Boldly go where no one has gone before with "Star Trek: Lower Decks," online viewing beginning Thursday, as CBS All Access debuts the franchise's first Star Trek: The Animated Series since the 1973-74 series "Star Trek: The Animated Series animated series to debut

Lower Decks follows the support crew of the USS Cerritos in the year 2380 As such, the captain and admiral do not appear Instead, the focus is on crew members who have received less attention in series like Star Trek: The Next Generation Ensign Mariner, Ensign Beumler, Ensign Rutherford, and Ensign Tendy balance their duties and social lives as their ship is rocked by numerous sci-fi anomalies

Lower Decks is the third Star Trek series developed by CBS All Access, following Star Trek: Discovery and Star Trek: Picard Another, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, is on the way

At last year's Comic-Con, creator Mike McMahan said, "It was really important to me that the comedy not come from rubbing Trek in the wrong way or making fun of tropes It feels like every episode is an episode of Star Trek, but we focus on the funny ship people

McMahan also forewarned that longtime Trek fans can look forward to references and Easter eggs He said, "If you like Star Trek, it's in a shared universe So there are jokes like Odo's bucket of jokes and jokes that you guys can understand," he said

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The official "Star Trek: Lower Deck" trailer begins with someone narrating the captain's logbook: but it turns out that it is only Ensign Brad Beumler When his friend, Ensign Beckett Marriner, finds out what he is doing, she makes fun of him

The voice cast for Star Trek: Lower Decks includes:

Star Trek: Lower Decks reviews

The New York Times: "Through four episodes, Lower Decks feels like its in between It's a smooth, nimble package, but it doesn't strike me too strongly as either a nerdfest or an aggressive satire Put another way, it's not that funny Wherever they're trying to go, they're not doing it very boldly"

Rolling Stone magazine "Mariner complains that a Yeti he once met was a "son of a bitch," and in one episode he is punished for cleaning up semen from a holodeck [31]

Vulture "LowerDecks is actually a good gateway for new and casual fans who only know this franchise one way or another It's fun and even surprising at times But there is an ironic distance between it and Star Trek as a whole"