Star Trek Lower Decks Teases Season 2 With 15 Seconds of Nerdy References

The greatest bits of Star Trek: Lower Decks’ first season weren’t essentially its love-letter references to a long time of Trek historical past. The arc its ragtag ensigns went on celebrated what a bizarre, fantastic, hopeful world Star Trek has, by way of the eyes of individuals in that world who love it. But as this snippet of the sophomore season reveals, the references can even simply be pretty much as good, frankly.

We’ve already had a sneak peek at what to anticipate for the crews of the usS. Cerritos—and, in Boimler’s case, the crew of Captain Will Riker’s U.S.S. Titan—within the second season of Lower Decks already. But this new brief clip celebrating a month to go earlier than the season begins is only a concentrated delight of nerdy, nerdy Trek references… even earlier than we marvel what’s introduced Boimler and Mariner again collectively after their falling out, when the previous accepted his promotion and reassignment to the Titan with out telling her.

It’s brief, however undoubtedly very candy—and there’s so a lot occurring. There’s the traditional Starbase design (which, as TrekCore notes, originated within the Star Trek: Vanguard novels), and even the automobile Mariner and Boimler have absconded in—presumably, as safety goes after them—has huge Argo vibes, the buggy from the notorious sequence in Star Trek: Nemesis. The white-and-gold costume uniform variant of the Lower Decks period uniform can be a riff on the identical ones worn by Picard’s crew in Insurrection and Nemesis. And then there’s the fish individuals! Who, as they angrily intone, aren’t really fish individuals—they’re the Antedians, who appeared within the Next Generation episode “Manhunt” as would-be Federation members. Looks like they acquired over the, spoiler alert, failed terrorist plot in that episode and joined up by the point of Lower Decks a minimum of!

That’s a variety of referencing for simply 15 seconds (and we didn’t even marvel why Boimler and Mariner had little statuettes of Data of their automobile). No doubt there’ll be much more, when Star Trek: Lower Decks returns for its second away mission on Paramount+ on August 12.

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