Star Trek: Lower Decks

L-R: Jerry OíConnell as Jack Ransom, NoÎl Wells as DíVana Tendi, Eugene Cordero as Rutherford, Dawnn Lewis as Captain Carol Freeman, Fred Tatasciore as Lieutenant Shaxs, Tawny Newsome as Beckett Mariner, and Gabrielle Ruiz as T'Lyn in episode 7, season 5 of Lower Decks streaming on Paramount+, 2024. Photo Credit: Paramount+

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Star Trek: Lower Decks' voiceover actor Jack Quaid is bound for movie star status

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L-R: Paul Scheer as Andy Billups and Eugene Cordero as Rutherford in episode 2, season 5 of Lower Decks streaming on Paramount+, 2024. Photo Credit: Paramount+

Star Trek's experimentation has hindered the franchise, not helped

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Star Trek: Lower Decks showed that Star Trek should avoid catering to niche crowds

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Tawny Newsome, Jack Quaid and Anson Mount appearing in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, streaming on Paramount+, 2023. Photo Cr: Michael Gibson/Paramount+

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Mike McMahan wrote Lower Decks cameo-filled finale before the legacy actors had committed to the show

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Jack Quaid as Boimler in episode 7, season 5 of Lower Decks streaming on Paramount+, 2024. Photo Credit: Paramount+

Mike McMahan kept re-writing the finale for Star Trek: Lower Decks

L-R: Gillian Vigman as Doctor T'Ana and Fred Tatasciore as Lieutenant Shaxs in episode 1, season 5 of Lower Decks streaming on Paramount+, 2024. Photo Credit: Paramount+

Star Trek: Lower Decks failed to find its audience within the fandom for a reason

Dawnn Lewis nominated for NAACP Image Award for Star Trek: Lower Decks

L-R: Tawny Newsome as Beckett Mariner and Jack Quaid as Boimler in episode 2, season 5 of Lower Decks streaming on Paramount+, 2024. Photo Credit: Paramount+

Star Trek: Lower Decks over-relied on callbacks, and it's something future shows need to avoid

How Star Trek: Lower Decks got Jolene Blalock to return

L-R: Noël Wells as D'Vana Tendi, Tawny Newsome as Beckett Mariner, Jack Quaid as Boimler, Eugene Cordero as Rutherford, and Dawnn Lewis as Captain Carol Freeman in episode 5, season 5 of Lower Decks streaming on Paramount+, 2024. Photo Credit: Paramount+

With Lower Decks over, what can be learned from the show's worst habit?

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Mike McMahan slams Netflix's rumored policy on script writing

The return of legacy characters on Star Trek: Lower Decks makes way for live-action appearances

Star Trek: Lower Decks' creator, Mike McMahan, has a plan for the series after regrouping

L-R Zahra Bentham as CMDR Jemison, David Ajala as Book and Callum Keith Rennie as Rayner in Star Trek: Discovery, episode 9, season 5, streaming on Paramount+, 2023. Photo Credit: Michael Gibson/Paramount+

Ranking and grading every completed Star Trek show of the Nu Trek era

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Star Trek: Lower Decks proved there is meat on the bone for a Harry Kim story

Gabrielle Ruiz as T'Lyn in episode 2, season 5 of Lower Decks streaming on Paramount+, 2024. Photo Credit: Paramount+

No, Star Trek: Lower Decks did not make a 'better' version of Carbon Creek

L-R: Jack Quaid as Boimler, Eugene Cordero as Rutherford, Tawny Newsome as Beckett Mariner, Noël Wells as D'Vana Tendi, and Gabrielle Ruiz as T'Lyn in season 5 of Lower Decks streaming on Paramount+, 2024. Photo Credit: Paramount+

Lower Decks' series finale doesn't feel final, and that's a good thing! S5E10

The door is wide open for a Star Trek: Lower Decks movie in the future

L-R: Jack Quaid as Boimler, Tawny Newsome as Beckett Mariner, NoÎl Wells as DíVana Tendi, Eugene Cordero as Rutherford, and Gabrielle Ruiz as T'Lyn in episode 2, season 5 of Lower Decks streaming on Paramount+, 2024. Photo Credit: Paramount+

With it officially being over, what is Star Trek: Lower Decks' immediate legacy?