Lower Decks creator Mike McMahan unpacks the series finale with CBR - and shares where he'd like Mariner, Boimler and the crew to go next.

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.

"The New Next Generation" kicks off with a fleet of Klingons patrolling the edge of their territory when the fissure shows up and emits waves that mess with the universe. Before one of the ships is destroyed, one of the Klingons transforms from their regular style based on the TNG era to resembling the Klingons from Star Trek: Discovery.

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.

Lower Decks has spent the last four years stepping out the ... and no I won’t be sharing it here. You can never quite escape Star Trek once it’s on your CV, and I’ve said before this isn’t the last time we’ll see the Cerritos crew.

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,