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.
I’m locking this because it’s turning into an episode discussion, and we already have one of those.
I love how, in the end, Boimler did influence the future timeline, but he did it in a really wholesome way.
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! 🦜
@Piecemakers3Dprints The crossover ep isn’t available in port yet. I’ll drown my sorrows with grog until the morrow.
Thanks for saving me the search 🤪🤘🏼
There’s 4K versions up already on usenet
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.
Not to be one of those people that yaps on about that aggregator site that makes money leaching off of content provided and moderated by users or anything, but this would be my first instance of hopping onto something posted to the Fediverse that was unexpected and awesome and so much fun!
I’d have dully waited until Thursday, too.
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.
Since it came out early, does that mean there will be no new episode this coming Thursday, or will the season end earlier than it was going to?
It appears that episode 8 will drop next week given Subspace Rhapsody, episode 9, is announced for August 3rd.
Which does make for an earlier end to the season m.
Holy shit, thank you!
This show was great, this season is amazing.
I don’t suppose anyone knows how I can watch it in Japan without making like an Orion?
As this episode will remind you, it’s rude to assume all Orions are pirates.
Some of them haven’t been pirates for at least five years!
From someone who hasn’t watched any Lower Decks - that was absolutely fantastic. Felt like great Trek mixed with the Orville :)
Geez, go watch lower decks.
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.I’d also like to know if there are specific Lower Decks episode(s) that should be watched first to fully appreciate the crossover.
None. If you haven’t watched it it’ll make you watch it
I have watched a chunk of the first season, but for some reason it didn’t click for me. Which is weird because I love The Orville. Loving Strange New Worlds so I’m looking forward to this.
It gets better, they were still finding their stride in the first season.
Almost every anachronistic reference the Lower Decks characters make are references you’d catch from DS9, TNG, or Enterprise. You probably won’t enjoy the campy silliness as much as fans of Lower Decks, but it’s a great episode regardless of the crossover.
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.
You don’t need to. It might even help you figure out if you’d like Lower Decks.
