Cerritos Spinoffs and Lower Decks Delights

Lower Decks has gone the way of all Alex Kurtzman Star Trek shows – getting cancelled before it can undertake the sort of epic hundreds-of-episodes run that Star Trek shows enjoyed back in the 1990s. As Strange New Worlds and Starfleet Academy walk step by step towards their ordained conclusions – the former at least having had sufficient warning to craft a conclusion, the latter reportedly due to end its second season on a cliffhanger which it will never have a chance to resolve – and with Kurtzman’s contract up at the end of the year, it seems likely that Paramount is preparing to move on from Kurtzman-led Trek altogether. Of the various shows Kurtzman got an executive producer credit on, Lower Decks seems to have the most unambiguously positive reputation. You can find haters of any Star Trek show, of course, even The Original Series or The Next Generation, but the rest of the new-Trek slate represents a much patchier track record. Discovery, Starfleet Academy, and Picard seem…