Star Trek: Lower Decks (2020)

Action · Adventure · Animation

The lives of the support crew serving on one of Starfleet's least important ships, the U.S.S. Cerritos, in 2380. Ensigns Mariner, Boimler, Rutherford and Tendi have to keep up with their duties and their social lives, often while the ship is being rocked by a multitude of sci-fi anomalies.

IMDb rating: 7.8 (31,043 votes)
Episode average: 7.8 matches the IMDb rating
Seasons: 5
Streaming (US): Paramount+
Language: EN
Type: TV series

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Ratings refreshed Oct 3, 2026 · 5 seasons indexed

Cast

Seasons

Season 1 (2020)

7.49 avg 10 episodes 6.9 → 8.6 26 min avg

Season 1 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Second Contact	6.9	2,537
2	Envoys	7.0	2,063
3	Temporal Edict	7.2	1,931
4	Moist Vessel	7.3	1,820
5	Cupid's Errant Arrow	7.5	1,762
6	Terminal Provocations	7.2	1,698
7	Much Ado About Boimler	7.5	1,672
8	Veritas	7.6	1,714
9	Crisis Point	8.1	1,777
10	No Small Parts	8.6	1,974

Season 2 (2021)

7.81 avg 10 episodes 7.1 → 8.6 25 min avg

Slow burn

Season 2 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Strange Energies	7.1	1,428
2	Kayshon, His Eyes Open	7.6	1,399
3	We'll Always Have Tom Paris	7.6	1,339
4	Mugato, Gumato	7.3	1,291
5	An Embarrassment of Dooplers	7.7	1,298
6	The Spy Humongous	7.4	1,272
7	Where Pleasant Fountains Lie	7.7	1,316
8	I, Excretus	8.4	1,475
9	Wej Duj	8.7	1,561
10	First First Contact	8.6	1,435

Season 3 (2022)

7.82 avg 10 episodes 7.7 → 8.6 26 min avg

Rebound

Season 3 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Grounded	7.7	1,274
2	The Least Dangerous Game	7.7	1,176
3	Mining the Mind's Mines	7.4	1,159
4	Room for Growth	7.5	1,110
5	Reflections	8.1	1,176
6	Hear All, Trust Nothing	8.6	1,464
7	A Mathematically Perfect Redemption	6.9	1,370
8	Crisis Point 2: Paradoxus	7.9	1,147
9	Trusted Sources	7.8	1,055
10	The Stars at Night	8.6	1,178

Season 4 (2023)

7.85 avg 10 episodes 8.2 → 8.6 26 min avg

Season 4 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Twovix	8.2	1,127
2	I Have No Bones Yet I Must Flee	7.9	1,042
3	In the Cradle of Vexilon	7.5	946
4	Something Borrowed, Something Green	7.8	969
5	Empathological Fallacies	7.6	990
6	Parth Ferengi's Heart Place	7.8	946
7	A Few Badgeys More	7.4	906
8	Caves	7.7	885
9	The Inner Fight	8.0	870
10	Old Friends, New Planets	8.6	985

Season 5 (2024)

7.82 avg 10 episodes 7.7 → 8.9 27 min avg

Season 5 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Dos Cerritos	7.7	831
2	Shades of Green	7.3	802
3	The Best Exotic Nanite Hotel	7.3	763
4	A Farewell to Farms	7.5	765
5	Starbase 80?!	7.6	754
6	Of Gods and Angles	7.3	719
7	Fully Dilated	8.1	762
8	Upper Decks	7.6	717
9	Fissure Quest	8.9	1,145
10	The New Next Generation	8.9	926