Star Trek: Lower Decks- bigger (and belated) updates!!

Meedyah Morsels #250.

Shit, I missed a big update on August of last year!
I've got Lower Decks programmed into my RSS now, so that'll never happen again.
Anyway...

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Tidbits to take away-

LD takes place 1 year after Nemesis.
(So the show timeline goes, ENT, DIS, TOS, TNG, DS9, VOY, LD, PIC)

The uniforms are unused designs from "Generations".

They're going to address cleaning (read jizz-mopping) the holodeck.

The Cerritos handles second contact, so we'll see the followup to a lot of first contact episodes.

Character descriptions of the 4 main ensigns-

Ensign Mariner: She is kind of a classic Star Trek hero. She is a little bit Kirk, a little bit Riker. She doesn’t really play by the rules necessarily and thinks outside the box a bit, but gets the job done. And she is really, really good at Starfleet stuff. She is the ultimate Star Trek nerd. She knows a little bit about everything.

But she has been demoted so many times, that is why she is on the lower decks. So despite knowing everything, she is really bad at taking orders. She is kind of like Maverick from Top Gun. She would buzz the tower.

Boimler: He is our by-the-book and obsessed with rank. He wants to be captain one day and thinks following protocol is the only way he is going to get there. He is wound super tight, which makes him a perfect foil for Mariner. He will get to the captain’s chair one day, if he can take a page from her and learn there is more to Starfleet than just following the rules.

Tendi: Tendi is a huge Star Trek fan who has got into Starfleet and is an Orion and this shows her first day getting to work on a Starfleet ship and it is wish fulfillment. We are channeling what if one of us got to work on a Starfleet ship. The original pitch for her is there is no job too lower decks that she isn’t losing her mind for joy over…She’s like if the optimism of Starfleet was turned into a person.

Rutherford: An engineer who just recently became a cyborg and isn’t used to it yet. He is only complaining about his implant because he doesn’t understand how to use it. Rutherford is like Geordi La Forge, if you don’t solve the problem in 40 minutes. Every episode he’s like “I got this,” but he sometimes does not have it.

[example exchange between captain and Rutherford] “I need 20 minutes” “well, you have 10” “no, seriously I need the full 20”…I’m not doing the Scotty thing, I probably need 30.”

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And the 4 main bridge officers-

Captain Freeman: She is as capable as a Starfleet captain as you would want them to be. But she is just not on the most important ship in the fleet.

Commander Ransom: He is kind of like a chill, smug Riker.

Lt. Shaxs: He is our beefcake Bajoran.

Dr. T’Ana: She is kind of like a super-Palaski, angry cat from a junkyard. She is not purring at anybody. She is a good doctor, but she’s an unpleasant cat.

Dr. T'ana is also a Kaitian like M'Ress, so they're tying in TAS.
Mike McMahan says you're going to see lots of references to TNG, TOS, and TAS.


There, now that's some real goddamned news!



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Live-action Bo-Katan Kryze! (MM #249)