Star Trek: Lower Decks returns–Paramount+ streaming Season 2 premiere free on YouTube

If you missed the first season of Star Trek: Lower Decks, all you need to know is that the crew of the starship Cerritos specializes not in First Contact, but Second Contact, and it has the same brand of humor as The Orville. The first season is streaming on Paramount Plus (formerly CBS All Access) and the second season is now underway. It’s good, silly stuff, full of Easter eggs that should appeal to fans of Star Trek (all the series and movies) who also were fans of Highlights magazine or Where’s Waldo? as a kid.

The music is top-notch Star Trek, and the voices have all the vibe of any live-action Trek series. Spinning out of a concept from the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode of the same name, it also evokes the goofy humor of Kirk encountering Uhura while visiting her roommate in the 2009 Star Trek movie and the style of the original Star Trek animated series. Would you like to know more? You can view a trailer of the second season and preview the entire first episode of the second season on YouTube now (for a limited time).

Here’s a quick look at the coming season of Star Trek: Lower Decks: