the lower decks
Character
The series is set in 2380, one year after the film Star Trek: Nemesis (2002), and, unlike typical Star Trek series, focuses on the support crew of a starship rather than the main bridge crew.[15] McMahan set the series shortly after Nemesis, the last Star Trek film in the Next Generation era, due to his love of The Next Generation.[5] The series is named after the Next Generation episode "Lower Decks", which also focuses on the lives of lower-ranking starship personnel and which McMahan said was his favorite episode of any Star Trek series; the episode was the first thing McMahan showed the Lower Decks writers room when they started work on the series.McMahan was inspired by the social side-stories in episodes of The Next Generation, with Kurtzman explaining that the "A story" of a typical Star Trek episode would be taking place in the background of each Lower Decks episode, so "huge, crazy, crazy shit is going on in the background and that's super peripheral to the story that you're actually focusing on". Kurtzman felt this made the series a unique addition to the franchise Starting in late 2019, astrophysicist Erin Macdonald joined the Star Trek franchise as a science advisor. Macdonald said each series was on a "spectrum of science to fiction" and the Lower Decks writers approached science from the perspective of "we can get away with a lot more" than the live-action series, so her role was mostly to fix small dialogue mistakes to ensure the correct terms were being used…
Introduction
[The cerritos is running as usual as the group do their usual thing] Captain carol: ok everything is go T'ana: that was too much for one job Jack: well it's done Shaxs: damn boring [Boimler,mariner,tendi, Rutherford walks the halls]