'Star Trek: Lower Decks' Season 4 Sets September Premiere On Paramount+; Trailer Released At SDCC
Lower Decks! Lower Decks! Fresh off their Strange New rendezvous, the adventures continue
On top of the crossover with Strange New Worlds premiering five days early, Star Trek: Lower Decks had its own time during the San Diego Comic-Con Hall H panel. The attending crew discussed the upcoming fourth season, revealing a September 7 premiere date on Paramount+ and releasing the season's trailer.
Two episodes will premiere on that date, kicking off the fourth season which will see Ensigns Beckett Mariner, voiced by Tawny Newsome; Brad Boimler, voiced by Jack Quaid; Tendi, voiced by Noël Wells; and Rutherford, voiced by Eugene Cordero, Provisional Ensign T’Lyn voiced by Gabrielle Ruiz. and the crew of the less-important U.S.S. Cerritos keeping up with their Starfleet duties, avoiding malevolent computers, getting stuck in some caves, and encountering new and classic aliens along the way. This is while the big guys face an unknown force destroying starships and threatening galactic peace. A lot happens in the trailer but there's not much in the way of context.
The U.S.S. Cerritos’ bridge crew includes 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. The teaser poster pays homage to Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, as previous seasons have done with the preceding movies.
Star Trek: Lower Decks 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 creator and showrunner Mike McMahan.
Due to Paramount+ abandoning Star Trek: Prodigy, Lower Decks is the service's last active animated original Star Trek series. Chances are, if they hadn't abandoned Prodigy, it would've been able to show off plenty with how much of season 2 was already done when the dropping happened. The crossover onto Strange New Worlds, titled "Those Old Scientists", is now streaming.
Source: Deadline