We made it to 500 episodes! To help us celebrate is first ever three-peat guest, Mike McMahan, to boldly discuss Season 5, Red Shirt survival tactics, and prom disaster stories.
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More about the show
In season five of Star Trek: Lower Decks, the crew of the U.S.S. Cerritos is tasked with closing “space potholes” — subspace rifts that are causing chaos in the Alpha Quadrant. Pothole duty would be easy for Junior Officers Mariner, Boimler, Tendi, and Rutherford… if they didn’t also have to deal with an Orion war, furious Klingons, diplomatic catastrophes, murder mysteries, and scariest of all — their own career aspirations.
More about Mike McMahan
He is the co-creator, co-showrunner, and executive producer of Hulu’s hit animated comedy series Solar Opposites, which was renewed for a third season after the show’s debut was the streamer’s most-watched original comedy premiere to date. Previously, McMahan was executive producer on Adult Swim’s hit animated series Rick and Morty, sharing the show’s Animated Program Emmy win in 2018 and again in 2020.
How to watch Star Trek: Lower Decks
Star Trek: Lower Decks is streaming on Paramount+