Warning: SPOILERS for Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 4 Finale – "Old Friends, New Planets"
Summary
- Nicholas Locarno's death in the season 4 finale of Star Trek: Lower Decks is permanent, just like Khan's in Star Trek II.
- The Genesis Device destroys existing matter and replaces it with its own matrix, making it a dangerous weapon.
- Locarno, like Khan, was completely destroyed by the Genesis Device's explosion, and neither have the means for resurrection, unlike Spock.
Following his demise from the Genesis Device explosion, Star Trek: Lower Decks season 4's villain Nicholas Locarno (Robert Duncan McNeill) won't be resurrected any more than Khan Noonien Singh (Ricardo Montalbán) was in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. The Genesis Device was introduced in Star Trek II, and it was the brainchild of Dr. Carol Marcus (Bibi Besch) and David Marcus, her son with Admiral James T. Kirk (William Shatner). Project Genesis was meant to be a revolutionary terraforming technology created to solve the galactic problems of overpopulation and food shortage, but Khan turned it into a weapon of mass destruction and was himself destroyed by Genesis.
In Star Trek: Lower Decks season 4's finale, Nicholas Locarno assembled a multi-species armada he dubbed Nova Fleet. Locarno aimed to become a galactic power to rival the United Federation of Planets and his ace-in-the-hole was a stolen black market Ferengi Genesis Device. However, Locarno underestimated Lieutenant Beckett Mariner's (Tawny Newsome) loyalty to Starfleet. Mariner, who knew Nick when he was kicked out of Starfleet Academy, stole the Genesis Device and fled until Locarno caught up with her. Beckett set the Genesis Device to detonate, and Locarno chose to die trying to deactivate it rather than escape with Mariner to safety.
