Mike McMahan wants Lower Decks back just as much as us! Why not help this become a reality?
The fight to save the show is only starting!
https://www.savelowerdecks.com/
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Some Lower Decks fan art in honour of the announcement that this fall's Season 5 will be the last. Here's hoping they get a renewal elsewhere or at least some sort of follow-up.
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Chapel: So in the future you can use holograms to simulate anything or anyone?
Boimler: Yeah! I’ve already met the important figures on this ship several times.
Mariner: One time I vented my emotions by simulating the entire crew of the Cerritos and killing them off one by one. It was oddly therapeutic.
(awkward pause)
Ortegas: That’s fuckin’ cool.
Chapel: NO IT’S NOT
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Star Trek ‘ship’ poll!
so sorry guys I forgot to do this last week- so you get a special one!
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Where everything is in the U.S.S. Cerritos! From the Eaglemoss Official Starships Collection magazine.
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So I'm thinking about California-class starships again and Why They Are The Way They Are. I have a pet theory that they and the crews assigned to them are the result of personnel shortages during the war with the Dominion.
Starfleet took heavy losses in the early days of the war and had to press cadets into early service. It would make sense that they'd have to relax their standards for recruitment from what we see in TNG, and we meet a lot of colorful Starfleet characters during that time.
I think a lot of them got rushed through training. I think a lot were accepted to the Academy in the last year of the war when they otherwise wouldn't have been, and the Fleet decided to let them continue their education. I think they might not have had access to the best instructors or equipment due to the needs of the front-line.
So when the war ends, what do you do with these officers? Do you give up on them? Do you cashier them out? Those might be the things we'd expect but Starfleet seems to try to bring out the best in its officers, so I believe that's what they're trying to do.
They're taking these folks and assigning them to a sort of Auxiliary Program Lite, serviced by "new" ships made from old parts (there's a reason for that even in a post-scarcity economy that I want to make a separate post about). They are, crucially, mixed in with more traditional Starfleet officers. These are people who didn't get assigned to a ship of the line for whatever reason, but there's nothing really wrong with them.
For example, Rutherford is a great engineer. Tendi is extremely competent and also likely a political feather in Starfleet's cap. Boimler is Boimler. And Mariner is the kind of officer who would be serving on the Enterprise if it weren't for her desire to avoid promotion.
They all have things they need to learn, and it seems that they are, from the California program. And I think that may be the point.
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Okay, I'm probably over-thinking this, but there has always been something that bugged me about the design of ships like the USS Grissom and USS Cerritos: how do crew members get back and forth from the primary to secondary hulls? Is there a turboshaft that runs them past the engines? They're not using the transporters, 'cause that would be a huge waste of time and energy, right?
For all I know this has already been addressed on Star Trek: Lower Decks (which I need to sit down and watch soon), and my grumblings are moot.
(Sigh) I am over-thinking this.
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Taking care of Boimler after he helped the whole crew.
Star Trek: Lower Decks, Season 2, Episode 8
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