So yeah, I'm kinda late, a whole year late, finishing the final season of Lower Decks. Honestly, I stopped prioritizing it when the season opened with what I found to be repetitive material for the series. Having watched through the whole season...I gotta say, I'm not at all surprised the series is done, because that was a whole season of the show, to my mind, spinning its wheels. Aside from rounding out a better appreciation of Tendi's Orion family/society, I'm not sure there's much value in it, except pointing out once again that if you give Andy Robinson's Garak any screentime at all, he's just going to steal all the attention shamelessly. Even Boimler! The whole season predicates that he basically ends up happy being...Harry Kim. I find that a tad ironic. Even Mariner's fate as happily adjusted doesn't feel all that earned. It's very much as if Mike McMahan himself grew bored and just filled out a contract. Rutherford randomly, in the final episode, giving up his implant? Okay! Sure! It's not a total loss. If you're a fan of the show it's worth it, and there are efforts to round out the rest of the classic franchise (though there's kind of a needless dig at Discovery in the process), and how it ends wrapped up in a big Klingon drama is very much in keeping with franchise lore.
Goofy fun, great characters, ran its course. Plenty of fans think that about the rest of the franchise, right? Seems about right.
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