Hello all, Ric here with a video that is taking a look at the trailer for Lower Decks season
or series three and taking a breakdown look at things it to spot as many of the references
and Easter eggs as I can.
Of course Lower Decks is all tongue-in-cheek when it comes to its contribution to the overall
canon of Trek, but I am excited for it and wanna take a look anyway so let’s have a
scan through.
Where we left off, Captain Freeman was arrested by Starfleet Security for apparent involvement
in the destruction of the Pakled Planet.
The Cerritos was still in operation for the most part but had been badly damaged by discarding
its outer hull plating in order to pass through a cloud of magnetized ionic plasma without
attracting the debris.
This has left the ship in dire need of repair but still operational.
So straight away we can see that these plot threads are continuing with the ship in repair
drydock over Earth and the Federation News Network covering the story of the captain’s
alleged collusion with Klingon Extremists.
We can see that the court martial is taking place and presumably not going well for Freeman
as in later scenes we have the USS Cerritos departing in an unauthorised manner which
suggests theft.
It looks like the crew may be taking the vessel out to clear the Captain’s name in some
fashion, but the vessel has yet to see its full repair.
We also get a shot of a Starfleet starbase, this designation is not named in canon but
I have seen it referred to as the Invictus or Regula class stations.
They tend to be either defensive platforms, but mostly are scientific research posts.
We have shots of a planet where Boimler and Mariner are working a stall as part of what
looks like a Starfleet recruitment pitch alongside other Federation institutions, including the
Interplanetary Archaeologists Guild.
It looks like the crew will become involved in some form of mission for them or with them
as we later see Indiana Jones style delving going down later on in the trailer.
On their kiosk there is a constellation class starship, as well as a stack of PADDs to be
given out presumably.
This may be a planet we have seen before as the first shot is of Tulgana IV which has
been visited once before in the show, a non-aligned world which was considered neutral ground.
The embassy city, seen here features a Klingon district, a Risian, Andorian, Romulan and
Ferengi one as well as the Federation and Earth zones.
There is also scenes of Rutherford piloting a Delta Flyer type shuttlecraft but whether
or not it’s the Delta Flyer remains to be seen (probably not) although it is taking
part in an race once again as we see it blitzing through a course alongside another vessel
while Rutherford himself is in the Starfleet racing attire.
Although things don’t apparently go well as we have a D’Deridex Warbird firing on
the Delta Flyer with the race course in the background.
This is 2381 more or less, so before the dissolution of the Star Empire and after the Dominion
War Alliance ended.
Speaking of allies, we get a cameo of General, or probably Chancellor Martok if he remains
in power, it could be a recording but it looks like a hail to me so it would be cool to see
where he is after the end of Deep Space Nine.
This might tie into the crew celebrating in Klingon themed attire all wearing parts of
Klingon armour and wielding three of their smaller bladed weapons, we have a Mek’ leth
a Hegh’bat knife and an unknown weapon that featured as one of Worf’s trophies.
There is a monitor present here so it could be Martok is effectively making a video call
into their party, Mariner after all has shown strong ties to the Klingon Defence force in
the past with General K’orin.
We also get a shot of Sisko’s Creole Kitchen from the outside which is located in New Orleans
and hopefully is still run by Joseph Sisko.
I did not that a bottle on the table is labelled as “Ketracel White-Hot Hot sauce” which
made me laugh but is also a little tasteless considering the context.
Still a fun joke.
Additionally, the casual clothing of Rutherford is similar to the style worn by a younger
Jake Sisko, so there is going to be a lot of Deep Space Nine in this season it appears.
In fact, the big reveal is that they will be visiting the station itself and hopefully
docking there for a while.
They better go to Quarks, I want to see if Morn is still there.
The station is recreated in all its majesty and they even lampshade the joke about panning
shots around the Pylons which I found particularly funny because it’s what I do in Star Trek
Online to capture this footage.
I don’t think we will get any lore drops from this show concerning its current state,
but it would be nice to hear either Sisko, Kira or even a “Kurland here” grant them
permission to dock, but I imagine that would all be handled by other staff in the day to
day.
Still, it would be cool to find out the stations’ current status, maybe Bajor’s and who is
running the iconic location.
There is one part where the crew have to deal with their nightmares coming to life and we
have some Klingon-clowns with Bat’leth hands…
understandably terrifying as well as and Andorian Werewolf, and assimilated snake and most notably
for me, the appearance of Kukulkan.
This looks to be the same planet as the nightmare creations, so I’m not holding my breath
for more of this majestic but misguided deific Dragon, but for more on his lore, you can
check out my “There be dragons” video.
We also have a shot of Freeman wearing a mask and levitating with power, and this reminds
me of the TNG episode “Masks” where a cultural archive of the D’Arsay around 87
million years old beamed in its contents to the Enterprise D and began to spread its stories
and myths among the computers on board, including Lieutenant Commander Data.
I do wonder if this is part of the same episode where we see Marnier skydive from a spire
settlement of some sort as the same logo appears to be on both.
There is a another shot of the Exocomp, in fact the same Exocomp from “No Small Parts”
called Peanut Hamper who escaped the ship before the battle with the Pakleds in season
1.
She does not appear to have rescued and instead has assembled a makeshift warp-sled to travel
somewhere.
Do we have a revenge plot in the making?
Finally we have this brutal looking alien on board the Cerritos who strikes me as some
sort of bounty hunter.
This is apparently a cromsapeoid or something, and the character is a new species for the
show, which makes sense for the design as it’s the sort of thing that a cartoon can
get away with animating more so than live action, although there has been some pretty
impressive live alien designs beyond the standard humanoid form in recent Trek.
So there we have it, everything I spotted from the trailer for Lower Decks, no doubt
I have missed a few things here and there so feel free to add them below for further
reading, I’ve been Ric thanks again for watching and I’ll see you later for another
video.
Goodbye!