Star Trek: Lower Decks

Kenneth Mitchell, an actor who appeared on Star Trek: Discovery and Captain Marvel, has died at the age of 49 following a battle with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Mitchell’s family announced his death Saturday in a statement. “With heavy hearts we announce the passing of Kenneth Alexander Mitchell, beloved father, husband, brother, uncle, son and dear friend,” his family wrote on social media. “For five and a half years, Ken faced a series of awful challenges from ALS. And in truest Ken fashion,…

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, she’s gone from being a chaotic, self-destructive ensign to...well, still that, but now promoted to a junior grade lieutenant alongside the other Lower Deckers. They’ve all been through a lot this past season, and Mariner even moreso, given she and Boimler (Jack Quaid) briefly traveled back in time to rub shoulders with the Strange New Worlds crew. Strange…

Image: ParamountThere’s a lot to love in Strange New Worlds and Lower Decks’ special Star Trek crossover, but getting to see Tawny Newsome and Jack Quaid bring some of their chaotic energy from the world of animation into the live-action Mariner and Boimler was a highlight—especially because that energy radiated through the Strange New Worlds crew.How Has Ortegas Changed and Grown Coming into Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 2 | io9 InterviewThat’s according to director Jonathan Frakes, who aside from being…

Crossovers are hard. The balance of time, fandom-winking wishlists, and the need to have things still actually matter to your characters can make smashing together heroes from across a franchise a challenge—a challenge Star Trek hasn’t been afraid to rise up to in the past. It’s good news then, that Strange New Worlds and Lower Decks’ collaboration is a successful balancing act that represents Trek at its best.Weirdest Thing Star Trek Star LeVar Burton Has Signed“Those Old Scientists”—released almost a whole week early to…

Screenshot: ParamountSan Diego Comic-Con has been very good to Star Trek in recent years, and even as Hollywood labor movements mean the franchise’s stars are sitting out of the action in Hall H this year, there was still plenty to be excited about in Star Trek’s new panel—like a long awaited first look at the return of Lower Decks.Strange New World's Melissa Navia Talks Flying the Enterprise | io9 InterviewAfter an up-and-down season 3 largely left our Ensign heroes where they started the season, this latest adventure…

Screenshot: ParamountThought you’d had enough Star Trek: Strange New Worlds this week? Think again. To not leave fans who didn’t directly beam into San Diego Comic-Con feeling left out today, Paramount has made the surprise move to drop the latest episode of the series—its highly anticipated crossover with Star Trek: Lower Decks—for everyone right now.Strange New World's Melissa Navia Talks Flying the Enterprise | io9 InterviewYes, as of 4pm PT/7pm ET today, “Those Old Scientists,” the seventh episode of Strange New…

Image: Paramount+Star Trek: Strange New Worlds has released the first official trailer that shows the cast of Lower Decks in full, live-action glory. While we’ve gotten earlier trailers for season two, this is a pretty cool little wink at a highly anticipated crossover episode for Strange New Worlds. Watch the newest trailer below.Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | Season 2 Official Trailer | Paramount+Strange New Worlds follows Captain Pike (Anson Mount), Number One (Rebecca Romijn), Spock (Ethan Peck) and the other members…

Image: ParamountStar Trek: Lower Decks has had a rough third season, with rare moments of eking out character growth cast under the shadow of a regressive feeling of pulling main characters traveling paths they’d already navigated. Its finale, for better or worse, at resets the show in some ways, so we can forget most of this season actually happened.Picking up from last week’s re-hash of the Captain Freeman/Mariner conflict that drove the first season of the show, “The Stars at Night” largely navigates away from that…

Image: ParamountOutside of a few strong highs, Lower Decks’ third season has largely felt like a bit of a regression, with characters re-treading familiar arcs with little rhyme or reason. It’s perhaps fitting then, that as the season draws to a close, it sets the stage for a conflict the show already covered—except this time there might be a few more consequences, if we’re lucky.The catalyst for character chaos in “Trusted Sources” comesin the form of an arriving journalist, Victoria Nuzé from the Federation News…

Image: ParamountStar Trek: Lower Decks’ third season has opened in a funny way. Not “ha-ha” funny, although there’s still plenty of that to be had. Instead, it’s of a more peculiar sort—the inescapable feeling that, no matter how good the gags remain, the show is unsure what steps forward it wants to take with its main characters.In fact, the perhaps fittingly named “Room for Growth” feels like a bit of a step back, in a season so far that has felt like a partial reset for the status quo of Boimler, Mariner, Tendi, and…