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Star Trek: Lower Decks

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Generally favorable reviews based on 28 Critic Reviews

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Mixed or average reviews based on 147 Ratings

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Star Trek: Lower Decks: Season 2

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Star Trek: Lower Decks

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CBS All Access | Paramount+ | Release Date: August 6, 2020

Summary: Set in 2380, the animated comedy from Mike McMahan follows the crew of the U.S.S. Cerritos as they try to balance working and living on a Starfleet ship.

Genre(s): Comedy, Animation, Science Fiction

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Critic Reviews

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Collider Samantha Coley

Aug 31, 2023

Season 4 Review: Season 4 broaches, (and in some cases reintroduces) some of Star Trek's biggest moral quandaries, and faces them head-on with bold and unabashed honesty. Amid drunken adventures, spicy language, and horny co-workers, lessons about trusting yourself and your crew, seeing the best in each other, and embracing life to the fullest are what really make Lower Decks sing. Read full review

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Collider Samantha Coley

Oct 21, 2024

Season 5 Review: All in all, Star Trek: Lower Decks is going out at the very top of its game. While it's devastating to see this series come to an end, it is, at the very least, satisfying to see the series coming to a close on a high note, leaving the audience wanting more. Read full review

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Elijah Gonzalez

Sep 5, 2023

Season 4 Review: The result is a run on track to be among this show’s most hilarious and heartfelt. Star Trek: Lower Decks may not outwardly be what one would expect from the series, but much like its scrappy crew, at its core, it’s Starfleet through and through. Read full review

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TV Guide Magazine Matt Roush

Aug 14, 2020

Season 1 Review: Lively, mirthful and colorful. [17 - 30 Aug 2020, p.10]

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The A.V. Club

Zack Handlen

Aug 6, 2020

Season 1 Review: The result is something that’s neither hilariously cynical nor meaningfully sincere—it’s functional, and rarely outright bad, but fundamentally unmemorable. ... There is potential here. A few of the individual storylines show sparks of life, and if the characters ever calm down, they might turn out to be endearing. Read full review

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RogerEbert.com Roxana Hadadi

Aug 6, 2020

Season 1 Review: “Lower Decks” most often exudes the energy of adoring fan fiction, relying on a viewer’s awareness of this interconnected universe for its plot details and its self-referential humor. The meta quality is intermittently witty, but the show struggles to develop an identity of its own outside of those name drops. Read full review

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The Guardian Noah Gittell

Aug 6, 2020

Season 1 Review: The problem is it’s not really interested in anything. It’s a comedy show without gags or setpieces. The voice actors – most of whom are members of the Upright Citizens Brigade comedy improv family – do their best to imbue the dialogue with real comic timing. Read full review

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Diako83

Aug 6, 2020

I love this show. I little bit of Rick and Morty with some Final Space in the setting of Star Trek. Don’t take the show to seriously and enjoy the ride

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Boxtears

Oct 12, 2020

Keeps getting better and better until by the end I'm convinced the only ones still hating it are the ones who didn't watch it.

0 of 5 users found this helpful05

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br3nt

Oct 24, 2020

Lower Decks is what you get when you mix Star Trek with The Orville, Futurama, and Rick and Morty. The characters are light-hearted and fun. Seeing what life is like for the lower ranks on a starship is novel and allows the story to deviate from and make fun of the series norms. I actuallyLower Decks is what you get when you mix Star Trek with The Orville, Futurama, and Rick and Morty. The characters are light-hearted and fun. Seeing what life is like for the lower ranks on a starship is novel and allows the story to deviate from and make fun of the series norms. I actually think it fits nicely into the Trek universe. I like the return to the episode-of-the-week style of story-telling as it makes it easier to rewatch the best episodes. I really enjoyed the playfulness and shenanigans of this series and look forward to seeing more.… Expand

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Janju

Aug 13, 2020

The core problem of this show is that Beckett Mariner as the protagonist of this show has a sporty dark triad personality mixed with some random silliness and anti authority behavior. So she is a little bit like Burnham mixed with Tilly from discovery, if you want to say this nicer you couldThe core problem of this show is that Beckett Mariner as the protagonist of this show has a sporty dark triad personality mixed with some random silliness and anti authority behavior. So she is a little bit like Burnham mixed with Tilly from discovery, if you want to say this nicer you could say she is like Han Solo from Star Wars. In my humble opinion the sheer amount of insubordination by Beckett clearly shows that she is unfit to be a starfleet officer in the TNG era and that is ruining the show. Especially since in my opinion Star Trek shows should not have a main protagonist and instead be an assemble show. Having the most anti-star trek character in a show be the main character of a star trek show is a very questionable decision.

I also really have a problem with the portrayal of black woman by secret hideout. This is the second show with a black female lead that suffers from lack of values, mental health problems and personality disorder.

The first episode is ok, the second episode a catastrophe, the third one is good and the forth one is excellent.

How nerds are treated in this show also lets you question the sanity of the writing staff given the main star trek audience. For example in Episode 3 before the opening credits Beckett nerdshames Brad in front of his audience while he does an nerdy musical dance performance. This is like the 10th instance in which Brad is bullied by Beckett. Take a close look at the face from Brad while he is lead around in a headlock by Beckett at the end of episode 1. This is textbook bulling 101. If you don't understand this, please go to wikipedia and read the article about bulling. There seem to be a lot of people who don't understand what is the difference between ribbing, bulling and conflict.

The show doesn't stick enough to canon, protocol is too often ignored, there is a lack of decency and overall a lot of stuff is badly done. Still, going forward, if there are more episodes like episode 4 then this will be the best star trek show produced by secret hideout by far.… Expand

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bewarechameleon

Aug 7, 2020

imagine having the spectacle, self respect and the seriousness from the original star trek series, taking all of that out and replacing it with all the tween XDing, twerking and fart humour we got in teen titans go with a lick of rick and morty paint and you'd get the dumpster fire that isimagine having the spectacle, self respect and the seriousness from the original star trek series, taking all of that out and replacing it with all the tween XDing, twerking and fart humour we got in teen titans go with a lick of rick and morty paint and you'd get the dumpster fire that is star trek: lower decks. this show has no respect for old star trek fans and feels like a star trek show made for people who hate star trek. the only praise i can give to this show is the art style appealing to my admiration for the rick and morty series but it gets grating fast when you realise this is tied to the star trek franchise.… Expand

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tagginondawal

Aug 10, 2020

Oh man....What has happened to Trek recently? This show is very poor. It's humor is very forgettable, characters are meh though some seem to be okay. It has a Rick and Morty-esque feel to it. I think whoever wrote this is forgetting...this is STAR TREK. We want smart dialogue. We wantedOh man....What has happened to Trek recently? This show is very poor. It's humor is very forgettable, characters are meh though some seem to be okay. It has a Rick and Morty-esque feel to it. I think whoever wrote this is forgetting...this is STAR TREK. We want smart dialogue. We wanted something that engages the mind, makes us question whether it was right or wrong. That was the things I loved about TNG, DS9, even Voyager. They presented actual dilemmas, and showed consequences. The new stuff is "this way is right, everything else wrong!" And don't get me wrong, I wouldn't mind a comedic Trek, but keep what Star Trek is supposed to be first and foremost!… Expand

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enut_butter

Jan 19, 2022

It’s bad Star Trek for effeminate r*dditors obsessed with Rick and Morty. Continuing the trend of the other nuTrek shows it displays no affection or understanding of the IP while being horribly unfunny and poorly animated.

3 of 3 users found this helpful30

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Series Overview
Season 5

84
- Season 5 Overview
  Air Date: October 24, 2024
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  S5:E7. Fully Dilated
  Air Date: November 28, 2024
Season 4

83
- Season 4 Overview
  Air Date: September 7, 2023
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  Air Date: August 25, 2022
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- Season 2 Overview
  Air Date: August 12, 2021
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  Air Date: August 6, 2020