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
The world couldn’t handle a full 7 seasons of LD
Submitted 8 months ago by billmason@mastodon.social to startrek@startrek.website
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reddig33@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I really enjoyed the live action cameos the two cast members did on SNW. Hopefully there will be more Trek work for them.
HWK_290@lemmy.world 8 months ago
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
ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 8 months ago
“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.
dariusj18@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I’d read a comic series. Hell I’d even pay for it.
Stormygeddon@startrek.website 8 months ago
I remember liking the caption that any story is improved by the addition of Dracula.
chahk@beehaw.org 8 months ago
They probably mean comic books.
halm@leminal.space 8 months ago
[Boimler scream]
cygnus@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
[deleted]ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 8 months ago
Prodigy soldiers on for now, and Starfleet Academy is in pre-production, set to start filming this summer.
Crankpork@beehaw.org 8 months ago
Paramount doesn’t even want Prodigy on their own streaming service, I have no idea what they’re doing with the franchise…
bradboimler@startrek.website 8 months ago
Well looks like I’ll be filling unemployment 🖖 🤣
ThrowawayInTheYear23@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Replaced with Star Trek Upper Decks?
zaphod@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
Yeah, they’re technically not even lower decks anymore since season 4.
End0fLine@programming.dev 8 months ago
Could you imagine if that is the long con here? I’d love that.
Klanky@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
Oh no.
UESPA_Sputnik@lemmy.world 8 months ago
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?
druid@toot.wales 8 months ago
@billmason @startrek Such a shame. ☹️
stargazingpenguin@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
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.
MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 8 months ago
Boo!
surak@mastodon.gnomos.org 8 months ago
@billmason @startrek nooooooooooooooooooo
chahk@beehaw.org 8 months ago
palarith@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Lower decks live action series? Pretty please?
azerial@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
Awww i love lower decks!
TheImpressiveX@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
It’s Marin-over.
WWSchoof@layer8.space 8 months ago
ApostleO@startrek.website 8 months ago
As disappointing as it is to see it end, 5 seasons is a decent run, and I’d rather it end before they “jump the shark” or just fizzle out.
grue@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Lower Decks is the kind of show that needs to cut to black for the last time right as cool Boimler on water skis is approaching a shark.
wingsfortheirsmiles@feddit.uk 8 months ago
Agreed, even as a huge fan of LD I could personally sense it being more difficult to write more stories for our lowly stalwarts of Starfleet in season 4. Better to be able to end still chanting “Lower Decks! Lower Decks! Lower Decks!”
AlexisFR@jlai.lu 8 months ago
I don’t know. We only got like 10 x 25 minutes episodes per season. That’s not a lot of conten.
ElderWendigo@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
I enthusiastically disagree. Lower Decks needs to boldly go and jump the shark more than traveling back in time to save a whale or talking to an old microwave that became a god.