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Star Trek: Lower Decks Teases Season 2 With 15 Seconds of Nerdy, Nerdy References
The best bits of Star Trek: Lower Decks’ first season weren’t necessarily its love-letter references to decades of Trek history. The arc its ragtag ensigns went on celebrated what a weird, wonderful, hopeful world Star Trek has, through the eyes of people in that world who love it. But as this snippet of the sophomore…
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The Pop Culture Highlights and Lowlights of 2020
In a year full of all kinds of bad real-world news, pop culture still managed to poke its head up periodically to remind us that not everything sucks. Of course, this being 2020, that same realm also managed to leave a few steaming piles for us to step in, too. Here are our picks for…
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Star Trek: Lower Decks’ Mike McMahan on Making Sure Cameos Matter
Lower Decks is a show that rejoices in the nerdy little details of Star Trek. From Pakleds to Exocomps, from Kirk punches to movie riffs, its first season delivered a show that earnestly loved Trek’s ideals and the callbacks that made it such a rich franchise in the first place. But when the show wanted…
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Lower Decks Paid Homage to Star Trek’s Cinematic Legacy to Incredible Effect
So far, Star Trek: Lower Decks’ fondness for sending up the longest history of Trek tropes has largely stuck to the series’ television roots, poking and prodding at cyclical story ideas and the legacy of the franchise’s usual home. But this week’s episode finally sets its sights bigger on Star Trek’s uneven cinema side, and…