Warning! The next comprises spoilers for the Star Trek: Decrease Decks finale, “The New Subsequent Era.” Stream it with a Paramount+ subscription and browse at your personal danger!
The 2025 TV schedule is simply across the nook, which suggests there are new upcoming Star Trek exhibits on the best way as properly. Sadly, 2024 was bittersweet for the franchise, as followers stated goodbye to each Discovery and Decrease Decks. Curiously, the latter animated sequence referenced the previous in its closing episode, although the wild reference could open a can of worms for the fandom, and we talked to showrunner Mike McMahan about it.
Followers with no thought what I am speaking about should not really feel dangerous. Decrease Decks is so jam-packed with references, particularly in these previous two episodes, that it is easy for something to slip underneath the radar. Here is a recap for people who missed it, and what CinemaBlend discovered from the showrunner about this doubtlessly franchise-altering second.
How Discovery’s Klingons Present Up In Star Trek: Decrease Decks’ Sequence Finale
“The New Subsequent Era” kicks off with a fleet of Klingons patrolling the sting of their territory when the fissure exhibits up and emits waves that mess with the universe. Earlier than one of many ships is destroyed, one of many Klingons transforms from their common model based mostly on the TNG period to resembling the Klingons from Star Trek: Discovery.
It is an eyebrow-raising second, and I am positive many hardcore Trekkies seen it due to what it suggests. Whereas one might chalk this as much as a bizarre glitch within the multiverse, it might indicate that Discovery takes place in an alternate timeline that isn’t truly a part of Star Trek‘s Prime timeline. So, what’s Decrease Decks telling us right here?
What Mike McMahan Had To Say About The Multiversal Second
Star Trek: Discovery sparked an total polarized reception from the fandom, and with the upcoming Starfleet Academy sequence pulling in acquainted characters from Discovery, I’d be slightly shocked if Decrease Decks was totally allowed to throw such a definitive wrench into its Prime universe standing. I requested showrunner Mike McMahan concerning the second, and his response advised me every little thing I wanted to know:
Pay attention, I am not gonna inform the followers how to reply to something. In the event you watch [Fissure Quest] you’ll be able to see the timelines throughout totally different realities are all tousled. Was I being slightly stinker with that second and realizing what I used to be doing? Yeah. I’m not dumb. It’s additionally not firmly [established]–one other multiversal shift we noticed is it became a Klingon sail barge. You possibly can take that second nonetheless you need, and speak to me about it in ten years [smiles].
McMahan’s response could solidify this brief scene’s place in each fandom argument associated to Star Trek: Discovery for many years. Basically, he is confirming that followers can interpret that second nonetheless they need and including that it really works each methods.
If you wish to imagine it was simply resulting from realities messing up and that there was no deeper message about Discovery, there’s proof to help that. If you wish to argue that Discovery (and I assume Unusual New Worlds as properly) do not happen within the Prime Timeline, properly, perhaps in a decade, we will speak extra with him about that.
I believe there’s additionally an argument to be made that if Star Trek: Decrease Decks established there’s way over simply the Prime/Kelvin/Mirror universes, then there’s in all probability at the least one or two extra universes the place Klingons appear like the Discovery variants. For all we all know, that Klingon may not have had two genitals! Maybe another person can volunteer to examine on that.
Whereas there’ll undoubtedly be some ruffled feathers over that particular second, I am unable to assist however applaud Star Trek: Decrease Decks for going out with a bang. Organising a possible “What if” format for initiatives sooner or later was an amazing legacy to depart behind if the present by no means returns, even when all of us are hoping it is going to. Here is hoping, and at the least within the meantime, we will look again on the nice sequence on streaming for the foreseeable future.
With the conclusion of Star Trek: Decrease Decks, we’re now waiting for the arrival of the Part 31 film, which is ready to drop on Paramount+ on January twenty fourth. We even have a brand new season of Unusual New Worlds, so keep tuned and get pumped for 2025.