Star Trek: Lower Decks Will End With Its Fifth, Final Season
Image: Paramount Good news and bad news, Trek fans. The good is that the excellent Strange New Worlds will continue to boldly go for at least more more season beyond…
Make Beautiful Things: The Aesthetic Drive Behind Rocket Lab’s Rise in Aerospace
Only SpaceX launches more rockets from U.S. soil each year than Rocket Lab. Firmly established as a key player in the aerospace industry, the company isn’t just sitting back. Its…
Star Trek’s Tawny Newsome Looks Back on Mariner’s Reluctant Hero’s Journey
Star Trek: Lower Decks has been a riot since its first season, and Tawny Newsome’s Beckett Mariner is a big reason why. Over the course of the show’s four-season run,…
Lower Decks’ Season Finale Is a Fitting Farewell to Its Current Self
After a third season that felt like spinning its wheels, so far season four of Star Trek: Lower Decks has made a great effort on pushing all of its characters…
Star Trek: Lower Decks’ Ode to Caves Is Bigger Than Just One Set
Star Trek loves itself a cave episode. You can do a bunch of different stories in similar looking sets, you can restrict which members of the cast are the focus,…
Lower Decks’ AI Antics Offer a Mathematically Imperfect Redemption
Lower Decks does a lot with its love of story threads and nods to past Star Trek, but when it comes to carving out its own true additions to the…
Star Trek: Lower Decks’ Exploration of the Ferengi Does Deep Space Nine Justice
In a galaxy of compelling species, the Ferengi are one of Star Trek’s most peculiar, and most fascinating. Growing from not-quite-threatening villains in their TNG debut to a fascinating capitalist…
Lower Decks Is Making More Room for Its Underused Characters
Even four seasons in, it’s not a difficult argument to make that for all its aims of being a show with four primary characters, Lower Decks has been most focused,…
Lower Decks Isn’t Wasting Time Teaching Its Heroes Some New Lessons
Last week’s season 4 premiere of Lower Decks kicked off the season with a big promise, even in the smallest form they can come on Star Trek: the tiny pip…
Lower Decks Has Taken Its Biggest, Bravest Step Yet
Star Trek: Lower Decks has found a lot of comedy in its status quo. No matter how zany the adventure or esoteric a riff on classic Star Trek is on…