Star Trek: Lower Decks arrive on CBS All Access on August 6

The animated series Star Trek: Lower Decks arrives on CBS All Access on August 6

Star Trek: Lower Decks finally has a premiere date and it’s Thursday, August 6!  The animated Star Trek series focuses on crew members aboard the U.S.S. Cerritos who are often found on all the lesser explored and talked about levels on board of Starfleet ships. It joins Star Trek: Discovery and Star Trek: Picard as series already on the platform, as well as the upcoming Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.

The series will feature crew members “Ensign Beckett Mariner,” voiced by Tawny Newsome, “Ensign Brad Boimler,” voiced by Jack Quaid, “Ensign Tendi,” voiced by Noël Wells and “Ensign Rutherford,” voiced by Eugene Cordero. The Starfleet characters that comprise the ship’s bridge crew include “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.

Several of those names should sound familiar. Quad, for example, is a star on Amazon’s hit series The Boys, Tawny Newsome of Space Force, and Fred Tatasciore from the Scooby-Doo franchise.

The series will also bring a married couple into the franchise, as Jerry O’Connell is also part of Lower Decks. His wife, Rebecca Romijn will feature on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds as Number One.

Below is the press release for the show.

"RARELY GOING WHERE NO ONE HAS GONE BEFORE.MEET THE CREW OF THE U.S.S. CERRITOS WHENANIMATED COMEDY SERIES “STAR TREK: LOWER DECKS”PREMIERES THURSDAY, AUGUST 6 ON CBS ALL ACCESSNew Episodes Will Be Released Weekly on Thursdays,Exclusively for CBS All Access SubscribersSTAR TREK: LOWER DECKS Teaser Art Also Revealed TodayJuly 1, 2020 – CBS All Access, ViacomCBS’ digital subscription video on-demand and live streaming service, today announced its new half-hour animated comedy series STAR TREK: LOWER DECKS will premiere on Thursday, August 6. Following the premiere, new episodes of the series’ 10-episode first season will be available to stream weekly on Thursdays, exclusively for CBS All Access subscribers in the U.S. The series’ teaser art was also revealed.Developed by Emmy Award winner Mike McMahan (“Rick and Morty,” “Solar Opposites”), STAR TREK: LOWER DECKS focuses on the support crew serving on one of Starfleet’s least important ships, the U.S.S. Cerritos, in 2380. Ensigns Mariner, Boimler, Rutherford and Tendi have to keep up with their duties and their social lives, often while the ship is being rocked by a multitude of sci-fi anomalies. The Starfleet crew residing in the “lower decks” of the U.S.S. Cerritos, includes “Ensign Beckett Mariner,” voiced by Tawny Newsome, “Ensign Brad Boimler,” voiced by Jack Quaid, “Ensign Tendi,” voiced by Noël Wells and “Ensign Rutherford,” voiced by Eugene Cordero. The Starfleet characters that comprise the ship’s bridge crew include “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 series is produced by CBS’ Eye Animation Productions, CBS Television Studios’ new animation arm; Secret Hideout; and Roddenberry Entertainment. Secret Hideout’s Alex Kurtzman and Heather Kadin and Roddenberry Entertainment’s Rod Roddenberry and Trevor Roth, and Katie Krentz (219 Productions) serve as executive producers alongside creator and showrunner Mike McMahan. Aaron Baiers (Secret Hideout), who brought McMahan to the project, serves as a co-executive producer. Titmouse (“Big Mouth”), the Emmy Award-winning independent animation production company, serves as the animation studio for the series. STAR TREK: LOWER DECKS will air exclusively on CBS All Access in the United States and is distributed worldwide by ViacomCBS Global Distribution Group.STAR TREK: LOWER DECKS is the first animated series to join the expanding “Star Trek” franchise on CBS All Access, which includes hit original series STAR TREK: PICARD; STAR TREK: DISCOVERY, returning with season three later this year; the recently announced U.S.S. Enterprise set series STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS, featuring Anson Mount, Rebecca Romijn and Ethan Peck; and the development of a Section 31-based series with Michelle Yeoh. A CG-animated “Star Trek” series aimed at younger audiences is also in the works for Nickelodeon."

The fact the press release includes the CG-animated Star Trek series for Nickelodeon still fascinating. That would mean that there’s six Star Trek shows on the air all around the same time as another.

Are you excited for Lower Decks?