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

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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The Orville

[bickerdyke]

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.

Re:The Orville

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Re:The Orville

[bickerdyke]

Yes. They had those "wholesome" stories that wanted to make us think about where our society is headed and crime and punishment and live and death... just like Next Generation. ( http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/... being the worst of them!) ST:TNG often has been ridiculed for those type of plots and it was amazing that within a few episodes, The Orville picked up exactly those aspects of Star Trek. And dropped all those penis jokes instead.

Re: The Orville

[fazig]

I get it that your response is sarcastic, but I'll try to be honest and blunt here.
It's essentially Seth MacFarlane's fanfiction scripts for TNG, where he gets to play the captain.
This means that it also contains a lot of his humour and moral values, so beware. If you don't like 'get a room' elements, like some of the users above. In one of the episodes for example there's an Andorian looking alien, who gets everyone super horny he comes in contact with. Which happens to be Seth MacFarlane's character among others. If this kind of mental and visual imagery causes you Clockwork Orangesque reactions, maybe avoid watching it.

Where the original Treks often take themselves far too serious, with the notable exception of DS9, Orville's humour makes the often silly plots appear a bit less silly.
I thought it was alright.

Re:The Orville

[Roger W Moore]

Discovery is set a decade before the Original Series

Yes, but unfortunately the characters seem to be drawn from the 1960s given their belief in magic mushrooms.

Re:You dropped your pacifier

[Anonymous Coward]

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, a fuck-up, or both. 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.

And fucking hell, was it really necessary to make the Klingons sound so retarded by having them speak with a pause between each word? And don't get me started of space mushrooms.

"Access"

[markdavis]

>"CBS All Access has greenlit"...

and thus almost nobody will see it.

Re:You dropped your pacifier

[bickerdyke]

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

Re:You dropped your pacifier

[jellomizer]

I actually think the bulk of the problems with Discovery isn't due race. It is just a story that doesn't fit into the Star Trek Universe. It seems more of a plot for its own sci-fi show, but they realized it sucked to much to make any money on it, so they just put the Star Trek logo on it, and changed the names of the alians around to match the names of Star Trek aliens, And made sure all the good guys space ships had a saucer section and nacells.

For the most part diversity in shows has been getting much better. They are actually playing real people with issues that doesn't always center around their race or gender, or sexual preference.
Now if only they can make the computer geek seem like a real person, and not the basement cheetos eating sub human.

Re:I hope it has lots of lens flares

[Anonymous Coward]

There are FOUR LIGHTS!!!

Re:You dropped your pacifier

[Ol Olsoc]

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.

I've been watching Star Trek Voyager on Netflix lately - For some reason I never watched it during it's run.

What is interesting is how a series with the first ST Woman Captain, and many different women in the command structure, such as B'lanna the engineer, managed to make the female leads credible, likeable and relatable. I have been incredibly impressed on how Mulgrew's character Janeway, managed to be both a credible commander, and yet still unmistakably feminine. She deserves any and all the accolades she may have received.

Contrast today's version of leader women, who are ersatz men but with an attitude belling insecurity. And the addition of gratuitous non-standard gender characters

And remember Kes, (Jennifer Lien) the adorable tiny alien lady? I'll just leave this here: https://www.cbs17.com/news/sta... I mean, what the hell happened to her?

Re:They just need to animate it Archer Style

[freeze128]

"Ensign. Ensign. Ensign. Ensign. Ensign. Ensign! Ensign! ENSIGN!!!!"

"WHAT?!?!"

"Danger Zone."

Re:You dropped your pacifier

[danbert8]

Which he sold as an antique... The point was that he valued the classic idea of having reading glasses, not that they were required.