Temporal Edict

An episode that shows what happens if the Captain does not cut the lower decks a bit of slack.

The crew enjoy a bit of buffer time, some extra time added on to their tasks.

When the Captain brings in a tight time schedule. The crew are run ragged, overtired and make a blunder when making contact with Galrek V a new planet to the Federation.

The Cerritos is boarded by a hostile party and the crew are too tired to fight back.

In a sense this is the kind of episode to show lower deck life. Also it also highlights what a squealer Boemler is.

On Galrek V, Commander Ransom gets to mimic classical Star Trek as he gets to do a gladiatorial combat.

I'm still unsure whether I can be completely onboard with cartoon Star Trek. One of the reasons is that so soon after after watching Picard and Discovery. You have to remember to switch your brain off for this.

For a comedy it lacks jokes.

The only funny part was the Miles O'brien Statue. But only because of the in-joke that comes from reading the 'Miles obrien at work' web comic... which is 100 times funnier than this show and also portrays doing a dead end job better.

I have seen all Trek before it and only thing i have not watched was the animated show. I even watched all discovery and picard even tough i dont like them and these types of shows in streaming platform work maybe only when you ping watch them full season.

This Lower decks is making fun of the older treks but all the jokes are not in context where they are in this lower decks show. It's basically make a reference joke about just to use reference for old Trek shows and not that these reference jokes have anything in common what is happening in this episode.

If this is for new audience then how do these people understand the jokes if they have not seen any of the old Treks these jokes are made out of ?

I dont know maybe it's me but i cant understand the humor of this show. All jokes are always in a wrong time in a wrong place and none of them land a smile on my face. Basically producer is someone who is a fan of TNG but rest of the crew he is working with have no idea what so ever about trek and they have no clue how to make it funny so there for we have this type of a show that tries too hard to be funny but isn't

In this episode Beckett has not as much screentime and does not interact with Brad that much. Beckett nerdshames Brad in the beginning of the episode, which clearly shows the mindset of the people behind the show and the target audience. It's a show from Jocks for Jocks. Laugh about it when a nerd is bullied. So much fun.

Beside this all the plots that happen are ok, with some actually good moments and scenes. The question is, "Is this star trek?" and i would say, no it isn't. It's silly nonsense for Jocks.

I felt nothing, no laughter, no sorrow, no anger.

Just an occasional "What?!" thought like when he stabbed her in the foot or how XO is switching between being diplomatic to being a gung-ho fighter.

What's with the two angry self-absorbed black ladies? Also I noticed StarFleet is run by women now similar to the show Picard. Star Trek universe is turning into some sort of SJW agenda themed show and not in a good way. I'm all for being progressive but this...

I'm done typing.