A new trailer forStar Trek: Lower Decksseason 5 has arrived. The show, which follows the lives of the low-ranking officers of the shipU.S.S.Cerritos, features a voice cast that includes Tawny Newsome, Jack Quaid, Noël Wells, Eugene Cordero, Dawnn Lewis, Jerry O’Connell, Fred Tatasciore, and Gillian Vigman.Star Trek: Lower Decksseason 5will be the final season of the show, officially marking it as the longest-running animated series in the franchise, both in terms of number of seasons and number of episodes.
Paramount Plushas nowunveiled a new official trailer forStar Trek: Lower Decksseason 5. The trailer plays out over a monologue by Captain Carol Freeman (Dawnn Lewis), who is reflecting on how well the junior officers have handled their promotions. However, the clips being shown during the trailer offer a different interpretation of events as the characters get into a variety of hijinks, including romantic misadventures, a skiing excursion gone wrong, a bucking alien bronco, and more. Watch the trailer below:
TheStar Trek: Lower Decksseason 5 trailer also showsEnsign Harry Kim (who was played by Garrett Wang inStar Trek: Voyager) returning and having been promoted to Lieutenantafter never receiving a promotion throughout all seven seasons ofVoyager. Read the official synopsis of season 5 below:
In season five of STAR TREK: LOWER DECKS, the crew of the U.S.S. Cerritos is tasked with closing “space potholes” – subspace rifts that are causing chaos in the Alpha Quadrant. Pothole duty would be easy for Junior 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.
What The New Trailer Means For Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 5
The Show’s Final Season Is Shaking Things Up (Somewhat)
This trailer reveals a substantial amount about what the major driving force of the narrative around the coreStar Trek: Lower Deckscharactersis going to be. By following their lives after their promotions,the show will be moving on slightly from its original premise, shaking things up by giving its characters more responsibility and slightly more respect as they approach the series finale. This is somewhat similar to the upcoming final season ofBig Mouth, which will explore the beginning of the characters' transition from middle school to high school before going off the air.
The coreBig Mouthcharacters were all in junior high for the majority of the first seven seasons of the show.
However, at the same time, this trailer promises thatthe show will not become entirely different just because its core characters are moving forwardin their lives. In fact, this seems to be the entire thesis of the trailer. The characters will still be underdogs who make major mistakes and do not know exactly what they’re doing. If anything, their new positions will likely throw their incompetence into even sharper relief.
Our Take On The Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 5 Trailer
The Show Could Go Out With A Bang
AsStar Trek: Lower Decksgoes off the air and clears the path for otherupcomingStar Trekmovies and TV shows, this trailer teases that it is prepared to stick the landing with its finale. By honoring the history of these long-running characters while also looking forward to their future,the new season seems poised to be something of a victory lapfor the show.
Star Trek: Lower Decksseason 5 premieres on Paramount Plus with two episodes on October 24, followed by weekly episode releases on Thursdays through December 19.
Star Trek: Lower Decks
Cast
“Star Trek: Lower Decks” focuses on the support crew serving on one of Starfleet’s least important ships, the USS Cerritos, in 2380. Ensigns Mariner, Boimler, Rutherford and Tendi must keep up with their duties and their social lives, often while the ship is being rocked by a multitude of sci-fi anomalies. The ship’s bridge crew includes Captain Carol Freeman, Commander Jack Ransom, Lieutenant Shaxs and Doctor T’Ana. This is the second animated spin-off in the franchise after 1973-74’s “Star Trek: The Animated Series,” but has a decidedly more adult tone and humor.
