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Star Trek: Lower Decks Learns That Making a Sequel Is Really Hard Work
Sequels are always a challenging endeavour, in Star Trek or otherwise. But there’s something about Star Trek cinematically that makes it really difficult — the franchise rarely ever escaped the cursed of the odd-numbered sequel, and so it’s fitting that Lower Decks approaches its own first attempt at a direct sequel with a sense of trepidation……
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On Star Trek: Lower Decks, Literal Dirty Work Isn’t Quite Its Own Reward
The animated Star Trek: Lower Decks has always put the divide between the big, important jobs of being bridge crew in stark relief to the actual nitty-gritty work of being the entry-level employees of a ship — especially a ship that features in a show as weird as Star Trek in the first place. But…