11:50 am The animated half-hour series
Star Trek: Lower Decks is full of in-jokes and obscure references that will challenge even the most hardcore Trekkie.Courtesy of CBS Interactive
When it comes to ideas for a TV show, a humorous Star Trek cartoon doesn’t necessarily seem like a winner. But screenwriter Rafael Jordan says that the animated series
Star Trek: Lower Decks compares favorably to live action shows such as
Picard and
Discovery.
“I wasn’t sure if I was going to like it, but I was really won over by the third or the fourth episode,” Jordan says in Episode 451 of the