Warning: SPOILERS For Star Trek: Lower Decks' Series Finale - “The New Next Generation"The USS Enterprise-E makes a cameo appearance at the end ofStar Trek: Lower Decks’finale, but contrary to audience expectations, most of the iconiccrew ofStar Trek: The Next Generationwouldn’t have been aboard. The flagship of the United Federation of Planets couldn’t make it to the Schrödinger field threatening to obliterateStar Trek’s Prime timelinein time, leaving it up to the USS Cerritos to save the universe.The Enterprise-E then joined the Cerritos and other Starfleet ships at Starbase 80, which now guards the Federation’s first stable wormhole to the multiverse.
Star Trek: Lower Decks' series finaleon Paramount+ fittingly focused on the crew of the USS Cerritos, but it’s understandable that audiences who were thrilled to finally see the USS Enterprise-E onStar Trek: Lower Decksmay have been disappointed that Star Trek: The Next Generation’s beloved characters didn’t mingle with thecast ofStar Trek: Lower Decks.Star Trek: Lower Decks' finale takes place in 2382, about 3 years afterStar Trek: Nemesis, andStar Trek: Picard’s canonical updates on theTNG crewindicate that the Sovereign Class starship inLower Decks' timeframe isn’t quite yesterday’s Enterprise that fans remember.
Admiral Jean-Luc Picard
Jean-Luc Is Already Leading The Romulan Supernova Rescue
Star Trek: Lower Decks' finale taking place in 2382 means that Captain Jean-Luc Picard was already promoted to Admiral and placed in charge of the Federation’s mission to rescue the Romulan people from their sun going supernova.Picard’s Admirality was made official in 2381and referenced at theend ofStar Trek: Lower Decksseason 3. Picard wouldn’t have been aboard the USS Enterprise-E inStar Trek: Lower Decks' finale.
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AsStar Trek: Picardrevealed, Admiral Picard worked alongside Lt. Commander Raffi Musiker (Michelle Hurd), but the Romulan evacuation was abandoned in 2385 following anattack on Mars by rogue synthetics(orchestrated in secret by the Romulan Zhat Vash). Thousands of ships under construction at Utopia Plantia Fleet Yards were destroyed. Picard resigned from Starfleet in protest of the Federation turning its back on the Romulans, and Jean-Luc wouldn’t return to Starfleet until 2401 inStar Trek: Picardseason 2.
Captain William T. Riker
Riker Is Captain of the USS Titan
The Luna Class USS Titan was also seen docked at Starbase 80 at the end ofStar Trek: Lower Decks' finale and Captain William Riker is in command. InStar Trek: Nemesis, Riker finally accepted a promotion to take over as Captain of the Titan after waiting 15 years of waiting to succeed Jean-Luc Picard asCaptain of the Enterprise.Riker and his wife, Counselor Deanna Troi (Marina Sirtis), left the USS Enterprise-E for the Titan afterStar Trek: Nemesis.
Captain William Boimler (Jack Quaid) commands Section 31’s Defiant Class starship Anaximander to explore the multiverse as seen in the final two episodes ofStar Trek: Lower Decksseason 5.
Captain Riker and Counselor Troi appeared inStar Trek: Lower Decks' season 1 finale, and Riker returned at the start ofStar Trek: Lower Decksseason 2. Ensign Brad Boimler (Jack Quaid) was a crewman on the jazzy, wildman Captain Riker’s Titan when Brad was split in two by a transporter accident. Boimler’s clone, William Boimler, stayed on the Titan when Brad returned to the USS Cerritos, before faking his death to join Section 31 inStar Trek: Lower Decksseason 3.
Lt. Commander Data
Data Died In Star Trek: Nemesis
Lt. Commander Data (Brent Spiner) being aboard the USS Enterprise-E inStar Trek: Lower Decks' finale is impossible because the beloved android died inStar Trek: Nemesisthree years before. Data sacrificed himself to destroy the deadly thelaron weaponPraetor Shinzon (Tom Hardy)planned to use to destroy the USS Enterprise-E and the Federation.Data’s death would hold until he was rebuilt as a more human-like synthetic and resurrected inStar Trek: Picardseason 3.
The head of a purple Lt. Commander Data from an alternate reality met Lieutenants Beckett Mariner (Tawny Newsome), D’Vana Tendi (Noel Wells), and T’Lyn (Gabrielle Ruiz) inStar Trek: Lower Decksseason 5, episode 7, “Fully Dilated.”
Prior to his death, Data was meant to succeed Commander Will Riker as First Officer of the USS Enterprise-E. Had Data lived, the likely scenario is that he would have become the first android Captain of the Enterprise when Captain Picard was promoted to Admiral, with Lt. Commander Worf as his First Officer. In that scenario, it would have been Captain Data in command of the Enterprise-E inStar Trek: Lower Decks' finale, and perhaps this does occur in some other Quantum Reality inStar Trek’s multiverse.
Captain Worf
Worf Is Captain Of The USS Enterprise-E
Although the Klingon did not appear inStar Trek: Lower Decks,Worf (Michael Dorn) is Captain of the USS Enterprise-E inStar Trek: Lower Decks' finale.Worf succeeded Captain Picard when Jean-Luc was promoted to Admiral, making him the first Klingon Captain of the Enterprise (or any Federation starship). Given the whereabouts of the rest ofStar Trek: The Next Generation’s cast, Worf has an entirely new crew aboard the Enterprise-E.
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Star Trek: Picardseason 3 revealed that the USS Enterprise-E was lostunder mysterious circumstances in the 2380s afterStar Trek: Lower Decks' finale, which Captain Worf contends was not his fault. The USS Enterprise-F replaced the E but Captain Worf would not be in command. Worf joins Starfleet Intelligence and reunites with his USS Enterprise-D crew mates inStar Trek: Picard season 3, about 20 years afterStar Trek: Lower Decks’finale.
Dr. Beverly Crusher
Beverly Left Enterprise To Become A Mother
Dr. Beverly Crusher (Gates McFadden) is no longer Chief Medical Officer of the USS Enterprise-EinStar Trek: Lower Decks' finale. AsStar Trek: Picardrevealed, Beverly and Captain Jean-Luc Picard had a romantic interlude afterStar Trek: Nemesis.When Beverly realized she was pregnant, she chose to leave the Enterprise to keep her child with Jean-Luc safe from his enemies (and a secret from his father). Dr. Crusher moved outside of the Federation to administer medical aid to cultures beyond Starfleet’s reach.
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Dr. Beverly Crusher was on a list of names that were threatened by a mysterious ship attacking other Lower Decker ships inStar Trek: Lower Decksseason 4.Star Trek: Prodigyseason 2, which takes place in 2384, two years afterStar Trek: Lower Decks' finale, found Dr. Crusher living on Cor Coroli V with the very young Jack Crusher (Ed Speleers), where they were visited by her son Wesley Crusher. Dr. Beverly Crusher wouldn’t return to action and save the galaxy again untilStar Trek: Picardseason 3.
Commander Geordi La Forge
Georgi Is Engineering The Federation’s Romulan Rescue Fleet
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge (LeVar Burton) is likely no longerChief Engineer of the USS Enterprise-EinStar Trek: Lower Decks' finale. Although it’s not clear exactly when La Forge exited the Enterprise,Geordi joined Admiral Jean-Luc Picard’s mission to rescue the Romulans from their sun going supernova. Promoted to full Commander, La Forge relocated to Mars to head up the construction of Starfleet’s rescue armada at Utopia Planetia Fleet Yards, which was annilhilated by rogue synthetics in 2385.
Geordi La Forge’s status as the head engineer of Starfleet’s Romulan rescue fleet was revealed in the prequel comic book miniseries,Star Trek: Picard Countdown.
WhenStar Trek: Picardseason 3 catches up with Geordi in 2401, La Forge is now a Commodore and overseeing theFleet Museum at Athan Prime. Secretly, Geordi began reconstructing the USS Enterprise-D, which was destroyed at Veridian III inStar Trek Generations. Geordi’s adult daughters, Lt. Sidney La Forge (Ashlei Sharpe Chestnut) and Ensign Alandra La Forge (Mica Burton) also joined their father in action aboard the USS Titan-A inStar Trek: Picardseason 3.
Counselor Deanna Troi
Troi Is USS TItan’s Ship’s Counselor
Commander Deanna Troi is aboard the USS Titanalong with her husband, Captain Will Riker, inStar Trek: Lower Decks' finale. After they married inStar Trek: Nemesis, the Troi-Rikers took over command of the Titan. Troi appeared inStar Trek: Lower Decks' season 1 finale, and she was ship’s counselor of the Titan. At some point in the early 2380s, Troi was pregnant with Thad, her son with Will Riker.
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Tragically, Thad Troi-Riker was diagnosed withmendaxic neurosclerosis, a silicon-based virus that could be cured using an active positronic matrix, but all artificial life forms and positronic technology was banned by the Federation after the 2385 Mars Attack.The Troi-Rikers moved their family, including their daughter, Kestra (Lulu Wilson), to Nepenthe. Troi was seen again inStar Trek: Picardseason 1 and helped save the galaxy inStar Trek: Picardseason 3. Unfortunately, Deanna Troi’s only appearance inStar Trek: Lower Deckswas at the end of season 1.
