Get ready to head back to the USS Cerritos this summer as Paramount+ has officially announced when Star Trek: Lower Decks is returning to duty!

Confirmed by series showrunner Mike McMahan during today’s First Contact Day events, the second season of Star Trek: Lower Decks will kick off on Thursday, August 12 — almost a year to the day of the show’s first-season premiere — for its next ten-episode run. (This will put the season finale on October 14, for those of you watching the calendar.)

In addition, the well-received animated series has been officially picked up for another year, as Paramount+ has renewed Star Trek: Lower Decks for a ten-episode third season, expected to arrive in 2022.

As part of today’s announcements, we also got our first look at footage from the upcoming second season, in the form of this thirty-second teaser trailer:

In this quick glimpse of Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 2 we can see some of our returning stars:

Ensign Mariner (Tawny Newsome) getting in some exercise by breaking out from Cardassian custody (a holodeck adventure no doubt), Ensign Tendi (Noel Wells) facing off against a horde of alien snakes, Lieutenant j.g. Boimler (Jack Quaid) freaking out on the bridge of the USS Titan, and Commander Ransom (Jerry O’Connell) processed by an alien energy.

Also spotted are a pair of Denobulans hiding from a rampaging Mugato, Captain Riker (Jonathan Frakes) commanding the Titan, a group of Pakleds attacking a Boimler-led away mission, a Miranda-class starship USS MacDuff (NCC-1877), and Mariner practicing anbo-jyutsu, the ultimate evolution of the martial arts.

There will surely be more trailers and details to come about Star Trek: Lower Decks as we approach the Season 2 premiere date in August, to keep your sensors locked here at TrekCore for all the Lower Decks news as it breaks!