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‘Star Trek: Lower Decks’ Expands Gene Roddenberry’s Universe, With Mixed Results: TV Review

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Daniel D'Addario Chief TV Critic“Star Trek: Lower Decks,” the latest series in the franchise kicked off by Gene Roddenberry in 1966, doesn’t take place on the Enterprise, or the Voyager, or any of the similarly inspiringly-named ships in the fleet.

This animated show depicts the comings and goings of the support staff on the U.S.S. Cerritos, a ship sharing its name with a small city within Los Angeles County.

It’s a signal of this show’s small-scale ambitions compared to recent dramas “Discovery” and “Picard” — to amuse prosaically, to stay close to the earth rather than soar.

In returning to a place CBS All Access has gone before twice in recent memory, the most surprising choice “Lower Decks” makes is to do so without much boldness.

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