Today, September 8, is Star Trek Day, celebrating the 58th anniversary of the debut of The Original Series on NBC. The next Star Trek show debut is coming on October 24th with the fifth (and final) season of the animated adult comedy Lower Decks and Paramount+ has just released a clip as a Star Trek Day present to the fans. They also released a poster for the season.
The Mistress of the Winter Constellations returns
Season 4 ended on a bit of a cliffhanger with Tendi leaving the USS Cerritos, called home to family duty on Orion. The new clip picks up on her story…
As fitting Lower Decks tradition, the new clip is full of easter eggs, including what appears to be the return of Palor Toff, one of the Collectors from the classic TNG episode “The Most Toys.”
The above clip is likely part of the “Orion war” storyline noted in the official synopsis for the season:
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.
In a post Comic-Con interview, showrunner Mike McMahan teased this Orion story, saying “We pull in some Orion lore that’s been discarded over the decades.”
New poster
The fifth season of Lower Decks premieres on Paramount+ with two episodes on Thursday, October 24 in the U.S. and internationally. Following the premiere, new episodes of the 10-episode long season will drop every Thursday on the service leading up to the “gigantic” series finale on Thursday, December 19.
Paramount+ has also released a new poster for the season…
ICYMI – SDCC Teaser
A teaser trailer for season 5 was released at San Diego Comic-Con in July. Check it out below (and check out our trailer/panel breakdown):
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