Mostly - I find a lot of these quite funny, but I think LD is the least accurate one. TOS also is one of the less spot-on ones, but I think late TOS and especially the TOS films, it becomes very applicable.
I think the LD one really only applies to the early show, and mostly just Mariner and Boimler. Later on, it’s often less they lack brain cells but often use them at the wrong time, but then their brain cells are good enough they actually make it out of the situation. I’d say none of the main characters are actually particularly mediocre except Boimler (not to hate on Bradward), as we slowly find out. Maybe some of the bridge crew stay within the box of mediocrity, but we still learn to love them as characters. I might put something for Lower Decks like “Pick one from each, and make it more dysfunctional”.
Considering both the description of LD and there being no SNW, this was clearly written some time 2020 or 2021.
LD is DS9: The College Years
Nah, DS9 is much better described as a polycule.
All in unison: He’s Black Jesus
Now do Dukat.
The creepy guy that Kira’s mom referred to as “Uncle Duke.”
Make Cardassia Great Again!
No way. Everybody in LD is highly intelligent and competent… and has no professionalism at all.
Yeah, Lower Decks is full of competent people, they’re just literal cartoon characters and everything is played up for jokes. But as seen in the crossover, their real selves are a bit more toned down.
Not to mention that they did what none of the other shows even got close to: They proved that artificial intelligence can have a consciousness beyond just hardware and software.
spoiler
They created an AI that ascended to a higher plane of existence.
To be fair, not everything is played for laughs - I’d say pretty much every season finale gets moderately serious. I also think the Orion world building was top notch.
I enjoyed the crossover before I watched Lower Decks and still enjoy it, but I also feel like the way the characters were written at times reduced them to their basic archetype without the character development they would have had at that point in Lower Decks. I mean, it somewhat makes sense - probably a good idea to assume not everyone had watched Lower Decks and give an idea of who these people are - but I wonder if it could have been executed a bit better on that front.
Suffice it to say, I think late Lower Decks itself actually contains better examples of their “toned-down” real selves.
I don’t love the TOS one. The “everyone met as cadets at the academy” is Abrams, not TOS. Only McCoy and Kirk go way back like that.
But the DS9 one captures the vibe perfectly.
Is there a reason there’s no BNW?
Yep. They missed that one. And Picard.
I assume it’s several years old.
Ah. That makes sense. LD may be relatively new, but they do have, what, five seasons now? I’m getting old, I guess.
It’s definitely very Tumblr, that’s for sure
“An unholy bastion of mediocrity.” Man, I want that on my tombstone.
It gets more accurate the more recent the series.
Though I would argue the LD cast has one standard-issue braincell and they all have to share
Accurate except for the LD one.
Laughed, don’t care about accuracy
It needs to go deeper, and ask the tough questions!
Yes, all of these at once.
VOY fucking got me
Negative, captain
Sure, an argument like that could be made. I guess…
