One of the ways Star Trek: Lower Decks wins over longtime Star Trek fans is how well they mine the franchise for comedic fodder. The tentacled aliens, the Vendorians, for example, come from Star Trek: The Animated Series. However, what makes Lower Decks' "Caves" episode so great is how it highlights the franchise's penchant for trapping its characters in them. From Star Trek: The Original Series to the third wave of the franchise, audiences are promised strange new worlds but, sometimes, they only get a system of caves.
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