Even in First Contact, Picard violates Starfleet orders by taking the ship to confront the Borg. In Insurrection, Picard can’t wait for Starfleet to realize the inhumanity of Admiral Dougherty’s (Anthony Zerbe) planned forced relocation of the Ba’ku. In The Search for Spock, Kirk has to hijack a ship to save Spock (Leonard Nimoy) when Starfleet proves useless. Hell, the stories on which “Grounded” is explicitly riffing are built around the idea that our heroes cannot always trust Starfleet. In “ Court Martial,” Kirk (William Shatner) resorts to unconventional methods to prove his innocence. After the rip-roaring, fabric-of-time-and-space-tearing, explosively exciting, and terminally serious Star Trek: Discovery Season 2 finale, Star Trek: Discovery Season 3 Episode 1 was strangely. In both “ The Measure of a Man” and “ Author, Author,” Starfleet tribunals refuse to recognize artificial intelligences as lifeforms, kicking that can down the road rather than making an actual decision. In “ The Drumhead,” Picard (Patrick Stewart) has to call out Admiral Satie (Jean Simmons) when she turns an inquiry into a witch hunt. Starfleet and Federation justice is also notoriously unreliable. But as with Boimler’s (Jack Quaid) transfer to the Titan at the start of Lower Decks’ second season, it is disappointing that “Grounded” essentially ends with a complete reversion to the episodic status quo. Although Star Trek as a franchise has had a historical reputation for rocky premiere seasons, unearned or otherwise, it’s largely uncontroversial to say that Strange New Worlds came out with. Similar to in Deep Space Nine, with Kira (Nana Visitor) being reassigned to Bajor at the start of the second season, the Dominion taking control of the station at the start of the sixth season, or Sisko (Avery Brooks) returning to Earth at the start of the seventh season, “Grounded” hints at a radical change to the status quo. It is to the credit of Lower Decks that its season premieres generally feel more like Deep Space Nine than The Next Generation or Voyager. It is a reliable narrative template and a suitably compelling premise for a season premiere.
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It evokes classic Star Trek adventures like The Search for Spock or Insurrection, in which the primary cast is forced to go rogue for the greater good. TV Show TV Show Reviews Star Trek: Discovery Star Trek: Discovery 2017 Action/Adventure/Drama Browse Episodes Season 5 10.
“Grounded” demonstrates both the easy charm of Star Trek: Lower Decks and the limitations of the modern iteration of Star Trek.Īs with most Lower Decks episodes, season 3 premiere “Grounded” is riffing on a particular kind of Star Trek story.
This discussion and review contains spoilers for Star Trek: Lower Decks season 3, episode 1, “Grounded.”
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