“Star Trek: Lower Decks” Ordered For Two Seasons For CBS All-Access
Don’t eyeball me.
From Mike McMahan (Rick and Morty; Solar Opposites ) comes a brand-new adult animated series set in the Star Trek universe called Star Trek: Lower Decks. The series which will focus on the support crew serving on one of Starfleet’s least important ships is said by producer Alex Kurtzman, whose studio Secret Hideout is teaming up with CBS Eye Animation Productions, to be about “the people who put the yellow cartridge in the food replicator so a banana can come out the other end.” The series has been ordered for two seasons.
Our Take
Did you know if you wanted to watch a CBS football game on your laptop, you can’t get in with just the cable login? You HAVE to have a CBS All-Access subscription. This is a glimpse of what is pretty much the future, and CBS continues to make waves in whatever space it wants to be making the right chess moves in a war that has some strategically placed pieces.
Short of getting Roiland back, which I'm sure isn't going to happen, I don't even think they could get much better than the new voices from the previous season. And the ratings for season 7 weren't much lower on average than for season 6; it was pretty much just a normal season-to-season drop that most likely would have happened regardless.
I mean, look at the actual averages:
Season 1 - 1.57 million viewers Season 2 - 1.97 million viewers Season 3 - 2.33 million viewers Season 4 - 1.52 million viewers Season 5 - 0.96 million viewers Season 6 - 0.56 million viewers Season 7 - 0.42 million viewers
Ever since season 3, it had been having steep drops even with Roiland still involved; the season 6 to 7 drop is actually the smallest-percentage drop it's had since it started dropping, and if anything it's possible that changing the voice actors actually *boosted* interest a bit and prevented it from dropping even more.