Second Contact

Inspired by a Star Trek: TNG episode called Lower Decks.

I guess the producers thought the concept of concentrating on the lowly ranked crew of a Starship will not work as a television series so let's turn it into a cartoon.

Inspired by an animation look that is more Rick & Morty. This is Star Trek aimed at teenagers. I know my teenage son would love this. He likes Rick & Morty.

You might as well forget about the Star Trek television shows. It has to be viewed in its own medium, that of a modern day, cheap looking cartoon rather than an episode of Star Trek in an animation form.

The main characters are the Ensign Boimler (Jack Quaid) a stickler for the rules. Ensign Mariner (Tawny Newsome) is a natural rule breaker who has served on other ships and demoted. They did remind me of the characters from Red Dwarf.

The new crew member on the USS Cerritos is an Orionian female Ensign Tendi (Noel Wells) who gets a tour of the ship from Boimler and Mariner. The ship encounters an emergency when an Officer catches a virus from the planet they have just visited. It makes everyone go rabid with rage.

I liked the concept of a Second Contact where Starfleet goes through all the small print after a first encounter. I liked that the main bridge crew regard the lower deck crew as nothing and ignore their heroics. The Ensigns are left out of the history books.

It is fast, frenetic, childish, silly. The target audience would enjoy it.