My partner and I have just binged TOS-Enterprise last year and we are starting Discovery today. I was just wondering if we can also start LD or will there still be jokes from Discovery (and the later shows) that we might miss out on? I have really bad FOMO anxiety and am worried there will be references in LD that we will miss because we havent watched any of the new shows yet.
There are relatively few direct references to Discovery in Lower Decks. More importantly, you'll enjoy Lower Decks even if you don't notice or "get" a handful of references.
Lower Decks isn't good because it references older shows, it's good because it's funny and you care about the characters. There are people out there watching it and loving it with minimal or no prior Trek knowledge.
Skip Discovery. You would be far better off to watch Next Generation, and Voyager.
Probably get down voted for this but I'm new to Star Trek online discussion so be kind :) - people didn't like Discovery?
Sure it took a bit to find its feet but I thought the last series was excellent!
But then I loved Picard by the end of series 3 too so many I'm alone here.
Either way, loving all the Star Trek shows coming out these days, was nothing for so long and now...
Star Trek discussion /usually/ tends toward anything new being bad, and always has. SNW and lower decks are exceptions because they do so much fan service and return to a more classic Trek format. Discovery was groundbreaking in a way that I'm sure Roddenberry would have enjoyed, but groundbreaking also implies jarring change and throwing away things that work for experiments that sometimes don't.
If Discovery were as unpopular as some people really think it is, then none of the current shows would be in production.
Discovery doesn't have a single good episode I've went back to revisit, while even the "weaker" series like ENT have episodes I revisit.
This. There are always specific episodes i like to rewatch but Discovery had none that stood out for me.
I enjoy Discovery, although it takes a little bit to find it's feet. Due to the nature of the show (you'll understand as you watch) there can't really be any references to it in Lower Decks. Strange New Worlds and Lower Decks haven't co-existed for long so there aren't many references there to start with.
That being said, Lower Decks mostly references older Trek. You're more than prepared.
There is a crossover of lower decks characters in strange new worlds, but you'll get more out of that from seeing lower decks first
Lower Decks mostly references TOS-ENT, so it won't matter much.
