Real world article
(written from a production point of view)
Key art for Season 4
This page contains information specifically pertaining to the fourth season of Star Trek: Lower Decks. The season premiered as a Paramount+ exclusive in all territories where that streaming service was available. Prime Video had, by this time, had its rights as exclusive overseas streamer revoked and did not stream the season at all (see below).
Episodes[]
| Title | Episode | Production number | Stardate | US release date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Twovix" | 4x01 | LD-4001 | 58724.3 | 2023-09-07 |
| "I Have No Bones Yet I Must Flee" | 4x02 | LD-4002 | Unknown | 2023-09-07 |
| "In the Cradle of Vexilon" | 4x03 | LD-4003 | 58759.1 | 2023-09-14 |
| "Something Borrowed, Something Green" | 4x04 | LD-4004 | Unknown | 2023-09-21 |
| "Empathological Fallacies" | 4x05 | LD-4005 | Unknown | 2023-09-28 |
| "Parth Ferengi's Heart Place" | 4x06 | LD-4006 | 58901.5 | 2023-10-05 |
| "A Few Badgeys More" | 4x07 | LD-4007 | 58934.9 | 2023-10-12 |
| "Caves" | 4x08 | LD-4008 | Unknown | 2023-10-19 |
| "The Inner Fight" | 4x09 | LD-4009 | Unknown | 2023-10-26 |
| "Old Friends, New Planets" | 4x10 | LD-4010 | Unknown | 2023-11-02 |
Background information[]
- On 18 January 2022, the fourth season was announced.
- On 22 July 2022, at San Diego Comic Con's Star Trek panel, Paramount+ announced that the fourth season would premiere with two episodes on Thursday, September 7.
- Continuing a trend that was carried over from the previous season, the official season four poster art was a take on one of the official ones for Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home.
- In February 2023, it was announced that Prime Video was to lose its exclusive Lower Decks streaming rights outside the Americas and that the show would thereafter become internationally available on Paramount+ only as an exclusive. [1] Prime Video scheduled the series to leave the service in countries such as Germany in the month before the debut of season 4. [2] The fourth season of Lower Decks was therefore not added to Prime Video's catalog, although the first three seasons had yet to be removed at that point in time. A start was made however, when the third season became by January 2024 no longer available for streaming either in multiple foreign markets of the service.
- With the removal of Lower Decks and Picard from Canadian CraveTV on 1 August 2023, that streaming service was left without Star Trek entirely. [3] [4]
- The season is available to watch on Paramount+ where available and on the closely affiliated SkyShowtime streaming service elsewhere.
- On 24 August 2023, it was announced that four episodes of the season would be played in theaters in Columbus, Dallas, Denver, Philadelphia, Phoenix, San Diego, St. Louis, Washington DC, Vancouver, Calgary, and London, England. [5]
Awards[]
The 2024 inaugural Gold Collision Award was a tied win Lower Decks had to share with the Netflix Captain Fall animated series. [6] [7]
| 2023/24 Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 4 awards and honors | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Award | Category | Nominees | Result |
| Astra TV Awards | Best Streaming Animated Series or TV Movie | Paramount+/CBS Studios | nominated |
| Collision Award (Gold) | Television Series-Comedy | won | |
| Critics Choice Awards | Best Animated Series | nominated | |
| Emmy Awards | Outstanding Sound Editing For A Comedy Or Drama Series (Half-Hour) And Animation ("The Inner Fight") | James Lucero (Supervising Sound Editor) Drew Guy (Dialogue Editor) Mak Kellerman (Sound Effects Editor) John Wynn (Sound Effects Editor) Michael Britt (Foley Editor) | |
| Golden Reel Awards | Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing - Broadcast Animation ("Old Friends, New Planets") | James Lucero (supervising sound editor), Mak Kellerman (sound effects editor), John Wynn (sound effects editor), James Singleton (sound effects editor), Konrad Piñon (dialogue editor), and Michael Britt (foley editor) | |
| OFTA Awards | Best Animated Program | Paramount+/CBS Studios | |
| NAMIC Vision Awards | Animation | ||
| Saturn Awards | Best Animated Television Series or Special | ||
| TV Scholar Awards | Best Animated Series | ||
Credits[]
Cast[]
- Tawny Newsome as Ensign/Lieutenant jg Mariner
- Jack Quaid as Ensign/Lieutenant jg Boimler
- Noël Wells as Ensign/Lieutenant jg Tendi
- Eugene Cordero as Ensign/Lieutenant jg Rutherford
- Dawnn Lewis as Captain Freeman
- Jerry O'Connell as Commander Ransom
- Fred Tatasciore as Lieutenant Shaxs
- Gillian Vigman as Dr. T'Ana
See also[]
External links[]
- Interview: Mike McMahan on LOWER DECKS Season 4 at TrekCore
- Star Trek: Lower Decks season 4 at Wikipedia
- Star Trek: Lower Decks season 4 at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
- Star Trek: Lower Decks season 4 at Ex Astris Scientia
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