Star Trek: Lower Decks is now even more a sequel to Star Trek: The Next Generation
The Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 4 finale debuts today on Paramount+, and the episode is a game-changer for the U.S.S. Cerritos crew. Star Trek: Lower Decks fans will remember that last week's penultimate episode of the season ended with Mariner being abducted. Her captor turned out to be Nick Locarno, the character that Robert Duncan McNeil, who eventually starred as Tom Paris on Star Trek: Voyager, played in a guest starring role on Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Nick Locarno was a Starfleet cadet who led Nova Squadron, a distinguished group of pilots at Starfleet Academy. Locarno wanted to finish his time at Starfleet Academy with a bang and decided he'd accomplish that by having Nova Squadron perform a banned flight maneuver during the commencement ceremony. Wesley was at the academy and a member of the academy at the time, and he went along with the plan.
Star Trek: Lower Decks Is Now Even More a Star Trek: The Next Generation Sequel Than EverThe Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 4 finale even more firmly ties Star Trek: Lower Decks to Star Trek: The Next Generation. Lower Decks has always been a successor to Next Generation and its spinoffs, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager, both in terms of chronological Star Trek timeline and in spirit.
That's because of the relationship between Beckett Mariner and Sito Jaxa . Sito was also a member of the Nova Squadron during"The First Duty." The character returned in the Next Generation episode"Lower Decks," the namesake and inspiration for Star Trek: Lower Decks, as an ensign serving aboard the Enterprise. As a Bajoran, Sito was chosen for an undercover mission to return a Cardassian defector to Cardassian territory. She never returned and has been presumed dead.
Mariner, a first-year at Starfleet Academy at the time of the Nova Squadron incident, considered Sito a friend and looked up to her as a mentor, which viewers get a glimpse of in this week's flashback. The past two Star Trek: Lower Decks episodes reveal that Sito's loss and the trauma of serving during the Dominion War made Mariner fear command, associating it with having to order her friends to their deaths, as Sito was ordered to hers.
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