BOLDLY GOING AGAIN
WHENSFXOPENS A CHANNEL to communicate with Star Trek: Lower Decks showrunner Mike McMahan, he’s just seen a first pass at the season two finale and he’s a happy man. Words like “exciting” and “awesome” are being fired across the bow. It means he’s now seen the entire season and he’s evidently very pleased indeed.
He’s also been loving getting to do live recordings with an orchestra for the score, something world events prevented last year. He promises it brings a “grand, theatrical, cinematic feeling” to the show. On top of all that, season three is coming together already, with scripts and dialogue in the can. He beams a delighted smile, his eyes sparkling: “We’re having a blast.”
SHIP LIFE
Following the success of the first animated Trek comedy, two further seasons were commissioned – but McMahan says that fact didn’t change the way he wrote the crew’s second outing.
“I approach every season as if we’re going to
