{"id":26547,"date":"2024-10-19T21:20:06","date_gmt":"2024-10-19T21:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/5e114731-7770-4262-a1ff-f6abddb88a7112"},"modified":"2024-10-19T21:20:06","modified_gmt":"2024-10-19T21:20:06","slug":"star-trek-lower-decks-bows-out-on-business-as-usual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/star-trek-lower-decks-bows-out-on-business-as-usual\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Trek: Lower Decks bows out on business as usual"},"content":{"rendered":"
The following article discusses the fifth season of Star Trek: Lower Decks and older Treks.<\/em><\/p>\n There\u2019s no such thing as \u201cdead\u201d in Star Trek<\/span>, the sprawling, perpetual opus that has thrived in spite of itself for almost sixty years. What started as a cornball space-ships and punch-fights show for atomic-age kids and their parents has become (gestures around) all this. So I\u2019m not writing too much of an obituary for Star Trek: Lower Decks<\/em><\/span> despite its fifth season being its last. Given Paramount\u2019s fluid leadership right now, I can easily imagine that decision being reversed in the future. So this isn\u2019t so much of a goodbye as a farewell for now.<\/p>\n Lower Decks\u2019<\/em> fifth season picks up not long after the fourth left off, with Tendi still repaying her debt to the Orions. I don\u2019t think it\u2019s a spoiler to suggest the status-quo reasserts itself soon after given, you know, all the other times this has happened. The crew of the Cerritos is then thrust into the usual sort of high-minded, lowbrow yet full of heart hijinks that we\u2019ve come to expect. Naturally, I\u2019m sworn to secrecy, but the fifth episode \u2014 where its title alone is a big spoiler \u2014 is a highlight.<\/p>\n I\u2019ve seen the first five episodes of the season and as with any sitcom, there are a few misses in between the hits. One episode in particular is trying to reach for an old-school Frasier <\/em>plotline, but it falls flat given the thinness of the characters in question. Thankfully, Lower Decks<\/em> is able to carry a weak show on the back of its central cast\u2019s charm. Sadly, as it tries to give everyone a grace note, some characters you\u2019d expect would get more focus are instead shunted to the periphery.<\/p>\n You can feel Lower Decks<\/em> straining against its own premise, too. A show about people on the lowest rung of the ladder can\u2019t get too high. As a corrective, both Mariner and Boimler use this year as an opportunity to mature and grow. I won\u2019t spoil the most glorious running gag of the season, but their growth comes in very different ways. If there\u2019s a downside, it\u2019s that the show still relies too much on energy-sapping action sequences to resolve its episodes.<\/p>\n But that\u2019s a minor gripe for a show that grew from the would-be class clown of the Trek world to the most joyful interpretation of its ethos. I\u2019ve always loved how, when the chips are down, Lower Decks<\/em> delights in the bits plenty of newer Treks would rather ignore. The show is, and has been, a delight to watch and something for the rest of the franchise to aspire toward.<\/p>\n