We’re only a month and a half away from the fifth and final season of Star Trek: Lower Decks, and today Paramount+ has released the first key art for the last adventures of the USS Cerritos — this new poster from Vice Press artist Matt Ferguson.
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.
In addition to the new poster, the streamer has also shared this first clip from Season 5, teasing what life has been like for Lieutenant j.g. Tendi (Noel Wells) now that she’s back with the Orion Syndicate after leaving Starfleet at the end of last season.
Of course even this short clip contains several Star Trek franchise Easter eggs, with the collector’s look modeled after Palor Toff from “The Most Toys,” and his gallery designed to emulate Kivas Fajo’s display room from that same episode.
The most notable object on display is the Bajoran Reckoning tablet introduced in the Deep Space Nine episode “The Reckoning,” an object later seen in Admiral Jean-Luc Picard’s study in the Star Trek: Picard Season 2 premiere.
Lower Decks Season 5 begins October 24 on Paramount+.