Star Trek has always had the ability to cater to entire families with a single episode. While always a mature show, it was hardly, if ever, for adults only. Star Trek: Lower Decks has become just one of the few new shows to test that idea. More and more shows from Trek have focused on more intense action, more gruesome injuries, and more salacious behaviors.

Which includes, but isn't limited to a more free use of the tongue. The amount of swearing in Star Trek has gone up considerably. Before, you could watch a whole season of Star Trek without worrying about anything more damning than 'crap'. Now, that's no longer the case.

Discovery and Picard really leaned into that, and Lower Decks has done its best to follow suit. Yet, unlike other shows, in Lower Decks, when a character swears, it gets bleeped out. While I'm opposed to such...