• data1701d (He/Him)@startrek.website
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    2 hours ago

    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.

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    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.

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    16 hours ago

    No way. Everybody in LD is highly intelligent and competent… and has no professionalism at all.

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      13 hours ago

      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.

      spoiler

      They created an AI that ascended to a higher plane of existence.

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    20 hours ago

    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