Star Trek: Lower Decks Final and Complete Seasons on Blu-Ray

Paramount Home Video has set the release date for the final season of Star Trek: Lower Decks fifth and final season for March 25, 2025. In addition they are also releasing a steelbook series box set of the entire series on the same date. The final season set will include five audio commentaries and "Lower Decktionary" featurette" while the box set will include all the special features from all the season sets along with an art card. You can pre-order the season five set on Amazon now. The Steelcase series set will hopefully become available on Amazon.

Star Trek: Lower Decks Season Finale Out Now, Ready Room Cancelled

Just a reminder that the final episode of Star Trek: Lower Decks is now available on Paramount+. Now that the season and the series is concluded, good time to binge with the holidays coming up.

On a related note, the Star Trek after show with Wil Wheaton called The Ready Room has been cancelled with its final episode coming out today for a look back at Lower Decks. The cancellation is likely part of continued budget cuts going on at Paramount as part of the 2025 merger with Skydance.

Personal note, do think it was a mistake to cancel Lower Decks with the budget savings not worth the potential long term value being given up.

Star Trek: Lower Decks Season Five First Two Episodes Available

Friendly reminder that Star Trek: Lower Decks has begun airing its fifth and final season on Paramount+ with two episodes. The remaining episodes will release one at a time for the next eight weeks.

NYCC Star Trek News: Renewal, Casting, Release Date and Clips

This weekend the New York Comic-Con (NYCC) was held. On Saturday, Star Trek held their panel where the presented updates on the various projects including a release date for Section 31, Starfleet Academy casting and clips from Lower Decks and Strange New Worlds.

Star Trek: Starfleet Academy

The show has already scored a season 2 renewal from Paramount+. Emmy Award winner Tatiana Maslany (Orphan Black, She-Hulk), has been cast as a reoccurring special guest star in Season 1. No other details were provided about her character. The series is currently in production in Canada with an estimated release date of late 2025. 

Star Trek: Section 31

The movie starring Academy Award winner Michelle Yeoh now has a release date of January 24, 2025. The movie has completed production and likely finishing up post-production. A bunch of posters with the cast was released, you can find them here. The initial plan from around 2019 was a TV series but plans kept falling through until the now very demand actress indicated she could do a movie. The leads briefly discuss their characters with Collider while avoiding spoilers.

Star Trek: Lower Decks

Below is a clip from Lower Deck's fifth and final season that will premiere this upcoming Thursday, October 24 with two episodes. Further below is also a new poster for the season, based on the teaser poster for Star Trek 5.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

Also below is a CGI heavy action click from Strange New Worlds season 3. The clip is likely the opening scene of the season as the Enterprise is under attack from the large Gorn ship that concluded the previous season in cliffhanger fashion. In casting news, comedian Rhys Darby (Jumanji: The Next Level) will guest star, with his character described as "familiar yet completely new to folks that know Star Trek."

Star Trek: Lower Decks Final Season Trailer

Paramount+ has released a new trailer for Star Trek: Lower Deck's fifth and final season that is set to premiere on October 24 with two episodes. The 10 episode season will have its finale on December 19.

Star Trek: Lower Decks Tendi Clip

Star Trek: Lower Decks will return for its fifth and final season on October 24. Here is a clip with Tendi who ended season 4 agreeing to return to her Orion family.

SDCC Star Trek Universe Full Panel Video

Paramount+ has posted the full video of the panel held on Saturday for Star Trek Universe where cast members from the currently airing shows talked about previous season, next season, and revealed some future plans as summarized yesterday.

Update: If interested in the Doctor Who x Star Trek SDCC panel, you can watch it here.

SDCC Brings New Show, Trek Alumni Casting, Teasers, and Clip

Saturday the San Diego ComicCon 2024 panels were held for Star Trek. With the panels news about upcoming Star Trek shows including a new one that is still in early planning stages. Lets get right to it. 

Star Trek: Untitled Comedy - A potential new series is in very early planning stages, basically pre-pre-production live action comedy described as "Federation outsiders serving a gleaming resort planet find out their day-to-day exploits are being broadcast to the entire quadrant." Risa is Trek's go to resort planet but it wasn't specifically mentioned. The show is being developed by Justin Simien (The Haunted Mansion) and Tawny Newsome (writer, voice of Mariner on Lower Decks).

Star Trek: Starfleet Academy - Four previous Star Trek actors are joining the series that is set to start filming soon in Canada. Tig Notaro (Jett Reno), Oded Fehr (Admiral Vance) and Mary Wiseman (Sylvia Tilly) will reprise their Star Trek: Discovery roles. In a bit of a shock, Robert Picardo will reprise his role from Star Trek: Voyager role as hologram The Doctor, a role he recently voiced for season 2 of Star Trek: Prodigy (on Netflix, really should watch show regardless of age, be patient as worth it.)

Star Trek: Lower Decks - set to premiere its fifth and final season on October 24 on Paramount+ with two episodes and remaining 8 each week after for series finale on December 19. Show has been ended too soon but what can you do. Below is season synopsis and teaser trailer done in the style of the first trailer for Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.

In season five of Star Trek: Lower Decks, the crew of the U.S.S. Cerritos is tasked with closing “space potholes” – subspace rifts which are causing chaos in the Alpha Quadrant. Pothole duty would be easy for Jr. Officers Mariner, Boimler, Tendi and Rutherford…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. This upcoming season on Paramount+ is a celebration of this underdog crew who are dangerously close to being promoted out of the lower decks and into strange new Starfleet roles.

Star Trek: Section 31 - The Michelle Yeoh starring movie got its first teaser trailer (below). No release date yet but aiming for an early 2025 release on Paramount+.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds - Here is first look at season 3 of the show via a clip that creates a rather interesting and increasingly annoying situation for Spock to deal with. Cillian O'Sullivan (Then You Run) as been cast to play Dr. Roger Korby, future ex-fiancé to nurse Chapel (from Original Series episode nine). An episode will be like "a Hollywood murder mystery" and the show may not be done with musicals. No airdate is set but I suspect mid to late 2025.

Strange New Worlds Renewed, Lower Decks Cancelled

Paramount+ has announced that Star Trek: Strange New Worlds has been renewed for a fourth season. Currently season three is in production with plan to debut in 2025. 

However, with the good news comes that bad. Star Trek: Lower Decks has been cancelled after the upcoming fifth and now final season that is set to debut sometime in the fall later this year.

To the fans,

We wanted to let you know that this fall will be the fifth and final season of Star Trek: Lower Decks. While five seasons of any series these days seems like a miracle, it’s no exaggeration to say that every second we've spent making this show has been a dream come true. Our incredible cast, crew and artists have given you everything they have because they love the characters they play, they love the world we've built, and more than anything we all love love love Star Trek. We’re excited for the world to see our hilarious fifth season which we're working on right now, and the good news is that all previous episodes will remain on Paramount+ so there is still so much to look forward to as we celebrate the Cerritos crew with a big send-off.

Finally, thank you for always being so creative and joyful, for filling convention halls and chanting
LOWER DECKS!" We remain hopeful that even beyond Season 5, Mariner, Boimler, Tendi, Rutherford and the whole Cerritos crew will live on with new adventures.

LLAP
Mike McMahan and Alex Kurtzman

WGA Strike Ends, What Does This Mean For Star Trek?

The Writes Guild of America (WGA) has reached a tentative deal and officially ended the strike. You can read the detailed summary here or the overview summary here. Still some Ts to be crossed but as of now, writers can get back to work which includes TV showrunners who also tend to be WGA member writers. Great news for the writers but for fans don't get excited just yet.

The Screen Actors Guild (SAG) strike continues on. Without the actors, filming cannot begin. What this agreement really means is pre-production can begin on movies and TV shows. Ideally, with a bit of luck in timing and good planning, the day the SAG strike ends is the day actors can go before cameras as a host of TV shows and movies go into full production mode. Others can finish what filming was interrupted and any post production work that is waiting on the actors can be completed.

Which brings us to Star Trek. Here is a quick summary for each show and movies:

Star Trek: Discovery season 5 - All filming, including reshoots, had already completed for the final season. What post-production work that remains can be completed due to return of the showrunners.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3 - Writers can now complete scripts, pre-production work can be completed, post-production work can move ahead. Filming can start as soon as actors are avialable.

Star Trek: Lower Decks season 5 - Falls under The Animation Guild (TAG) so writing and animation work not impacted. Voice over work could start but unlikly until after actors strike ends.

Starfleet Academy season 1 - Writing and pre-production can restart, post-production work can move ahead. Casting will have to wait until after strike ends.

Section 31 movie - Script was already completed, pre-production can resume, post-production work can resume. Casting, filming on hold until actors strike ends. With Academy Award winning actress Michelle Yeoh in high demand and her filming schedule blow up by the strike, no telling when production can start.

Star Trek: Prodigy season 2 - Despite Paramount+ inexplicable cancellation, contractual production on the series continued with all 20 episodes to be completed by end of year. Issue is finding a home for the series at whatever fee Paramount is hoping to get for the episodes. The whole situation with this show is just bizarre and seems poorly thought out by Paramount executives who are now unwilling to admit they made have made a mistake.

Star Trek 4 - Somehow its still in the cards? At least that is what script writer Lindsey Anderson Beer is claiming, "It is, it’s still on the tracks. I love that project, and it was another one that I had to hop off of to direct this movie, and that was a hard thing to do. But I love everybody involved with that project.” I wouldn't hold your breath. No pre-production work has been done, no negotioations with the cast can begin until the strike ends (and like Yeoh, their schedules are a huge issue) and for Paramount the cost of making the movie remains their primary sticking point. They want it cheap (relatively speaking), I estimate in the $100 to $120 million range and cast salaries could eat up half that budget.

Release schedule wise, there cannot be one since no idea when actors will return to work. Even if timing and all that works out and all the actors could show up the day the strike ends, there is a whole lot of work to be done, especially since the shows are VFX heavy so that creates a significant post-production period. Since Star Trek: Discovery season 5 was minimally impacted by the strikes, it likely remains on schedule to return in early 2024. After that, its up in the air. Lower Decks season 5 can return this time next year but will be highly dependent on how production is going on the other shows. Star Trek: Prodigy season 2 would have been a great gap filler but that plan was trashed for inexplicable reasons. End result is there is a good chance that only Discovery and Lower Decks will come out in 2024.

Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 4 Begins Run

Just a friendly reminder that Star Trek: Lower Decks season 4 has begun its 10 episode run on Paramount+. First two episodes are avialable now with a new episode premiering Thursday morning for next eight weeks.

Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 3 Available on YouTube, Pluto and Amazon

In the run up to the season premiere of Star Trek: Lower Decks season 4, Paramount+ has posted the previous season on YouTube. All 10 episodes are now available to watch now. Season 4 premieres on Paramount+ on September 7. Update: Season is also on PlutoTV and Amazon Prime in the US.

Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 4 Trailer, Poster

Just a week away from Star Trek: Lower Decks season 4 premiere on September 7. Here is the newest trailer and poster for the season.

SDCC Brings New Trailers, Release Dates, and the Lower Decks/Strange New Worlds Crossover

This weekend is the San Diego ComicCon (SDCC) 2023. While actors had to sit it out due to their strike, that didn't stop Paramount+ from release new teasers, release dates and more. To start, episode 7 of Strange New Worlds is available on Paramount+ now. Called "Those Old Scientists" (TOS as in The Original Series) is the Lower Deck and Strange New Worlds crossover that has two members of the Lower Decks crew end up on the Enterprise (in live action form). With this early release is a slight shift in the schedule as that means the 8th episode comes out on July 27, 9th on August 3, and August 10 is the season finale. Speaking of the 9th episode, turns out its a musical episode with the first trailer for "Subspace Rhapsody" below. The soundtrack for that episode will also be released.

As for season four of Star Trek: Lower Decks, the first two episodes of the season will be released on September 7. The second video below is the official trailer. If the poster to the left looks familiar, its a homage to Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home poster. After that, we have a pretty exciting and creative clip from the first episode of Star Trek: Discovery season five. The final season does not have a premiere date just yet but expect it sometime during 2024. The current actor and writer strike is not expected to cause any delays as the season was aleady filmed last year with additional scenes to convert it a finale filmed before the strike.

On the Star Trek: Prodigy front, season two still does not have a new home. However, season 1's second half will get a home video release on September 26 so fans can complete their season set. The entire season is also available digitally. The DVD and Blu-ray set will include episodes 11-20 of the first season and about 45 minutes of special features cast and crew discussing the story, creating the season, designing the ships and more. As for UK and Germany, they will get a complete season 1 set of all 20 episodes with the UK release on September 25 and the Germany release on October 5. No idea what, if any, plans for other regions. You can preorder now on Amazon.

Two Star Trek Shows Gets Renewals, 2023 Release Dates

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds has officially been renewed for ten episode season 3 while Star Trek: Lower Decks also gets 10 episode order for season 5. As for release date, Strange New Worlds season 2 will premiere on Paramount+ starting June 15 with Lower Decks aiming for "late summer" release. Star Trek: Prodigy's first half of season 2 will likely close out 2023.

These renewals should lock up the full 2024 release schedule for Star Trek with Discovery's final fifth season coming out early in the year, Prodigy's second half sometime in the spring, and then Strange New Worlds season 3 and Lower Deck's (possibly final) season 5. What remains unknown is 2025 and beyond plans as budget cuts continue across Hollywood companies.

Star Trek Day Teases Upcoming Seasons

Today was Star Trek Day to mark the television premiere of Star Trek on NBC. As part of that, Paramount+ held a few panels and provided teasers to next season of shows along with some news and premiere dates for several shows.

Tribute To Nichelle Nichols - Below is a video that honors Nichelle Nichols (Uhura) who passed away on July 30 at the age of 89.

Star Trek: Picard Season 3 - The final series of Picard is set to premiere on Feburary 16, 2023 with 10 episodes. The cast of The Next Generation come togather to help Picard on one last mission. As the sneak peek shows, it will involve the USS Titan. If the name sounds familiar, Captain Riker was captain of a ship with the same name as seen in Upper Decks. This ship has a more traditional silhouette suggesting its a successor ship to the original Titan.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 2 - Below is a clip along with news that Carol Kane has joined the cast for the season along with a picture of her in uniform. She will be playing the new engineer Pelia. Below is a clip from the season. No date set for premiere of the season.

Star Trek: Prodigy Season 2 - The new season will premiere on October 27 which will find the crew of the USS Protostar discovering the ship has a dangerous weapon while real Vice Admiral Janeway is hunting for the ship to determine what happened to her friend Captain Chakotay. Billy Campbell will also return to play Captain Thadiun Okona who played the character on The Next Generation (S02E04) and voiced the role on Lower Decks (S02E05).

Star Trek: Discovery Season 5 - The fifth season is currently filming so a release date is at not until mid to late 2023. News was light but Mary Wiseman will be back, how much was not indicated. The story of the season will be a hunt for "an ancient power whose very existence has been delibertely hidden for centuries." Below is a little behind the scenes look of filming.

Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 4 - Currently premiering weekly on Paramount+, below is clip that will probably drive Boimler nuts.

Star Trek: Ceti Alpha V - Writer-Director Nicholas Meyer returns to Trek for a new podcast to "examine what happened in the years after Captain Kirk left Khan on the untamed world of Ceti Alpha V." Years ago this was going to be the second or third Star Trek series after Discovery but for unknown reasons the plan fell apart.

Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 3 Premiere Out Now

Friendly reminder that Star Trek: Lower Decks season 3's first episode is out now on Paramount+. The 10 episode season will have a new episode premiere early Thursday morning each week.

Star Trek: Lower Decks Season Three Trailer, Star Trek: Picard Teaser

This weekend the San Diego Comic-Con was held. With it came some light Star Trek news. Nothing on the movie front but on the television front we have a look at first full trailer for Star Trek: Lower Decks season three along with a teaser of The Next Generation cast joining Star Trek: Picard for its final season. There are also character posters of the cast from Lower Decks and Picard. Lower Decks season three will begin on Paramount+ starting August 25. Picard has already completed filming several months ago for a release sometime in 2023.

    

Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 3 Poster, Premiere Date

Paramount+ has revealed that season three of Star Trek: Lower Decks will hit the streaming service on August 25. The 10 episode season will premiere weekly each Thursday morning. If Star Trek: Discovery has not been your cup of tea, do not let that influence checking out this show as its turned into a classic TNG type take on Star Trek with a lot of humor but also great characters and story. Its worth at least checking out.

Star Trek Announces Series Release Dates, Renewals

For a nice change of pace, Paramount+ revealed most of their 2022 plans for Star Trek today instead of dong it in drips.  The Star Trek Universe of shows have multiple renewals and premiere dates aligned up for 2022.  Per usual, each show will premiere a new episode each Thursday morning. Currently the streaming channel has not announced plans to do entire season dumps for any Trek show.