Star Trek: Lower Decks Release Date and New Images Revealed

CBS All Access has announced that the new animated Star Trek series Star Trek: Lower Decks will debut on the streaming service on Thursday, August 6. New episodes of the 10-episode first season will then be available weekly. New images from the show were also revealed Wednesday, including a poster featuring our first look at the show's starship, which is described in a press release as "one of Starfleet’s least important ships" -- the U.S.S. Cerritos. Check it out below: [caption id="attachment_2374639" align="aligncenter" width="567"] "One of Starfleet’s least important ships," the U.S.S. Cerritos from Star Trek: Lower Decks.[/caption] Lower Decks was developed by Mike McMahan, of Rick and Morty fame, and is about the support crew of the Cerritos. Set in the year 2380 -- which for those keeping count is 10 years after the last episode of The Next Generation and 19 years before Picard Season 1 -- the show features Ensigns Beckett Mariner (voiced by Tawny Newsome), Brad Boimler (voiced by Jack Quaid), Rutherford (voiced by Eugene Cordero) and Tendi (voiced by Noël Wells) who "have to keep up with their duties and their social lives, often while the ship is being rocked by a multitude of sci-fi anomalies." At San Diego Comic-Con last year, Star Trek uber-producer Alex Kurtzman recalled McMahan’s pitch: “I want to do a show about the guy who brings the yellow cartridge to the back of the replicator so that a banana comes out the front.” Check out more new images from the series in the slideshow below: [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=star-trek-lower-decks-cast&captions=true"] The bridge crew of the show include Captain Carol Freeman (voiced by Dawnn Lewis), Commander Jack Ransom (voiced by Jerry O’Connell), Lieutenant Shaxs (voiced by Fred Tatasciore) and Doctor T’Ana (voiced by Gillian Vigman). Star Trek: Lower Decks is just one of many Trek shows in various stages of production right now. Star Trek: Discovery's third season is expected to launch this year, Star Trek: Picard Season 2 is currently being written, the untitled Section 31 spin-off starring Michelle Yeoh is in development, and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds featuring the return of Anson Mount's Captain Pike and crew was recently greenlit. Then there's also the other animated series in the works at Nickelodeon and at least one more live-action series that Kurtzman has hinted at. That's a lot of Trek! [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/picard-season-1-review-is-the-star-trek-spinoff-worth-it-spoilers"]

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