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Star Trek: Lower Deck’s Mike McMahan Breaks Down Season 2’s Themes and That Epic Finale
Another season of Star Trek: Lower Decks has come to an end, but this time, the show has evolved into a whole new level of trials and tribulations for the crew of the Cerritos. To look back on season two and unpack some of those twists from the finale, Gizmodo chatted with showrunner Mike McMahan…
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Star Trek: Lower Decks Gave Us a Happy Ending with Sex and an Evil Computer
A lot of Star Trek: Lower Decks has been about taking classic setups and premises from series past and reframing them or poking holes with loving fun. So it’s rare to see the series riff on not one, but two fun stalwarts of the past and not really play them for laughs — even if…
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On Lower Decks, Star Trek’s Best Expectations Aren’t Always What They Seem
After re-settling into its typical groove in the wake of a status-quo-resetting first few episodes, this season of Star Trek: Lower Decks is still trying to grapple with some of the trust issues between its ensign heroes. How well do they really know each other? Why do they all have the weirdest ways of processing…
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Lower Decks Offers a Perfectly Star Trek Answer to How to Live in Starfleet’s Duality
When CBS revived Star Trek and promptly turned it into a swath of new series about boldly going, these myriad projects all found themselves grappling with a familiar question. It’s one that’s underpinned over half a century of the franchise: is Starfleet a scientific organisation, or a military one? The time has come for Paramount+’s…