Geek Steep S2E9 – Star Trek: Lower Decks
Look, it should have been obvious to anyone who listened to our last Star Trek episode in season one that another was coming – but I’d wager that no one (not even Marika!) expected that Lower Decks would be the next element we’d be exploring. The brand new animated series? Such a major leap from the last deep dive…
Given that my perception and expectations of what Star Trek is were soooo drastically altered last season I felt a lot of pressure to get my pairing perfect this time around. I mean, I fucked it up pretty badly last time. So I thought hard about it. I over thought, in fact. It actually stressed me out and when I couldn’t find a tea in my massive collection that fit what I had in mind I sort of threw in the towel and just completely randomly picked a flavoured black tea so I could get started on watching the show.
Did it work? Yeah, kinda. It wasn’t a bad pairing because it’s not at all a bad tea – but it didn’t feel tailored to what I was watching at all and it just sort of bummed me out that I couldn’t get this one correct right off the bat. I know I’ll have other tries though because Star Trek is always going to keep coming back. Someday I will nail a Star Trek pairing from the get go!