Star Trek: Lower Decks‘ New Trailer Has a Crisis on Infinite Ensigns Kim

The heroes of Lower Decks are ensigns nary much aft last season’s astonishment aboriginal promotion saw Boimler, Mariner, Tendi, Rutherford, and their caller Vulcan person T’Lyn each person to grapple with their aboriginal careers successful Starfleet ranking up. Coming into their fifth and last acceptable of adventures, it looks similar not lone has the amusement recovered much ways to get them into hijinks… but besides 1 of Star Trek‘s astir legendary ensigns to playfully rib present that the Lower Deckers person risen successful the ranks.

Today Paramount released the latest trailer for the rapidly incoming accomplishment of Star Trek: Lower Decks‘ last season. It’s got a large “everything’s good down here” benignant of vibe, arsenic we perceive a ship’s log from Captain Freeman expressing her alleviation that her inferior officers person smoothly adapted to beingness somewhat higher connected the rungs of the Starfleet vocation ladder, and that, for once, everything is seemingly going well… arsenic we spot Beckett and her friends getting into each sorts of brainsick shenanigans.

Giant creatures to fight, abstraction drugs to get precocious on, seemingly alternate versions of the Cerritos to encounter, there’s a batch of the accustomed wackiness you’d expect from Lower Decks here, indicating that the show’s bowing retired arsenic it’s ever been. But there’s besides immoderate absorbing nuggets of play successful here, similar Tendi’s caller beingness with her family’s transgression syndicate connected Orion (there’s plentifulness of shots present of her backmost successful a Starfleet uniform, truthful it’s nary astonishment she’ll instrumentality to the Cerritos astatine immoderate constituent this season), and adjacent romanticist occupation successful paradise for Mariner and her woman Jennifer (or is that ex-girlfriend, arsenic acold arsenic Mariner’s concerned?).

But, then, of course, would it be Lower Decks without a fewer cheeky nods to other Star Trek shows? The Enterprise decontamination gag is great, but erstwhile again, it’s wide that the Trek show Lower Decks holds closest to its bosom is Voyager, with the trailer ending connected a precise amusive gag of Harry Kim himself (with Garrett Wang seemingly returning) to find a plethora of alternate variants of himself… who rapidly announcement that the existent Harry is now Lieutenant Kim. At agelong last, helium got promoted! We really knew this from a little Easter ovum show surface shown successful Star Trek: Prodigy, confirming that Harry was serving aboard the USS Dauntless arsenic a tactical officer. But Prodigy is acceptable opening successful 2383, astir 3 years aft Lower Decks, which itself is acceptable 2 years aft Voyager returned to the Alpha Quadrant successful 2378.

It was honestly already brainsick capable considering the magnitude of worldly helium went done (including, beauteous debased connected the database of chaotic things each considering, dying aggregate times) that Harry ne'er got a tract promotion the mode respective different members of Voyager‘s elder unit did, but astatine slightest present Harry Prime doesn’t person to beryllium the butt of each ensign jokes. Just like Lower Decks‘ heroes, he’s grown up!

Star Trek: Lower Decks‘ 5th and last play begins with a two-episode premiere connected October 24.

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