My partner and I have just binged TOS-Enterprise last year and we are starting Discovery today. I was just wondering if we can also start LD or will there still be jokes from Discovery (and the later shows) that we might miss out on? I have really bad FOMO anxiety and am worried there will be references in LD that we will miss because we havent watched any of the new shows yet.

  • @Arrakis@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17•10 months ago

    SNW has a Lower Decks crossover episode, which is hilarious. Imo, SNW is essentially the only good characters taken from Discovery (which is fucking awful) and put in a far superior Trek. It’s got the same “doesn’t take itself too seriously while still addressing serious things” as some of the light-hearted Voyager/DS9 episodes.

  • @williams_482@startrek.websiteEnglish
    20•10 months ago

    There are relatively few direct references to Discovery in Lower Decks. More importantly, you’ll enjoy Lower Decks even if you don’t notice or “get” a handful of references.

    Lower Decks isn’t good because it references older shows, it’s good because it’s funny and you care about the characters. There are people out there watching it and loving it with minimal or no prior Trek knowledge.

  • The Bard in GreenAEnglish
    1•10 months ago

    I love LD and I mostly like SNW. Discovery lost me near the end of season 2 (and almost lost me several times before). As others have said, the good characters went to SNW (except for Saru).

    If you want an actually good show that has similar energy to what Disco was going for, while being majorly disloyal to it’s source material (also like Disco) watch Foundation.

        • @wheeldawg@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1•10 months ago

          That’s what I intended to get at. They could mention it, but wouldn’t know any special reason they should. And since Boims loves talking about the special ones, but wouldn’t know anything about Discovery. The way the other comment was worded I thought they were just secret in general, which I definitely don’t remember anything like that. I just got confused. I should watch them all close together at some point. Watching in real time week to week with other stuff going on (around season 4 time ahem) make me forget details.

          I don’t remember anything about the propulsion being classified. It didn’t come with that, did it? I thought they got that one thing later, after the show was in progress. Was there something special about it when it was built?

  • @angrystego@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1•10 months ago

    Discovery is not necessary, but there’s quite a bit of stuff from TNG, Voyager and DS9 in Lower Decks.

  • surfrock66English
    -2•10 months ago

    I think discovery seasons 1 and 2 were fine and help as a precursor to snw which is great, but for sure skip discovery seasons 3 and 4

  • @saegiru@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5•10 months ago

    A lot of things related to Discovery are supposed to be secret, so if they stick to canon, there shouldn’t be much mention of Discovery at all I think. As of now there hasn’t been much if anything related to Discovery discussed as far as I remember.

  • PlasmaDistortionEnglish
    6•10 months ago

    Skip Discovery. You would be far better off to watch Next Generation, and Voyager.

      • @StillPaisleyCat@startrek.websiteEnglish
        3•10 months ago

        If you’re saying that the 90s shows have more direct references in Lower Decks than Discovery, I can agree.

        I’d add The Animated Series too though. There are many Easter eggs from TAS included.

        However, the OP should be aware that Lower Decks is written to be enjoyed by those completely new to the franchise. The deep cuts are added value not a necessity. There are numerous new fans that watched Lower Decks and only later got to the other shows they reference and enjoy discovering in reverse.

        Discovery in-universe becomes a secret at a level that it’s not the kind of thing the Cerritos crew would know about from reading historic resources.