Polygon.com / 21.12.24

Star Trek as going to a national park': Lower Decks' creator reflects on the end of the show

Years ago, comedy writer Mike McMahan got the opportunity of a lifetime an interview to join the writing staff of a new Star Trek series, the first in over a decade. McMahan was a massive Trekkie and had recently made a splash with a parody Twitter account called TNG Season 8, in which he summarized goofy, imaginary episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Hed even sold the idea to Simon & Schuster and written an entire episode guide for the bogus season. Now, he was getting a chance to work on the real thing and he turned it down. McMahan had been working on a new animated series that had not yet premiered, but that he loved working on and didnt want to walk away from. To hear McMahan tell it, the folks at Secret Hideout, Alex Kurtzmans production company in charge of the new Trek spinoff, thought he was crazy. The show McMahan was working on was Rick and Morty, which went on to be a massive pop culture sensation. More confident than ever in McMahans instincts, Secret Hideout reach...
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