Star Trek: Lower Decks creator Mike McMahan talks Season Four finale and the series' future.
Star Trek: Lower Decks wrapped its fourth season on Thursday with an episode that brought back some familiar characters and pushed the beloved series protagonists serving on the lower decks of the U.S.S. Cerritos into new places. The episode also featured some cinematic action and a grander tone appropriate for a finale and perhaps more. In the past, the biggest Star Trek shows jumped from television to film.
"Yes, and I am a big fan of Craig and everybody with Section 31," McMahan says."I think it's going to be awesome. And I'm Mr. More when it comes to Star Trek. I want to see Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, which sounds awesome. I want to see more Prodigy. I want to see more movies. More, more and more like, let's go."
This is such an important show to me, and this is such an important franchise to me, that I tend to maybe be too careful. Part of it is I want people to love watching Lower Decks. I don't want to make people feel like they don't know what's going on. A lot of the time, with the legacy stuff, I am waiting until I can find a way where if somebody has never seen the stuff I'm referring to, it doesn't matter because they still get it.
This finale ends up forming this third chapter of what is now a trilogy of episodes that started with"The First Duty" and then the original"Lower Decks" episode. Now we have this"Locarno trilogy" or whatever fans might want to call it. Was that on your mind, this larger franchise meta-story, or was your focus entirely on your characters?
As you said, this episode is very Wrath of Khan, including the ships hiding in the clouds sequence. Considering you had done those"Crisis Point" episodes that lovingly made fun of the Star Trek movies, was there any worry going into this about,"How do we get the audience to take us seriously now after we had so much fun taking the piss out of the Star Trek movies?"
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