While Star Trek: Lower Decks will end soon, showrunner Mike McMahan isn’t fully closing the door on the USS Cerritos crew’s adventures.
“You do get to see everybody grow up in Season 5,” McMahan told Variety at San Diego Comic-Con regarding the future of Beckett Mariner, Brad Boimler, Sam Rutherford, and D’Vana Tendi and how their stories might continue post-cancelation. As he saw it, “There isn’t a natural end to being Lower Decks because I feel like I am still learning stuff all the time. So yes, the characters do go through a change this season, but ultimately where we end, you don’t feel like they aren’t still Lower Decks and that we couldn’t keep telling those kinds of stories.”
An official trailer for Lower Decks‘ final season premiered at Comic-Con, initially parodying Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country‘s teaser before previewing the Cerritos discovering interdimensional portals, angering Klingons, and getting into even more Starfleet hijinks. Continuing the show’s embrace of classic Trek references, McMahan also teased this season including “a piece of a legacy character, and Noël’s character, Tendi, gets to spend a lot of time with them.”
Season 5’s Central Arc Teased
He also tied Season 5’s central arc to “these space potholes that the U.S.S Cerritos is closing that are these rifts in space. We had been given enough of a heads up that this could potentially be our final season, and so I suddenly opened up the cupboard of ideas and was like, ‘Alright, what are some mechanics to get all sorts of crazy things to happen in this season?'”
Season 4 not only saw Mariner, Boimler, Tendi, and Rutherford promoted aboard the Cerritos, but reintroduced Season 2 Vulcan character T’Lyn as a new member of the ship. Its overarching storyline also tied Lower Decks to past Trek events, revealing the supposed destruction of vehicles across the galaxy to be part of a scheme by Star Trek: The Next Generation ex-cadet Nick Locarno to build a rogue fleet under his command. The season ended with the Cerritos crew triumphant but, due to a deal with Tendi’s family, she returned to Orion rather than remain with Starfleet. Additionally, Lower Decks made a live-action crossover with Star Trek: Strange New Worlds last year, while the Cerritos was recently namedropped on an episode of Star Trek: Prodigy.
Other Trek news announced at San Diego Comic-Con included an official Strange New Worlds Season 4 clip and a trailer for the spinoff movie Star Trek: Section 31. Additionally, multiple actors were confirmed for Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, including a returning Robert Picardo as Star Trek: Voyager‘s Doctor.
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