Breja: I read about it, but I didn't bother watching. I mean, it's sure cool for him, and I guess it's also nice to have a star of the orignal show stoking up some interest in space travel, but it's not really that super excitng to watch the whole thing. I'll wait for the Artemis missions ;)
I did watch it, and Shatner was moved to tears after it.
He also made a good Shatner speech, "life down here, death up there", I don't know if he made it up on the spot, but it was nicely theatrical.
Darvond: How did Lower Decks fare?
Breja: Well, it was apparently popular enough to get a second season, although I found it to be some of the most obnoxious, annoying, unfunny crap I've ever seen.
It is actually going to third season now.
It has its moments, but the main problem is that it's Star Trek parodying Star Trek, and parodies shouldn't really be self-made. The biggest problem is that the writers obviously don't know what's actually funny.
In many cases they have a good, solid starting point, but the episode ends up going straight down the toilet afterwards. In some cases literally, as a lot of the humour is foul language, sex, cr@p in different forms, etc. so they really are setting the bar very low there.
I guess one of the funniest things is that they have made Pakleds the main adversary for the crew, and they seem to be very proud about how they resolve Pakled conflicts.
Of course, when there are things like a Pakled spy using holodeck as a toilet, it should be obvious how really low they are going there.
