It is not my intention to ignite an EMACS/vim war; I will say that I find it baffling that Lower Decks is ending while Strange New Worlds is being continued. I like Strange New Worlds, despite disagreeing with some of the artistic licenses being taken. But if I had to choose between the two shows, it’d be no contest. Not only as a viewer do I prefer LD, but it has to be the cheaper show to produce. The fact that next season is the last (both by design, it only being contracted for 5 years; and announcement) is sad and incomprehensible in the same way the cancelation of Firefly was - except LD is popular and successful, whereas Firefly merely had a fanatical (🖐️) fan base.

I don’t understand it. Yes, you want to end on a high note. Maybe the writers are running out of plot ideas. Perhaps, given an initial life span of 5 years, the actors have all made other arrangements and aren’t available. But I just can’t believe the One Big Plot Arc that’s been building would necessitate ending the series by its resolution.

LD is a strong show. It’s lighthearted. It’s a breath of fresh air after the more decidedly darker, ethically challenging, and emotionally straining runs of TNG, Voyager, DS9. And Strange New Worlds… the Gorn are basically Xenomorphs from the Alien franchise.Who, despite being the existential threat of the show, somehow get entirely forgotten about by the time in TOS.

But I digress. I’m going to miss Lower Decks, badly. How can this happen? And why?

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    6 months ago

    I just thought Subspace Rhapsody was a bit boring, with too much “Look, it’s this character, but singing!” and not enough actual Star Trek plot. When we only get 10 episodes a season, the plot of each one is very important, imo.

    Other than that, I’ve mostly loved Strange new Worlds. The Lower Decks crossover especially. I love grapplers.

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      6 months ago

      I haven’t seen strange new worlds, but there’s an entire episode in voyager dedicated to the doctor singing. Not my favorite episode, but I didn’t hate it either.

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        6 months ago

        I liked that one, because it was an intense personal story for the Doctor. The SNW episode was just shallow