The basic premise of this episode focuses on the crew of the USS Cerritos getting run through a series of holographic drills to determine how good the crew is at their various jobs.
Does it feel like Starfleet is obsessed with the adventures of the various Enterprises? Well, what Lower Decksasserts is, maybe there’s a good reason for that. Here’s how this episode lays out an entirely new way of thinking about how Starfleet thinks about itself. And, perhaps there’s no better example of this than episode 8 of season 2, the episode, “I, Excretus.”
Lower Decks creator Mike McMahan has called Lower Decks a “rosetta stone” of Star Trek canon more than once. The result? What we know is actually very limited by our perspective of what we’ve seen on the various live-action Trek shows.
Not only does Lower Decks count as real Star Trek canon it also actively explores Trek canon, constantly illuminating that what we think we know about the world of the Federation, Starfleet, the Klingon Empire, etc. This Star Trek: Lower Decks article contains spoilers for Season 2, Episode 8 “I, Excretus.”įor Star Trek fans who worry that Lower Deckssomehow doesn’t “count” because it’s a comedy, nothing could be further from the truth.
