Finally, a Star Trek for the working man

Finally, a Star Trek for the working man.  Hold my beer while I engage the warp drive!

Seems to me, Star Trek is finally celebrating working class heroes.  Sure, Star Trek said for centuries everyone in the Federation was equal, but if you don’t have pull with the Klingon Empire, a rich Ferengi Uncle, a Starfleet Academy admissions scandal, or a dad named Kirk, you’re screwed.  

Most of us average wagers that look up at the stars and dream of blasting off into space to fight aliens, discover new worlds, and marry an android, well … most of us would either end up being an account for a Galaxy-class shipyard, selling communicators at a resell outlet, or scrubbing toilets on a captain’s yacht after graduating from a Federation public school (Starfleet academy.) 

All kidding aside, I love that I can relate to Star Trek: Lower Decks whether I saw any Star Trek before or since.  It is canon and choke-full of Star Trek lore in exciting bursts of Uber-fandom.  If you are a hardcore Trekkie it has more references than you can count in it’s 22 minute sequences, it is about a decade after Next Generation, but I don’t remember F words and zombie outbreaks (Borg, maybe?) on that show. 

However, no offense to those who boldly went with Next Generation. If adult animated satire on your Star Trek is not your interstellar jam than you can still enjoy the darker and dangerously serious side of all the other Star Trek offerings on CBS All Access

The animated comedy series STAR TREK: LOWER DECKS* follows the support crew on one of Starfleet’s least important ships, the U.S.S. Cerritos, in 2380. Ensigns Mariner (Tawny Newsome), Boimler (Jack Quaid), Rutherford (Eugene Cordero) and Tendi (Noël Wells) have to keep up with their duties and their social lives, often while the ship is being rocked by a multitude of sci-fi anomalies. 

On the upper decks is the bridge crew, including Captain Carol Freeman (Dawnn Lewis), Commander Jack Ransom (Jerry O’Connell), Lieutenant Shaxs (Fred Tatasciore), and Doctor T’Ana (Gillian Vigman).

Developed by Mike McMahan (Rick and Morty, Solar Opposites), Star Trek: Lower Decks focuses on the support crew serving on one of Starfleet’s least important ships, the U.S.S. Cerritos, in 2380.

---- Set your phasers to Hell Yeah!!!

*Star Trek: Lower Decks is now streaming, with new episodes on Thursdays. Watch it only on CBS All Access. Try 1 week free! CBS All Access free trial. Watch live TV anywhere. Star Trek the new series. Shows: The Twilight Zone, The Good Fight, Star Trek: Picard