Where do you guys start in a Lower Decks rewatch?

Submitted ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨data1701d@startrek.website⁩ to ⁨startrek@startrek.website⁩

Well, I just finished DS9 for the 3rd or 4th time, and to offset the despair of the finally, I’ve turned to an emotional coping rewatch of Lower Decks.

However, I don’t necessarily enjoy a lot of the season 1 episodes; thus I often start at S1 E8 “Veritas”. I feel like it’s one of the first truly good episodes of LD, as its narrative structure is a comedic version of Star Trek’s general experimentation with alternate narrative formats a la VOY:“Final Witness” or DS9:“Rules of Engangement”, and the humor just generally starts to get better. I also find a bit of genius in the foreshadowing that Tendi is more than she lets on with her combat scenes.

Also, the S1 episodes after that are some of the strongest episodes of the seasons.

What are your thoughts? Where do you tend to start on an LD rewatch?

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MalikMuaddibSoong@startrek.website ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Buffer time! It’s the episode I feel where LD comes into its own.

TIL the episode is actually called Temporal Edict and “Buffer Time” is a lower decks board game they made based on the episode.

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IcedRaktajino@startrek.website ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I don’t think I’ve done a re-watch of LD yet, but I tend to skip very few episodes these days.

Like, I used to always skip “Take Me Out to the Holosuite” but I didn’t on the last circuit. It’s definitely not one of my favorites, but I did enjoy it that latest time around where I hadn’t before. So now I tend to watch them all even if it’s on my usual skip list.

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