Yeah. I felt that was the likely reason they decided to just go ham with this last season's intro. They honestly tried to warn us during Season 4 via social media to get the word out about Lower Decks, but Paramount seeking a merger brought a lot of things to an end.

Well said!!

I'm so on board with your channel. I too love all trek, and also don't have time for the cynicism. Please keep making these, it's a great premise!

I love me some Boims, but T'Lyn is in an entirely different continuum.

Insurrection is by far my favourite TNG movie, and I don't understand why the healing of his eyes would be temporary. He'd been healed on the genetic level. Why would that reverse? I wish we could have seen more crew members getting healed by the planet's effects

Seriously!! Netflix should get in on this!!! I love that I can watch old trek on Netflix… I have to jump hoops to watch new trek 😅😅😅😅 who watches P+ anyway…… it seriously hampered getting more folks to watch….

Execs will never understand when they have a good thing.

Five years, but only 10 eps per season. 😢

I wasn't ready to hear Armada music today.

Picking a favorite on LD is hard. But it's Tendi. It was always Tendi. Especially seeing her go home and kick much ass.

OK, Tendi is amazing, but I really relate to Mariner. Her arc is very well realized and she and I have had to grow in some similar ways over the last five years

It’s not an indicator of anything. They just added a bunch of cool stuff for the last season.

More crap going away. 2025 is looking like a very good year

Never missed a Star Trek until they started charging for them. Meaning I haven't seen a single full episode of any spin-off since Voyager was cancelled. I guess its not too bad if its delivered without commercials. But all these stand-alone subscriptions e.g. Paramount, Cinemax, Disney, etc. can send you to the poor house. You'd end up watching the shows from an abandoned warehouse over pirated cable.

There was a reason for the 7 season runs of the TNG era shows. Syndication. Before the days of streaming and video on demand, the long term value in tv shows was whether or not they could be sold into syndication. Ideally daily syndication. To be sold into syndication you needed a minimum of 3 seasons. Roughly 70+ episodes. With the larger the catalog of episodes the greater the chances of selling it, and the more lucrative the syndication profits would be. So once you hit the syndication threshold, your show will be profitable. And each additional season you make will add to that. To a point. There is or was a point where the production costs of another season vs the syndication returns of that additional season usually invert. This was typically around season 8 for an expensive hour long show like Trek. Streaming economics are entirely different. Seasons are at best 8-12 episodes. And most audiences will rarely binge watch past 40 episodes. So later seasons just become an unwatched graveyard on a streaming service (exceptions do apply)

Lol, nutrek's 5 season shows have similar episode numbers to just 3 seasons of legacy trek. 20+ episodes per season! Nutrek is embarrassing. I did enjoy some of LD, it is the only nutrek show to have an episode format, the only one to developer all characters little by little and the only one to lovingly recall aspects of legacy trek shows...it had member berries that didn't shit on the past, nor create continuity problems. That said, it's an animated comedy show and not tng, ds9, voy or even ste. It shines when compared to the sewage that is std, stp and snw but it could never match legacy trek. 5 seasons of it was plenty. Most likely, paramount is going to look at the lack of viewers and conclude that the fans are oversaturated, so a new trek show isn't the answer. Personally, I'm waiting for paramount to let other services have tng, ds9 and voy...that way i can stop paying for their crappy streaming service.

The BGM… now I want a Lower Decks mod for Armada 2 😂

Technically, the *standard* has always been 5 seasons. Back in the day, that was the goalpost for a series to earn syndication. The fact that multiple Star Trek shows exceeded that standard was evidence of their popularity and profitability. Their success did not raise the bar to a new standard.

That’s a really good catch!

WHATABOUTs: The Panda? The nacelle-sucking slug?

Favourite of the main cast is Tendi, I enjoy typically passive characters that can go total badass when needed.

Great scene, terrible movie.

Forget Prodigy..."Lower Decks Season 6 Lower Decks Season 6"

Better just 5 seasons with only 10 episodes each than 7 with over 20 per season. I remember a lot epsiodes within every series which had kinda bad stories. Top was Voyager which copied a plot 1:1 from TNG in an episode.

Unless there's a Prodigy Season 3 (and I've seen no indication there will be) 2024 contained three series finales.

I loved the simplicity of warbirds versus cubes and really got annoyed by the addition of all this new shit. It screamed shark-jumping to me.

Lower decks sucks 😂😂

Louder Decks had it's fans. IDIC of course taught me to accept it and them. Just as many Star Trek fans supported the option to enjoy Discovery and Strange New Worlds. Who those angry, bitter and intolerant people were is of course a mystery. You know, the hatred filled troll people from outside Star Trek. No idea. Some say Doctor Who fans or very disgruntled Firefly devotees? Who can say?

Lower Decks had some of the best character development of all current day Trek shows.

If this scene was done in anything after enterprise unless it was part of that stupid deep fake short with Kirk and Spock fans would be outraged and call this scene Grabge insulting and malinptive shit that anyone who created should be ashamed of themselves for creating.

5 seasons for lower decks feels really short....but 5 seasons of disco feels REALLY long especially seasons 1-3.

They obviously introduced the Olympian god girl for something down the road. I suspected that’s a storyline that never came to fruition. We were probably going to find out what Apollo and the other Greek gods were up to lately.

Another intro progression….is it just me or is the alien bug nursing on the warp nacelle getting larger each season?

In the 90s a season was at least 20 episodes.. now it’s just 10 episodes

Your outro is sick is that the 25 anniversary game?

Well everyone producing it said they are raring to go for more. It was the higher ups in Paramount who cancelled it.

Oh wow, I never would have considered that but you're totally right.

In the 90's you needed to get to 5 seasons to get syndicated so reruns could be sold on other networks. So it was a milestone, its different now with streaming.

Lower Decks wasn´t worth the 5 seasons it got. Good thing this is finally over. Good riddance.

I'm not a fan of these 10-episode, 5-season series. It may work for some shows, but if you're doing Star Trek, I'd prefer either a 24-episode 5-season series, or a 10-episode 7-season series.

It’s a shame. Paramount had an actual good modern Star Trek show and they letting it go. And instead giving us a section 31 movie? Bro cartoons are so cheap to make.

The background music is from Star Trek Armada. fyi.

I saw an article, I believe it was in the Hollywood Reporter, but I would admit I doubt that was the source. DISCO flopped and it cost the studio millions. Apparently Paramount wanted to cut it after 2 seasons but were convinced to string it along because CBS needed a flagship show (and this was right before Yellowstone became that show). What this has to do with Lower Decks, because Lower Decks was an unmitigated success and it was surmised (as there are no official ratings for streaming) it was doing better than DISCO. So apparently when they finally pulled the plug on DISCO, Kurtzman, who apparently hated Lower Decks, pulled the plug on it out of spite. Again, I forget the source it was probably close to 2 years ago I saw this.

I think my favourite has to go to Cerritos. May not have been the newest, the fastest, the most pretty or the strongest but it sure as hell is home to be the best crew in Starfleet. Cerritos strong!

Discovery was a downright abomination, it was Lower Decks thet actually was the closes to the Star Trek of the 90's not only that they had characters you could actually root for.

Since we're talking about that part of the intro - it always bothered me the ships barely move. Seems so lazy for something we will watch over and over. I went into this show VERY skeptical. First reason I was very "meh" on, but I've grown to really enjoy it as the show went on

I still can't see V-Ger in the battle no matter how much people tell me it's there

5 'seasons' of this dumb 20 minute show adds up to one season of syndicated tv

#MoreStarTrekLowerDecks

I imagine if lower decks made it the full seven seasons , the seventh season intro would probably be Q breaking in during it with a referee jersey and whistle , ''Whoa whoa whoa , time out everyone!!! If this keeps up , we'll go white screen , and you Know how Picard hates white screen...'' Maybe the regular intro Q would just throw up his hands and walk off screen , realizing resistance is futile... :)