The crew of the USS Cerritos is ready to call it a day. Star Trek: Lower Decks has been canceled by Paramount+ and will end after five seasons with the upcoming fifth and final season this year. Lower Decks is scheduled to premiere on October 24, 2024, and the series will end this fall. Some of the cast have already moved on, namely Tawny Newsome, who is starting a new Star Trek comedy show, but series creator Mike McMahon has not.

At least not yet. He’s still doing the press tour for the upcoming final season and recently spoke to Collider about the upcoming final season (via TrekMovie). Speaking to the network, McMahon gave fans a brief look at what they can expect from the final season.

Since the series is known for its cameos, flashbacks, and the return of classic characters, fans are admittedly excited about the possibility that the series finale could be a giant love letter to Star Trek as a whole. An idea McMahon isn’t opposed to, saying:

“We kept extending the finale because nothing was ever satisfying enough and there weren’t enough goodbyes that could be told in a funny way. In the end, we came up with a gigantic episode that is really fun.”

With the hype machine now in full swing for the finale, fans will no doubt be debating who will return to the series for another season. Could we get William Shatner? Scott Bakula? Patrick Stewart? Unlikely, that’s not McMahon’s style. It will probably be an obscure character played again by the same actor or actress who played them 30 years ago, but who has since left Hollywood to become a dentist. Or something equally convoluted.

Luckily for Lower Decks and its fans, the final season will air on Paramount+, and the farewell will be announced in a weekly episode, creating plenty of hype and conversation around the series as it heads into the great unknown.