Star Trek: Lower Decks Will End With Its Fifth, Final Season
Well hell.
https://gizmodo.com/star-trek-lower-decks-canceled-season-5-paramount-1851407280
Awww i love lower decks!
@billmason @startrek Such a shame. ☹️
[Boimler scream]
“While five seasons of any series these days seems like a miracle, it’s no exaggeration to say that every second we’ve spent making this show has been a dream come true.”
Indeed, if even an animated series is ending after five seasons, I expect this to be a pretty firm maximum moving forward.
“We remain hopeful that even beyond Season 5, Mariner, Boimler, Tendi, Rutherford and the whole Cerritos crew will live on with new adventures,”
That’s encouraging.
I’d read a comic series. Hell I’d even pay for it.
Nice, def picking that up. You know what would also be amazing? A series of audio episodes, like BBC style radio comedies. The voice cast is sooo good. I’m just imagining how amazing a collab with John Finnemore would be.
Dammit. This will leave SNW as the only Trek series? I like SNW a lot but two series would be nice given how short seasons are nowadays.
Prodigy soldiers on for now, and Starfleet Academy is in pre-production, set to start filming this summer.
Paramount doesn’t even want Prodigy on their own streaming service, I have no idea what they’re doing with the franchise…
Apparently, the numbers on P+ weren’t good - the Hagemans themselves have said so.
To be honest, if Paramount slowly decides that they’re better off selling their shows to other streamers… I’m not totally against it, depending on how it’s done.
The world couldn’t handle a full 7 seasons of LD
Boo!
Oh no.
Edit: In case I’m coming across sarcastic, I’m not. I loved LD probably the most of the new batch of Star Trek shows. It was just a joy to watch.
Meanwhile, the adventures continue for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, which has been renewed for season 4.
At least there’s that.
It’s still surprising that Lower Decks ends so soon. It’s well received and should be reasonably cheap to produce. Why would they axe it?
Pretty gutted at this news, but as others have pointed out, this move may cement LD as a classic without outstaying their welcome. And hopefully there is a desire for more animated Trek now
Lower decks live action series? Pretty please?
It’s Marin-over.
Replaced with Star Trek Upper Decks?
Yeah, they’re technically not even lower decks anymore since season 4.
That’s sad. While I didn’t enjoy every aspect of it, I quite enjoyed it overall. I’m happy to hear season 3 isn’t supposed to be the last for SNW though.
Well looks like I’ll be filling unemployment 🖖 🤣