>>111428037I think it will do extremely well if they maintain a sci-fi-plot-of-the-week format. That felt like the problem with Star Trek post TNG. DS9 was a war story focused on Starfleet as a military aside from the weekly self contained shenanigans. Voyager was a constant baiting of “we may have found a faster way home oops it didn’t work”, and you as the viewer knew it wouldn’t work because then the series was over.
After that, Star Trek stopped being original and we got prequel-trek and woke trek, with some lens flare trek movies in-between that gave no regards to in-universe physics.
Lower Decks looks to be a call back to TNG era “we’ve got a self replicating space fungus eating through the Jeffries tubes. If we don’t stop them in 12 hours the ship will suffer a structural collapse” type of plots, but told through the eyes of Ensign Ricky as the guy who has to go spray the latest macguffin gas rather than Geordi trying to come up with a solution from the bridge/over the intercom, and saying whether it’s working or not. It creates room for something like the Klingon hard ass head of security to actually be intimidating rather than constantly being chucked around the bridge so we know the alien of the day is physically strong.
