Warning! The following contains spoilers for the Star Trek: Lower Decks finale, "The New Next Generation." Stream it with a Paramount+ subscription and read at your own risk! We've officially said goodbye to another Star Trek series exiting the 2024 TV schedule , but there are still fans hoping we'll see Lower Decks pop back up on the upcoming Trek slate in the future. I count myself as one of those, especially after the animated series added such a game-changing element to the franchise, opening up the floodgates for many cool adventures down the road.
Starfleet now has a stable portal to the multiverse, and I had to ask creator Mike McMahan how hard that was to clear. While Trek has delivered some WTF moments in TNG and other shows, it surprisingly hasn't spent much time exploring the prospect of the multiverse. There's the Mirror Universe, the parallel universe and, of course, te alternative timelines that make for the Kelvin universe.
All that said, Lower Decks exploded the concept of the multiverse and confirmed a seemingly endless amount of realities for Starfleet to explore with the new portal. With such a radical change added to the Prime universe's canon, I asked Mike McMahan if it was a struggle getting it cleared, he confirmed as much, saying: It was a little bit..
. Star Trek has two types of multidimensionality, right? You've got the episode parallels from TNG, and then you've got the Mirror Universe stuff. I've always thought the Mirror Universe stuff isn't reall.