Star Trek: Lower Decks’ animated adventures are coming to a close this October, as Paramount+ announced the Season 5 release date during today’s big the Star Trek Universe San Diego Comic Con panel.
Joining Star Trek franchise leader Alex Kurtzman to debut today’s trailer was Lower Decks creator/showrunner Mike McMahan, along with castmembers Tawny Newsome (Mariner), Jack Quaid (Boimler), Noël Wells (Tendi), and Jerry O’Connell (Ransom).
October 24 brings a two-episode premiere for the final Lower Decks outing — which means the show will end a week ahead of Christmas — and today’s new teaser trailer skips right over Star Trek V with a fantastic homage to the original Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country teaser trailer from 1991.
(Boimler even calls the Cerritos crew “very important” — or VI!)
While Tendi (Noel Wells) was forced to return to Orion at the end of last year’s story, Season 5 of Star Trek: Lower Decks finds the USS Cerritos crew on a new mission: repairing the fabric of space itself.
In season five 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 on Paramount+ 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.
Here are a few new images from the upcoming released by the studio in today’s announcement, showcasing Tendi back with her people, Ransom (Jerry O’Connell) and Boimler (Jack Quaid) heading on vacation, and Rutherford (Eugene Cordero) terrifying Mariner (Tawny Newsome).
Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 5 will be hear before you know it — but in the meantime, stay tuned for the rest of today’s Star Trek Universe news out of San Diego!