TV Guide Magazine

Star Trek: Lower Decks

Thursdays, CBS All Access

WORDS YOU’VE PROBABLY never heard spoken on a Star Trek series before: “The bridge is not cool.” Isn’t there a prime directive against irreverence in this sci-fi universe?

If so, proudly flaunts the rules, sending has gone the cartoon route before (the earnest 1973–74 ), but rarely has the final frontier been mined so exhaustively for laughs.

You’re reading a preview, subscribe to read more.

More from TV Guide Magazine

TV Guide Magazine2 min read
Saturday, May 11
11am/10c and 7:20/6:20c, HDNet Movies In 2005, five years before Tom Selleck introduced Blue Bloods’ iconic police commissioner Frank Reagan, the actor’s fans flocked to CBS to watch him play Jesse Stone, police chief of a crime-ridden coastal New En
TV Guide Magazine1 min read
Sudoku
The actress who plays the lead in Elsbeth appears in this issue’s puzzle at left. It has the letters C E N O P R S T and Y.
TV Guide Magazine2 min read
Wednesday, May 8
9/8c, NBC “A real shock in the firehouse” propels tonight’s episode, says Daniel Kyri (below), who plays endearing firefighter Darren Ritter on the first-responder drama. Not only does a truck go missing from 51, but Lt. Kelly Severide (Taylor Kinney

Related Books & Audiobooks