Warning: SPOILERS for Star Trek: Lower Decks, season 5, episode 9 – “Fission Quest”Star Trek: Lower Decks I just delivered the biggest one Star Trek crossover episode of all time, bringing back six legacy characters from various Star Trek series, along with the original actors voicing five of the characters. Star Trek: Lower DecksParamount+'s latest season centered on the USS Cerritos closing fissures in space that lead to alternatives Star Trek timelines. However, another ship is assigned to repair the multiverse, and is manned by a series of alternate realities Star Trek legends.
Led by Captain William Boimler (Jack Quaid), the transporter clone of Lieutenant Bradward Boimler who faked his death and joined Section 31, the Defiant Anaximander Class ship pursued a ship called the Beagle through countless quantum realities. Captain Boimler's ship picks up several of the best Star Trek characters from alternate realities to protect the multiverse. In Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 5, Episode 9, 'Fission Quest', includes an alternate reality version of Lieutenant Beckett Mariner (Tawny Newsome), who is a Starfleet engineer.
Here are the iconic ones Star Trek returning characters in Star Trek: Lower Decks'penultimate episode.
T'Pol
Voiced by Jolene in Star Trek: Enterprise
T'Pol may be the most jaw-dropping among the Star Trek legends that returned in Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 5, Episode 9, 'Fissure Quest'. Jolene Blalock played Subcommander T'Pol in all four seasons of Star Trek: Enterprise. In the meantime, however, Jolene got married, started a family and retired from acting. Although she did appear in Star Trek Day 2021 it was widely believed that Jolene left Star Trek back. Incredibly, Star Trek: Lower Decks brought Jolene (credited without a last name) back to play T'Pol.
Star Trek: Lower DecksThe alternate reality version of T'Pol has many similarities to Vulcan from the Prime Universe of Star Trek: Enterprise. Alternative T'Pol was married to Trip Tucker (Connor Trinneer) for decades because her Trip didn't die like he did Star Trek: Enterpriseend of the series. Being married to Trip has given T'Pol a particular insight into humans and Trills, as the Vulcan is friends with the surly Curzon Dax (Fred Tatasciore). T'Pol also remembers that her version of Captain Jonathan Archer (Scott Bakula) was a “big Starfleet nerd” which shows that some things are consistent in any reality,
Harry Kim
Voiced by Garrett Wang in Star Trek: Voyager
Garrett Wang returns as Star Trek: Voyagereternal ensign, Harry Kim, but with a Star Trek: Lower Decks twist: Most of the Anaximander's crew is made up of the alternate universe Harry Kims captured from multiple quantum realities. And except for one Lieutenant Harry Kim, all the other Harrys are still Ensigns. Of course, Garrett Wang played Ensign Harry Kim in all seven seasons of Star Trek: Voyager.
Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 5, Episode 9 offers another twist as Lieutenant Harry Kim ends up being the villain of the episode. Seething about how the bunch of Ensign Kims is doing “disrespected”, Lieutenant Kim goes rogue and puts the entire multiverse in danger. Star Trek: Lower Decks tells a great joke about how it seems to be Harry Kim's cosmic destiny to remain the lowest-ranking Starfleet officer in almost all realities, and that Harry Kim who rose through the ranks turns out to be a threat to the multiverse.
Dr.
Voiced by Alexander Siddig from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
One of the most requested Star Trek: Deep Space Nine characters to return, Alexander Siddig finally reprises Dr. Julian Bashir, but with a multiverse twist: Star Trek: Lower Decks'Bashir's version is an emergency medical hologram. In Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 5, Episode 16, “Doctor Bashir, I Presume?”, Julian was supposed to be the basis for a new version of the EMH until it was discovered that the good doctor underwent illegal genetic modification as a child.
Star Trek: Lower Decks'The holographic Dr. Bashir may or may not have been based on an augmentation in his universe, but Julian is in a relationship with Elim Garak (Andrew Robinson) from a different reality. Lower Decks' Bashir and Garak's loving marriage makes up for an unrealized story that was only hinted at in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. That's smart too Star Trek: Lower Decks places Dr. Bashir on a Section 31 starship when Deep Space Nine's Bashir was sought after and briefly became a reluctant Section 31 agent.
Elim Garak
Voiced by Andrew Robinson in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
There's no mistaking Andrew Robinson's smooth tone as Elim Garak's voice in Star Trek: Lower Decks. Garak is one of Star Trek: Deep Space NineThe most ingenious creations of: a former Cardassian spy for the Obsidian Order who was exiled and became an innocent tailor on the DS9 space station. Eventually, even Captain Benjamin Sisko (Avery Brooks) came to trust Garak's skills and subterfuge. But Garak's most important connection to Starfleet is his friendship with Dr. Julian Bashir.
On Star Trek: Deep Space NineTora Ziyal (Melanie Smith), daughter of Gul Dukat (Marc Alaimo), was in love with Garak before his death.
Star Trek: Lower Decksseason 5, episode 9 tells the love story of Bashir and Garak that Star Trek: Deep Space Nine just suggested. Lower decks'alternative reality Garak and Bashir are in love, although they argue about which universe they will live in. Lower decks' Garak is also a doctor, but retains his lethal skills as a Cardassian spy. But Garak's greatest talent is infuriating Julian, which is his way of having fun while the multiverse is in danger.
Lily Sloane
Voiced by Alfred Woodard in Star Trek: First Contact
Perhaps the most unexpected Star Trek legacy actor will return in Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 5, Episode 9 is Alfre Woodard, who reprises Lily Sloane from Star Trek: First Contact. Lily worked alongside Dr. Zephram Cochrane (James Cromwell) to develop the warp drive, which was installed on their starship dubbed the Phoenix. However, while Cochrane performed humanity's first warp flight with crew members from the USS Enterprise-E, Lily was trapped on the ship fighting the Borg alongside Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart).
Lily is an explorer fascinated by the human condition.
Star Trek: Lower Decks' alternate reality Lily Sloane has never heard of warp drive. This Lily Sloane is the captain of the Beagle, a starship that, instead of warp drive, uses technology created by Lily and Cochrane that can cross different quantum realities. Lily is an explorer fascinated by the human condition. Sloane's travels through the multiverse are not to explore new worlds, but to learn about human potential by studying humanity across all realities.
Curzon Dax
Voiced by Fred Tatasciore in Star Trek: Lower Decks
Curzon Dax is the only Star Trek legacy character in Lower decks'penultimate episode that is not voiced by the original actor. In Star Trek: Deep Space NineCurzon was played by Frank Owen Smith, who had no dialogue, and the late Rene Auberjonois. Fred Tatasciore, who voices Lieutenant Shax, among others Star Trek: Lower Decks characters, come and play the legendary Curzon Dax, who was the seventh Trill to host the Dax symbiote before Lieutenant Commander Jadzia Dax (Terry Farrell) and Lieutenant Ezri Dax (Nicole de Boer), Curzon was also Captain Sisko's mentor.
Like the Prime Universe Curzon Dax, Star Trek: Lower Decks'Alternative reality Curzon must also have been a Federation Ambassador to the Klingon Empire, judging by the bat'leth he carries. Curzon also has a healthy dislike for Vulcans in general, and T'Pol, in particular, and Dax is surprised because T'Pol has always considered him a friend. Star Trek: Lower Decks expertly brings Curzon Dax back to life so audiences can see him in action like never before.