One of the most exciting new Star Treks shows on the horizon is called Lower Decks and it`s an animated series from Mike McMahon, a writer on Rick & Morty. During San Diego Comic-Con 2019, attendees of the Star Trek panel were given a little more information about the show--including the fact that it releases on CBS All Access in 2020.Star Trek: Lower Decks is a show about what happens on the Lower Decks of the ship. According to McMahon, each episode will be 30 minutes long and focuses on four Ensign rank officers on a not very important Starfleet ship. It aims to deliver a mixture of emotional and sci-fi stories.`It´s all about families. There´s a lot of familiar Star Trek in it. Even though we´re a comedy, it doesn´t make fun of Trek. We focus on people in the ship who are funny.`Lower Decks is set in 2380, right after Star Trek: Nemesis. The Ensigns mentioned earlier include Tendi (Noel Wells), who is described as having her mind blown every day she`s on the ship. She works in the medical bay and there´s no gross illness that she´s not thrilled to be dealing with. All in all, she`s `a source of joy.`Another of the Ensigns is Rutherford (Eugene Cordero). `He´s our engineer,` McMahon said. `But unlike Geordi he does not solve the problems by the end of the episode. [He] has a cyborg implant that he just got and is figuring it out.`According to Alex Kurtzman, who created Star Trek: Discovery and is spearheading many of the upcoming big Star Trek projects, the decision to go with an animated show was inspired by the likes of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.`Some of the best stories that are being told are being told in the animated space,` he said. `Between Spider-Verse and Rick and Morty. Star Trek is limited in what it can be--it has to be more, it can expand.`As for who the show is aimed at, the Lower Decks team said it`s for `anyone that wants to explore Star Trek and wants more of it.` It has `characters that care about each other and love and grow and ch ...
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