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Network: Paramount+
Episodes: 50 (half-hour)
Seasons: Five
TV show dates: August 6, 2020 — December 19, 2024
Series status: Cancelled
Performers include: Tawny Newsome, Jack Quaid, Noël Wells, Eugene Cordero, Dawnn Lewis, Jerry O’Connell, Fred Tatasciore, and Gillian Vigman.
TV show description:
An animated sci-fi comedy series, Star Trek: Lower Decks is the latest TV show in the franchise based on the original Star Trek series created by Gene Roddenberry.
The series focuses on the support crew that serves on one of Starfleet’s least important ships, the U.S.S. Cerritos, in the year 2380. Ensigns include irreverent Beckett Mariner (Newsome), rule-following Brad Boimler (Quaid), medical assistant D’Vana Tendi (Wells), and Sam Rutherford (Cordero), who’s adjusting to a cyborg implant. They have to keep up with their duties and their social lives, often while a multitude of sci-fi anomalies is rocking the ship.
The bridge crew of the U.S.S. Cerritos includes Captain Carol Freeman (Lewis), First Officer Jack Ransom (O’Connell), Bajoran Lieutenant Shaxs (Tatasciore), and Doctor T’Ana (Vigman).
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The Cerritos tries to close the rift, but in the end, it stays open. As a result, Starfleet begins to explore the multiverse with Carol and her husband in charge. Jack becomes Captain for the Cerritos and promotes Beckett and Brad to provisional first officer. Sam decides to remove his cybernetic implant.
First aired: December 19, 2024.
What do you think? Do you like the Star Trek: Lower Decks TV show? Do you think it should have been cancelled or renewed for a sixth season?
