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Season 4 – Star Trek: Lower Decks

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"Star Trek: Lower Decks" focuses on the support crew serving on one of Starfleet's least important ships, the USS Cerritos, in 2380. Ensigns Mariner, Boimler, Rutherford and Tendi must keep up with their duties and their social lives, often while the ship is being rocked by a multitude of sci-fi anomalies. The ship's bridge crew includes Captain Carol Freeman, Commander Jack Ransom, Lieutenant Shaxs and Doctor T'Ana. This is the second animated spin-off in the franchise after 1973-74's "Star Trek: The Animated Series," but has a decidedly more adult tone and humor.

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Mirthful as ever while having grown into a proper Star Trek serial in its own right, Lower Decks' fourth season swabs the series' formula into a pristine polish.

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Kristy Puchko

Mashable

Dec 13, 2023

This opens up the world of Lower Decks, welcoming in new characters and recontextualizing old rivalries. Yet, amid all the new, this show thankfully hasn't lost touch with what makes it great.

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Alan Sepinwall

Rolling Stone

Sep 7, 2023

Next Generation and Deep Space Nine took a while to find themselves, and so did Lower Decks. As the series’ fourth season begins streaming today, it’s become a highlight of this current phase of TV Trek.

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Dylan Roth

Observer

Sep 1, 2023

Lower Decks never asks you to get weepy about Star Trek’s past, only to laugh at it. The emotional investment is entirely focused on the future, on the Cerritos and her crew.

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Julia Glassman

The Mary Sue

Dec 13, 2023

4/5

In an era of long-form, serialized TV that sometimes takes itself a little too seriously, it’s refreshing to have a bite-sized Star Trek series that offers just as much joy, humor, and adventure as its meatier counterparts.

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James Whitbrook

io9.com

Dec 13, 2023

In all, through some smart changes to its status quo and an acknowledgement of its own passage of time, Lower Decks feels more confident and exciting than ever before in its fourth season.

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Mel Valentin

That Shelf

Oct 15, 2023

Lower Decks fans can expect weekly doses of the crew of the U.S.S. Cerritos doing what they do best, delivering outrageous, laugh-out-loud jokes, physical gags, and enough in-jokes to keep Ph.D. students in pop culture occupied for the next year or two.

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S K

@sksksksk Feb 16, 2026

Still so good. And I *love* the choice of the season's villain!

Christine K.

@sci-fi-equestrian Jan 16, 2026

This show is a comfort show now and deserves 100% on the popcorn meter as well

Toast M

@RT28647132 Aug 17, 2024

Amazing show, amazing characters. The plot gets a little convoluted this season, so I ticked off a star, but it’s still true to the tone of Lower Decks. The beautiful blend of comedy and emotion is the defining feature of this show.

Marcio Andre R

@RT03842754 Jul 29, 2024

It´s really impressive the amount of errors. Those producers and writers deserve some kind of prize. No one could do some amount of errors and disrespect for so many years. Man they really want to destroy Star Trek till the last molecule!

Jon L

@JonLunatic Apr 12, 2024

They expand on the amazing lore so much this season! This is the direction Alex Kurtzman needs to take to keep the fans motivated. Lower Decks and Star Trek: Legacy NOW!

Lancelot O

@Upbeat_New_guy Nov 30, 2023

The writers have more or less given up on writing a story about characters that serve behind the scenes of your usual star trek series heroes. Instead it's just a series of memes and references (getting really self referential for jokes now, yeesh), and over the top silly and self indulgent plots for the sake of being silly and self indulgent using star trek references. Less of a show and more of a YouTube channel for casual sci-fi nerds.

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Tawny Newsome

Ensign Beckett Mariner

Jack Quaid

Ensign Brad Boimler

Noël Wells

Ensign Tendi

Eugene Cordero

Ensign Rutherford

Dawnn Lewis

Captain Carol Freeman

Episode 1

Aired Sep 7, 2023

Twovix

The Cerritos ensigns must assist a caretaker on the voyage of a historically significant starship.

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Episode 2

Aired Sep 7, 2023

I Have No Bones Yet I Must Flee

Mariner tries to get demoted; Rutherford tries to get promoted; Boimler makes a big move.

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Episode 3

Aired Sep 14, 2023

In the Cradle of Vexilon

Boimler leads his first away mission on an alien megastructure.

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Episode 4

Aired Sep 21, 2023

Something Borrowed, Something Green

Tendi is summoned back to Orion for a wedding.

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Episode 5

Aired Sep 28, 2023

Empathalogical Fallacies

A trio of Betazoids cause chaos on the Cerritos.

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Episode 6

Aired Oct 5, 2023

Parth Ferengi's Heart Place

The Cerritos visits the Ferengi home world.

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Episode 7

Aired Oct 12, 2023

A Few Badgeys More

Three computerized villains return to cause problems for the Cerritos crew.

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Episode 8

Aired Oct 19, 2023

Caves

The Lower Deckers go on a cave mission.

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Episode 9

Aired Oct 26, 2023

The Inner Fight

Captain Freeman assigns the Lower Deckers an overly safe mission to try and keep a self-destructive Mariner out of danger.

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Episode 10

Aired Nov 2, 2023

Old Friends, New Planets

Mariner faces her past in the season four finale.

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Director: Bob Suarez, Brandon Williams, Megan Lloyd, Barry J. Kelly, Brandon Williams, Jason Zurek
Creator: Mike McMahan
Executive Producer: Alex Kurtzman, Heather Kadin, Rod Roddenberry, Trevor Roth, Katie Krentz, Mike McMahan
Screenwriter: Ben Rodgers, Cullen Crawford, Grace Parra-Janney, Edgar Momplaisir, Mike McMahan, Aaron Burdette, Ben Waller
Network: Paramount+
Rating: TV-14 (V|L)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Comedy, Adventure, Animation
Original Language: English
Release Date: Sep 7, 2023

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