This show was honestly such a special gem. 💜💜💜
I’m going to miss all the cleverness, great writing, and loads of fun. I wish I could be friends with all the characters. Boimler and Mariner’s relationship is so wonderful. I want IRL friends like all of them. 🙃
So long Lower Deck.
Engage the core.
Wasn’t this the highest rated nu trek? Smart move by paramount to kill something so popular.
We demand 7 seasons!
I don’t think there’s any question that it was well-liked by the fandom.
However, I used to check in with Parrot Analytics fairly frequently - they’re a site that purports to measure the overall “demand” of a series through a variety of means that I don’t fully understand…but the industry uses their metrics.
“Lower Decks” was typically the second-lowest “in demand” new series - only “Prodigy” had a lower score.
That said, the demand for all of the new series was categorized as “outstanding.”
I will never begin to understand how and why execs make the decisions they do.
No idea if it was most popular, but i wouldn’t have thought so. The humor seemed directed mostly towards existing fans. I cant imagine they brought in many new viewers. I’d love to be surprised though.
I’m a counterexample here, although that’s only an anecdote. Lower Decks was the first Star Trek show I’ve ever watched. Granted I was able to get some of the meta humor through cultural osmosis and hanging around other nerds, which was nice and may have helped.
Of the live action, what have you enjoyed the most?
Haven’t watched any yet, but I’ve heard good things about DS9.
It’s my favorite of them which I’ve rewatched though more than once. A tad dated, so I wonder if newly introduced folks would like it.
Yeah, I hate to say it, but it makes sense from a bean-counter’s perspective. Lower Decks seemed to mostly target hardcore fans, and hardcore fans will already be subscribing to watch SNW. If its not gaining them any extra subscriptions, they don’t care about it.
Section 31 and Academy are both trying to court people outside of the existing fandoms. Certainly not very successfully in the case of Section 31, but the reasoning at play is pretty clear.
I know nothing of Academy, but I understand it’s in the Discovery future. I kind of wish that arc brought them back to their time. That future is rough and… can scifi be too futuristic? Anyway, not sure if I will dig the Academy of that time, but can’t knock it until I try it.
I kind of want to meet the new demographic that is into the latest Star Trek. As in, that’s all they know and what they like best. I’m not sure that demographic is even formed yet, but I’m kind of curious how different they would be from the old Trek folks. What is it about the new track that they like versus the old.
I’m old enough to remember the premiere of DS9, but I did appreciate Discovery’s move to the future. I liked the political aspects of the rebuilding of the Federation. I have always been a little bugged by how Earth centric Trek tends to be, so I especially appreciated the fact that Earth had seceded by the start of season 3. Not sure how much I can expect Academy to pick up on any of that, though.