10 Dream Star Trek Moments That Could Still Happen

4. Movies For Star Trek: Lower Decks

Instead of a lampshade, hang a warp catchphrase on it. Star Trek: Picard teased us with a possibility for Captain Seven of Nine. At the end of The New Next Generation, Star Trek: Lower Decks gave us the newly promoted Captain Jack Ransom's choice. "Come on, you don't wanna set that tone," insisted Beckett Mariner, as Ransom prepared to "engage the core". "What if this is a five-year mission?" What if, indeed.

"I feel it's both an ending, but like a promise," Lower Decks creator and showrunner Mike McMahan noted to our very own Seán Ferrick on the TrekCulture podcast in December last year. In April, the news that the fifth season would be the last for Lower Decks left fans at a loss. The series finale doubled up as a fine farewell to the Cerritos, and a fourth-wall breaking nod to the hope for more. As Tawny Newsome told RadioTimes.com, "We'll do this show until we're dust in the ground".

If season six won't break the warp barrier, then why not a set of movies to continue the adventures? Newsome herself has her own live action comedy spin-off in development, set hopefully still in the 25th century. Failing both of those, McMahan also added to Seán that he'd even considered a Starbase 80 spin-off. Well, they do have the inventor of 'sliding' right there!