Star Trek Lower Decks

Warning : spoiler for Star Trek : Lower bedight Season 5 , Episode 9 - " Fissure Quest "

Star Trek : Lower Decksseason 5 just topped its previous crossover withStar Trek : Strange New Worlds . InStrange New Worldsseason 2 , installment 7 , " Those Old Scientists , " Ensigns Brad Boimler ( Jack Quaid ) and Beckett Mariner ( Tawny Newsome ) made the jump from animation to endure - military action . After encountering a portal , Boimler and Mariner recover themselves in the twenty-third 100 USS Enterprise of Captain Christoper Pike ( Anson Mount ) . What follows is a hilarious serial of interaction as Boimler try on ( and fails ) to take his fervor about meeting his champion .

In its last season on Paramount+,Star Trek : Lower Decksseason 5finds the USS Cerritos investigating a serial of quantum fissures that have open up across the galaxy . Star Trek : Lower Decksseason 5 , episode 9 , " Fissure Quest , " reveals thatSection 31 has assigned Captain William Boimler and a crew of"interdimensional castaways"to investigate these riftsin spacetime . Boimler ’s crew let in some surprisingly familiar boldness from across theStar Trektimeline , many of whom have not been seen since their various display terminate .

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How Star Trek: Lower Decks Topped Strange New Worlds’ Crossover

Lower Decks' Animation Allowed For More Characters To Return

Star Trek : unknown New Worlds'“Those Old Scientists " rest a brilliant and hilarious installment ofStar Trekthat introduced new rooter toStar Trek : Lower pack of cards . For obvious reasons , prequel serial likeStrange New Worldscannot always bestow back the original actors to recapitulate their roles , but an animated series likeLower Decksdoes not have that problem . Captain Boimler ’s crowd in " Fissure Quest " includesT’Pol ( Jolene Blalock ) , Curzon Dax ( Fred Tatasciore ) , Garak ( Andrew Robinson ) , Dr. Julian Bashir ( Alexander Siddig ) , and many Harry Kims ( Garrett Wang ) , all of whom are vocalise by their original actor ( with the exception of Curzon ) .

place up its season 5 finale , Star Trek : Lower Decks plump vainglorious by lend back characters from DS9 , Voyager , Enterprise , and First Contact .

It would be unmanageable for a live - activity show likeStrange New Worldsto achieve a crossover of the same magnitude with so many returning characters . Not only have the creators ofStar Trek : Lower Deckstruly maximized the advantages of animation , but they also get their obvious love forStar Trekshine through . “Fissure Quest " showed a Garak and a ( holographical ) Bashir as a loving married yoke , and let on that this T’Pol spent over sixty years marital to Trip Tucker ( Connor Trinneer ) . Both of these storylines satisfy the desires of manyStar Trekfans , who have vocalise their opinions on message display panel and comment discussion section across the cyberspace .

Live-action Boimler (Jack Quaid) from Strange New Worlds Crossover with Captain Pike from Strange New Worlds and Garak From Deep Space Nine

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Lower Decks’ Crossover Took Advantage Of Star Trek’s Multiverse

Multiple Star Trek Shows Collided In Lower Decks' Penultimate Episode

Star Trek : Lower Decksseason 5 has also ingest full advantage of the multiverse to fetch character together from differentStar Trekseries . Captain William Boimler himself is a car transporter clone of the original Lt . Bradward Boimler , andhis entire bunch aboard the Anaximander is made up of alternate - universe versions of popular fictional character . While theseStar Trekicons maintain the same basic personality as their Prime Universe similitude , they have also been shaped by an solely dissimilar universe of discourse . This givesLower Decksthe exemption to have fun with their characters and show a dissimilar side to these beloved rooter favorite .

Star Trek : Prodigyseason 2 also brought backStar Trek : The Next Generation ’s beloved Wesley Crusher ( Wil Wheaton ) and Dr. Beverly Crusher ( Gates McFadden ) .

When Boimler and his bunch get captured by"feral Khwopians,“they rule themselves in a cell with another crew from an alternate reality . This crew is led byCaptain Lily Sloane ( Alfre Woodard)who has a ship called the Beagle capable of locomote throughout the multiverse . Introduced inStar Trek : First Contact , Lily Sloane never had the hazard to become a true adventurer in that natural process - bundle film . Star Trek : Lower Decksgives her and all of the other returning characters a luck to fulfill different dreams , and also implies that other belovedStar Trekcharacters are out there in the multiverse , too .

T’Pol from Star Trek Enterprise, Jack Quaid Boimler in live-action (center), Harry Kim from  Star Trek Voyager

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