Today, Paramount Plus revealed that the third season of Star Trek: Lower Decks will make its debut on Thursday, August 25, 2022. In addition, a new piece of key art was released for the upcoming season. While we may have to wait (deep breath) six more weeks for the new Star Trek, we at least have some tantalizing hints at what’s to come in Lower Decks season 3!
Along with the news of the release date, we may have confirmation of what we’ve all known in our hearts all along. Captain Carol Freeman (Dawnn Lewis) is innocent! According to the subtitle on the news release, the third season of Lower Decks will follow “A framed captain. A ragtag crew. The search for Season 3.”
Lower Decks Season 3
Yes, as alluded to by that copy, the key art for Lower Decks season 3 is inspired by the third Trek movie: Star Trek III: The Search for Spock. This new poster puts Ensign Samanthan Rutherford (Eugene Cordero) in the position of Spock in that movie.
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This aligns with the information we gleaned from the Star Trek: Lower Decks footage released during the fiftieth The Ready Room show last week. In that scene, Earthbound Ensigns Beckett Mariner (Tawny Newsome) and Bradward Boimler (Jack Quaid) postulated that locating Rutherford could help them find the Cerritos. There, the PADDs containing Bradward’s exhaustive logs can provide the evidence necessary to exonerate Freeman.
The fact that this season’s poster is inspired by The Search for Spock is unsurprising, as it follows an established pattern. The first season of Lower Decks featured a poster based on Star Trek: The Motion Picture. The sophomore season featured a poster that was based on Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.
All this makes one thing inevitable. Thanks to Newsome’s Tik Tok videos, we know voiceover for the fourth season is currently being recorded. No doubt we will get a poster based on Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home for that season. But how prominently will it feature our favorite crewmembers from Cetacean Ops, Matt and Kimolu?
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Arriving August 25
This is the longest wait for a new Trek since season four of Star Trek: Discovery made its debut in November 2021. But given the quality of the Mike McMahan-created animated series, Star Trek: Lower Decks season 3 will be worth the wait. So in the meantime, let’s engage in some reckless speculation. What is the location of the fourth Lower Decker, Ensign D’Vana Tendi (Noël Wells)? It’s going to be a long six weeks!
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