[Faithful Reader]

It was announced late last week that CBS All Access will soon be adding a third Trek Series. Dubbed Lower Decks, this animated series will feature a low-level worker on a lesser featured ship of the Federation. Details are still scarce, but the head writer of Rick and Morty as well as a spoof book on TNGs 'eighth season' is involved.

There is some good talent involved and as long as they don't wink at the camera, this could turn out well. Hopefully it will, because two seasons have reportedly been ordered.

[DarkSabre]

It was announced late last week that CBS All Access will soon be adding a third Trek Series. Dubbed Lower Decks, this animated series will feature a low-level worker on a lesser featured ship of the Federation. Details are still scarce, but the head writer of Rick and Morty as well as a spoof book on TNGs 'eighth season' is involved.

There is some good talent involved and as long as they don't wink at the camera, this could turn out well. Hopefully it will, because two seasons have reportedly been ordered.

Yeah I'm looking for it

[monty42]

Well at this point the likes of Kurtzman, Abrams, Goldsman, etc. have hammered this franchise so far into the ground, I'd be surprised if any Star Trek show will see the light of day again. Let alone one being successful on merit and not because it has lense flares, is dumbed down and has a lot of senseless action sequences.

[Armus]

So Star Trek saw that The Orville was more Trek than anything they had going and decided to copy it. That's what I'm hearing.

As long as it's behind an internet paywall and not on TV it quite matter if it's good or not - it won't be seen by enough people and will likely get the Firefly treatment.

[jjh]

This is not the Star Trek I want.

[Dukat]

This is not the Star Trek I want.

Exactly.

[WeyounsLastClone]

I'm not a big Rick & Morty fan, but I want to hold off on judgment before I see it.
With Discovery, and hopefully the new Picard series, we got 'live action' Trek covered, so an animated series could open up Star Trek to a whole new audience.

[Dukat]

'MORTY! MORTY! WAKE UP MORTY!'

I loved the show ... it was so fucking crazy, I sometimes had to constrain myself not to burst in tears of laughing.


But a Star Trek animated series? Hm. Naaah.

[pfti]

But a Star Trek animated series? Hm. Naaah.

I mean the first one was pretty good ::runs::

[AllenGould]

But a Star Trek animated series? Hm. Naaah.

I mean the first one was pretty good ::runs::

I watched it for the first time recently, and it wasn't that bad. The biggest knock against it was that they were only 22 minute episodes - an hour-long animated could be just fine.

[Armus]

But a Star Trek animated series? Hm. Naaah.

I mean the first one was pretty good ::runs::

Holy shit, a third thing I agree with Carter on!

Star Trek is truly a unifying force...

[edgeofhearing]

I'm not a big Rick & Morty fan, but I want to hold off on judgment before I see it.
With Discovery, and hopefully the new Picard series, we got 'live action' Trek covered, so an animated series could open up Star Trek to a whole new audience.

I became very disappointed in myself when I realized that I enjoyed Rick and Morty. I mean, I already liked Community, and that was the same guy, but there's something about Rick and Morty that I feel like I shouldn't like, but I do.

Anyways, following a Dave Lister in the Trek universe could be fun. I'll watch it when someone hands me an external drive with three seasons of it (which, incidentally, is also how I ended up watching Rick and Morty).

[Boffo97]

TAS was awesome by 70's animation standards... it's just that those standards were abysmal compared to today.

Like, for example, most everyone would cite Yesteryear as the best episode, but man was young Spock's voice actor cringe inducing.