We’ll get our first extended look at Star Trek: Lower Decks at tomorrow’s San Diego Comic Con @ Home event, but ahead of that excitement, CBS has revealed new images — and titles — from the first four episodes of Lower Decks’ upcoming season.
While a few of these preview images have been seen before today, we can now group them into the episodes in which they’re from, starting with August 6’s premiere. Lower Decks begins with “Second Contact,” an apt title for the series which is set on the USS Cerritos, tasked with following up on already-made Starfleet first contact encounters throughout the Alpha Quadrant.
The series’ second episode, “Envoys,” arrives on August 13 and follows Ensigns Boimler (Jack Quaid) and Mariner (Tawyn Newsome) on a shuttle mission to a Klingon compound while Ensigns Tendi (Noel Wells) and Rutherford (Eugene Cordero) spend time together back on the USS Cerritos.
Episode 103 follows on August 20, as “Temporal Edict” as the crew seems to face a crisis aboard ship; the “countown” circle on Boimler’s padd is seen in the Season 1 trailer during a scene of panic in the corridors.
Finally, August 27 brings us “Moist Vessel,” the fourth episode of the season — with a pair of images centered around the USS Cerritos’ captain, Carol Freeman (Dawnn Lewis), and first officer, Commander Jack Ransom (Jerry O’Connell).
Finally, in an image from a later episode in the season, Ensign Mariner seems to be piecing together a mystery… or is she? Going a bit mad, perhaps, as she strings together a classic ‘conspiracy board’ featuring what look like transporter duplicates along with Klingons, Romulans, Cardassians, salt vampires, Suliban, and even a humpback whale.
You can see all these images and more in our ever-growing Star Trek: Lower Decks gallery, and stick around for all of our San Diego Comic Con Star Trek Universe coverage as the week continues!