September 8th: In 1429, Joan of Arc was wounded in the thigh by a crossbow during the Siege of Paris. In 1974, it was the day Gerald Ford pardoned Richard Nixon. In 1966, the first episode of Gene Roddenberry’s utopian vision of the future, the sci-fi series Star Trek, debuted on TV (notably, this is included alongside those other historical events on the Britannica website).
Each year, on September 8th, Trekkies get together to celebrate the iconic series’ debut in America (it premiered two days earlier in Canada on September 6th). In celebration of Star Trek Day 2024, Paramount+ debuted a new clip of the fifth and final season of Star Trek: Lower Decks, showing D’Vana Tendi (Noël Wells) kicking collector butt, as well as the official season 5 poster, continuing the trend of movie poster parodies that fans have enjoyed since the show’s first season.
The clip release on Star Trek Day 2024 updates Tendi fans on the status of the Mistress of Winter Constellations after the Lower Decks season 4 finale “Old Friends, New Planets,” in which she agrees to return to the Orion Syndicate in exchange for a battleship loaned by her sister D’Erika Tendi (Ariel Winter), a sacrifice necessary to save Mariner. Although we see Tendi taking part in an Orion raid on a Collector’s ship, her morality hasn’t been eroded. After all, a pirate’s gotta steal, and stealing from the Collectors is pretty Robin Hood (plus, she refuses to kill).
Given what has been previously teased about Tendi’s story in season 5, I doubt she will be with the Syndicate for much of the season. However, we will know more late this fall! Keep reading for more details about this Peabody Award-winning series, and what else we’ve learned about it’s final season so far.
What will Star Trek: Lower Decks season 5 be about?
Like the previous seasons of Star Trek: Lower Decks, the fifth and final season will be 10 episodes long and sees our favorite U.S.S. Cerritos junior officers (Mariner, Boimler, Tendi, and Rutherford) tasked with closing space potholes, a.k.a. “subspace rifts causing chaos,” across the Alpha Quadrant—a task that would be a lot easier “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,” according to the official season 5 logline.
At San Diego Comic-Con during the “Star Trek Universe” panel on Saturday, July 27, featuring an exclusive conversation with cast members Tawny Newsome (who plays Beckett Mariner), Jack Quaid (plays Brad Boimler), Noël Wells (plays Tendi), and Jerry O’Connell (plays First Officer Jack Ransom), Paramount+ debuted the first look at Lower Decks season 5 of its hit animated comedy series.
DO be a Boimler, and check it out for yourself below:
When will the final season of Lower Decks premiere?
At SDCC 2024 and via a press release, Paramount+ announced that Lower Decks’ fifth and final season will have a two-episode premiere on the streaming platform on Thursday, October 24, 2024, both in the U.S. and internationally. Following the premiere, new episodes of the season will be released on the service every Thursday until the series finale on Thursday, December 19.
Who in the Cerritos crew is returning for season 5?
The fan-favorite animated comedy series focuses on the support crew serving on the Cerritos, lovingly and mistakenly described as “one of Starfleet’s least important ships.” Once again, returning as the voice actors of our fave lower deckers are Tawny Newsome as Mariner, Jack Quaid as Boimler, Noël Wells as Tendi, and Eugene Cordero as Rutherford. Meanwhile, returning as the voices the bridge crew are Dawnn Lewis as Captain Freeman, Jerry O’Connell as First Officer Jack Ransom, Fred Tatasciore as Lietenuent Shax, and Gillian Vigman as Doctor T’Ana.
Where can you watch Star Trek: Lower Decks?
Trekkies can catch up with their favorite lower-deckers on Paramount+ in the U.S. and Latin America.
(featured image: Paramount+)
Published: Sep 8, 2024 03:44 pm