The good news is that Star Trek: Lower Decks will return soon! Sadly, this will be our final season with the Cerritos team. However, if the video below is any guide, the show appears to end as chaotic and hilarious as when it premiered.
Tendi returned to her favorite role as a space pirate after the previous season ended, opting to remain with her family on Orion. Returning to her former self as the “Mistress of the Winter Constellations” has been beneficial, even though she is still not as overtly violent as the other crew members. Tendi will ultimately become embroiled in a conflict on Orion, which will catch the Enterprise’s notice, particularly the Cerritos. Her erstwhile Lower Deckers, however, have their own set of problems to solve, including murder mysteries, Klingons, and subspace rifts. Oh, and deciding exactly what to do when they advance through Starfleet’s ranks into more senior roles.
The studio summarizes the fifth season by saying,
“STAR TREK: LOWER DECKS is an animated comedy series that focuses on the support crew serving on one of Starfleet’s least important ships, the U.S.S. Cerritos. The crew residing in the ‘lower decks’ of the U.S.S. Cerritos includes the voices of Tawny Newsome, Jack Quaid, Noël Wells, and Eugene Cordero; the bridge crew is voiced by Dawnn Lewis, Jerry O’Connell, Fred Tatasciore and Gillian Vigman. In Season 5 of Star Trek: Lower Decks, the crew of the U.S.S. Cerritos is tasked with closing ‘space potholes’ — subspace rifts which are causing chaos in the Alpha Quadrant. Pothole duty would be easy for Jr. Officers Mariner, Boimler, Tendi and Rutherford… if they didn’t also have to deal with an Orion war, furious Klingons, diplomatic catastrophes, murder mysteries and scariest of all — their own career aspirations. This upcoming season is a celebration of this underdog crew who are dangerously close to being promoted out of the lower decks and into strange new Starfleet roles.”
The key phrase is “dangerously close to being promoted out of the lower decks.” This leads me to believe that they are implying that “Lower Decks” will finish but that the same cast will appear in a new program (which is probably not “Star Trek: Upper Decker,” but it’s still the same concept).
September 8th is not just Star Trek’s 68th birthday but also its anniversary. In celebration, Paramount has decided to make the franchise’s TV debuts for free. In addition to Decks, viewers may watch virtually all Star Trek pilot episodes for free on YouTube, Paramount+ (in the US), and other platforms. This offer extends to nearly every Original Series to Strange New Worlds (sorry, Prodigy lovers). (Both halves are free for programs like Voyager and Next Generation, which have two-part premieres.) During the same week, several “Short Treks” episodes are available for free viewing, including “Runaway,” “Ephraim & Dot,” “The Girl Who Made the Stars,” “Ask Not,” and “The Trouble With Edward.”
Showrunner Mike McMahan hinted at this Orion plot in a post-Comic-Con interview, saying, “We pull in some Orion lore that’s been discarded over the decades.”
Here’s the teaser
Two episodes of the fifth season of Lower Decks will debut on Paramount+ on Thursday, October 24, in the United States and globally. The 10-episode season will debut on the service on Thursdays after its premiere, building to the “gigantic” series finale on Thursday, December 19.
Check out the poster below, which continues the show’s tradition of appropriating movie posters from the original releases.
Stream all episodes of Star Trek: Lower Decks on Paramount+.
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