10 Biggest Star Trek Moments Of 2021

This writer stands a bit of Shax. His death at the close of the first season of Star Trek: Lower Decks was a shocking, emotional gut-punch to end the year on. Therefore, when some eagle-eyed fans spotted him standing in a crew line-up in one of the early trailers for season two, interests were immediately piqued. Then, a red herring was thrown into the mix with the arrival of Kayshon.

Shax was then suddenly back on the USS Cerritos in the early episodes of the second season. Initially, people simply acted like everything was normal. So much so, in fact, that Rutherford was driven demented trying to find out exactly what happened. Was Shax a clone? Was he a mirror universe counterpart? Was he a hologram that had gained sentience? What happened, dammit?

Well, the audience never truly finds out - other than the fact it involves a mountain of some sort. But viewers were treated to Rutherford's slowly dilating pupil as he is told, filling him with horror, how senior officers are brought back to life. He swears that he will hold on to the secret, and Mike McMahon delivered one of the most hilarious rug-pulls of the year.