SDCC 2019: First info on Star Trek: Lower Decks Revealed
After months of waiting, the new animated series Star Trek: Lower Decks from Rick and Morty creator Mike McMahon has been revealed today at SDCC.
San Diego Comic-Con is always an exciting time of the year for worldwide nerdom, always the first thing to be penciled into the new calendar that you treat yourself to just after Christmas.
However this year’s Comic-Con is even more special thanks to the Star Trek Universe panel that is happening with the famous walls of Hall H. The past couple of years has seen Star Trek visit the geek behemoth that is SDCC to help promote Star Trek: Discovery but this year they have a hell of a lot more within their locker.
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Along with more news on season three of Discovery fans are expecting news on Star Trek: Picard and the new two animated shows revealed earlier in the year. While we will bring you all the updates as they come in, I can now share the details on one of these animated shows, Star Trek: Lower Decks!
Lower Decks will be an half hour, ten episode series which will premier in 2020. It will focus on the support crew of one of the least important ships within Starfleet, the USS Cerritos and is set after the events of Star Trek: Nemesis. The show originally pitched to Alex Kurtzman as “I want to do a show about people that bring the yellow cartridge to the replicator so a banana comes out.” will be shown exclusively on CBS All Access. Being from the UK I am hoping this means that either Netflix or Amazon Prime will be showing it outside of the USA.
Also revealed today was the cast and pictures of the characters they are playing:
Pictured (l-r): Fred Tatasciore as Lieutenant Shaxs; Dawnn Lewis as Captain Freeman; Jerry O’Connell as Commander Ransom; Gillian Vigman as Dr. T’ana; of the CBS All Access series STAR TREK: LOWER DECKS. ©2019 CBS Interactive, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Pictured: No’l Wells as Ensign Tendi; Eugene Cordero as Ensign Rutherford; Tawny Newsome as Ensign Mariner; Jack Quaid as Ensign Boimler of the CBS All Access series STAR TREK: LOWER DECKS. ©2019 CBS Interactive, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Pictured: Eugene Cordero as Ensign Rutherford of the CBS All Access series STAR TREK: LOWER DECKS. ©2019 CBS Interactive, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Pictured: No’l Wells as Ensign Tendi of the CBS All Access series STAR TREK: LOWER DECKS. ©2019 CBS Interactive, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Pictured: Jack Quaid as Ensign Boimler of the CBS All Access series STAR TREK: LOWER DECKS. ©2019 CBS Interactive, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Pictured: Tawny Newsome as Ensign Mariner of the CBS All Access series STAR TREK: LOWER DECKS. ©2019 CBS Interactive, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
The art work for the animation is pretty much what I was expecting and you can see similarities to Rick and Morty, In terms of the humor we can expect it to be a little bit more dialed down but there will be jokes that die hard fans will appreciate but the comedy will be something that will work for everyone.
McMahan reveled during the panel that he is a fan of the B stories of Star Trek and that Lower Decks will be a bunch of B stories working as A stories which will most certainly help with the humor aspect.
Lower Decks is no doubt a way to help bring Star Trek to a younger audience but McMahan also stated that it will work as an entry point to for adult animation fans. Exciting times ahead!
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More information on Star Trek: Lower Decks is expected to be released in the coming weeks and months in the build up to its premier. We here at Redshirts Always Die will keep you updated as more information is released.