Warning: SPOILERS For Star Trek: Lower Decks Series Finale - “The New Next Generation"Star Trek: Lower Decks' series finale ends with the animated comedy creating its own version of Deep Space Nine. The USS Cerritos was the only starship in the United Federation of Planets that could stop a deadly soliton wave from wiping outStar Trek’s Prime timeline. In the end, a new stable portal to infinite Quantum Realities was opened, andonly one starbase could guard this wormhole to the multiverse.
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine’s original mission saw the space station led byCommander (later Captain) Benjamin Sisko(Avery Brooks) transported from Bajor to guard the wormhole to the Gamma Quadrant. Known by the Bajorans as the Celestial Temple where their gods, the Prophets, reside, the wormhole was a conduit to an unexplored region ofStar Trek’s galaxy. Even after the Gamma Quadrants' rulers, the Dominion, crossed into the Alpha Quadrant and declared war on the Federation,Deep Space Nine remained at its post at the gate of the wormhole.
Starbase 80 Is Star Trek: Lower Decks’ New Deep Space Nine
The Worst Starbase Now Has Starfleet’s Most Important Mission
Star Trek: Lower Decks' finalenow puts the multiverse in play by creating a stable portal into unlimited alternate universes. Just like Deep Space Nine and the Bajoran wormhole to the Gamma Quadrant, Starfleet established a new mission to guard this multiversal portal and explore the various quantum realities. Because of the portal’s dangerous tachyon radiation, only one starbase has systems old enough to be unaffected. Thus,Starbase 80, formerly known as the worst starbase in the Federation, now guards the portal.
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With Captain Carol Freeman (Dawnn Lewis) assigned to oversee Starfleet’s multiverse exploratory mission, it makes the former Captain of the USS CerritosStar Trek: Lower Decks' equivalent to Captain Benjamin Sisko.Star Trek: Lower Decksspent several seasons setting up theundesirable Starbase 80before revealing it in season 5, butthe animated comedy’s endgame was always to giveStar Trek: Lower Decksits own version of Deep Space Nine, just as the Cerritos inherits the mantle ofStar Trek: The Next Generation’s USS Enterprise-D and E.
Star Trek: Lower Decks’ Starbase 80 Also Has Its Own USS Defiant Like DS9
The Starship Anaximander Will Keep Boldly Going Where No One Has Gone Before
Star Trek: Deep Space Nineleveled up with the introduction of the USS Defiant in season 3, which created new story opportunities and lined upDS9with the other starship-basedStar Trekseries. It’s no coincidence that to go with Starbase 80 as its version of Deep Space Nine,Star Trek: Lower Decksseason 5, episode 9, “Fissure Quest” introduced the Anaximander, a Defiant Class starship led by Captain William Boimler (Jack Quaid).The Anaximander completesStar Trek: Lower Decks' revamp ofDeep Space Nine’s concept and mission.
Hopefully, we will see what became of Starbase 80’s mission some day.
It’s also fitting alternate reality versions ofStar Trek: Deep Space Nine’s Dr. Julian Bashir (Alexander Siddig) and Elim Garak(Andrew Robinson) are part of the Anaximander’s crew (and are a couple). Although, sadly,Star Trek: Lower Decks' alternate reality Curzon Dax (Fred Tatasciore) didn’t live to see the stable multiverse portal. As the USS Cerritos, with its new command structure, warps into new voyages,Star Trek: Lower Decksalso ends with its own Deep Space Nine and, hopefully, we will see what became of Starbase 80’s mission some day.
