While there wasn’t much news out of today’s Star Trek Day panel focusing on the animated series Star Trek: Lower Decks, we did get two looks ahead at the episodes yet to come this season, including the return of a familiar franchise face!
As part of today’s Star Trek Day panel, series creator and showrunner Mike McMahan finally spilled a few spoilers about some familiar voices we’ll be hearing in the last five episodes of the first Star Trek: Lower Decks season — including famous Next Generation and Voyager man of mischief Q, voiced of course by John de Lancie, reprising the role for the first time since 2001’s “Q2.”
While McMahan stressed that de Lancie’s time as Q in an upcoming episode is very much a small moment in length, the near-cameo shot of those famous Q Continuum judge robes made a starring role in the new late-season trailer showcasing moments from the rest of Season 1.
Along with de Lancie, we also learned that three-time Star Trek guest star Kurtwood Smith — who appeared in Voyager, Deep Space Nine, and Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country — will be voicing an alien role in an upcoming season as well.
If you missed it, you can watch the entire Star Trek: Lower Decks panel from today’s Star Trek Day event on YouTube or at StarTrek.com/Day.
Star Trek: Lower Decks returns Thursday, September 10 with “Terminal Provocations” on CBS All Access and CTV Sci-Fi Channel. International distribution for the series has not yet been announced.