{"id":16325,"date":"2020-10-15T17:15:27","date_gmt":"2020-10-15T21:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=16325"},"modified":"2020-10-26T12:36:37","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T16:36:37","slug":"star-trek-lower-decks-season-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/star-trek-lower-decks-season-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Trek: Lower Decks (season 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;Our specialty is second contact. Still pretty important. We get all the paperwork signed, make sure we&#8217;re spelling the name of the planet right, get to know all the good places to eat.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Star Trek: Lower Decks<\/strong> season 1, aired in 2020<\/p>\n<p>Ensigns Mariner, Boimler, Tendi, and Rutherford serve on the USS Cerritos. Mariner is knowledgeable but a rule breaker &#8212; and is secretly the captain&#8217;s daughter. Boimler is a rule follower but cuts Mariner some slack because they bonded on an away mission. Tendi is an Orion who helps out in sickbay. Rutherford has a new cyborg implant and loves working in engineering. Boimler reveals his seemingly perfect girlfriend Barb, and Mariner assumes she must be some kind of nefarious alien.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first <strong>Star Trek<\/strong> animated series since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/star-trek-the-animated-series\/\"><strong>Star Trek: The Animated Series<\/strong><\/a> in the 1970s.<\/p>\n<p>The writers&#8217; sense of humour might not match mine exactly, but it&#8217;s close enough. It&#8217;s very funny. It also fits perfectly into the <strong>Star Trek<\/strong> universe we know. It takes place after <strong>Nemesis<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s mostly for fun, but the characters even learn things once in a while.<\/p>\n<p>Q shows up in one episode, but only briefly. Of greater significance, Riker and Troi show up in the season finale.<\/p>\n<p>The main theme by Chris Westlake somehow manages to be perfect.<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Frakes and Marina Sirtis guest star as their characters from <strong>The Next Generation<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Stars the voices of Dawnn Lewis, Jerry O&#8217;Connell, and Fred Tatasciore.<\/p>\n<p>Created by Mike McMahan (<strong>Solar Opposites<\/strong>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;Our specialty is second contact. Still pretty important. We get all the paperwork signed, make sure we&#8217;re spelling the name of the planet right, get to know all the good places to eat.&#8221; Star Trek: Lower Decks season 1, aired in 2020 Ensigns Mariner, Boimler, Tendi, and Rutherford serve on the USS Cerritos. Mariner [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[68,5,8,59,11],"class_list":["post-16325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv-shows","tag-animation","tag-review","tag-science-fiction","tag-star-trek","tag-tv-show"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16325"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16892,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16325\/revisions\/16892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}