I don’t know who greenlit this supposed celebration of TAS, but the writing is cheap, lowbrow and cringey. It’s a total shame that the amazing animation and sound design are paired with this quality of writing. None of the three eps released so far impressed me.

I’m seriously shocked by the Youtube comments that found it funny. The latest one is literally supposed to be funny because it involves boogers. Paramount should be ashamed it spent money on this. Have they stopped for a moment to think if this is what TAS fans want? /rant

  • Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nlEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I like them. They’re a parody of Star Trek more than anything. Lower Decks already does the “humor in Trek but sticking to the ideals behind Trek”, this is Just “what if you’d put a normal person in a Trek position”.

    Aside from the excessive gore, I found the Spock episode actually quite well written for his character. Trying to fit in and understand humor is a Whole Thing with Spock, so I imagine his first take on “awkward humor” would go down something like that. I wouldn’t have been surprised if “haha my fiancée left me, isn’t that funny” would’ve appeared in SNW.

    I don’t think this is really targeted at TAS fans. Having only seen short bits of it, I’m impressed by how well they’ve replicated the art style, but this is clearly a marketing campaign for their running Trek properties and not at all a hommage to TAS.

    Personally, I think TAS aged about as badly as TOS in terms of watchability for new fans. If Paramount would create the expectation of a modern cartoon in their callback material, I think quite a lot of fans would come out of that disappointed.

    I hope you and the other TAS fans get the real homage you deserve but I don’t think TAS has the popularity for Paramount to invest serious money into it. They tried to set up a Trek cartoon with Prodigy but they’ve already fucked that up spectacularly, I don’t think they’ll risk a cartoon again any time soon.