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

3. Star Trek Is Fun

If there's one criticism I will agree with, it's that Star Trek hasn't been 'fun' for a very long time. The campy adventures of the 60s were so inadvertently out-there that they not only defined science-fiction for decades to come, but also science-fiction parody. Star Trek, whether it was trying to be or not, used to be a lot of fun. Discovery and Picard had their moments, but by and large it was serious business.

Lower Decks, being an animated comedy, was always going to be a huge tonal shift, but that meant it would live or die by whether or not it was actually funny. To my legitimate surprise, it isn't, it's actually hilarious.

In 23 minutes we've had repeated lampooning of Starfleet as a premise, the entire crew turned into rampaging zombies, a man suckled excessively by a giant milk spider, two people trying to set up a second date in the middle of a firefight, and a holodeck program that's just a load of 250lbs men doing reps with their own dicks. This got more genuine laughs out of me than entire seasons of other shows.