Question: As a somewhat newer Trekkie, do you think I’d need to have watched Voyager and DS9 and the non-TOS crew movies before watching Lower Decks, or do you think I could just jump in with TOS and some TNG knowledge?
Oh you 100% could. You’d enjoy the jokes more if you’ve seen other Star Trek but Lower Decks just might be the encouragement needed to see those other shows. I say do whatever feels right! You can always rewatch it anyhow!
LD works if you just have a general idea of the Star Trek philosophy. Familiarity with all the series just gives you more ways to enjoy it for all the references.
That being said, I’d highly recommend finishing TNG and the watching all of DS9, at least. You can even try interleaving the two at the point where they ran concurrently, though there’s not a lot of overlap. DS9 really is worth it.
Lower Decks is stuffed full of funny references to other Treks and specific episodes. Being an incurable Star Trek geek I get all or most of them and it’s part of the fun. That said, all of those references are treated as throwaway lines and aren’t important to the story, so I think it’d still be a good show if you miss those. It might even be more fun when you later watch that one TNG episode and go, “oh that’s what they were talking about”. Either way I recommend Lower Decks. It manages to be silly and fun while not mistreating Trek or its characters.
Question: As a somewhat newer Trekkie, do you think I’d need to have watched Voyager and DS9 and the non-TOS crew movies before watching Lower Decks, or do you think I could just jump in with TOS and some TNG knowledge?
Oh you 100% could. You’d enjoy the jokes more if you’ve seen other Star Trek but Lower Decks just might be the encouragement needed to see those other shows. I say do whatever feels right! You can always rewatch it anyhow!
LD works if you just have a general idea of the Star Trek philosophy. Familiarity with all the series just gives you more ways to enjoy it for all the references.
That being said, I’d highly recommend finishing TNG and the watching all of DS9, at least. You can even try interleaving the two at the point where they ran concurrently, though there’s not a lot of overlap. DS9 really is worth it.
Lower Decks is stuffed full of funny references to other Treks and specific episodes. Being an incurable Star Trek geek I get all or most of them and it’s part of the fun. That said, all of those references are treated as throwaway lines and aren’t important to the story, so I think it’d still be a good show if you miss those. It might even be more fun when you later watch that one TNG episode and go, “oh that’s what they were talking about”. Either way I recommend Lower Decks. It manages to be silly and fun while not mistreating Trek or its characters.