JUST IN from Star Trek: First Contact Day, we’ve got a brand new trailer for the upcoming Lower Decks Season 2! Let’s dive straight into this new trailer!
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Lower Decks trailers are always a blast to break down,
as they are filled with the most weird out of context content you can imagine,
and trying to figure out what is happening is both insane and fun at the same time.
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We’re breaking down all the news and information from First Contact Day, with the trailers from Discovery, Picard, Lower Decks and more!
In the words of Captain Carol Freeman, Warp me!
Jumping straight into the trailer breakdown, let's talk about about it, with a lovely view of the Cerritos
We get a look of the Cerritos, definitely not looking “all sovereign” since its near destruction after the events of the last seasons finale,
and yeah this ship is massively growing on me.
I cannot wait to see more of the adventures we will experience with this ship.
Mariner, Tendi and Rutherford seem to be at some sort of space dinner,
definitely not the normal mess hall of the Cerritos, eating food.
Mariner says “What up we doing sci-fi stuff today”,
which may be as good as Picard saying he never cared for Science Fiction in an early episode of Star Trek: Picard.
Rutherford is seen with a new implant, though it looks mostly identical to his previous one, so I guess they just gave him the same implant after he lost his last season.
A Miranda class, the USS McDuff is seen being fired on in an asteroid field.
The Miranda would have been in service for around 128 years at this point, but was used massively during the dominion war,
and it looks like this Miranda has at least been refitted with TNG era engine nacelles.
And I have to say, even though the Miranda is so old, this refit looks really beautiful,
and hopefully we see more original style ships, like the Excelsior, Nebula or even the sovereign class in Season 2.
Though obviously if we see the Odyssey class then Lower Decks will be the greatest Star Trek show ever.
You heard it from me first...
Common give me the Odyssey, seriously, common!
Macduff could be named after the character in Macbeth, or could be named after Kieran MacDuff,
the fake officer from The Next Generation episode “Conundrum”. We know how Lower Decks is with its deep cuts!
The ship is being fired on by two small ships, but a large ship looms in the distance,
though its design does not look too familiar, so it is possible a new alien species.
We see two denobulans, which is great because we need more denobulans,
being attacked by a Mugato.
The Mugato are creatures from the TOS episode “A Private Little War”
and were essentially horned gorillas.
The planet these denobulans find themselves in does not look like Neural,
the place where we have previously seen Mugato’s, so perhaps this is an escaped Mugato from a Menagerie of sorts?
We do know at least that Phlox was very fond of his animals, so perhaps this could extend to their culture as well?
Mariner is seen in an Anbo-jyutsu (AN-bo JUT-su) outfit
which is the weird red outfit Riker and his father wore in “The Icarus Factor” in the next generation,
with Anbo-jyutsu being considered the pinnacle of human martial arts,
but to us just looks like those fairground rides where you hit people with a big stick.
Commander Ransom is seen in what we can only describe as becoming a rainbow firing god,
blowing back Mariner, Dr. T’ana and a couple of other officers.
This is the best we can describe this, and what is happening... who knows.
Perhaps Ransom is ascending in his own unique way, like Fletcher from season 1?
A group of possible miners is seen being chased by what looks to be Pakleds in an underground location.
The Pakleds turned out to be the big bad of the finale of Season 1 of Lower Decks,
and it looks like they may be back with a vengeance on both Enterprises!
Mariner is seen in a Cardassian office, remarkably similar to Gul Madred's office in TNGs “Chain of Command”,
with the four lights and everything!
Perhaps Mariner has also been taken captive by the Cardassians and she is seen struggling with her captors.
Maybe she was simply offered a Taspar egg and that is where the line was drawn,
causing her to attack her captors rather than eating that disgusting food that was once offered to Picard.
It definitely would be interesting to see how this scene has changed,
since the collapse of the obsidian order and the damage from the Dominion War the Cardassians suffered.
Perhaps Mariner simply got the wrong idea of her “Imprisonment” remembering what she must have heard about Picard's stay with Madred.
Tendi and some Hody Jones looking alien seem to be in a museum or collection place,
being attacked by a swarm of lizard eels?
Who knows what that is about. One of the artifacts in the boxes reminds me of the “Abronath” from Star Trek: Beyond,
which might still be out their in the Prime Universe, as all we know is that it was found in the Kelvinverse.
Rutherford is seen screaming while holding his head,
perhaps suggesting that he could remember what happened to him during season 1, and remember the heroic sacrifice that Shaxs made to save his life.
Shaxs may be gone, but he will never be forgotten!
Mariner is seen locked in the brig, and is visited by Tendi and Rutherford
and they all wonder how Boimler must be doing on his new position on the Titan.
Quick cut to Boimler and it is just screaming, as the Titan is thrown into another life or death situation,
being attacked by a horde of ships while moving towards some sort of spatial anomaly.
“I am starting to think this Jam Session has too many licks and not enough Comps?” is said by Riker
but what does that even mean? Both us and Boimler want to know!
If you know Jazz please let us know what too many licks and not enough comps must mean in this situation!
I adore Lower Decks Riker, and yes he may be jazzed up a little more than we remember,
yet he still screams Riker to me.
But as we might have guessed from Season 1 of Lower Decks, we will be getting more of the Titan and Riker,
which is amazing. I sure hope we get some other characters like Christine Vale returning from the Titan books,
as well as the brand new Picard Tie-In Novel “The Dark Veil” which shows us an adventure on the USS Titan in 2386,
which would be 5 to 6 years after the events of this season.
That may be the end of that crazy trailer,, but we did get some extra news!
season 2 of Lower Decks is heading our way on August 12th, on Paramount+ in the United States,
on CTV Sci-Fi Channel and Crave in Canada and available internationally on Amazon Prime Video,
but also that it has been confirmed that Season 3 of Star Trek: Lower Decks is officially a go, and we cannot wait!
If you too can’t wait until August 12th for your fill of Star Trek comedy,
we highly recommend watching the Second Contact panel from First Contact Day,
which was hosted by Will Wheaton and had guests from Mike McMahan, showrunner of Lower Decks, Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner
and official star trek podcast co-host and comedian Paul F. Thompkins. It was a hilarious panel and well worth a watch!
That wraps up our Lower Decks Season 2 trailer breakdown for today, August 12th isn't that far away
so hopefully we'll be seeing the USS Cerritos and the USS Titan on our screens very soon!
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For now, I’ve been Captain Jack, thanks for watching and we’ll see you next time! Live Long and prosper my friends!