Warning: SPOILERS for Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 5 Finale - "The New Next Generation"
The end of season 5 of Star Trek: Lower Decks, "The New Next Generation" features the shocking return of Star Trek: DiscoveryKlingons style, five years later. Star Trek: DiscoveryThe 2017 premiere brought several aesthetic changes to the mid-23rd century setting, a decade earlier Star Trek: The Original Series. Instead of recreating Terms of ServiceKlingons style with smooth forehead, Star Trek: DiscoveryMakeup artists developed an all-new look that took the Klingons' alien features even further.. DiscoveryThe Klingons were supposed to be like the Klingons always were, but they could only be realized with modern technology and a bigger budget.
In the penultimate episode of Star Trek: Lower Decks' Season 5, "Fissure Quest", the collapse of a dimensional rift threatens the destruction of the entire Star Trek multiverse. Captain William Boimler (Jack Quaid) sends the universe-destroying beam of soliton radiation to Star Trekfrom the Prime Universe, believing that Lieutenant Brad Boimler and the crew of the USS Cerritos are capable of handling it. In Star Trek: Lower Decks'Season 5 finale, "The New Next Generation", the entry of the soliton beam into the Early Universe creates a Schrödinger field that transforms anything captured in it into a different version of the multiverse.
Star Trek: Lower Decks brings back Klingons from Star Trek: Discovery
Discovery Klingons haven't been seen since 2019
Star Trek: Lower Decks'finale cleverly brings back Klingons from Star Trek: Discovery with the help of a well-placed Schrödinger probability field. Before the USS Cerritos or the USS Enterprise-E can reach the location of the unstable dimensional rift, a group of Klingons are captured in Schrödinger Field. THE Lower decks The Klingon crew transforms into hairless and blue-colored Star Trek: Discovery Klingons with especially spiky armoras your Bird of Prey transforms into a version of Star Trek: Discovery. Later, Relga's (Roxana Ortega) fleet dies after becoming Proto-Klingons.
Star Trek: Lower Decks'brief transmutation into a different version of Klingons is the first time Star Trek: DiscoveryStyle Klingons have been seen since the season 2 finale of Star Trek: Discovery in 2019. DiscoveryKlingons changes were controversial among Star Trek fansthen Star Trek: Discovery chose to abandon the Klingons completely after the USS Discovery's jump to the 32nd century. Star Trek: Strange New Worldswhich also takes place in the mid-23rd century, use the more familiar Star Trek: The Next Generationera design, suggesting that there are multiple versions of Klingons in Star Trek at the same time.
What Star Trek: Discovery Klingons in the Lower Decks Multiverse Really Mean
All versions of the Klingons are Canon to the main Star Trek universe
Star Trek: Discovery Klingons taking part Star Trek: Lower Decks'multiverse does not mean that Discovery Klingons - or Star Trek: Discovery themselves - are not canon to the Prime Universe. The Schrödinger probability field draws from the deep well of Star Trekof the multiverse, of which the Prime Universe is a part, to transform things into different versions of themselves. Within the Schrödinger field, the USS Cerritos transforms into other classes of Federation ships that exist in the Early Universe, such as the Sovereign class and the Galaxy class. The Klingons' transformation only confirms this Discovery Klingons exist somewhere in the world Star Trek timeline, even an earlier one.
Star Trek: DiscoveryThe drastic Klingon changes were surprising, considering the Klingon look of Star Trek: The Next Generation and his contemporary Star Trek the shows were definitive for years. However, the TNGThe Klingons of the Klingon era, as honor-bound warriors, were themselves a great change from the Terms of Service was. It makes sense that Star Trek: Discovery I would like to expand Klingon culture with a new approach. As a celebration of Star TrekThe deepest cuts, Star Trek: Lower Decks I found a way to say: yes, all Klingons are canon Star TrekPrime Universe. Until Star Trek: Discovery's.