Lower Decks Season 5s Final Trailer

Star Trek: Lower Decks has revealed its final season 5 trailer, and here are 10 Easter eggs you might have missed. The final season of Star Trek: Lower Decks on Paramount+ premieres on Thursday, October 24, with the first two episodes dropping that same day. Lower Decks season 5 promises major events happening to the crew of the USS Cerritos, with huge callbacks and odes to the legacy of Star Trek.

After Lieutenant Beckett Mariner (Tawny Newsome) and the USS Cerritos saved the galaxy from disgraced ex-Starfleet cadet Nicholas Locarno at the end of Star Trek: Lower Decks season 4, life aboard the Cerritos seems to have calmed down. But, as Captain Carol Freeman (Dawnn Lewis) narrates Star Trek: Lower Decks season 5’s trailer, excitement and chaos follow the Cerritos and its Lower Deckers around. From Orions, Klingons, the Borg, and the return of a Star Trek: Voyager icon, Star Trek: Lower Decks season 5 has Easter eggs galore.

Is Beckett going back to being an Ensign?

Lieutenant Beckett Mariner says she doesn’t want her promotion and wants to stay “charmingly insubordinate.” Mariner was furious when she was promoted to Lieutenant junior grade in Star Trek: Lower Decks season 4, and it was gradually revealed that Beckett never wanted a higher rank because she didn’t want to send her friends to their deaths.

Could Mariner be rejecting her Lieutenant pips and be bounced back to an Ensign in Star Trek: Lower Decks season 5? In a way, it would be fitting for Mariner to stay a Lower Decker and epitomize being an Eternal Ensign. However, Mariner is Starfleet royalty and a gifted officer when she wants to be, and it would be a waste of material for Mariner to be stuck in a hamster wheel on the Cerritos when Star Trek: Lower Decks ends on Paramount+.

9 Tendi Fights Blue Orions

An Orion war is coming

D’Vana Tendi (Noel Wells) returned to her Orion people and resumed her role as the Mistress of the Winter Constellations at the end of Star Trek: Lower Decks season 4. Now the leader of her own Orion pirate ship, it looks like Tendi tangles with a group of blue Orions in Star Trek: Lower Decks season 5. On Star Trek Day, Paramount+ released a clip of Tendi in action in Star Trek: Lower Decks season 5, which you can watch below:

Star Trek: The Animated Series debuted Blue Orions in the season 2 episode “The Pirates of Orion,” and it looks like they’re back as villains in Star Trek: Lower Decks season 5, teasing an Orion war. Somehow, Tendi has to survive this Orion war before she can return to her friends aboard the USS Cerritos, which evidently happens at some point in Star Trek: Lower Decks season 5.

8 Rutherford Has A Cyborg Double

Roboford?

Lt. Samanthan Rutherford (Eugene Cordero) has a cyborg double in Star Trek: Lower Decks season 5. Seemingly more machine than man, the mechanical Rutherford resembles the DC Comics superhero Cyborg. Amusingly, the robotic Rutherford appears to have a tiny third arm as well.

Could Rutherford somehow have built a cyborg version of himself, perhaps to help him with his engineering duties on the USS Cerritos? Or did Rutherford build a Roboford because he misses Tendi? Another possible explanation is the cyborg Rutherford comes from the other USS Cerritos captained by Captain Becky Freeman that comes from a parallel universe as seen in the teaser for Star Trek: Lower Decks season 5 released at San Diego Comic-Con.

7 Is Mariner Still Dating Jennifer The Andorian?

Didn’t they break up?

Ensign Jennifer Sh’reyan (Lauren Lapkus) is back in Star Trek: Lower Decks season 5, but is she still Lt. Beckett Mariner’s girlfriend? Mariner says they aren’t together anymore in Star Trek: Lower Decks season 5’s final trailer, but then why is Jennifer so affectionate? Or is this some kind of Andorian plot to get revenge on Mariner for breaking up with her?

Jennifer was originally an irritant to Mariner who complained about Beckett’s loud noises from her neighboring bunk in the USS Cerritos’ hallway. Later in Star Trek: Lower Decks, Jennifer and Mariner started dating, and Beckett even met her friends. However, Jennifer hasn’t been seen with Mariner in a while, so Star Trek: Lower Decks season 5 could finally resolve their relationship status.

6 Boimler Rides A Klingon Targ

Ma’ah the Klingon is back

Star Trek: Lower Decks season 5 appears to visit the Klingon homeworld of Qo’noS, or at least some type of Klingon settlement, where Lt. Brad Boimler (Jack Quaid) rides a Targ. A huge Klingon boar, a Targ is formidable for a Klingon to face, much less a human. Also returning in Star Trek: Lower Decks season 5 is Ma’ah (Jon Curry), the Klingon Lower Decker-turned-Captain Mariner befriended.

Ma’ah and Mariner were among those stranded on Sherbal V by Nicholas Locarno. After battling each other, Mariner and Ma’ah worked together to escape until Locarono beamed Mariner away. Ma’ah and the other species then combined their forces to escape Sherbal V. Ma’ah has become Star Trek: Lower Decks’ most fascinating Klingon character since his introduction in the season 2 episode, “wej Duj.”

5 Dr. Migleemo Has Visitors From His Species

Will we learn more about Migleemo’s species?

Avian humanoids that appear to be from the same species as Dr. Migleemo (Paul F. Tompkins) visit the USS Cerritos in Star Trek: Lower Decks season 5. Dr. Migleemo is the ship’s counselor aboard the Cerritos who is infamous for using food-related metaphors in his therapy sessions. Even among the Cerrtios’ crew, Migleemo stands out as an oddball, and Mariner called him the worst counselor in Starfleet.

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4 A Duplicate USS Cerritos

Captain Becky Freeman’s starship meets Captain Carol Freeman’s starship

Star Trek: Lower Decks season 5’s San Diego Comic-Con teaser revealed that the USS Cerritos meets a different USS Cerritos via a dimensional tear. But this alternate Cerritos is led by Captain Becky Freeman, the double of Lt. Beckett Mariner who achieved the career goals Mariner has avoided.

Star Trek: Lower Decks season 5’s trailer shows glimpses of the other Cerritos and the Prime Universe Cerritos stacked on top of each other but inverted. We also see the alternate Commander Jack Ransom (Jerry O’Connell) has a mullet while another crew member wears a cape and sash. The cyborg Rutherford is also in the background on the bridge, confirming he hails from the alternate reality.

3 Star Trek: Enterprise’s Decontamination Chamber Is Back

It’s been a long road getting from there to here

Perhaps the most amusing sight in Star Trek: Lower Decks season 5’s final trailer is the crew of the USS Cerritos applying body gel in a decontamination chamber, with Commander Ransom really overdoing it. The decon chamber debuted in Star Trek: Enterprise‘s series premiere, and it was a trademark of the prequel’s amped up sex appeal. T’Pol (Jolene Blalock) and other Enterprise NX-01 crew members applied gel to their scantily clad bodies to rid themselves of alien viruses and contamination.

Star Trek: Lower Decks has featured many nods to Star Trek: Enterprise, from Lt. Malcolm Reed (Dominic Keating) to Lt. Brad Boimler owning an action figure of Mirror Universe Captain Jonathan Archer (Scott Bakula). Decontamination chambers were no longer needed on starships because the transporters filter out alien contamination, but any callback to Star Trek: Enterprise by Lower Decks is more than welcome.

2 The Borg Is Back

Resistance is never futile

Star Trek: Lower Decks season 5’s final trailer also shows the USS Cerritos taking on a Borg Cube, which appears to be absorbing energy from some kind of rift in the fabric of space. The Cerritos hasn’t formally encountered the Borg, although Ensign Brad Boimler did outwit the Borg Queen (Alice Krige) in a holodeck test. Perhaps a tussle with the Borg will happen in Star Trek: Lower Decks‘ final season on Paramount+.

The malevolent Borg that has menaced the United Federation of Planets since Star Trek: The Next Generation was finally defeated by the crew of the USS Enterprise-D in Star Trek: Picard season 3’s finale. However, Star Trek: Lower Decks season 5 is set in 2381, 20 years before Picard season 3, so the Borg are still very much a threat. Mariner vs. the Borg Queen is a match-up that is overdue to happen.

1 Harry Kim Is A Lieutenant With Ensign Clones

That’s a lot of Harry Kims

Star Trek: Lower Decks season 5’s final trailer saved its biggest surprise for last: Garrett Wang returns to voice Star Trek: Voyager’s Harry Kim, who is now a Lieutenant. Further, there appear to be a whole batch of Harry Kim clones who are all still Ensigns, which Lieutenant Harry Kim is infuriated by. Harry Kim, of course, was an Ensign for all seven seasons of Star Trek: Voyager.

Harry Kim’s promotion to Lieutenant is long overdue, and the two pips on his collar show him to be a full Lieutenant. This means he out ranks Mariner, Boimler, and the other junior grade Lieutenants of the USS Cerritos. It’s not clear yet if Lt. Harry Kim meets the USS Cerritos’ Lower Deckers, but it would be a huge missed comedic opportunity by Star Trek: Lower Decks season 5 if that doesn’t happen.

Seasons

5

Writers

Mike McMahan

Showrunner

Mike McMahan

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