The worst thing about Star Trek: Lower Decks is that it's supposed to be funny.
The premise is interesting, the designs are faithful to the established look of the universe, and it's written by someone who has seen Star Trek, so already it's 3-0 vs. Star Trek: Discovery and Star Trek: Picard. But they ruined all that by making it a Family Guy/Rick & Morty-style comedie joke show that makes you want to die. Just make it a regular show! You can still do jokes in a regular show. Some of the same jokes would probably actually be funny in a regular show because you wouldn't feel like you're being assaulted by them.
It's like they split the difference between making a real Star Trek show and making a funnie cartoon for college kids who watch Adult Swim. Like you're trying to get into the story and the Ensign Mariner character keeps screaming Pickle Rick jokes in your face. They've been producing new Star Trek content for three years and still haven't tried just making a regular Star Trek show. Hey, CBS All Access, Scott Bakula's still alive, why don't you make an Enterprise reunion and give the show a proper ending before the cast starts dying?
It isn't even that Lower Decks is aggressively stupid like Discovery or offensively bad like Picard. It's just not funny. I didn't laugh once. The strongest emotion I felt during the Lower Decks premiere was a fleeting moment of sadness when the opening credits said "Based Upon Star Trek Created by Gene Roddenberry."
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