| Star Trek: Lower Decks | |
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| Season 5 | |
 Promotional poster with art by Matt Ferguson, parodying a poster for the film Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989) by Bob Peak[1] | |
| Showrunner | Mike McMahan |
| Starring | |
| Release | |
| Original network | Paramount+ |
| Season chronology | |
The fifth and final season of the American adult animated television series Star Trek: Lower Decks is set in the 24th century and follows the adventures of the low-ranking officers with menial jobs on the starship Cerritos, one of Starfleet's least important starships. The season is produced by CBS Eye Animation Productions in association with Secret Hideout, Important Science, Roddenberry Entertainment, and animation studio Titmouse, with Mike McMahan serving as showrunner and Barry J. Kelly as supervising director.
Tawny Newsome, Jack Quaid, Noël Wells, and Eugene Cordero voice the lower decks crew members of the Cerritos, with Dawnn Lewis, Jerry O'Connell, Fred Tatasciore, and Gillian Vigman providing voices for the ship's senior officers. A fifth season of Lower Decks was ordered in March 2023. Writing had begun by then and was nearly complete that October, when McMahan said it was possible that this could be the last season of the series. Voice recording was delayed by 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike and mostly took place between November 2023 and February 2024. In April, Paramount+ confirmed that the fifth season would be the last.
The season is scheduled to premiere on the streaming service Paramount+ on October 24, 2024, with its first two episodes. The rest of the 10-episode run will be released weekly until December 19.