Muslims!! There's too many FUCKING BROWN PEOPLE!!! *sniff* *sniff* An' they're all comin' a'git me in my sleep!!

    Straw man much?

    I don't give a crap about the races of the characters, but I do care when every character that doesn't belong to some minority group is either evil,

    I hope that IS a minority....

    I don't want to see a gay couple making out in an SF series, but I don't want to see ANYONE who should rather get a room there either. Even the decontamination gel fan service in the Enterprise pilot was unnecessary and misplaces. as are the space mushrooms.

    Benjamin Sisko was an awesome protagonist, but apparently somewhere along the way the writers forgot how to write engaging characters and now only make a checklist of diversity requirements without actually making the characters interesting. Diversity is fine, but when that's all that a character has that character becomes a one-dimensional uninteresting caricature.

    Yes, but no ST series got that right in a first season. Worf was nothing but aggressive, Q nothing but annoying, Data was the oblig Spock copy. They all started with exactly one character trait Deana Troy even with just one single line: ("Captain! I can sense something here") And in all series they got more complex and interesting. (DS9 mastered this, VOY not so...) so there is still hope for Discovery. What's interesting that they are already bringing their 2nd line of characters into position. Lt. Owesoku and that red haired girl with the metal face implant are ready to replace whoever they killed of in the first season trying to get the G.R.R. Martin Memorial Award

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    bickerdyke