Lie? No. Joke, yes.

According to memory alpha it came out 10/102019, so like ten months before Lower Decks.

That’s the show I want to see.

A shame since this is the best Trek has been in decades. Like I enjoy SNW quite a bit too, but something about LDS being a comedy gives it the freedom to embrace the sillier parts of Trek while still celebrating them, and to be charmingly earnest about it.

Star Trek used to role with 26 episodes a season, every year. Now you are lucky if you get 10 in two years. Its worse than Rick aand Morty.

BOOOOOOOO!!!

Paramount is too cheap and is running everything into the ground, spending resources on new series no one asked for.

given how long promotions usually take in Starfleet

God, Paramount is just setting fire to the whole Trek franchise all of a sudden, huh? Discovery is cancelled (it was not intended as the final season, though some last-minute reshoots in the last episode were done to make the ending more conclusive) Lower Decks is cancelled, Prodigy is cancelled and shipped off to…

I don’t think I’d call it “in trouble” when it was just renewed for Season 4 prior to season 3 even airing.

Babylon is not a copy of Singing in the Rain.

Feel the same way about Letterman ... senior year in high school through adulthood he was the man. I still find him extremely funny and a wonderful interviewer. Conan is right there with him!! I wish Ferguson had kept his offbeat, goofy show going longer but he probably got out at the right time.

Yeah, but it’s one of those country club prisons.

Man I cannot believe Louis fucking CK was Leslie’s love interest at one point in that show. It’s so jarring to see him in repeat viewings now.

Ben Wyatt’s R.E.M. fandom sealed the deal for me. I felt seen with that character.

The big difference is that Patrick doesn’t have a personality (this is overly inflammatory given that I like Schitt’s Creek and Patrick but he mostly exists as an object in David’s orbit while Ben has clear wants, needs, and relationships outside of Leslie)

It also helps that Adam Scott plays a really funny straight man. It’s not always the most glamorous role to be, so I think some actors shy away from it. But Ben Wyatt is one of my favorite examples of someone who makes the reaction to other people’s lunacy hilarious.

It’s interesting comparing Ben to Mark, who was intended as the romantic lead originally. Mark was intended to be the straight man, but they overdid it and made him boring.

What makes Ben an improvement is that he has his own quirks, even if he’s not as obvious about them as Leslie is. Fans can even name them without…

Ann, that noble, poetic land-mermaid 

One of my favorite moments of their relationship is when Dave shows up, and Ben is totally fine with them going out to dinner because he’s secure in his relationship and completely trusts Leslie (to the point that it’s not even an issue that’s articulated on-screen). And that trust is totally founded - when Dave locks…

Poehler and Scott had great chemistry.