Summary
- Star Trek: Enterprise might be featured in Star Trek: Lower Decks season 5, depending on the outcome of ongoing deals.
- Lower Decks nods to various Star Trek series, but no characters from Enterprise have appeared.
- Integrating Enterprise into the show is challenging, but the creator hopes to include it in creative ways, potentially through Easter eggs or voice appearances.
Star Trek: Enterprise could get some love in Star Trek: Lower Decks season 5 if "deals work out," according to Lower Decks' creator and showrunner Mike McMahan. Lower Decks season 4 will end with the final two episodes about to stream on Paramount+, but writing on Lower Decks season 5 is nearing completion for a targeted 2024 release. Lower Decks season 4 brought back Star Trek: Deep Space Nine's Grand Nagus Rom (Max Grodénchik) and First Clerk Leeta (Chase Masterson) among other nods to the greater Star Trek franchise, but no Star Trek: Enterprise characters have appeared on Lower Decks yet.
At New York Comic Con, Mike McMahan joined a roundtable interview about Star Trek: Lower Decks that included TrekMovie, which reported this news first. McMahan brought up Star Trek: Enterprise when he was asked about what other Star Trek series he still wants Lower Decks to address, and McMahan noted that Enterprise is in the process of getting "love" in Lower Decks season 5, although whether this means Easter eggs or actual voice appearances by Enterprise cast members is unclear. Read his quote below:
It’s hard to get Enterprise. Because Enterprise is so proto, it’s so before TOS. It’s so tempting because it feels like TNG and that’s the world I play in and I love Enterprise. And that’s been the hardest, but I think in season 5 I figured out—if the deals work out, there is some Enterprise love in season 5. We are early enough so I could be wrong about that so tune in next year.
