Star Trek: Lower Decks Will Premiere August 6

[Peter Paltridge]

Had enough New Star Trek yet? CBS will tell you when you’ve had enough! Yet another Trek-iverse series is set to premiere this summer, though it looks and feels very different from all that’s come before it.
Star Trek: Lower Decks brings the members of Starfleet into the medium of animation for the first time since Filmation did it back in the 70s. But it doesn’t follow anyone important…it concerns the crew of the fleet’s LEAST important Starship, the U.S.S. Cerritos — and even then, only the folks that work in its lower decks.

Ensign Mariner (played by Tawny Newsome), Ensign Boimler (played by Jack Quaid), Ensign Rutherford (voiced by Eugene Cordero) and Ensign Tendi (voiced by Noël Wells) are stuck doing the grunt work that no one else wants to degrade themselves with. Stuff happens around this...

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