The fifth and final season of Star Trek: Lower Decks is almost upon us. We’ve already gotten a sneak peek of what’s to come with a clip centered on Tendi’s pirating ways, and today, Paramount+ released a trailer that suggests the Lower Deckers are still being, well, Lower Deckers.
Here’s the official synopsis for the upcoming episodes:
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.
The trailer also gives us some fun Easter eggs, including several Ensign Kims in what I assume is a multiverse situation, with the only promoted Kim of the bunch calling his doppelgangers out. “You’re all still ensigns?” he says. “That’s f***ed up!”
The fifth and final season of Star Trek: Lower Decks will premiere on Paramount+ with two episodes on Thursday, October 24, with new installments of the ten-episode season dropping every Thursday until the series finale on December 19, 2024.
Check out the trailer for that final season below.
