Star Trek: Lower Decks Review - 6 Ups And 0 Downs

4. The Cerritos

Opinion has been divided on the look of our new ship, with some saying it's a wonderful return to Star Trek designs of old, and others pointing out it sort of just looks a bit like a mid-price garden table. Why not both??

However, we've spent so much time obsessing over the outside of the ship, that what's going on inside slipped a little bit under the radar. This is a vessel that feels astonishingly lived in, and that's not something we've had in Star Trek for a very long time. The Next Generation, Voyager, and Enterprise all started from the Enterprise-D, Voyager, and the NX-01's maiden voyages respectively, and we opened DS9 with the station in more disarray than the WhatCulture storeroom.

The Cerritos though feels like its got character and stories already baked into it. It feels like we're going to spend as much time on this show learning where it's been as seeing where it's going, and that all the crew on board have a backstory that's just waiting to be told. I want to know how Rutherford lost half his face, I want to know how Mariner would up being commanded by her own mother. I want to roll my sleeves up and explore every inch of this.

Space is always the final frontier, but sometimes it's more inner than it is the outer.