After wrapping up another hilariously successful season, here's everything we know about Star Trek: Lower Decks season 4. Executive producer and creator Mike McMahan's animated comedy has proven itself as the most purely fun and unpredictable Star Trek series on Paramount+. After 3 seasons, Lower Decks is now cemented as genuine Star Trek, and the series continues to homage and spoof every corner of the Star Trek universe, including an acclaimed crossover with Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
Multiple storylines converged and were resolved in Lower Decks season 3. These included mysteries about Ensign Samanthan Rutherford's (Eugene Cordero) implant that paid, and Ensign Beckett Mariner (Tawny Newsome) meeting an ex-Starfleet Officer-turned-archaeologist who took her in when she was booted off the USS Cerritos. Meanwhile, the California-class fleet was nearly rendered obsolete by the A.I.-driven Texas-class starships, but the Cerritos managed to defeat the new robot Starfleet ships after they went rogue, reaffirming the importance of Lower Decks' California-class. Star Trek: Lower Decks season 4 is now on the way — here's everything that's known on what's in store for the crew of the Cerritos next.
The Latest Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 4 News
Since it's expected to arrive later in 2023, much of the recent Star Trek: Lower Decks season 4 news has been around plot teases. Lower Decks season 4 picks up directly where season 3 left off, and showrunner Mike McMahan has teased that the next installment will see the gang head to Orion, and that there will be a wedding. At the TREKtalks2 fundraiser panel event, McMahan had this to say about the upcoming season "We are working hard on season 4. I think it’s our best season yet. It’s our funniest. It’s our most dramatic. It’s our most T’Lyn-filled. I’m just loving it." Season 3 of Lower Decks went out with a bang, so anticipation is high for anything that teases how season 4 follows it up. As of now, there is no trailer for Star Trek: Lower Decks season 4, but since it has a projected release window of 2023, something should pop up relatively soon
Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 4 Release Date
Paramount+ gave Star Trek: Lower Decks an early season 4 renewal in January 2022, a full 8 months before season 3 premiered on the streaming service. With season 4 assured, writing on the next Lower Decks season commenced immediately. By the end of summer 2022, the scripts for Lower Decks season 4 were completed so that production for the next season was underway. Star Trek: Lower Decks traditionally premieres in August or late summer every year, so it's safe to expect Lower Decks season 4 to drop on Paramount+ in late summer or fall 2023.
Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 4 Cast
The entire Star Trek: Lower Decks season 4 will return from season 3, seeing Tawny Newsome return as the incomparable Beckett Mariner. Jack Quaid's (The Boys) Brad Boimler is back, as is Noël Wells' D'Vana Tendi. In addition, Eugene Cordero will be reprising his role as Sam Rutherford, alongside Dawnn Lewis' Carol Freeman, Jerry O'Connell's Jack Ransom, and Gillian Vigman's T'Ana. Newcomer T'Lyn, voiced by Gabrielle Ruiz has officially joined the crew, and audiences will get to see more of Peanut Hamper, voiced by Kether Donohue. Lower Decks season 4 should also have more Star Trek legacy guest voices like James Cromwell's Zephram Cochrane and George Takei's Captan Sulu in season 3.
Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 4 Story Details
Star Trek: Lower Decks season 4 has a lot of threads that season 3 left behind. Ensign Brad Boimler believes his identical transporter clone, William Boimler, died, and he has no idea his doppelganger joined Section 31. Plus the evil A.I.s Peanut Hamper and AGIMUS have teamed up, and this could factor into the Lower Decks season 3 finale's end-credits scene revealing that Badgey is alive. A new Lower Decker, the Vulcan named T'Lyn, has joined the USS Cerritos as a Science Officer trainee alongside Ensign D'Vana Tendi. And Mariner is back in Starfleet's good graces as the protégé of Commander Jack Ransom.
Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 4 Trailer
As of now, there is no Star Trek: Lower Decks season 4 trailer. That could change in the near future, however, as the release window seems to be the summer or fall of 2023. It's possible that in the spring of 2023, a Star Trek: Lower Decks season 4 trailer could be released.
Star Trek: Lower Decks' Crossover With Strange New Worlds
Another huge event in 2023 is Star Trek: Lower Decks' upcoming crossover with Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. In a much-anticipated upcoming Strange New Worlds season 2 episode, Jack Quaid and Tawny Newsome will come aboard the USS Enterprise and play Boimler and Mariner in live-action. There is also rumored to be an animated component so that Captain Christopher Pike (Anson Mount) and his crew could appear as their cartoon selves. Strange New Worlds season 2 will premiere before Lower Decks season 4, so it's safe to expect some fallout and mentions of Mariner and Boimler meeting Pike, Spock (Ethan Peck), and Number One (Rebecca Romijn) in Star Trek: Lower Decks season 4.
Star Trek: Lower Decks Seasons 1-3 are streaming on Paramount+.