Captain Proton...! But I saw you fall into the fiery mouth of that volcano!

I regret to inform you that you are now obligated to sing this during Klingon karaoke at every convention you attend that has such an event for at least the next year.

In full costume, of course.

@Lydia_K woke up and chose violence.

Mirror universe Alexander would probably still have two living parents.

It’s just 725 episodes and 10 feature films.

11 feature films. You forgot Galaxy Quest.

I think he skipped counting that show and those feature films on purpose.

(He did forget that there! are! 11! feature films! including Galaxy Quest, though.)

Lower Decks captures a lot of that Gene Roddenberry “all the characters are good guys” style better than anything since Voyager as far as I’m concerned.

The Orville is on up there too, but I agree Lower Decks is better.

I'm very unclear on what exactly makes "transporter credits" or "labor vouchers" different from "money."

I’m thinking either Jake has some sort of allowance or stipend, and is exaggerating when he says he “doesn’t have money”

I mean, having walking around money and having Mom-style "now that's walking around money" (i.e. enough to buy a Willy Mays rookie card) are two different things.

Somebody ought to ask Garrett Wang what he thinks about that. (Remind me 11 months from now and I'll do it at next year's Dragon Con if I get the chance.)

Yes, of course you should watch Star Trek! That goes without saying, regardless of your interest in Lower Decks.

(But yes, Lower Decks does make a lot of in-joke references. I imagine it's still funny without them, but you'll be missing quite a bit.)

BTW, Lower Decks is only one of three(!) animated Star Trek series now (with the others being Star Trek The Animated Series from the '70s, and Prodigy). I've only seen the first episode of Prodigy, but I get the impression that it might be less self-referential and thus might be a better introduction. Also, everybody says it's really good.