Mike McMahan Reflects on Star Trek: Lower Decks Fifth and Final Voyage [Video]

After four years of galactic adventures – misadventures maybe? – alien diplomacy, rogue missions and even wedding shenanigans, the crew of Mike McMahan’s animated series, Star Trek: Lower Decks has, sadly, entered its final frontier. 

The fifth season of the Annie and Emmy Award-nominated 2D comedy series – the franchise’s first animated series since Star Trek: The Animated Series concluded in 1974 – once again joins the support crew and “lower decks” residents serving on one of Starfleet’s least important ships, the U.S.S. Cerritos, this time tasked with closing “space potholes.” These subspace rifts are causing chaos in the Alpha Quadrant and pothole duty would be easy for Jr. Officers Mariner (Tawny Newsome), Boimler (Jack Quaid), Tendi (Noël Wells) and Rutherford (Eugene Cordero) … 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. 

Check out the trailer for the new season:

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