"5 mins" was just a guesstimate. It was at the idiotic "Oil me up,
Scotty" scene that I realised the show was simply garbage.
Lower Decks is a better watch than Enterprise, IMO.
Difficult for it to be worse. "Enterprise" was pure drivel. :-p
On 2026-03-13 17:06:40 +0000, The True Melissa said:
Verily, in article <87ms0bfzn5.fsf@rpi3>, did me@sc1f1dan.com deliver
unto us this message:
The True Melissa <thetruemelissa@gmail.com> writes:
Verily, in article <10ovb8q$2e0uh$1@dont-email.me>, did
YourName@YourISP.com deliver unto us this message:
I haven't watched "Lower Decks" yet, nor any other Star Trek shows
since "Enterprise" (which I binned after five minutes of the first
episode!). So many shows, so little time. :-(
Only five minutes? Then you didn't even get to the sensual
decontamination massage.
Lower Decks is a better watch than Enterprise, IMO.
I was told the show is good and a final episode seemingly de-cannonized >> STD. Not sure if that was said to tempt me. I'm not opposed to watching >> it, just hasn't garnered enough interest.
I didn't watch STD, so I don't know.
Maybe that was another factor in its cancellation. The rumor is that
Alex Kurtzman cancelled ST:LD because he was frustrated that it had
more viewers than STD, which he regarded as the serious show.
It was a reasonable time to cancel it, though. Five good years is long enough, and every show gets stale eventually. I just hope they keep
their promise to make another lighthearted show.
I don't know about light-hearted, but in terms of animated Star Trek,
there is "Star Trek: Prodigy" and "Star Trek: Scouts" (webseries aimed
at preschoolers), but I haven't seen those yet either.
The creator of "Star Trek: Lower Decks" is making a new adult animated sci-fi show called "Odd Jobs" for Amazon Prime. <https://www.inverse.com/entertainment/lower-decks-mike-mcmahan-odd-jobs-sci-fi>
On 3/10/2026 12:05 PM, The True Melissa wrote:
Verily, in article <0001HW.2F60965F00123B4C70000DEC738F@news.supernews.com>, did akwolffan@zoho.com deliver unto us this message:
On Mar 9, 2026, The True Melissa wrote
(in article<MPG.44187f9a60adcc7d989b49@news.eternal-september.org>):
Verily, in article<10om70o$36p6e$2@dont-email.me>, did
weberm@polaris.net deliver unto us this message:
This is part of what the access media does with Star Trek and all other >>>> produtions. Fans don't like Starfleet Academy so they attack us and call >>>> us names. Jonathan Frakes and Robert Picardo are out actively doing so >>>> and it's a media opp.
https://youtu.be/uQgyPRVGEG8?si=FicsJmBdJqDSA3w5
I read Frakes' actual comments, and he doesn't really blast Star Trek
fans. He points out that the resistance to each Trek iteration has been >>> higher. He's right. There were objections to ST:TNG and ST:DS9, but
nothing like the objections to more recent shows.
At some point there will be more people yelling at them to please stop >>> than actually watching the latest show.
Hmm. I didn?t much care for V?ger, or Disco, or Pick A Card. Strange New >> Worlds was ok, and Lower Decks, once past the first few episodes of the first
season, was excellent. Not as good as TNG or DS9, but far better than Disco.
I have actively avoided seeing any eps of Starfleet Academy.
I can now recommend Star Trek Continues, a fan production available on YouTube. It's not like most fan productions. It matches the quality of ST:TOS, or at least the first few episodes do, and matches its style and tone as well.
I watched 'Continues' back when it came out. As I recall it was
ultimately responsible for killing off all the Star Trek fan productions because they started raising money to make a Star Trek movie. Paramount didn't mind the fan productions as long as they weren't trying to make
money but raising a million or two for a movie was way too much so they
had to let loose the lawyers of war and basically shut _everyone_ down.
Verily, in article<10om70o$36p6e$2@dont-email.me>, did
weberm@polaris.net deliver unto us this message:
This is part of what the access media does with Star Trek and all other produtions. Fans don't like Starfleet Academy so they attack us and call
us names. Jonathan Frakes and Robert Picardo are out actively doing so
and it's a media opp.
https://youtu.be/uQgyPRVGEG8?si=FicsJmBdJqDSA3w5
I read Frakes' actual comments, and he doesn't really blast Star Trek
fans. He points out that the resistance to each Trek iteration has been higher. He's right. There were objections to ST:TNG and ST:DS9, but
nothing like the objections to more recent shows.
At some point there will be more people yelling at them to please stop
than actually watching the latest show.
On Mar 9, 2026, The True Melissa wrote
(in article<MPG.44187f9a60adcc7d989b49@news.eternal-september.org>):
Verily, in article<10om70o$36p6e$2@dont-email.me>, did
weberm@polaris.net deliver unto us this message:
This is part of what the access media does with Star Trek and all other produtions. Fans don't like Starfleet Academy so they attack us and call us names. Jonathan Frakes and Robert Picardo are out actively doing so and it's a media opp.
https://youtu.be/uQgyPRVGEG8?si=FicsJmBdJqDSA3w5
I read Frakes' actual comments, and he doesn't really blast Star Trek
fans. He points out that the resistance to each Trek iteration has been higher. He's right. There were objections to ST:TNG and ST:DS9, but
nothing like the objections to more recent shows.
At some point there will be more people yelling at them to please stop
than actually watching the latest show.
Hmm. I didn?t much care for V?ger, or Disco, or Pick A Card. Strange New Worlds was ok, and Lower Decks, once past the first few episodes of the first
season, was excellent. Not as good as TNG or DS9, but far better than Disco. I have actively avoided seeing any eps of Starfleet Academy.
Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> writes:
On 2026-03-13 23:45:00 +0000, Daniel said:
I will give Lower Decks a shot this weekend. Only heard good things
about it from sources I respect. Maybe, just maybe, it'll give a
glimmer of hope that my beloved franchise isn't truly dead... Unlike
most trekkies, I also loved star wars. For me, that franchise is much
more deader-er than star trek.
D
Like Star Trek, the Star Wars animated shows are often better than the
live-action ones.
Indeed, for sure. Way better. But those series are in the can. Sure
we're getting yet more maul. We'll see if Filoni will stick with his
normal form or if the promotion got to his head.
I hope...
On 3/10/2026 12:05 PM, The True Melissa wrote:
akwolffan@zoho.com wrote:
On Mar 9, 2026, The True Melissa wrote
weberm@polaris.net wrote:
I watched 'Continues' back when it came out. As I recall it wasThis is part of what the access media does with Star Trek and all other >>>>> produtions. Fans don't like Starfleet Academy so they attack us and call >>>>> us names. Jonathan Frakes and Robert Picardo are out actively doing so >>>>> and it's a media opp.
https://youtu.be/uQgyPRVGEG8?si=FicsJmBdJqDSA3w5
I read Frakes' actual comments, and he doesn't really blast Star Trek
fans. He points out that the resistance to each Trek iteration has been >>>> higher. He's right. There were objections to ST:TNG and ST:DS9, but
nothing like the objections to more recent shows.
At some point there will be more people yelling at them to please stop >>>> than actually watching the latest show.
Hmm. I didn?t much care for V?ger, or Disco, or Pick A Card. Strange New >>> Worlds was ok, and Lower Decks, once past the first few episodes of the >>> first season, was excellent. Not as good as TNG or DS9, but far better
than Disco. I have actively avoided seeing any eps of Starfleet Academy.
I can now recommend Star Trek Continues, a fan production available on
YouTube. It's not like most fan productions. It matches the quality of
ST:TOS, or at least the first few episodes do, and matches its style and
tone as well.
ultimately responsible for killing off all the Star Trek fan productions >because they started raising money to make a Star Trek movie. Paramount >didn't mind the fan productions as long as they weren't trying to make
money but raising a million or two for a movie was way too much so they
had to let loose the lawyers of war and basically shut _everyone_ down.
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