Star Trek: Lower Decks Release Date, Poster, Ship

The next Star Trek series now has a release date. Star Trek: Lower Decks will premiere on CBS All Access on August 6. The first season of the new animated series has 10 episodes, half hour each that will premiere each Thursday on the streaming service. The series is from Rick and Morty writer Mike McMahan as it follows the support crew of the USS Cerritos in the year 2380. This places it about a year after Star Trek: Nemesis and 7 years before Romulus is destroyed in Star Trek (2009). In short, it means the look and feel will probably be close to Star Trek: The Next Generation. Here is a description of the characters from Deadline along with a poster for the first episode titled "Rarely Going Where No One Has Gone Before".

Developed by McMahan, Star Trek: Lower Decks focuses on the support crew serving on one of Starfleet’s least important ships, the U.S.S. Cerritos, in 2380. Ensigns Mariner, Boimler, Rutherford and Tendi have to keep up with their duties and their social lives, often while the ship is being rocked by a multitude of sci-fi anomalies.

The Starfleet crew residing in the “lower decks” of the U.S.S. Cerritos, includes Tawney Newsome as Ensign Beckett Mariner, Jack Quaid as Ensign Brad Boimler, Noël Wells as Ensign Tendi and Eugene Cordero as Ensign Rutherford. The Starfleet characters that comprise the ship’s bridge crew include Captain Carol Freeman, voiced by Dawnn Lewis, Commander Jack Ransom, voiced by Jerry O’Connell, Lieutenant Shaxs, voiced by Fred Tatasciore and Doctor T’Ana, voiced by Gillian Vigman.