If you’re a Paramount Plus subscriber, you can go watch Boimler of Lower Decks geek out over the cast of Strange New Worlds right now.
Everyone here saying they haven’t watched lower decks needs to just go watch lower decks.
@Donebrach @Madison_rogue And they better hurry. You never know when Paramount might just arbitrarily decide to remove the ability to watch it.
Yo ho ho, mateys! Never let corpo greed hold you back! 🦜
And what of us who need more Lower Decks?! 😭💀
There is a Lower Decks comic series with the same art style. You could read those.
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Star_Trek:_Lower_Decks_(IDW)
Thanks for posting this. My wife and I would have waited until Thursday to watch it if I hadn’t seen this here.
I love how, in the end, Boimler did influence the future timeline, but he did it in a really wholesome way.
Surprised how much the VA’s actually look like their characters, that’s actually pretty cool.
My suspicion since even before the crossover was announced was that they designed the characters to look like the VAs in case they had the opportunity for cameo appearances down the line.
Holy shit, thank you!
How important is it that I see Lower Decks first? I keep hearing good things about it, and I will get to it eventually, but I’m not familiar with it at all beyond the premise.
@Fuzzy_Dunlop
It’s more like if you find the Lower Decks characters in the crossover amusing, then you’d probably enjoy Lower Decks, but the episode isn’t written in a way that you have to know that show to enjoy it.
How important is it that I see Lower Decks first? I keep hearing good things about it, and I will get to it eventually, but I know very little beyond its premise.
Boimler is ambitious but kind of clumsy and awkward and stickler for rules (despite the boimler rule). Mariner is basically Ferris Bueller with the mouth of a sailor until her friends/family are in danger and then she’s MacGuyver/007. (I also just realized I’m dating myself a lot of those references and I hope they still work.) The show is definitely written by fans of star trek that also are comfortable enough to poke fun at the source material.
Edit: that’s probably enough to enjoy it, but I haven’t seen it yet so don’t know if they reference any lower decks story arcs heavily.
I haven’t seen the episode so take that into consideration, but probably not very. Lower decks hasn’t broken that much new ground
