Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 5’s First Trailer Is the Beginning of the End

We knew it was coming, but we inactive didn’t privation to admit it—it’s astir time to accidental goodbye to Star Trek: Lower Decks. After four large seasons, the bid is coming to an extremity with 1 last acceptable of adventures, and astatine slightest our archetypal look seems to hint that Lower Decks is going retired overmuch arsenic it’s carried on: with a full batch of laughs, and a full batch of Trek love.

At today’s Star Trek San Diego Comic-Con panel, Paramount revealed the precise archetypal trailer for the 5th and last play of Lower Decks. In true Lower Decks style, play 4 ended with a spot of a presumption quo shuffle for our still-freshly promoted heroes. Having spent overmuch of the play nary longer arsenic ensigns connected the lowest rungs of command, Boimler, Mariner, Rutherford, and their caller Vulcan person T’Lyn were recognized arsenic the Trek heroes they’ve ever wanted to beryllium for redeeming Starfleet from Nick Locarno’s gyration with the remainder of the Cerritos crew. But determination was a terms to wage for their heroics, with Tendi trading her spot successful Starfleet to instrumentality to Orion and regularisation her family’s transgression syndicate successful speech for her sister’s assistance during the finale.

Just however agelong volition our heroes beryllium separated? Take a look successful the caller trailer below!

Nostalgic opening aside, there’s a batch of amusive things going connected here–we get to spot glimpses of some Tendi’s caller beingness arsenic an Orion pirate and a seeming instrumentality to her location connected the Cerritos, but there’s besides a accidental brushwood with an alternate Cerritos (captained by Mariner herself!), an exploration of a newly-post-scarcity society, Klingon hijinks, and yes, adjacent 1 past accidental for Ransom to lube his abs up. Suffice to say, it looks similar Lower Decks is going retired arsenic it’s ever gone anyway: with a batch of goofy fun.

Star Trek: Lower Decks returns to Paramount+ for 1 past clip October 24.

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