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Star Trek: Lower Decks is the ninth main series set in the Star Trek universe, the tenth including the companion series Star Trek: Short Treks , and the twelfth Star Trek series overall. It is the second series to be entirely animated, after Star Trek: The Animated Series , with episodes running half an hour, and the third series to have animated episodes, after Short Treks . Lower Decks is the first original animated series commissioned by CBS All Access, as well as the first produced by the new CBS animation arm, CBS Eye Animation Productions , and was announced in October 2018 , with All Access committing to a two-season order. [1]

Created by Mike McMahan , the series is an adult animation comedy produced in association with Titmouse, Inc. and forms part of Alex Kurtzman 's five-year deal with CBS to expand the Star Trek franchise. Lower Decks focuses on " the support crew serving on one of Starfleet 's least important ships. " [2]

The show takes place aboard the California -class USS Cerritos on the "lower decks". [3] The show's time period is described as the Star Trek: The Next Generation -era, more specifically 2380 , after Star Trek Nemesis . [4] [5]

A full-length trailer was released on 12 July 2020. [6]

The first season was nominated for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Animated Series. [7]

In April 2021 , it was announced that Lower Decks had been renewed for a third season. [8]

McMahan has acknowledged that some fans have referred to the four leading characters as "the warp core four," though the production team's shorthand for them is "The Lower Deckers." [9]

↑ John Van Citters has chosen "LDS" as the series' official abbreviation, while also alluding to it being a reference to Kirk 's line about LSD in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home . [10] This is consistent with the three letter abbreviations for other series, though no "official" abbreviations have been given for Star Trek: Short Treks , After Trek , or The Ready Room . MA will use the abbreviation "LD" for Lower Decks to remain consistent with using the first letter in titles with more than one word after Star Trek .

On 18 January 2022 , it was announced that Lower Decks had been renewed for a fourth season .

On 28 March 2023 , it was announced that Lower Decks had been renewed for a fifth season .

• 1.1 Starring
• 1.2 Special guest stars
• 1.3 Additional recurring characters
• 2 Opening credits
• 3.1 Season 1
• 3.2 Season 2
• 3.3 Season 3
• 3.4 Season 4
• 3.5 Season 5
• 5 Production companies
• 6.1.1 Products
• 7 Reception
• 8 Related topics
• 10 External links

Cast of characters [ ]

The ensigns of Lower Decks

The command crew of the USS Cerritos

Starring [ ]

• Tawny Newsome as Beckett Mariner
• Jack Quaid as Brad Boimler
• Noël Wells as D'Vana Tendi
• Eugene Cordero as Sam Rutherford
• Dawnn Lewis as Freeman
• Jerry O'Connell as Ransom
• Fred Tatasciore as Shaxs
• Gillian Vigman as T'Ana

Special guest stars [ ]

• James Cromwell as Dr. Zefram Cochrane
• Jeffrey Combs as AGIMUS
• John de Lancie as Q
• Shannon Fill as Sito Jaxa
• Jonathan Frakes as Capt. William T. Riker
• Susan Gibney as Dr. Leah Brahms
• Max Grodénchik as Rom
• Drookmani Captain
• Alice Krige as Borg Queen
• Chase Masterson as Leeta
• Nick Locarno
• Lycia Naff as Sonya Gomez
• Armin Shimerman as Quark
• Marina Sirtis as Deanna Troi
• George Takei as Hikaru Sulu
• Nana Visitor as Col. Kira Nerys
• Wil Wheaton as Wesley Crusher

Additional recurring characters [ ]

• Carlos Alazraqui as Les Buenamigo
• Eugene Cordero as Winger Bingston, Jr.
• Kether Donohue as Peanut Hamper
• Phil LaMarr as Alonzo Freeman
• Lauren Lapkus as Ensign Jennifer Sh'reyan‎
• Jack McBrayer as Badgey
• Cerritos Computer
• Ben Rodgers as Steve Stevens
• Paul Scheer as Andy Billups
• Carl Tart as Kayshon
• Fred Tatasciore as Vassery
• Paul F. Tompkins as Migleemo
• Gillian Vigman as Dayton
• Ariel Winter as D'Erika Tendi

Opening credits [ ]

The opening credits for Star Trek: Lower Decks contain imagery of the USS Cerritos passing near various spatial phenomena, often with deleterious effects.

Episode list [ ]

Season 1 [ ].

LD Season 1 , 10 episodes:

Season 2 [ ]

LD Season 2 , 10 episodes:

Season 3 [ ]

LD Season 3 , 10 episodes:

Season 4 [ ]

LD Season 4 , 10 episodes:

Season 5 [ ]

LD Season 5 , 10 episodes:

• Ruth Lambert
• Robert McGee
• April Caputi
• Robert Lee Terry
• Aaron Baiers
• Robyn Johnson
• Brad Winters
• Heather Kadin
• Katie Krentz
• Alex Kurtzman
• Mike McMahan – head writer
• Rod Roddenberry
• Trevor Roth
• Mike McMahan – executive producer
• Garrick Bernard
• John Cochran
• Dave Ihlenfeld
• Ben Rodgers
• Dave Wright
• Chris Prynoski
• Shannon Prynoski
• David Wright

Production companies [ ]

• CBS Eye Animation Productions
• Roddenberry Entertainment
• Secret Hideout
• Important Science
• Titmouse, Inc.

Development [ ]

Promotion [ ].

Products [ ]

Eaglemoss/Hero Collector introductory XL Edition USS Cerritos

Eaglemoss/Hero Collector revealed that the USS Cerritos , USS Titan , and USS Vancouver have been manufactured as starship miniatures and confirmed that its Lower Decks ships line would debut at retail in January 2022 . [11] [12] After an introductory XL January outing in the main Star Trek: The Official Starships Collection , a separate Star Trek: Lower Decks The Official Starships Collection was indeed launched in April 2022, but was cut short however due to the August 2022 Eaglemoss bankruptcy.

These three starships are also explored in the second edition of the company's Star Trek: Shipyards - Starfleet Ships 2294 to the Future reference book , which was released in August 2021 . [13]

On 13 July 2021 , ViacomCBS Consumer Products and Playmates Toys jointly announced that the latter had acquired new licensing for " action figures, vehicles and ships, role play and other toy categories ", and slated the first of these products for retail release in 2022. Among other Star Trek series and films, this licensing encompasses Lower Decks , Star Trek: Discovery , Star Trek: Picard , and Star Trek: Prodigy . [14]

Reception [ ]

Star Trek: Lower Decks has been nominated for one Emmy Award , in the category of "Outstanding Sound Editing For A Comedy Or Drama Series (Half-Hour) And Animation".

Related topics [ ]

• LD directors
• LD performers
• LD recurring characters
• LD studio models
• Star Trek: Lower Decks comics
• Star Trek: Lower Decks on Blu-ray
• Star Trek: Lower Decks on DVD

External links [ ]

• Star Trek: Lower Decks at Memory Beta , the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
• Star Trek: Lower Decks at Wikipedia
• Star Trek: Lower Decks at the Internet Movie Database
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Star Trek: Lower Decks

The fourth season of Star Trek: Lower Decks finds the U.S.S. Cerritos ensigns being challenged in new ways and given new opportunities, while also learning they’ll be “lower decks” for a long time to come.

Star Trek: Lower Decks streams exclusively on Paramount+ in the U.S. and is distributed by Paramount Global Content Distribution. In Canada, it airs on Bell Media’s CTV Sci-Fi Channel. The series will also be available to stream on Paramount+ in the UK, Canada, Latin America, Australia, Italy, France, the Caribbean, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Ireland and South Korea.

Follow the support crew on one of Starfleet's least important ships, the U.S.S. Cerritos , in 2380. Ensigns Mariner, Boimler, Rutherford and Tendi have to keep up with their duties and their social lives, often while the ship is being rocked by a multitude of sci-fi anomalies.

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It's time to boldly go where no Star Trek show has gone before! Star Trek: Lower Decks made Star Trek history when it debuted on August 6, 2020. It was not only the first animated Star Trek series since the short-lived 1970s show Star Trek: The Animated Series , it was the first ever comedic installment in the expansive Star Trek universe. Star Trek is known for exploring strange new worlds and new civilizations, but exploring comedy was brand new territory for the groundbreaking franchise. Fortunately, Lower Decks was a hit for its streaming service Paramount+, which at the time went by the name CBS All Access. Created by Mike McMahan , a self-proclaimed Trekkie, Lower Decks is a hilarious love letter to all things Star Trek with plentiful Easter eggs that pay loving homage to every iteration of Star Trek , both on the small and big screen.

Star Trek: Lower Decks follows the low-ranking support crew of the U.S.S. Cerritos. The story revolves primarily around Starfleet crew members such as Beckett Mariner, Brad Boimler, D'Vanna Tendi, and Sam Rutherford as they perform menial tasks on the Cerritos. While classic Star Trek ships like the flagship U.S.S. Enterprise went on important missions like defending Earth from the Borg, the Cerritos is one of Starfleet's least important ships. Another departure from the traditional Star Trek structure is that Lower Decks focuses on the "lower deckers" of the Cerritos, while the senior officers such as the Captain are essentially supporting characters. This creates thematic opportunities for Lower Decks to explore new stories and characters often not explored in a conventional Star Trek show, usually to hilarious results.

Star Trek: Lower Decks is streaming episodes on Paramount+ . The first episode of the third season debuts on Thursday, August 25, 2022. Similar to the first two seasons, Season 3 will consist of ten episodes. Before the third season drops, let's take a look at the cast and their corresponding characters who will be warping through the cosmos once more on the USS Cerritos.

Related: 'Star Trek: Lower Decks' Season 3: Release Date, Cast, Trailer, and Everything You Need to Know

Tawny Newsome as Beckett Mariner

Tawny Newsome voices Ensign Beckett Mariner, one of the "Lower Deckers" of the U.S.S. Cerritos. Mariner is brash, impulsive, and always looking for trouble. Mariner's recklessness often brings her into conflict with Ensign Boimler, who is very much the polar opposite. As the show progresses, more of Mariner's backstory is revealed, including her connection to one of the senior officers of the Cerritos. Mariner also experiences quite the character growth as she becomes less impetuous throughout the show. There's a lot hidden underneath Mariner's seemingly distant demeanor, as revelations bring about emotional realizations that bring her even closer to Boimler and her fellow crew members.

Lower Decks isn't Newsome's first foray into space travel. She played Captain Angela Ali on the satirical comedy Space Force , which lasted for two seasons on Netflix and featured Steve Carell and John Malkovich in the lead roles.

Jack Quaid as Brad Boimler

Ensign Brad Boimler couldn't be more different from fellow crew member and friend Beckett Mariner if he tried. Voiced by Jack Quaid , Boimler is the neurotic perfectionist counterpart to Mariner's spontaneous adventurer. While Boimler has lofty ambitions of climbing the ranks of Starfleet, Mariner is perfectly content surveying the lower decks. In the same way that Mariner pushes Boimler outside his comfort zone, Boimler forces Mariner to come to terms with the aspects of her past she'd rather keep hidden. As the series speeds along, Boimler gradually becomes more comfortable in his own skin, more willing to take risks, and not as uptight on upholding Starfleet regulations as he was when the series began.

Jack Quaid is quite popular among the nerd community, known for playing vigilante Hughie Campbell on The Boys . Quaid also voiced Alberto Falcone in the animated film Batman: The Long Halloween and got his big break playing Marvel in The Hunger Games and its sequel Catching Fire .

Noël Wells as D'Vanna Tendi

Noël Wells voices D'Vanna Tendi. Tendi is an Orion ensign that serves in Sick Bay on the Cerritos. For those unaware, an Orion is an emerald green alien made famous when Captain James T. Kirk fraternized with one during a popular episode of Star Trek: The Original Series . Tendi is one of the biggest fans of Starfleet there is, giving some hardcore Trekkies a run for their money. Tendi is also incredibly excited to be serving onboard a Starfleet vessel. Her tenaciousness and excitement bleed over even during the most dangerous of situations, from scary away missions or when the Cerritos is under attack. When the show begins, Tendi is new to the crew of the Cerritos and was created to help introduce audiences to the characters. Tendi goes through quite the transformative journey in Lower Decks , as she comes across lethal enemies and terrifying situations that test her naive excitement to be serving on a Starfleet vessel in the far reaches of outer space.

Noël Wells got her start on Saturday Night Live in 2013, debuting in the show's 39th season.

Related: 'Star Trek: Lower Decks' Season 2 Recap Ahead of Season 3

Eugene Cordero as Sam Rutherford

Sam Rutherford is voiced by Eugene Cordero . Rutherford is a human/cyborg hybrid serving onboard the Cerritos. Rutherford begins the show still trying to figure out what field he is most interested in pursuing, whether that's command, engineering, or medical. Rutherford eventually settles on engineering, realizing he has a knack for problem-solving. McMahan, the show's creator, has compared Rutherford to Geordi La Forge ( LeVar Burton ), who is the chief engineering officer on the U.S.S. Enterprise-D in Star Trek: The Next Generation . The only difference is that Rutherford isn't as adept at problem-solving as La Forge, given he's still young and figuring things out on his own. Cordero has made appearances on numerous fan-favorite shows including Arrested Development , Curb Your Enthusiasm , and The Office .

Dawnn Lewis as Carol Freeman

Dawnn Lewis voices Carol Freeman, the captain of the U.S.S. Cerritos. McMahan has described Freeman as a "very capable captain" whose starship is just not very important. Freeman also has direct ties to Mariner given that Freeman is her mother. Much of the interpersonal conflict between Freeman and Mariner on the show involves Freeman wanting Mariner assigned to another starship. Neither Freeman nor Mariner want the crew of the U.S.S. Cerritos to know of their biological connection, so when the crew does find out, it causes both Freeman and Mariner quite a bit of heartache. As the show progresses, Freeman and Mariner are able to confront their complicated past in an effort to work better together as captain and crew member. Lewis has lent her voice talents to such projects as Inside Out , Toy Story of Terror! , and Monsters University .

Jerry O'Connell as Jack Ransom

Jack Ransom is voiced by Jerry O'Connell . Ransom is the first officer of the U.S.S. Cerritos and Freeman's right-hand man. When comparing Ransom to previous Star Trek first officers, McMahan has compared Ransom to William Riker, the first officer of the U.S.S. Enterprise-D from Star Trek: The Next Generation . McMahan specified that Ransom was similar to Riker but with the addendum "if he was on speed and had less shame." That summarizes Ransom pretty well. The burly, muscular, brazen Starfleet officer who famously works out and shamelessly isn't afraid to mention it every other episode. During Season 2, Ransom was possessed by the same alien energy that took over Gary Mitchell, James T. Kirk's best friend and first enemy on The Original Series . O'Connell has a deep connection with Star Trek , given that he's married to Rebecca Romijn , who plays Number One on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds . His previous credits include Billions , Stand By Me , and a whole lot of DC animated projects .

Fred Tatasciore as Shaxs

Fred Tatasciore voices Shaxs, a Bajoran tactical officer and chief security officer aboard the U.S.S. Cerritos. In the first season finale, Shaxs most notably sacrifices himself saving Rutherford from the Pakleds. It was an emotional death given that Shaxs took Rutherford under his wing during the first season. Shaxs started the show as a gruff and emotionless security chief, but through the course of the first season, and as a result of his tutelage with Rutherford, opened up significantly. Of course, as in tradition with Star Trek deaths, Shaxs was resurrected and returned for Season 2. It was a hilarious commentary on how beloved Trek characters often return from the dead, such as Spock -- who dies in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan , only to return in the next installment. Tatasciore has voiced many notable characters on popular animated shows such as Lard-Nar on Invader Zim , Nikos on Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law , and Qui-Gon Jinn on Star Wars: The Clone Wars .

Gillian Vigman as T'Ana

T'Ana is voiced by Gillian Vigman . T'Ana is the chief medical officer on the U.S.S. Cerritos and a member of the Caitian species. The inclusion of T'Ana was a homage to Star Trek: The Animated Series , which also featured a Caitian by the name of M'Ress. T'Ana is the first Caitian to appear on a Star Trek show since The Animated Series . McMahan has described T'Ana as a "good doctor, but unpleasant cat" and that is undoubtedly the best way to define T'Ana. T'Ana might not be the most affectionate doctor, but she revealed a softer side when she mentored Tendi last season. Tendi briefly served in Sickbay and while she realized being a medical officer comes with a fair amount of challenges, T'Ana made sure she was looked after. T'Ana is emblematic of Lower Decks in general -- often hilarious, sometimes surprising, but always heartfelt.

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Star Trek: Lower Decks -- All we know about the new CBS animated show

The USS Cerritos support crew gets to shine in a new Star Trek animation from Rick and Morty's Mike McMahan.

Star Trek: Lower Decks is all about the ensigns.

Behind every glamorous Starfleet captain is an unsung crew of lower-level workers who keep the starship running. The ensigns will finally get their full due in Star Trek: Lower Decks , a CBS All Access comedy show that explores life under the bridge.

Lower Decks episodes will run half an hour each and focus on the crew of the USS Cerritos. It will premiere on the CBS All Access streaming service on Aug. 6, with new episodes every Thursday. (Disclosure: ViacomCBS is the parent company of CNET.)

Trek has appeared in animated form before in  Star Trek: The Animated Series , which ran in 1973 and 1974. During a panel at  San Diego Comic-Con 2019 , producer of the current line-up of Trek shows Alex Kurtzman described Lower Decks as a way to invite kids into the fandom.

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What is Lower Decks about?

Lower Decks takes place in the year 2380, shortly after the events of the Next Generation movie Star Trek: Nemesis . That means the USS Cerritos is at work during the same general time frame as Picard and his crew and Voyager.

The USS Cerritos has a bridge crew, but they're not the main focus of the show.

Co-creator Mike McMahan of Rick and Morty fame described the Cerritos as "a not important ship in Starfleet" during the SDCC panel. Cerritos is the Spanish word for "little hills," so it's not as majestic of a starship name as Enterprise, Voyager or Discovery. 

The spacecraft is part of a new class of ships called the California class and it will feature an all new design. We know it has a balky Holodeck on board, which needs cleaning every now and then.

Four ensigns, voiced by Tawny Newsome, Jack Quaid, Noël Wells and Eugene Cordero, are the stars of the show. McMahan said the stories will fit in with the Trek legacy and universe: "Every Star Trek is kind of about a family and our show is also about a family, it's just not the same family you've seen before," he said. 

That said, fans of the original Animated Series can look forward to seeing some aliens that appeared on the earlier show. 

Meet the Lower Decks ensigns

Ensign Mariner, voiced by Tawny Newsome.

Newsome described Ensign Mariner at SDCC as a "weirdo rock'n'roll party queen," saying she's good at all things Starfleet and should be further along in the ranks than she is.

Ensign Boimler has book smarts but lacks practical skills.

Quaid was also on the panel at SDCC and said his character Ensign Boimler is very "by the book" and has aspirations of becoming a captain. He may be smart, but he isn't so great with practically applying his knowledge.

Ensign Tendi is voiced by Noel Wells.

Ensign Tendi (Noël Wells) will be experiencing her first day on the job in the Lower Decks pilot episode. She's a huge fan of Starfleet and works in the medical bay. "There's no gross alien illness that she's not just absolutely thrilled to be dealing with," said McMahan.

Eugene Cordero voices Ensign Rutherford.

Ensign Rutherford (Eugene Cordero) works in engineering and has a fresh cyborg implant on his head. "Like Geordi LaForge, he's amazing at engineering stuff, but unlike Geordi La Forge, he does not solve the problems by the end of every episode," McMahan said.

How to watch Star Trek: Lower Decks

CBS All Access will release Lower Decks on the streaming service on Aug. 6. The first season will span 10 episodes, available each Thursday. 

Lower Decks joins a slate of live-action Trek shows on CBS All Access, including Star Trek: Discovery ,  Star Trek: Picard  and the upcoming Star Trek: Strange New Worlds . But don't expect any animated crossover action since these take place in very different corners of the Trek universe.

Who is in the voice cast for Lower Decks?

• Tawny Newsome as Ensign Beckett Mariner
• Jack Quaid as Ensign Boimler
• Noël Wells as Ensign Tendi
• Eugene Cordero as Ensign Rutherford
• Dawnn Lewis as Captain Carol Freeman
• Jerry O'Connell as Commander Jack Ransom
• Fred Tatasciore as Lieutenant Shaxs
• Gillian Vigman as Doctor T'Ana

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This piece was originally published on July 25, 2019, and will be updated as more Lower Decks information becomes available.

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S1.E3 ∙ Temporal Edict

S1.E4 ∙ Moist Vessel

S1.E5 ∙ Cupid's Errant Arrow

S1.E6 ∙ Terminal Provocations

S1.E7 ∙ Much Ado About Boimler

S1.E8 ∙ Veritas

S1.E9 ∙ Crisis Point

S1.E10 ∙ No Small Parts

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The expansion of CBS All Access ‘ Star Trek universe continues with a two-season order to  Star Trek: Lower Decks , a half-hour adult animated comedy series from Rick and Morty head writer and executive producer Mike McMahan, a long-time  Star Trek fan. Star Trek: Lower Decks, which will focus on the support crew serving on one of Starfleet’s least important ships, marks CBS All Access’ first original animated series and the first project to be produced by CBS Eye Animation Productions, a newly launched animation arm of CBS Television Studios.

It hails from Alex Kurtzman’s CBS TV Studios-based Secret Hideout, which had been spearheading the Star Trek franchise expansion, and Roddenberry Entertainment. Secret Hideout’s Alex Kurtzman and Heather Kadin, Roddenberry Entertainment’s Rod Roddenberry and Trevor Roth as well as former Cartoon Network executive Katie Krentz will executive produce alongside McMahan. Aaron Baiers, who brought McMahan to the project, will serve as a co-executive producer.

“Mike won our hearts with his first sentence: ‘I want to do a show about the people who put the yellow cartridge in the food replicator so a banana can come out the other end.’ His cat’s name is Riker. His son’s name is Sagan. The man is committed,” Kurtzman said. “He’s brilliantly funny and knows every inch of every Trek  episode, and that’s his secret sauce: he writes with the pure, joyful heart of a true fan. As we broaden the world of ‘Trek’ to fans of all ages, we’re so excited to include Mike’s extraordinary voice.”

In 2011 McMahan started a Twitter account where he posted episode plots to a fake season of Star Trek: The Next Generation.  They were such a hit that Simon & Schuster hired him to write a readers’ guide to a fictitious eighth season of TNG  titled Star Trek: The Next Generation: Warped: An Engaging Guide to the Never-Aired 8th Season. At All Access/CBS TV Studios, he also is a writer on the Start Trek: Short Treks  series of shorts.

“As a life-long Trekkie, it’s a surreal and wonderful dream come true to be a part of this new era of Star Trek, ” said McMahan. “While  Star Trek: Lower Decks is a half-hour, animated show at its core, it’s undeniably Trek  – and I promise not to add an episode at the very end that reveals the whole thing took place in a training program.”

McMahan is head writer and executive producer on Adult Swim’s hit animated series Rick and Morty , sharing in the show’s Animated Program Emmy win last month. He also co-created and executive produces with  Rick and Morty  co-creator/executive producer Justin Roiland alien animated comedy series Solar Opposites , which has a two-season order at Hulu via 20th TV.

“We couldn’t have imagined a better creative team to work with on CBS All Access’ first original animated series than Mike McMahan, Secret Hideout and Roddenberry Entertainment,” said Julie McNamara, EVP, Original Content, CBS All Access.  Star Trek: Lower Decks is a fantastic complement to our growing lineup of original series and our ongoing expansion of the Star Trek  universe on CBS All Access.”

Star Trek: Lower Decks joins CBS All Access/CBS TV Studios’ Star Trek: Discovery,  returning for Season 2 in January, Star Trek: Short Treks, a series of four short stories tied to Discovery and the overall Star Trek universe , as well as an upcoming untitled Star Trek  series featuring Sir Patrick Stewart reprising his iconic role as Jean-Luc Picard.

This is return to the animated space for Star Trek following the 1973 Star Trek: The Animated Series.

Overseeing CBS Eye Animation Productions via her 219 Productions is Krentz who signed an overall deal with CBS TV Studios in early 2018 following five years at Cartoon Network. This is CBS TV Studios’ second animated series overall, following Our Cartoon President for Showtime, which is an extension of the animated segments on Late Show with Stephen Colbert .

McMahan is repped by ICM Partners, Mosaic and Morris Yorn.

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This cartoon is the best Star Trek has been since Deep Space Nine

The critical success of this animated spin-off proves that you shouldn’t judge a holonovel by its isolinear rod.

Lower Decks isn’t a ‘traditional’ Star Trek show. That sentence makes perfect sense, right? Of course it’s not a ‘traditional’ Star Trek show. It’s a cartoon. The characters all speak really quickly like they’re in a cartoon. It’s animated, and it’s written and produced like a cartoon, because it’s a cartoon.

In reality, the concept of a ‘traditional’ Star Trek show is a faulty one. This is a series/franchise/media brand/shared universe (pick the least nauseating term) that thrives on reinvention, producing a bewildering number of spin-offs that all, for better or worse, come with their own unique proposition for what a Star Trek show can be about.

The only thing untraditional about Lower Decks is its premise: that it follows the lives of a core ensemble of bottom-rung characters, on one of the least important ships in the fleet, where the usual command level heroics and big picture stories are merely a backdrop. It understands and respects Star Trek Tradition perfectly well enough. It has to, in order to turn it on its head so deftly, with the love and affection for Trek’s past that exudes from every aspect of the production: the 90s throwback art direction, the sound design, the deep cut in-jokes that you won’t get unless you spent your teens reading The Deep Space Nine Technical Manual instead of smoking tabs and having loads of awkward sex.

Indeed, the very fact that it takes its name from a landmark TNG episode, one sequelised in this latest season (all now bingable on Paramount Plus) to outstanding effect. A painstakingly earned connection to a classic episode, poignant, thrilling, and deliberately silly. It's incredible television, and does things with the Star Trek formula that just couldn't happen anywhere else. Which is why a lot of Trekkies simply won't watch it.

When a Beloved Thing becomes a Cultural Institution, it’s usually a death sentence. If not for its status as a going concern, then for whatever spark of creativity or inventiveness that made it beloved in the first place. Hit TV shows either bow out while they’re still good, leaving the people wanting more, or they limp along for what seems like forever, locked in a downward spiral of diminishing returns, terrified of changing the formula lest it alienate the devotees.

Star Trek wasn’t a hit TV show, and it didn’t bow out while it was still good either. Cancelled after a dismal third season, it was an expensive headache of a show that never quite found its audience. Not until it was syndicated some years later, in fact, which led to its revival as a saturday morning cartoon, then a series of films that ranged in quality from “Peerless Science-Fiction Masterpiece” to “Directed by William Shatner”, then the aforementioned spin-offs, beginning in 1987 with Star Trek: The Next Generation.

Infamously, Star Trek fans hated it, because it changed things. This bald academic is no substitute for Kirk, etc etc. Nowadays it’s probably more highly regarded than the original show, of course, because generations of people have grown up loving it. People who now find themselves presented with a revived Star Trek franchise that keeps Getting Things Wrong.

It’s traditional at this point to draw a parallel between Trek fans in 1987, those idiotic fools who failed to appreciate TNG’s genius from the off, and modern Trek fans, these idiotic fools who don’t understand that Discovery will be regarded with the same reverence as TNG in twenty years, and anyone who thinks it’s a load of incoherent Targ’s kidneys in which every conflict is solved by Michael Burnham sobbing about her mother, or whatever, is destined to look foolish by that point. Assuming there’s anyone left to pass judgement by then who hasn’t boiled to death in the climate apocalypse.

The thing about those foolish Trek fans in 1987, though, is that they weren’t entirely wrong. TNG’s first couple of seasons did suck, due to numerous factors that entire books and dozens of hours of documentaries have been produced about. But it got better as it matured, and found its own feet, stepping out from under the shadow of its predecessor and inspiring a load of spin-offs of its own. One of which was Deep Space Nine, which is still the best Star Trek show ever produced. And, yes, trekkies hated it when it started. And, yes, they kinda had a point: that pilot was rough going, and it took about thirty episodes for the show to start picking up. Which seems mental now, but this was a time when TV seasons were usually between 22 and 27 episodes long.

In a very Star Trek fashion, Deep Space Nine wasn’t really appreciated in its day either. It was generally regarded as the ugly stepchild of the franchise. For years, the prevailing view was that it sucked because it was slow, it wasn’t even set on a ship, and the crew rarely went anywhere except Bajor which was a boring planet full of boring arseholes. The consensus shifted dramatically, though, with the advent of box sets and streaming. DS9 could never have been made in a different time: it is a 90s production through and through. And yet, the best way to enjoy it is to binge watch. It seems designed for that, despite predating the concept by over a decade.

When marathoned, or at least watched at a higher frequency than 26 episodes per year, DS9’s grand vision comes together much more quickly, and the various arcs can truly be appreciated for their long-game boldness: the Dominion War, for example, which dominates the latter three seasons, is very clearly seeded from the get go. But if you were watching once per week, you’d never keep it all in your head. Imagine the usual tangent about Babylon 5 here if you want.

Lower Decks and DS9 are tonally about as opposite as you can get. Even DS9’s big war action scenes with massive battle fleets smashing into each other are positively sedate compared to LD’s 200mph line delivery of four ensigns having their morning cuppa. But the two shows have a lot in common beyond the shared universe: LD’s reverence for 90s Star Trek, and the glee with which it has fun playing in that world, is not unlike DS9’s eagerness to pick up threads dropped by the Original Series and run with them. And much of the show’s characteristic humour shines through in these episodes. The intrinsic daftness of Klingons. The regular city-breaks to the Mirror Universe, where the actors are let loose on theatrically twisted, comically weasley versions of their usual characters. An entire Tribbles callback episode full of TV production jokes, that even ends on a massive punchline.

Not to mention the genuinely hilarious Ferengi episodes, which a lot of philistines skip. The borderline sitcom relationships between Quark and Rom, Bashir and O’Brien etc. The point is, far from being a stuffy, serious show about doing a space war, DS9 does a lot of jokes. It has a sense of humour that is genuinely laugh-out-loud once you’ve dialled into it. Which is a bit of a Trek staple actually: every series has its own comedy frequency, including the original.

Lower Decks is more or less an entirely complete Berman era Trek show. All the elements are present and correct: strong character arcs, situation-of-the-week drama, quality performances that elevate silly sci-fi plots which are often, y’know, a bit crap when you think too hard about them. Humour, of course. It’s all the same stuff. But the sliders have been fiddled with. The gag rate dialled up 1000%. The pacing set to warp factor 9.9. And, perhaps most riskily, its self-indulgence channelled through the deflector dish and shot through a Borg cube. It absolutely revels in being Star Trek, in messing around with the goodies in that vast interstellar toybox, but it isn’t afraid to remix those things in ways that would scarcely occur to the writers that originally came up with them.

It’s a Star Trek show that loves being a Star Trek show, which I realise is an iffy proposition in an era of cultural stagnation where it’s impossible to get anything commissioned unless it’s tied to some existing Media Brand and has a pre-packaged audience. And that’s why there are still a lot of Trekkies who just can’t get past first appearances when it comes to Lower Decks. We know this because they all kicked up a right stink when Lower Decks characters made their live action debut in this year’s Strange New Worlds crossover (which was excellent, by the way).

I get it. I understand. The prospect of Trek being set upon by ex Rick & Morty staffers and turned into some horrid bastardised Funko Pop generator is a galling one. Or “the back corner of HMV”, as a friend of mine once lamented. And let’s face it, the rest of New Trek didn’t exactly inspire confidence in this bold experiment. Discovery is unfettered crap. Picard was abysmal until it just threw its hands up and did a TNG epilogue season, which was Mostly Fine, but by that point Mostly Fine represented a significant improvement.

VG247’s associate editor Alex Donaldson and I have a shorthand when it comes to watching the bad Star Trek: one of us will text the other and say “Just about the put the bins out”. It means “I’m about to put Discovery or Picard on and wince for 50 minutes”. If you’ll permit me to explain a joke (sorry), the point is that we’re old Trek fans who have decades invested in this thing. Thousands of space miles logged on the good ship USS Franchise. At this juncture, they could do an entire season of Discovery about Saru sitting in the bathtub and we’d watch every single second. Because it’s Star Trek. We need to know what happens. There might be a quiz. We have to take the bins out, not because we want to, but because we need to. Otherwise the kitchen will smell of garbage. Look, the metaphor disintegrates if you try and extend it.

It’s a testament to Lower Decks’ quality that the Bins Out gag never occurs. Only elation. Only joy. Joy and a mild sense of relief about this being one of two Star Trek imprints since literally the late nineties that is just a genuinely good Star Trek show that you don’t have to consciously ignore the crap bits of as you watch: the reflexive self-editing mode that Trek fans have had to program themselves to do after decades of half-baked movies, prequels, reboots, and poorly considered revivals that don’t understand Star Trek’s appeal on any level beyond Kirk Good, Klingons Bad.

Lower Decks is the most perfect form for Star Trek in the modern age. It respects and enriches its own past, reminding us why we love this thing in the first place rather than leveraging empty nostalgia for its own sake. It will, I’m confident, go down in history as one of the best Star Treks – a Surprise Favourite that started off on shaky ground but that eventually won everyone over. Just like DS9. Just like TNG. Just like TOS.

Badgey is rubbish though, stop doing that one.

10 Animated Series to Watch If You Love Star Trek: Lower Decks

Here are ten series to watch if you love Star Trek: Lower Decks, especially while you wait for the new episodes of Season 4 each week.

The Star Trek franchise is still going strong after decades; this sci-fi staple’s newest properties balance stories from the past with exciting new ventures. Decades after its first foray into animation, Star Trek is once again journeying into the medium.

Star Trek: Lower Decks propels the USS Cerritos into Adult Animation — with a biting sense of humor and storylines tailor-made for grownup fans . The series also holds a place in Star Trek lore as crew members Beckett Mariner and Brad Boimler make an appearance on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds , this time in the form of their voice actors Jack Quaid and Tawny Newsome.

Here are ten series to watch if you love Star Trek: Lower Decks , especially while you wait for the new episodes of Season 4 each week.

10 Adventure Time

Adventure Time might seem like kids' stuff upon first glance, but it's far more than that. Finn the Human and Jake the Dog find themselves in a world full of fascinating characters . On the surface, Princess Bubblegum surrounded by candy people is an adorable feast for the senses. Underlying themes take the animated series into surprisingly emotional storylines — episodes deal with complex issues such as mental health, heartbreak, loss, and suicide.

9 Star Trek: Prodigy

Star Trek: Prodigy may steer away from the adult animation of Star Trek: Lower Decks , but there is still a lot to love about it. The animated series takes place several years after Star Trek: Voyager ’s ending. This time, the crew consists of adolescent aliens who take the USS Protostar, undertaking an exciting adventure across space. Fans of Star Trek: Voyager will love seeing Admiral Kathryn Janeway find a place in their story.

Related: The 10 Best Animated Sci-Fi TV Shows of All Time

8 Dexter's Laboratory

Dexter's Laboratory is a fun series for animation fans of all ages. It follows Dexter, a kid who is more than capable of owning a lab. His sister Dee Dee often comes along for wild, inventive, and failing experiments. Not everyone is aware of the lab, making it all the more humorous as he interacts with the rest of his community.

The series' look harkens back to Hanna-Barbera’s classic ‘60s and ‘70s offerings without losing its unique stylistic elements. Fans of Cartoon Network’s series already list it as one of the best, something that sci-fi fans can easily agree with after just one viewing.

7 Cowboy Bebop

Few anime series have made an impact like Cowboy Bebop . This adult-oriented title sees its characters living in a Jazz-fueled world of 2071, with spaceship Bebop acting as home to Spike Spiegel, Faye Valentine, Jet Black, Edward, and canine companion EIN. Storylines throughout the series delve into topics that are not suitable for everyone — a nod to its distinctive blend of genres. Still, it is worth a watch just for the eye-catching esthetics alone.

6 Harley Quinn

Harley may have once been Joker’s lover but she is no one’s sidekick . The animated series Harley Quinn sees the delightful villain head off to live without Mr. J. Her new life includes friends like King Shark and Doctor Psycho. More importantly, she connects with Poison Ivy; the pair start out as best friends, but they eventually begin a romantic relationship. Later seasons have seen the couple confront the highs as well as the lows of romance, all the while wreaking havoc on Gotham.

5 The Venture Brothers

The Venture Brothers is yet another entry to take inspiration from Hanna-Barbera’s past hits. In this case, the series offers a well-done parody of Johnny Quest — an adventurous selection from the famed animation studio. The Venture Brothers follows a family led by Dr. Rusty Venture. Sons Hank and Dean, along with bodyguard Brock Samson, live with the scientist.

Along the way, they encounter a host of fascinating villains and entertaining storylines. Two of the most memorable antagonists are The Monarch and his wife Dr. Girlfriend; they are a pair that seems to emphasize opposites attract in the best possible way.

4 Rick and Morty

Not many Adult Swim animated series have achieved the success of Rick and Morty . The sci-fi series’ mix of comedy and drama helps propel storylines across time as well as space. Its focus is on Rick Sanchez and his grandson Morty Smith as together they encounter just about everything possible (or impossible).

Beyond the lead pairing, there are more weird, wonderful, and hilarious characters that bring this strange universe to life. Season 7 sees a major change as leading Rick and Morty characters are voiced by new voice actors. The change comes after troubling allegations against creator Justin Roiland surfaced.

3 Solar Opposites

Solar Opposites carries much of the same look and style as Ricky and Morty , also coming from Roiland. Its storyline sees aliens, Terry, Korvo, Jesse, and Yumyulack, crash on Earth. In addition to their hilarious exploits, the series also follows a group of miniaturized people; living in Jesse and Yumulack’s bedroom wall, these characters encounter challenges that create adventure and drama.

Related: The 10 Best Animated Sci-Fi Movies of All Time

The Hulu series also chose a different route when replacing Roiland as Korvo’s voice. From season 4 on, the character is voiced by actor Dan Stevens.

There is nothing quite like Futurama and that’s what makes it so special. The futuristic animated comedy is full of witty jokes, hilarious parodies, and spot-on observations. Set in the year 3000, the series follows Philip J. Fry as he awakes from 1000 years in a cryogenic tube — what he finds is a radically different world full of interesting stories and characters.

The series also knows how to bring out drama when necessary. Never has it been more evident than the episode "Jurassic Bark" which shines a light on Fry’s canine companion Seymour and in the process connects to every viewer’s love for their pets.

1 Star Trek: The Animated Series

It goes without saying that Star Trek: The Animated Series is a must-see for Star Trek: Lower Decks viewers. This animated venture only features 22 episodes, running for one year in the mid-70s. Still, this ranks high thanks to the return of actors from the live-action series as they voice their original characters. The storylines also harken back to Star Trek episodes in tone as well as quality.

Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 5 Will be Its Final Season, Paramount Says

Paramount also announces that strange new worlds will return for a fourth season..

Star Trek: Lower Decks, the animated comedy that was received with skepticism from franchise fans before becoming a beloved favorite, is officially coming to an end. Paramount announced today that Lower Decks' previously-announced fifth season will be its last, bringing the adventures of the U.S.S. Cerritos to a close.

Paramount announced the news alongside word that Star Trek: Strange New Worlds has been renewed for a fourth season. In the official release, Paramount praised both shows.

Showrunner McMahan and producer Alex Kurtman sent the following message to fans.

We wanted to let you know that this fall will be the fifth and final season of Star Trek: Lower Decks. While five seasons of any series these days seems like a miracle, it’s no exaggeration to say that every second we've spent making this show has been a dream come true. Our incredible cast, crew and artists have given you everything they have because they love the characters they play, they love the world we've built, and more than anything we all love love love Star Trek. We’re excited for the world to see our hilarious fifth season which we're working on right now, and the good news is that all previous episodes will remain on Paramount+ so there is still so much to look forward to as we celebrate the Cerritos crew with a big send-off.

Lower Decks first released in 2020, earning praise for its light but faithful take on Gene Roddenberry's mythos. We called it at a "great addition" at the time, writing in our review, "Some of the humor doesn’t quite land in this first episode, but the voice cast are all having a ball, the animation design is sleek and will warm the heart of any TNG fan, and the nerdy Trek references are plentiful… and yet will not be distracting for newcomers to the franchise."

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Some of its most popular episodes include Season 3's Hear All, Trust Nothing, which brings back Deep Space Nine, and Season 2's "Wej Duj," which offers a deeper look at the Vulcans and Klingons. Its simple animation belied sharp writing and a genuine appreciation for the franchise's sprawling universe. And of course, Lower Decks entered the real-world in a crossover with Strange New Worlds in that show's second season.

Back in 2023, showrunner Mike McMahan admitted doubt about Lower Decks' future , saying that "Lower Decks could very well be a five-season show." His comments followed the abrupt cancellation ( and subsequent renewal ) of Prodigy, which led us to wonder if we had reached the end of Star Trek's golden age of streaming .

It's uncertain what the future will hold, but Lower Decks will at least get one final voyage. Season 5 does not yet have a release date but is expected to release on Paramount+ sometime in 2024.

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Star Trek: Lower Decks stars enter the world of live action in first look at Strange New Worlds crossover

Tawny Newsome's Mariner and Jack Quaid's Boimler have arrived!

The Lower Decks crew have entered live-action!

The new trailer for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 2, premiering on Paramount+ this June 15, brings with it our first look at the big crossover event. Jack Quaid and Tawny Newsome , who voice the animated characters Beckett Mariner and Brad Boimler on Star Trek: Lower Decks , will embody their characters in live-action form.

"Surprise!" Newsome's Mariner tells a perplexed Captain Pike ( Anson Mount ) and Spock (Ethan Peck), alongside a noticeably purple-haired Boimler.

Quaid and Newsome will appear in a season 2 episode directed by Jonathan Frakes , a.k.a. Captain Riker from Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Picard . The hour will also feature animation in addition to the actors' live-action performances.

Quaid previously teased the television event to EW by saying, "Ethan Peck and I have a bromance for the ages. We call it Spoimler: Spock and Boimler. It's amazing, but that whole cast is so friendly and welcoming and cool. We just had a ball, and we got to be directed by Jonathan Frakes. So what could be better?"

The trailer teases that Spoimler bromance with Spock giving Boimler the Vulcan salute as he's about to beam off ship. "Live long and prosper, Mr. Boimler," he says.

The footage also gives fans a fresh look at Paul Wesley 's James T. Kirk and new addition to the cast Carol Kane , who will portray the recurring role of Pelia.

Returning are Rebecca Romijn as Una Chin-Riley, Jess Bush as Christine Chapel, Christina Chong as La'An Noonien-Singh, Celia Rose Gooding as Nyota Uhura, Melissa Navia as Erica Ortegas, and Babs Olusanmokun as Joseph M'Benga.

Episodes of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds will drop weekly every Thursday starting June 15. Watch the trailer above.

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It's sad star trek: lower decks is ending with season 5, but i'm okay with it.

Star Trek: Lower Decks is a joyous celebration of Star Trek that should have gone on for more than 5 seasons, but it's okay to go out on a high note.

• Star Trek: Lower Decks ends with season 5, but it's okay. Embracing the weird, the show celebrates Trek lore in a hilarious way.
• Characters like Mariner grow and change, moving away from the lower deck setting. Promotions change the point of the show.
• The future of Star Trek may become more streamlined, with fewer shows for a more cohesive franchise. Star Trek: Legacy may be on the horizon.

It's sad that Star Trek: Lower Decks will end with season 5 when it streams on Paramount+ in fall 2024, but that's okay. Created by Mike McMahan, the animated Star Trek: Lower Decks was great from the start by being a hilarious love letter to Star Trek that celebrates the weirdest parts and deepest cuts of Star Trek lore. Rather than ignore the bizarre aspects, Star Trek: Lower Decks embraces the oddities and invents new ones, like the cosmic koala, vindictive hologram Badgey (Jack McBrayer), and the cute-but-deadly Moopsy. In a perfect world, Star Trek: Lower Decks should have matched (or surpassed) the 7-year runs of the Star Trek: The Next Generation era.

After all, the main characters of Star Trek: Lower Decks are more than their two dimensions would imply. Lieutenants Beckett Mariner (Tawny Newsome), Brad Boimler (Jack Quaid), D'Vana Tendi (Noel Wells), Samanthan Rutherford (Eugene Cordero), T'Lyn (Gabrielle Ruiz), and the USS Cerritos crew aren't just reservoirs for all our TNG nostalgia, but fully realized, nuanced people who grow and change. We've shared in their joys and sorrows, and celebrated their wins, and watched as the Lower Decks crew became as real as any live-action character -- more real, in some cases. So why say goodbye after just five years?

Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 5 - Cast, Story & Everything We Know

Promotions on star trek: lower decks change the point of the show, when the characters become full lieutenants, it won't be about the lower decks..

Star Trek: Lower Decks ' planned character arcs are nearing completion. In Star Trek: Lower Decks season 4, the main characters were collectively promoted to Lieutenant junior grade, signifying a step up in the USS Cerritos' hierarchy, and a step further away from the conceit of Star Trek: Lower Decks being about, well, the lower decks. Boimler learned how to trust his subordinates (he has subordinates!), and take decisive action. Rutherford figured out his present, while Tendi acknowledged her past. T'Lyn found actual friends in Starfleet. And Mariner really, truly, for real this time, stopped sabotaging herself and embraced being a natural leader. These characters are growing.

Why not a Star Trek: Lower Decks movie?

Even if the lower deckers become upper deckers (and they will), the story started on Star Trek: Lower Decks could still continue after one more year of solid storytelling wraps this chapter. The end of Star Trek: Lower Decks might mean the beginning of a sequel series with a new name, like Star Trek: Cerritos. If Star Trek: Section 31 does well, more streaming movies may be in the cards, so why not a Star Trek: Lower Decks movie? On Instagram, Boimler actor Jack Quaid comments on Star Trek: Lower Decks ending, and suggests the possibility of a new home on a different streaming service, like Star Trek: Prodigy 's move to Netflix.

Star Trek: Lower Decks ' very own Beckett Mariner actor, Tawny Newsome, is sticking with the Star Trek universe as a writer on the upcoming Star Trek: Starfleet Academy.

The Future of Star Trek May Be More Streamlined

Fewer star trek shows might mean a more cohesive franchise..

The new era of Star Trek has been nothing short of a feast, with five Star Trek series in simultaneous production. As awesome as that is, it's not sustainable, so reducing the number of Star Trek shows in production might be a way to streamline the franchise. With the back-to-basics episodic Star Trek: Strange New Worlds as the flagship show, the 32nd century Star Trek: Starfleet Academy can inherit Star Trek: Lower Decks ' lighter tone and some of Star Trek: Discovery 's characters. That leaves space for a Star Trek set in the early 25th century, in which live-action Lower Decks characters could feasibly appear.

Jack Quaid and Tawny Newsome brought Boimler and Mariner to live action in the fantastic Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 2, episode 7, "Those Old Scientists", written by Kathryn Lyn and Bill Wolkoff, and directed by Star Trek icon Jonathan Frakes.

Bringing Star Trek: Lower Decks to a logical, planned ending after season 5 may make it possible for Star Trek: Legacy to finally happen. Fan demand for the Star Trek: Picard spinoff hasn't died down, and even Star Trek executive producer Alex Kurtzman wants Star Trek: Legacy . While it wouldn't be an even trade with the potential difference in tone, and how relatively inexpensive producing the animated Lower Decks is, Star Trek: Legacy could still be a silver lining to the dark cloud of Lower Decks ' last year. Saying goodbye to Star Trek: Lower Decks after 5 amazing seasons won't be easy after getting attached to the USS Cerritos' crew, but with a little faith (of the heart) it'll be okay.

Star Trek: Lower Decks is streaming on Paramount+.

Star Trek: Lower Decks

Star Trek: Lower Decks: Season Five to End Paramount+ Animated Series

by Regina Avalos, April 14, 2024

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Star Trek: Lower Decks will end its upcoming fifth season. Paramount+ renewed the series for a fifth season ahead of its season four premiere in September. The streamer revealed the cancellation of the animated series when announcing the renewal of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds .

Starring Tawny Newsome, Jack Quaid, Noël Wells, Eugene Cordero, Dawnn Lewis, Jerry O’Connell, Fred Tatasciore, and Gillian Vigman, the Star Trek: Lower Decks series revolves around the lower-ranking crew members of the USS Cerritos.

Paramount+ revealed more about the end of Star Trek: Lower Decks in a press release.

Paramount+ today announced that its hit original series STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS has been renewed for a fourth season. The series is currently in production on its third season, which is set to debut in 2025. Additionally, the previously announced fifth season of STAR TREK: LOWER DECKS , which also is currently in production, will mark the series’ final season and premiere this fall on Paramount+. “It has been incredibly rewarding to continue to build the STAR TREK universe, and we’re so grateful to Secret Hideout and our immensely talented casts and producers,” said Jeff Grossman, Executive Vice President, Programming, Paramount+. “STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS has found the perfect blend of action, adventure and humor, and we’re elated to announce another season ahead of our season three premiere. Similarly, STAR TREK: LOWER DECKS has brought the laughs with an ample amount of heart to the franchise across its four seasons. We can’t wait for audiences to see what is in store for the crew of the U.S.S. Cerritos in this final season.” “LOWER DECKS and STRANGE NEW WORLDS are integral to the STAR TREK franchise, expanding the boundaries of the universe and exploring new and exciting worlds,” said David Stapf, President, CBS Studios.  “We are extraordinarily proud of both series as they honor the legacy of what Gene Roddenberry created almost 60 years ago. We are so grateful to work with Secret Hideout, Alex Kurtzman, Mike McMahan, Akiva Goldsman, Henry Alonso Myers and the cast, crews and artists who craft these important and entertaining stories for fans around the world.” The expanded STAR TREK franchise on Paramount+ also includes the fifth and final season of STAR TREK: DISCOVERY, which recently premiered, STAR TREK: SECTION 31, an original movie event with Oscar® winner Michelle Yeoh, which recently wrapped production, and the new original series STAR TREK: STARFLEET ACADEMY, slated to begin production later this year. About STAR TREK: LOWER DECKS STAR TREK: LOWER DECKS is an animated comedy series that focuses on the support crew serving on one of Starfleet’s least important ships, the U.S.S. Cerritos. The crew residing in the “lower decks” of the U.S.S. Cerritos includes the voices of Tawny Newsome, Jack Quaid, Noël Wells and Eugene Cordero; the bridge crew is voiced by Dawnn Lewis, Jerry O’Connell, Fred Tatasciore and Gillian Vigman. STAR TREK: LOWER DECKS is produced by CBS’ Eye Animation Productions, CBS Studios’ animation arm; Secret Hideout; and Roddenberry Entertainment. Executive producers include Alex Kurtzman, Mike McMahan, Aaron Baiers, Rod Roddenberry and Trevor Roth. Titmouse, the Emmy Award-winning independent animation production company, serves as the animation studio for the series. STAR TREK: LOWER DECKS streams exclusively on Paramount+ in the U.S. and Latin America and is distributed by Paramount Global Content Distribution.

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Why!?!? Star Trek was in major decline when they put out Star Trek Discovery. That writer’s team should never be allowed to work together ever again. But Star Trek lower Decks? That were fun stories, written with a wink to rules and regulations the Star Trek universe is known for. Even the other animated Star Trek series, while predictable, showed a lot of [potential in getting young viewer familiar with Star Trek again. Lower Decks is fun for those familiar already with that universe. Well, at least Strange New Worlds is getting renewals. That series embodies the spirit of Star …  Read more »

12 Best Shows Like Star Trek: Lower Decks That Fans Should Check Out

"Star Trek: Lower Decks" isn't the first animated "Star Trek" series, but it is the first straight-up comedy in the franchise's history. That's not to say there weren't funny episodes of the various shows or that the movies didn't have a sense of humor ("Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home" is practically a comedy), but there has never been an entire series strictly devoted to making the audience laugh.

Even the premise is pretty hilarious. Instead of focusing on a respected Starfleet vessel, the series is set aboard the USS Cerritos, a second-rate ship that typically handles second contact missions, as opposed to first contact. And while most "Star Trek" shows choose to tell stories from the bridge crew's perspective, "Lower Decks" details the adventures of low-ranking officers who don't get the attention or respect they deserve. This means characters can comment on typical "Star Trek" tropes and make fun of them.

In other words, there's nothing else in the franchise like it. So what's a fan to do when they're all caught up on "Lower Decks" and need something else to scratch that specific itch? Well, if you enjoy big sci-fi adventures with irreverent jokes, then look below to find our recommendations for other shows that fit the bill.

Co-created by Matt Groening, "Futurama" has all the offbeat and wild humor of "The Simpsons" (also co-created by Groening), but the science fiction setting allows the creative minds behind the show to go even bigger with their ideas. 

Set in the 30th century, the show is about a pizza delivery guy named Philip J. Fry who falls into a cryogenic chamber in 1999 and wakes up on New Year's Eve in 2999. Living in a future with robots and all manner of strange technology, he forms a new life for himself as an employee of his descendant's delivery company, Planet Express Inc. He's best friends with a hard-drinking, smoking, and gambling robot named Bender. His love interest (who isn't interested in him most of the time) is a cyclops named Leela, with the rest of the employees — including a humanoid crustacean named Zoidberg – rounding out his oddball family.

The similarities between this show and "Lower Decks" are obvious. It's difficult not to compare any animated comedy aimed at adults to Groening's shows. Stylistically, there's a clear line from "The Simpsons" to "Futurama" to "Lower Decks." If you like any of those shows, you'll like the others as well.

Rick and Morty

Before creating "Star Trek: Lower Decks," Mike McMahan was a writer on Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland's animated show "Rick and Morty." Of all the series listed here, this is perhaps the most similar to "Lower Decks." The show tells the many twisted, horrific, and hysterical adventures of mad scientist Rick Sanchez and his grandson/unwilling assistant Morty Smith. While Morty's main concern is living the life of a normal teenager, his grandfather's unusual exploits keep him from achieving that goal.

It's an absolutely wild show with trips around the multiverse and all kinds of disturbing creatures being slaughtered in Rick's quest to satisfy any and every urge he has. At the same time, many of the episodes also feature subplots about shockingly mundane domestic issues that typically evolve into some kind of out-of-control crisis. This show explores the horrors of the human condition in a way that makes you laugh and feel deeply depressed at the same time.

Of course, while most older kids could probably handle the subject matter in "Lower Decks," you might want to wait until they're a bit older before showing them "Rick and Morty" — not only because it's significantly more violent, profane, and perverse, but some of the headier concepts might be a bit much for them to handle.

The Venture Bros.

Although "Star Trek: Lower Decks" takes place within the greater "Star Trek" canon, there is a parody element to the show. It isn't constantly making fun of its parent franchise, but it  does  good-naturedly poke fun at the tropes and cliches inherent in the "Star Trek" universe. Therefore, it serves as both a spoof and a legitimate piece of science fiction — kind of like the 2003 Adult Swim series from creator Christopher McCulloch, "The Venture Bros."

In the early days, this show was about a family of (mostly) incompetent adventurers. Scientist Dr. Thaddeus Venture and his boys, Hank and Dean, served primarily as a sendup of classic adventure cartoons. As everything progressed, however, it grew into its own piece of sci-fi adventure, with characters the audience could invest in and storylines that could make them laugh and tug on their heartstrings.

Like a few other titles listed here, it's a hair more adult than "Lower Decks," but that shouldn't be a problem for most viewers. As a work of imaginative storytelling, this is one of those shows that gets its hooks in you and never lets go — even if there are shockingly few seasons over a long period of time. Chances are, once you give it a watch, you'll want to keep going until the "Venture Bros." movie maybe comes out.

Harley Quinn

The DC superheroes have a long history of fantastic animation projects. Going back to the 1940s Max Fleischer "Superman" shorts to the incredible '90s shows like "Batman: The Animated Series" and "Superman: The Animated Series" and the fantastic DC Animated Universe movies they spawned, animation has been very kind to the DC heroes. What about the villains though? Not just the big ones like Doomsday or the Joker but the side characters mainstream audiences tend to forget?

That's where the hysterical series "Harley Quinn" comes in. Just like "Lower Decks," this isn't a show about the big hitters. Instead, the show focuses on less popular characters determined to prove they can go toe-to-toe with the heavies. After suffering an intense breakup with the Joker, Harley Quinn sets off to show the world she's more than just the Clown Prince of Crime's girlfriend by setting up her own crew (consisting of shape-shifting actor Clayface, friendly yet dangerous King Shark, little misogynist Dr. Psycho, and wheelchair-bound landlord Sy Borgman) with the reluctant help of Poison Ivy.

Aside from the carnival of violence, innuendoes, and onslaught of cursing, "Harley Quinn" is a very sweet show about found family and self-acceptance. The humor can get darker than anything on "Lower Decks", but it has the same underdog spirit.

Solar Opposites

Around the same time he was creating "Star Trek: Lower Decks," Mike McMahan was co-creating "Solar Opposites" with Justin Roiland. Similar in animation style and tone to "Rick and Morty" (thought not as nihilistic), it's not all that different from the "SNL" skit/movie "Coneheads." The premise involves a family of aliens from the planet Shlorp who plan on colonizing other planets. Unfortunately for them, they crash on Earth, and since their homeworld has been destroyed, they're now forced to make the best of it, which means finding strange ways of adapting to human culture. While the leader of the group hates his new home, the others seem okay with it, providing the main conflict of the series. Along the way, things go in much weirder directions with multiple storylines (one of which involves a shrunken human society) and extreme observations about Earth life that the aforementioned "Coneheads" couldn't have done.

Final Space

"Star Trek: Lower Decks" is about more than just taking a raucous journey across the galaxy. At its core, the show is about individuals working as a team to improve themselves. Yes, their lives are often in danger, and they have to save themselves and others from horrific sci-fi entities, but the idea of underappreciated characters excelling beyond everyone's expectations is what makes the series so relatable.

The same can be said of "Final Space," the 2018 animated series from TBS and Adult Swim. Created by Olan Rogers and featuring a great voice cast consisting of Tom Kenny ("Spongebob Squarepants"), Fred Armisen ("Saturday Night Live"), and David Tennant ("Doctor Who") , the show tells the story of an astronaut named Gary Goodspeed and his recently assembled crew trying to save the galaxy from a dangerous alien named Lord Commander. 

It's a show that, on the surface, appears to be just like any other animated series for adults. However, the characters and the world they inhabit become much richer and deeper over time, resulting in a sci-fi series that delivers on both the laughs and the well-developed characters.

Comedian, actor, and writer Patton Oswalt stunned the internet by letting his geek flag truly fly in a staggering improvised filibuster from the show " Parks and Recreation ." It's a pitch for "Star Wars Episode VII" that blends the galaxy far, far away with Marvel's mightiest heroes in what would've been a glorious disaster for fans everywhere. He then got the chance to indulge in his nerdy obsession with the 2021 stop-motion animation comedy series "M.O.D.O.K."

Co-created by Oswalt and based on a ridiculous Marvel Comics character whose name is an acronym of Mental Organism Designed Only for Killing, "M.O.D.O.K." is about what happens when a brilliant mind is too megalomaniacal for its own good. Picked on for his large head as a child, the title character (voiced by Oswalt) evolves into a massive floating being with tiny limbs — and who's hellbent on conquering the world. 

M.O.D.O.K. is so full of himself that he can't help but announce impending evil schemes and celebrate the tiniest of victories. He spends way too much money with very little return and ignores his family. He's a mess. Like "Star Trek: Lower Decks," this is definitely a spoof of the material while still having its own internal logic and worldbuilding, allowing it to stand on its own tiny legs.

Alien News Desk

The title "Alien News Desk" almost tells you everything you need to know about the series. It really is two aliens sitting at a desk reading the news. What perhaps doesn't come across in the title is the fact that these aliens are explaining Earth topics to their alien viewers. This means there's plenty of room for interesting, funny satire, in addition to fun little goofs on human obsessions.

"Saturday Night Live" cast members Heidi Gardner and Will Forte voice the two lead anchors, Tuva Van Void and Drexx Drudlarr. In a world where the news has become increasingly strange and confusing, we've seen a lot of late-night shows like "The Daily Show with Trevor Noah" make it all digestible by skewering topics of the day. "Alien News Desk" takes this a step further by discussing some topics we take for granted and pointing out just how silly some of them are.

Other than the fact that this is clearly a funny sci-fi series, it also feels like something you would see on "Star Trek: Lower Decks." There's no reason why there can't be an episode where our cast is watching a news broadcast from an alien civilization trying to make sense of Earth.

If you're a fan of "Lower Decks"  and  a fan of "Rick and Morty," then "Doomlands" is definitely the show for you. This series feels like a reality that exists within the "Ricky and Morty" multiverse. In other words, it's dingy, violent, perverted, and just plain bonkers. The show takes place in a post-apocalyptic landscape where pretty much everyone is trying to kill each other, and the only refuge (kind of) is a bar called the Oasis that moves through this hellish place.

It doesn't have the same heart or charm as "Lower Decks," but the tone and some of the concepts belong in a few of the more extreme corners of that galaxy. It was created by Josh O'Keefe, who's a relative newcomer to the television business ( going by his IMDb , anyway), and there aren't any major stars doing voices to pull in a massive audience either. The show is simply a no-holds-barred adult-oriented comedy that goes off the rails in the very first episode and never looks back.

Robot Chicken

"Star Trek: Lower Decks" is a show for fans made by fans. Creator Mike McMahan absolutely loves the franchise , as proven by all the references to "Trek" minutiae that most of us wouldn't remember right away. Even the characters in the show are fans of other characters from previous "Trek" series.

This is the entire ethos behind "Robot Chicken." After several seasons, the show manages to maintain a sense of pure and spontaneous creativity with a passion for all things pop culture. It's essentially an animated sketch show lampooning everything you can imagine. Yes, it's become well known for its excellent "Star Wars" parodies , but it goes far beyond that. Centering around a cyborg fowl watching bizarre shows, the series treats its fans to everything from a Barbie fight club to the Joker showing up in "The Shawshank Redemption."

Created by Seth Green and Matthew Senreich, the show has come a long way with its animation over the years, but it still has a delightfully homemade touch. This feels like friends sitting around with their augmented action figures creating their own hilarious scenes, only concerned with making themselves laugh. Again, it's fans making TV for fans.

Gravity Falls

Just because "Gravity Falls" is the only show on this list intended for a younger audience, that doesn't mean its standards for comedy, characterization, and worldbuilding are any less than the others. On the contrary, one could argue that this quirky mystery series from Disney has enough lore and depth of character to rival even the longest-running series included here.

The show is about brother and sister Dipper and Mabel Pines (voiced by Jason Ritter and Kristen Schaal) spending time in the fictitious town of Gravity Falls with their Grunkle Stan (Alex Hirsch). Immediately upon their arrival, they notice something isn't right about this place — we're talking psychics and sea monsters and haunted convenience stores. As a result, the two become detectives investigating strange phenomena, although their adventures never really go where you think they will.

What begins as an adorable show about unusual things becomes something even more special as the show grows denser and the tone gets a little darker (without becoming miserable). Even though it only aired for two seasons, it developed a very dedicated fanbase. The fans were so committed to their love for the show that creator Alex Hirsch launched an alternate reality game called "Cipher Hunt" in 2016 for those who still cared about the series.

Beavis and Butt-Head

At first, comparing "Beavis and Butt-Head" to "Star Trek: Lower Decks" doesn't make a whole lot of sense. While the crew of the USS Cerritos can be a bit absent-minded at times, they never reach the level of stupidity achieved by the titular Beavis and his buddy, Butt-Head. These are two goofs who spend most of their time watching music videos and getting into trouble, snickering the entire time.

The humor is pretty different too. A lot of the comedy in "Beavis and Butt-Head" comes from seeing two completely oblivious teenagers interact with the world around them and failing to grasp social norms. That being said, these two morons — whose only ambition in life is to lose their virginity at some point — have been on some impressive adventures.

You have to take the "Beavis and Butt-Head" franchise as a whole to see the similarities. In the film "Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe," they travel to space, get caught in a wormhole, and come out in the 21st century. This, for them, is the future. That holds up side by side with any adventure had by the Cerritos. Plus, these two characters are at the bottom of the barrel when it comes to being underdogs. They're such underachievers that the "Lower Decks" characters would feel sorry for them. They'd be wasting their time though. As far as Beavis and Butt-Head are concerned, they're the coolest guys around.

Star Trek: Lower Decks is ending, but at least Strange New Worlds will journey on

Star Trek: Lower Decks

Star Trek: Lower Decks is, depending on how you look at it, the most ambitious TV show that Star Trek has ever done. Informed by an incredibly deep love for (and knowledge of) the vast universe of Star Trek lore, the animated series proves that “Star Trek comedy” is something that can actually exist (beyond episodes of Deep Space Nine where Quark runs around in a dress, anyways), showing the up-until-now only ambiguously demonstrated fact that it’s possible for Trek to have a genuine sense of humor about itself. And now, sadly, it’s ending, as Variety reports that the show’s upcoming fifth season will be its last.

Created by Rick & Morty writer Mike McMahan, Lower Decks last aired new episodes last October, continuing to tell the story of the U.S.S. Cerritos, one of those Starfleet ships that’s usually doing the other jobs while vessels like the Enterprise are out saving the universe. The series stars Tawny Newsome, Jack Quaid, Noël Wells, and Eugene Cordero, playing four lower-ranking members of the Cerritos crew who end up bonding as friends. The show’s fifth (and now final) season is expected to air before the end of 2024.

It’s not all grim news in Star Trek land, though: Lower Decks’ Paramount+ sibling, Strange New Worlds , has been renewed for a fourth season, ensuring that the other most joyful Star Trek show currently running will get at least one more run of shows. Starring Anson Mount as Trek pilot character Christopher Pike, and Ethan Peck as a younger version of Spock, the show is a deliberate throwback to the early days of the franchise. It’s also a genuine blast: Quick-moving, smart, and fun, it’s the kind of show that can, say, accommodate a bona fide crossover with Lower Decks , showing that the two series’ loving but reverential attitudes toward Trek canon arepleasantly simpatico.

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‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Renewed for Season 4; ‘Lower Decks’ to Conclude With Season 5 (EXCLUSIVE)

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“ Star Trek : Strange New Worlds,” currently in production on its third season, has been renewed by Paramount+ for Season 4. Meanwhile, “ Star Trek: Lower Decks ,” the first animated “Star Trek” comedy, will conclude its run on the streamer with its fifth season, which will debut in the fall.

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“Lower Decks” charted brand new territory for “Star Trek” when it debuted in 2020, as both an animated comedy and a series that focused on the junior officers of the USS Cerritos: Beckett Mariner (Tawny Newsome), Brad Boimler (Jack Quaid), D’Vana Tendi (Noël Wells) and Sam Rutherford (Eugene Cordero). Set in the years following the feature film “Star Trek: Nemesis,” the series has included voice cameos from many beloved “Star Trek” alumni, like George Takei, Jonathan Frakes, Marina Sirtis, John de Lancie, Will Wheaton, Armin Shimerman, Nana Visitor and Robert Duncan McNeill.

Given its premise, concluding “Lower Decks” make sense considering the main four characters all received promotions in Season 4. But in a message to fans, Kurtzman and executive producer and showrunner Mike McMahan left the turbolift doors open for continuing the characters’ stories following their time at the bottom of the Starfleet pecking order. 

The “Star Trek” TV universe, overseen by Kurtzman through his Secret Hideout production company and produced by CBS Studios, has enjoyed a robust expansion since “Star Trek: Discovery” first premiered in 2017. Along with “Strange New Worlds,” the made-for-television movie “Star Trek: Section 31” recently concluded production with star Michelle Yeoh, and the new series “Star Trek: Starfleet Academy” will begin shooting later this year.

“It has been incredibly rewarding to continue to build the Star Trek universe, and we’re so grateful to Secret Hideout and our immensely talented casts and producers,” said Jeff Grossman, executive vice president of Programming at Paramount+. “‘Strange New Worlds’ has found the perfect blend of action, adventure and humor. Similarly, ‘Star Trek: Lower Decks’ has brought the laughs with an ample amount of heart to the franchise across its four seasons. We can’t wait for audiences to see what is in store for the crew of the U.S.S. Cerritos in this final season.”

“‘Lower Decks’ and ‘Strange New Worlds’ are integral to the ‘Star Trek’ franchise, expanding the boundaries of the universe and exploring new and exciting worlds,” said CBS Studios president David Stapf. “We are extraordinarily proud of both series as they honor the legacy of what Gene Roddenberry created almost 60 years ago. We are so grateful to work with Secret Hideout, Alex Kurtzman, Mike McMahan, Akiva Goldsman, Henry Alonso Myers and the cast, crews and artists who craft these important and entertaining stories for fans around the world.”

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