'Star Trek: Lower Decks' Makes A Harry Kimpression In Final Season Official Trailer

Now that’s how to do a promotion. Season premieres October 24

Star Trek: Picard took on Seven-of-Nine, sprinkling some Tuvok at the end. Prodigy became a much of a Voyager sequel with Janeway attempting to rescue Chakotay, with the loyal Doctor by her side. And it’s the Doctor who will be a series regular on the upcoming Starfleet Academy series. Now, having already welcomed back Robert Duncan McNeill as Tom Paris for an episode, Lower Decks is ready to lay claim to Garrett Wang’s never-promoted Harry Kim for its final season, and not just one, but several. Paramount+ released the official trailer for the show’s final season on Thursday, before the October 24 two-episode premiere.

Much of the trailer’s voiceover is U.S.S. Cerritos Captain Carol Freeman (voiced by Dawnn Lewis) commending her cadets on their successes and competency in their new positions, as they’re shown on various missions. Kim, actually many versions of himself, only appears in a gag scene toward the end of the trailer (hopefully part of a well-focused episode), calling out at one point in shocked surprise, “Wait, everyone, shut up! This Kim’s got two pips!” The only Kim to actually be promoted asks of his other selves “You’re all still Ensigns?”

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Quote-tweeting series creator and showrunner Mike McMahan’s tweeting of the trailer (“COMING IN HOT!”), Wang shared “I cannot convey how difficult it has been to keep quiet about the appearance of Harry Kim on Lower Decks…so ecstatic to finally be a part of this epic show!”

This season the crew is tasked with closing “space potholes”, which are subspace rifts that trouble the Alpha Quadrant. Handling these “potholes” would be easy for Mariner, Boimler, Tendi and Rutherford, but that’s on top of having to to deal with an Orion war, angry Klingons, diplomatic disasters, murder mysteries and scariest of all: their own career aspirations. This underdog crew is dangerously close to being promoted out of the lower decks and into strange new Starfleet roles. In the days leading up to the trailer’s release, the march toward the end of the series’s production was hitting some major milestones, as series producer Brad Winters shared on that voice recording has been completed. Series star Jerry O’Connell, who voices Commander Jack Ransom, days previously marked his last recording session.

Lower Decks’s main crew indeed has D'Vana Tendi voiced by Noel Wells, has Beckett Mariner voiced by Tawny Newsome, Brad Boimler voiced by Jack Quaid, and Sam Rutherford voiced by Eugene Cordero, with other crew, aside from Freeman and Ransom, being Fred Tatasciore as Shaxs and Doctor T’Ana voiced by Gillian Vigman. The series is produced by CBS Studios’ animation arm CBS Eye Animation Productions as well as Secret Hideout, the production company of the franchise's modern shepherd Alex Kurtzman; and Roddenberry Entertainment, the production company of the Roddenberry family, primarily Rod. Both serve as executive producers Trevor Roth and Katie Krentz of 219 Productions also serve in said role alongside McMahan. The show will have a presence at New York Comic-Con this weekend on its own Star Trek Universe panel like San Diego had, and an episode screening is expected. With weekly Thursday releases after the two-episode premiere, the series finale is pretty set to premiere on December 19.

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Sources: The Hollywood Reporter, TrekCore, Garrett Wang