The New Next Generation' ties together Lower Decks' final season the way it should–just perhaps not the way some may have hoped.

The New Next Generation' is the last-ever episode of 'Lower Decks', but it almost feels like a backdoor pilot for a new 'Star Trek' show.

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The last episode of Lower Decks is titled “The New Next Generation,” and it’s hard to think of something more appropriate for the show. Not only does Lower Decks take its name from a season seven episode of TNG, but its theme and font choices all recall that classic.

Given these explanations, most fans grudgingly accepted that Discovery's Klingons were just a natural variation of Klingons. However, the events in the series finale of Star Trek: Lower Decks offer another potential explanation for why Discovery's Klingons are so different from their brethren.

With the release of The Next New Generation, the final episode of season 5, the latest series in the retooled Star Trek Expanded Universe comes to a close. Star Trek: Lower Decks boldly went where no show in the saga to this date had ventured: adult animation.

Set phasers to spoilers, because this article discusses major plot details from the "Star Trek: Lower Decks" series finale. The time has finally come for one of the best new additions to the "Star Trek" franchise (and one of the biggest pleasant surprises) to sail into the sunset,