Star Trek: Lower Decks Will End With Its Fifth, Final Season
Image: Paramount Good news and bad news, Trek fans. The good is that the excellent Strange New Worlds will continue to boldly go for at least more more season beyond…
Star Trek’s Tawny Newsome Looks Back on Mariner’s Reluctant Hero’s Journey
Star Trek: Lower Decks has been a riot since its first season, and Tawny Newsome’s Beckett Mariner is a big reason why. Over the course of the show’s four-season run,…
Lower Decks’ Season Finale Is a Fitting Farewell to Its Current Self
After a third season that felt like spinning its wheels, so far season four of Star Trek: Lower Decks has made a great effort on pushing all of its characters…
Star Trek: Lower Decks Just Tied It All Together in the Best Way
Back in Star Trek: Lower Decks’ first season three years ago, it took a few episodes in before the show began to explore what it really meant to borrow its…
Star Trek: Lower Decks’ Ode to Caves Is Bigger Than Just One Set
Star Trek loves itself a cave episode. You can do a bunch of different stories in similar looking sets, you can restrict which members of the cast are the focus,…
Lower Decks’ AI Antics Offer a Mathematically Imperfect Redemption
Lower Decks does a lot with its love of story threads and nods to past Star Trek, but when it comes to carving out its own true additions to the…
Star Trek: Lower Decks’ Exploration of the Ferengi Does Deep Space Nine Justice
In a galaxy of compelling species, the Ferengi are one of Star Trek’s most peculiar, and most fascinating. Growing from not-quite-threatening villains in their TNG debut to a fascinating capitalist…
The Best Episode of Lower Decks Season 4 Yet Defies All Your Expectations
The last time Lower Decks truly surprised me was in season two’s remarkable tri-perspective episode “wej Duj,” a compelling experimental story that examined the plights of lower deckers across all…
Lower Decks Is Making More Room for Its Underused Characters
Even four seasons in, it’s not a difficult argument to make that for all its aims of being a show with four primary characters, Lower Decks has been most focused,…
Lower Decks Isn’t Wasting Time Teaching Its Heroes Some New Lessons
Last week’s season 4 premiere of Lower Decks kicked off the season with a big promise, even in the smallest form they can come on Star Trek: the tiny pip…