Lower Decks Season 3 drops on August 25! And there's a lot we can surely mine as this show is a whirlwind of Easter eggs and inside jokes even on an off week. What should we look forward to this season?
- Is yet ANOTHER refit of the Cerritos coming? They jettisoned everything that wasn't bolted down last episode and the trailer suggests that she starts out at around the same condition. Will they take the opportunity to refine things again like they did between seasons 1 and 2?
- There's at least one Federation space station seen in the trailer, plus the spacedock. The former looks to be in a "Regula 1" configuration with all the lower / not upper tanks intact. We've seen the model used with and without tanks before, both as a starbase and as a Federation-adjacent facility, all of which looked different in size.
- Spacedock! Not seen in timeline since "Nemesis", and not to be seen again until the UP attack in "Picard" which largely re-used model assets from Discovery. Where will this version lie? As it stands this is the first time we've seen the INTERIOR of a spacedock facility since the launch of the Enterprise-B, not counting the Yorktown shot at the end of "Beyond".
- More uniforms? There's a pretty clear call back to the events of VOY "Drive", with the Delta Flyer and racing uniforms. I always thought they uniforms the Voyager crew pulled out were some sort of standard uniform for racing purposes (!) they just HAD in the database.
- Speaking of porpoises, more cetacean ops! It'd be great if we saw those guys on a mission, and what that would look like.
What are you guys looking forward to?
Mark
- Is yet ANOTHER refit of the Cerritos coming? They jettisoned everything that wasn't bolted down last episode and the trailer suggests that she starts out at around the same condition. Will they take the opportunity to refine things again like they did between seasons 1 and 2?
- There's at least one Federation space station seen in the trailer, plus the spacedock. The former looks to be in a "Regula 1" configuration with all the lower / not upper tanks intact. We've seen the model used with and without tanks before, both as a starbase and as a Federation-adjacent facility, all of which looked different in size.
- Spacedock! Not seen in timeline since "Nemesis", and not to be seen again until the UP attack in "Picard" which largely re-used model assets from Discovery. Where will this version lie? As it stands this is the first time we've seen the INTERIOR of a spacedock facility since the launch of the Enterprise-B, not counting the Yorktown shot at the end of "Beyond".
- More uniforms? There's a pretty clear call back to the events of VOY "Drive", with the Delta Flyer and racing uniforms. I always thought they uniforms the Voyager crew pulled out were some sort of standard uniform for racing purposes (!) they just HAD in the database.
- Speaking of porpoises, more cetacean ops! It'd be great if we saw those guys on a mission, and what that would look like.
What are you guys looking forward to?
Mark
