Mike McMahan doesn’t want you to be sad. Although his beloved animated comedy series Star Trek: Lower Decks has taken its final bow with the Season 5 finale, “The New Next Generation,” McMahan can’t view the ending of the show as a funeral. “It’s not like the end of Enterprise,” McMahan says. “It’s not like there’s going to be zero Star Trek on TV from now on. There’s still a lot happening.”
Still, there’s a bittersweet aspect to the ending of Star Trek: Lower Decks. Because McMahan was best known at the time as a writer for Rick and Morty, there was a perception, four years ago, that Lower Decks would become the raunchy Rick and Morty of the Trek franchise.
