How Star Trek: Lower Decks Managed To Get Enterprise’s Jolene Blalock To Appear, And Why She’s Only Credited By Her First Name

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Can we just keep lower decks going? I hate that it's been cancelled, it's such a good show, I'm not really a trek fan at all and I love the hell out of it.

observantTrapezium

Why she’s only credited by her first name: because she asked and Mike McMahan agreed even though he didn't know why.

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I want so much to watch it. But it's only 20 minutes, and the intro plays everytime, and a recap every episode. There's like 12 minutes of show.

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Sure, but they don't care what the majority say.

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Can you explain what you are enjoying about it? I just dropped it about 4 or 5 episodes into the final season because I just couldn't keep slogging through.

Between the baby oil lathering decontamination scenes and overall lack of believable or interesting characters and plot lines, I find it to be the least enjoyable Trek I've ever watched (so far) aside from maybe TOS.

Help me see your perspective, where it is enjoyable. And please don't even mention the intro.

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The final season got ripped off. They had to rush to try and have an ending.

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Might be the appliance you’re watching it on? On my Apple TV you can skip the intros, skip the recap, and at the end you can skip the credits to go to the next episode (after seeing who all the guest voice actors were, natch).

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I use streamio.
Still, why are they wasting half of the runtime with title cresits and recaps. Do we really need recaps for a 15 minute story?

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When you’re binging one episode after another you don’t need recaps, but that’s not always the case, and even when it’s just a few days or a week I’ll forget what the hell was going on (I’m old, and I think my brain is full and does a poor job adding new information).

AlexisFR

Nope, we are going to get Academy instead! You'll like it, wether you want it or not.

Antithetical

Not parent, but; Enterprise is one of my favorites. Some things that I really like about it:

The enterprise itself is bare and functional. Not luxurious with nice carpets. This ups the stakes and realism.
Archer is mostly likable and nicely balanced, although he gets a bit dark in later seasons.
All main cast have distinct personalities and are well acted and likable. Most of them also grow as member of the crew.
The crew interactions are well written mostly.
The tension between Archer and T'Pol is intense.
I really like the cmdr. Shren storyline.
Hoshi is hot so I didn't mind the de-con scenes. And besides the eye-candy they did have a story.

These are the things I can think of right now, but I really enjoyed it over all (ofcourse with its ups and downs per episode).

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He's an institution, you can build an entire show around him no problem

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Let me try to explain:

It's an interesting time capsule from the turn of the millennia. Like The Practice, it's interesting to see the way society shifted after 9/11 so starkly presented in art.

It's still got a whif of that 90s star trek energy.

Scott Bakula is a institution.

They really go for it a few episodes, there's no reservations they just have the male engineer get pregnant or the captain get obsessed with space eggs, or the crew get attacked by the cum monster

Doctor Phlox is great and denobulans are a good addition to the alpha quadrant.

Has a great borg episode.

The xindi are cool, actually.

They nailed the uniforms.

You can simply jerk off during the decontamination scenes until they're over.

Dr. Fortyseven

Admittedly I'm skeptical of it, but finding out Robert Picardo is involved makes my ears perk up.

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If you believe in the final episode, they failed, hard. Otherwise, I've grown to like it, found the beard from the latter half of season 3. Shame the post 9/11 dark shift killed it before it could get its seven. Feel much the same about Lower Decks, too soon.

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I think we should do a letter writing campaign. It worked for TOS.

Captain Aggravated

I'm at least slightly okay with the first decontamination scene between Trip and T'Pol. I can appreciate the idea that they planned the whole "starting out with a lot of open disdain for each other but growing together" arc and starting them out with some belligerent sexual tension. Because this is the thirstiest Trek they achieved this with a blue light, some underwear and a can of lotion, but at least there's an idea there.

The scene that makes me say "okay guys dial it back a bit" is...the crew are locked in their rooms, and Hoshi manages to break out into an air duct in the ceiling, which she falls out of, which somehow tears her top off, so she shows up at Malcolm's door with her tits in her hands saying "just shut up and give me a shirt." It's not really a character moment between the two, it's not like they're kinda into each other but because of their ranks they're trying to stay professional but they keep ending up in each other's personal space...it's just "We took one of the lead actresses shirt off. That's the """""""joke"""""""."

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Ha! "Cuz she asked."