Lower Decks S5 Trailer Teases Multiple Harry Kims

The heroes of Lower Decks are ensigns no more after last season’s surprise early promotion saw Boimler, Mariner, Tendi, Rutherford, and their new Vulcan friend T’Lyn all have to grapple with their future careers in Starfleet ranking up. Coming into their fifth and final set of adventures, it looks like not only has the show found more ways to get them into hijinks… but also one of Star Trek‘s most legendary ensigns to playfully rib now that the Lower Deckers have risen in the ranks.

Today Paramount released the latest trailer for the rapidly incoming arrival of Star Trek: Lower Decks‘ final season. It’s got a great “everything’s fine down here” kind of vibe, as we hear a ship’s log from Captain Freeman expressing her relief that her junior officers have smoothly adapted to life slightly higher on the rungs of the Starfleet career ladder, and that, for once, everything is seemingly going well… as we see Beckett and her friends getting into all sorts of crazy shenanigans.

Giant creatures to fight, space drugs to get high on, seemingly alternate versions of the Cerritos to encounter, there’s a lot of the usual wackiness you’d expect from Lower Decks here, indicating that the show’s bowing out as it’s always been. But there’s also some interesting nuggets of drama in here, like Tendi’s new life with her family’s crime syndicate on Orion (there’s plenty of shots here of her back in a Starfleet uniform, so it’s no surprise she’ll return to the Cerritos at some point this season), and even romantic trouble in paradise for Mariner and her girlfriend Jennifer (or is that ex-girlfriend, as far as Mariner’s concerned?).

But, then, of course, would it be Lower Decks without a few cheeky nods to other Star Trek shows? The Enterprise decontamination gag is great, but once again, it’s clear that the Trek show Lower Decks holds closest to its heart is Voyager, with the trailer ending on a very fun gag of Harry Kim himself (with Garrett Wang seemingly returning) to find a plethora of alternate variants of himself… who quickly notice that the actual Harry is now Lieutenant Kim. At long last, he got promoted! We actually knew this from a brief Easter egg display screen shown in Star Trek: Prodigy, confirming that Harry was serving aboard the USS Dauntless as a tactical officer. But Prodigy is set beginning in 2383, roughly three years after Lower Decks, which itself is set two years after Voyager returned to the Alpha Quadrant in 2378.

It was honestly already crazy enough considering the amount of stuff he went through (including, pretty low on the list of wild things all considering, dying multiple times) that Harry never got a field promotion the way several other members of Voyager‘s senior staff did, but at least now Harry Prime doesn’t have to be the butt of all ensign jokes. Just like Lower Decks‘ heroes, he’s grown up!

Star Trek: Lower Decks‘ fifth and final season begins with a two-episode premiere on October 24.

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