
With the conclusion of the 10th episode of Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 5, somehow the third new Star Trek show to end in 2024 has come to a close. The finale of Lower Decks follows the series finales of Discovery and Prodigy earlier this year, but unlike those two shows, this finale leaves things off with a bizarre new piece of canon for fans to chew on for years to come. While the entirety of Lower Decks Season 5 has been both a send-up of multiverse tropes and also awesome multiverse adventures, the finale ended these storylines with one surprising revelation.
While the big reveal is that the voyages of the USS Cerritos may never be the same, the slightly bigger reveal is that in the final moments of Lower Decks, 24th Century Starfleet was given a new mission.