10 Star Trek Twists You Never Saw Coming
4. The Freeman Fabrication
The season two finale of Star Trek: Lower Decks gives us high stakes and a lot of action. It begins as the crew of the Cerritos are accompanying the Archimedes on a first contact mission with the Lapeerians. We also learn that Captain Freeman has earnt a promotion, and will no doubt have to transfer without her senior staff. Later, when the Archimedes is disabled by a solar flare, the entire crew of the Cerritos pull together to save it from collision with the Lapeerian planet.
Seeing how well the crew handled the crisis situation, Freeman realises that she was mistaken to pursue the promotion, and that the Cerritos is her home. When a team from Starfleet command arrive, the Captain is expecting to have to politely decline the transfer, therefore. Instead, we are given the highly unexpected, jaw-dropping moment of Freeman’s arrest for the destruction of Pakled Planet in collusion with a group of Klingons. She was innocent, of course, but still!
The scene in which Freeman walks down the corridor in handcuffs, surrounded by the shocked faces of her crew who were all ready to cheer her on, is actually quite moving, and it leaves us waiting for season three with bated breath. This was such a good cliff-hanger ending that it was marked by the first 'To be continued…' since season four of Star Trek: Enterprise.