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Beckett Mariner and Michael Burnham, two good people, good at their jobs, who’ve guided us on some glorious
Star Trek adventures for the past five-and-a-bit months.
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Star Trek has appeared on CBS All Access, delivering us
Discovery. A lot happened in nearly half a year of boldly going, but looking back, all I can think about was how refreshing it was to watch people enjoy being good at their jobs.
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Even in its most devil-may-care days,
Star Trek has always kind of been a workplace drama about people who are really into their work. It just so happened that their workplace happened to be a starship, and the work so happened to be boldly going where no office drone had gone before and maybe sometimes phasering the bejesus out of something. But it was still
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Beckett Mariner spends much of
Lower Decks’ first season struggling to reconcile the disaffected, sarcastically “cool” persona she projects with her earnest desire to be the best Starfleet officer she can be for her friends and family aboard the
Cerritos. That conflict becomes a bit more literal in the show’s excellent pastiche of
Star Trek’s cinematic history when at its climax, Mariner who’s cast herself as the Khan-esque villain in a holodeck movie about the
Cerritos is forced to battle, and ultimately lose to, a holographic version of her true self. It’s not just a hilarious sendup of
Star Trek: Lower Decks Sets International Premiere on Amazon Prime
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Star Trek: Lower Decks is finally voyaging overseas. The first season of Star Trek s first animated comedy debuted on CBS All Access in the United States earlier this year. CBS All Access is not available in international markets, and, at the time, no international distribution plans were in place. This week, international Star Trek fans got their answer.
Star Trek: Picard, on January 22nd. Amazon Prime will bring
Star Trek: Lower Decks to Australia, New Zealand, Europe, Japan, India, and other international markets.
Series creator Mike McMahan has clarified in the past that the delay in releasing