While Beckett (Tawny Newsome) and Boimler (Jack Quaid) got to do some light time-traveling over to live-action with Star Trek: Strange New Worlds last year, Lower Decks brings the whole cast along for the ride this time.

The animated “Star Trek: Lower Decks” premiered a new clip from its forthcoming final season at New York Comic Con, showcasing the crew of the U.S.S. Cerritos pursuing its Season 5 mission: closing “space potholes” — and meeting alternate versions of themselves as they cross through one of those subspace rifts.

The following article discusses the fifth season of Star Trek: Lower Decks and older Treks. There’s no such thing as “dead” in Star Trek, the sprawling, perpetual opus that has thrived in spite of itself for almost sixty years.