Lower Decks' final season is here, and signifies a sweet addition to the 2024 TV schedule. While it's great that creator Mike McMahan promised a satisfying conclusion for the series, there's still optimism in regard to the show receiving a second life in some way.

I n the first episode of the fifth and final season of "Star Trek: Lower Decks," called "Dos Cerritos," D'Vana Tendi (Noël Wells) is still living among her fellow Orion pirates,

When I spoke to McMahan recently, he explained that his goal for this final season was to wrap up the “Lower Decks era” of Mariner, Boimler, Rutherford, and Tendi’s lives, but not their overall stories.

Our time aboard the U.S.S. Cerritos is about to come to an end — but not before Paramount+’s Star Trek: Lower Decks beams up a bevy of last laughs (and maybe some tears). As announced in the spring, Star Trek: Lower Decks is ending with Season 5,