Spoilers Star Trek: Lower Decks 2x04 - "Mugato, Gumato"

[Amaris]

Here's my belief:

"Lower Decks is an exaggeration or exactly what happened depending on how you choose to view it."

Because Gene Roddenberry had the same view on TOS.

I, for one, love the looser constraints. Star Trek can reach for some truly high ideals, and I love that about it. At the same time, when it tries to make humans more human than humans, and *then* tries to add comedy to it, it can be "cringe" in a sense. For example, I loved Data's "oh shit!" moment in Generations, because that felt spontaneous and very human (coming from the always awesome Brent Spiner). I did not like Data's "saddle up, lock and load" quip in Insurrection, because it felt forced and unnatural (as in the writers decided this would be a great one liner for an action film).

Lower Decks is so much like the first example: living beings in a realized fictional universe dealing with adversity in such a way that sometimes the only thing to do is bow to the absurd and roll with it. They take their jobs seriously, they take their relationship with each other seriously, but shit happens, and we get to see the fallout of when rational beings try to deal with irrational situations.

I love it, and I hope we get many more seasons.

 

[Noname Given]

Wow, this episode is getting ripped apart in the Trekmovie talkback…. Mostly due to the Mugato sex scene, which I found absolutely hilarious..! Even the Trekmovie review itself is pretty negative… Are Trekkies really that prudish..??

TOS era fans like me...hell no.

Some TNG era fans on the other hand...

 

[Nerys Myk]

You got sex in my Star Trek!!!!!!!!

 

[cooleddie74]

Trek was kinky from Day One. I mean, literally the first pilot had a scantily-clad green slave woman dancing seductively in front of human men ogling her and the look she gives Pike when she think she's cornered him inside the cave network is pretty envelope-pushing for 1964 television.

 

[Turtletrekker]

You got sex in my Star Trek!!!!!!!!

As per Gene's sacred vision.

 

[fireproof78]

You got sex in my Star Trek!!!!!!!!

Ugh.

 

[Saul]

It's an OK episode. It's more straight forward than other episodes have been so I liked that.

You got sex in my Star Trek!!!!!!!!

It works both ways.

 

[Noname Given]

It works swings both ways.

FTFY

 

[oldtrekkie]

It's an OK episode. It's more straight forward than other episodes have been so I liked that.


It works both ways.

You mean people who ask their sexual partners to dress like Star Trek aliens?

 

[matthunter]

Plus, don't put chocolate or peanut butter anywhere and think they can't be made kinky.

 

[Saul]

You mean people who ask their sexual partners to dress like Star Trek aliens?

Yes. Or those Klingon parties....

 

[oldtrekkie]

Plus, don't put chocolate or peanut butter anywhere and think they can't be made kinky.

Well, it's definitely sticky. I hate sticky. Sticky fingers (I don't mean a five-figure discount) are not much of a turn-on for me.

 

[oldtrekkie]

Yes. Or those Klingon parties....

You mean like when everyone comes dressed as their favorite Klingon (Dixit Jadzia).

 

[Saul]

You mean like when everyone comes dressed as their favorite Klingon (Dixit Jadzia).

I mean the one where everyone comes dressed as a Klingon and have an orgy.

 

[Redfern]

Anybody stop to consider that, ahem, Mugato scene is probably the perfect dream for @Jayson1 given his interest in monkeys?

 

[StarMan]

I am probably in the minority, but I am not laughing when I watch this show. I am feeling disgust with this show. Last season, I felt more enjoyment with it. I rated this episode a 4.

Well, you've got me for company. Not a single LOL across the first 3 episodes of S2. I haven't watched E4 yet.

 

[Amaris]

Anybody stop to consider that, ahem, Mugato scene is probably the perfect dream for @Jayson1 given his interest in monkeys?

Well now I have.


You bastard.

 

[Tim Thomason]

You got sex in my Star Trek!!!!!!!!

You can't spell Star Treks without seks.

 

[Amaris]

You can't spell Star Treks without seks.

Just like you can't read Star Trek the Motion Picture novelization, written by Gene Roddenberry, without learning about the status of Kirk's loins.

 

[KimMH]

Just like you can't read Star Trek the Motion Picture novelization, written by Gene Roddenberry, without learning about the status of Kirk's loins.

O god no