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Among the new age Star Trek shows, Strange New Worlds has definitely come out on top, but how well does it hold light to some of the Og shows? The episodic prequel to Tos sees the Enterprise headed by Christopher Pike, with a young Spock and a newbie Uhura also being on board the ship before they serve under Captain Kirk.

Despite being spun off from Discovery, Strange New Worlds has taken an identity of its own and has become the most anticipated show in the franchise. Coupled with the animated series Lower Decks, the Anson Mount-starrer has brought in a new era of Star Trek that blends nostalgia and the best parts about the franchise. Here are five reasons why Strange New Worlds is better than one of the most popular Star Trek shows.

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Production is underway on season two of the Netflix hit comedy-mystery A Man on the Inside, and it will feature a pair of new co-stars who happen to be Star Trek veterans. Season one, which dropped in November of 2024, stars Ted Danson as Charles Nieuwendyk, a bored retiree who lands a job assisting a private detective attempting to track down a ruby necklace gone missing at a San Francisco retirement home. Season two will find Charles still working at the private detective agency and no doubt serving as the inside man again on a new case.

The actors from the Star Trek universe joining the cast of A Man on the Inside are Linda Park and Jason Mantzoukas. Park was a regular on Star Trek: Enterprise, portraying Ensign Hoshi Sato for all four seasons of the show’s run. Mantzoukas is an actor, comic, and podcaster who provided the voice of the Tellarite character,...

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Murderbot is a sci-fi action dark comedy series created by Paul and Chris Weitz. Based on The Murderbot Diaries book series by Martha Wells, the Apple TV+ series follows a Murderbot, a biological security cyborg who hacks its Governor module and acquires its freedom. It is soon purchased by a group of misfit scientists, who take it on a dangerous assignment. Murderbot stars Alexander Skarsgård, Noma Dumezweni, David Dastmalchian, Sabrina Wu, Akshay Khanna, Tamara Podemski, and Tattiawna Jones. So, if you loved the hilarious dark comedy, eccentric characters, and an entertaining story in Murderbot, here are some similar shows you should check out next.

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Netflix has announced on their social media that Ted Danson’s bittersweet comedy A Man on the Inside is in production for its second season. Created by Mike Schur, the show was praised for its heartfelt portrayal of life in a retirement home and the realities of aging.

Loosely based on Maite Alberdi’s Academy Award-nominated documentary The Mole Agent, A Man on the Inside follows Ted Danson as Charles, a recent widower who goes uncover in a retirement home to catch a jewelry thief. Things get complicated at Pacific View retirement home as the amateur sleuth must balance his covert investigation with forming friendships with the residents.

Ted Danson told Tudum that the casting came around not long after the 77-year-old started considering what it was like to age on screen. “Even before they reached out to me, I was thinking I wanted to discover what it is to...

Bob’s Burgers fans, we’ve got a fresh off the press preview for the new Season 15 Episode 11 episode titled Mr. Fischoeder’s Opus!

Find out everything you need to know about the Mr. Fischoeder’s Opus episode of Bob’s Burgers, including a full preview, videos, release date, cast information and how to watch!

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The upcoming episode of “Bob’s Burgers,” titled “Mr. Fischoeder’s Opus,” promises to deliver the signature humor and heart that fans have come to love. Scheduled to air on Fox at 9:31 Pm on May 18, 2025, this episode features two engaging storylines that highlight the unique talents of the show’s beloved characters.

In this episode, Tina Belcher, voiced by Dan Mintz, steps into a new role as the advice columnist for her school newspaper. Known for her awkward charm and unfiltered thoughts, Tina’s foray into advice-giving...

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The Orville is a sci-fi adventure comedy-drama series created by Seth MacFarlane. The Hulu series is set in the 25th century, and it follows Captain Edward “Ed” Mercer as he and his crew take their USS Orville spacecraft on various adventures in different parts of the galaxy. The Orville stars Seth MacFarlane, Adrianne Palicki, Penny Johnson Jerald, Halston Sage, Scott Grimes, Peter Macon, J. Lee, Mark Jackson, Jessica Szohr, and Anne Winters. So, if you loved the hilarious comedy, a sci-fi story, and entertaining characters in The Orville, here are some similar shows you should check out next.

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Clint Eastwoodis an artist unlike any other. Over the course of his long career, he has contributed to world cinema, inspiring young and established filmmakers as an actor, writer, and director. Even at 94 years old, the filmmaker is going strong with his latest release being last year’s Juror #2 starring Nicholas Hoult. One of the gems from his long filmography is now arriving on Netflix.

The Mule, directed by and starring Eastwood is based on the 2014 article The Sinaloa Cartel's 90-Year-Old Drug Mule by Sam Dolnick. The movie follows him as the real-life figure, Leo Sharp, a World War II veteran in his 80s who became a drug mule for a cartel. The film was a commercial and critical success, garnering $174.8 million worldwide on a budget of $50 million.

The movie is loved for Eastwood’s direction and performance, along with a gripping plot and cinematography. It has a CinemaScore of...

Even all these years later, fans still wonder why Andy left Tacoma Fd after Season 3.

Eugene Cordero played the lovable firefighter for the first three seasons of the truTV comedy series; however, after a two-year break between seasons, he did not return for its fourth season—which debuted in 2023.

Now that the series has found a second life after arriving on Netflix in its entirety, a new community of fans is being introduced to Andy's sudden series departure.

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We're still not over the end of "Star Trek: Lower Decks," and to be quite honest, we might never be. Every "Star Trek" fan loves "Lower Decks." Well, at least all of us here at /Film do -- I can't speak for any of the contrarian weirdos out there who hate fun or are somehow allergic to animation. Fans have become extremely attached to the cast, and their voices now rattle around in the dark recesses of our brains. Whenever I do a rewatch of "Craig of the Creek" (another show coming to an end too soon), I feel my heart break a little whenever Noël Wells' voice as Kelsey creeps into sounding like her "Lower Decks" character, Ensign D'Vana Tendi. I'm just not ready to admit that it's really over.

Fortunately, it's not like all of these beloved performers are being launched out of an airlock and forced to...

The following contains spoilers from Star Trek: Lower Decks, Season 5, Episode 9, "Fissure Quest," now streaming on Paramount+.

The Paramount+ animated series Star Trek: Lower Decks concluded its fifth and final season on Dec. 19, 2024, and now the complete series is available for pre-order. Additionally, fans can also pre-order just the final season of the show on either Blu-ray or DVD. Per Star Trek, both the final season and the complete series set will drop on March 25.

Star Trek: Lower Decks - The Complete Series limited edition Blu-ray Steelbook is available for pre-order on Amazon for $59. The Steelbook features an exclusive art card with the signatures of the Lower Decks crew. It includes 10 discs and approximately five hours of special features like audio commentaries and “Lower Dectionaries” featurettes.

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As far as television science fiction goes, no show has had such a legacy or enduring influence on the genre and medium as "Star Trek." With nearly a dozen shows since the start of the franchise in 1966, "Star Trek" has effectively blended social commentary with hard sci-fi concepts and earned millions of fans worldwide. However, not every "Star Trek" series has come out the gate on its best foot, with many needing to find their overarching direction over time. These first impressions are made through pilot episodes, with networks deciding to commission the series through the strength of this inaugural episode.

The various "Star Trek" pilot episodes are a fascinating look back at the shows' history, and in some cases, they're far from how each respective series would gradually evolve. The ensemble casts of each show tend to find their characters quickly, but maybe not quite fully grown into them yet.

Warning: Spoilers For Star Trek: Lower Decks' Season 5 Finale - "The New Next Generation"

In one particular way, Star Trek: Lower Decks is more realistic than Star Trek: The Next Generation. The adventures of the USS Cerritos just came to an end with the series finale of Star Trek: Lower Decks on Paramount+, as Captain Carol Freeman (Dawnn Lewis) and the eclectic crew of the USS Cerritos came together to save the universe from an unstable quantum fissure. After the Cerritos created a permanent portal to infinite Star Trek timelines, Starfleet moved Starbase 80 to the wormhole's entrance and put Captain Freeman in charge of the missions to other quantum realities.

Following Captain Freeman's exit, Commander Jack Ransom (Jerry O'Connell) accepted a promotion to become the new Captain of the Cerritos. Several other characters have been promoted throughout Star Trek: Lower Decks' five seasons, including all of the lower deckers. Lieutenants...

Star Trek: Lower Decks returned for season 5 in October 2024, which was also the animated comedy's final season on Paramount+. Star Trek: Lower Decks season 4's finale, "Old Friends, New Planets" ended on a cliffhanger, as Lieutenant D'Vana Tendi (Noël Wells) sacrificed her Starfleet career so that the USS Cerritos' crew could rescue Lt. Beckett Mariner (Tawny Newsome.) While Lt. Sam Rutherford (Eugene Cordero) was sad about Tendi's departure, the rest of the Lower Deckers were confident that the lovable Orion would return to Starfleet in Star Trek: Lower Decks season 5.

Star Trek: Lower Decks season 4's ending resolved why Lieutenant Beckett Mariner is so intent on remaining a Lower Decker: the tragic death of her idol and friend from Starfleet Academy, Ensign Sito Jaxa (Shannon Fill) from Star Trek: The Next Generation, instilled a desire within Mariner to avoid a rank that could mean sending another Starfleet Officer to their death.

Network: Paramount+

Episodes: 50 (half-hour)

Seasons: Five

TV show dates: August 6, 2020 -- December 19, 2024

Series status: Cancelled

Performers include: Tawny Newsome, Jack Quaid, Noël Wells, Eugene Cordero, Dawnn Lewis, Jerry O’Connell, Fred Tatasciore, and Gillian Vigman.

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An animated sci-fi comedy series, Star Trek: Lower Decks is the latest TV show in the franchise based on the original Star Trek series created by Gene Roddenberry.

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After four years on the air and 50 episodes under its belt, "Star Trek: Lower Decks" finally signs off this week with a series finale that's as epic and exciting as anything the series has ever done. "Lower Decks" has had a rocky road to its moment of triumph; the show's adult humor and gentle ribbing of past "Trek" properties rubbed some traditionalists the wrong way before it even started, and many fans spent its first few seasons judging whether or not the show had properly proven itself as a piece of "Trek" canon.

But "Lower Decks" never wanted to be just like other "Star Trek" shows. The series is wackier than most of its predecessors, and lighter, too. In most cases, it forgoes Gene Roddenberry-style moralizing in favor of fun, bite-sized escapades, jokey commentary on the vast world of "Star Trek," and adventures that specifically benefit from its animated medium.

Spoiler Warning: This story includes plot developments of the series finale of “Star Trek: Lower Decks,” currently streaming on Paramount+.

When “Star Trek: Lower Decks” premiered during the height of the pandemic in August 2020, it was seen as a somewhat radical experiment: It was the first animated “Trek” show since the 1970s. It was the first “Trek” comedy ever. And it was the first time a “Trek” show focused on the junior officers aboard a Starfleet vessel: ne’er-do-well genius Beckett Mariner (Tawny Newsome), anxious tryhard Brad Boimler (Jack Quaid), Orion science officer D’Vana Tendi (Noël Wells) and cybernetically enhanced engineer Sam Rutherford (Eugene Cordero), all serving aboard the minor league starship the U.S.S. Cerritos.

Five seasons later, “Lower Decks” has more than proven itself as a worthy addition to the vast “Star Trek” galaxy, by marrying fast-paced satire with the creative freedom of animation to pay...

The following contains spoilers for Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 5, Episode 9, "Fissure Quest," now streaming on Paramount+.

Star Trek: Voyager actor Garrett Wang reprises his fan-favorite role of Harry Kim for Star Trek: Lower Decks, but with a twist that only the animated series could pull off. Rather than portray the familiar Kim from the main Star Trek universe, Wang plays a whole host of Kims plucked from different corners of the multiverse to safeguard all of reality. He also lends his voice to an alternate universe Lieutenant Harry Kim, whose rare promotion overshadows his descent into villainy.

In an interview with Cbr, Garrett Wang talks about taking on this uniquely multi-faceted approach to reprise his role as Harry Kim. He also reflects on the evolving legacy of Star Trek: Voyager and his prominent role on that show. Plus, he shares his feelings about getting to add more comedy to the Star Trek world.

Nearly 70 years since the original series debuted, Star Trek remains one of the most durable franchises in pop culture, encompassing movies, books, comics, video games — and, of course, multiple TV spin-offs. Lately, Paramount+ has made it possible for Trek creators to try things out across timelines and phases. Bring back Picard for his own show? Why not? Reimagine a Starfleet captain as a parallel-universe villain, and cast Michelle Yeoh? Sure! Make a starship the backdrop for an animated workplace sitcom that honors Trek canon without being totally humorless about it? Yes.

Star Trek: Lower Decks, which premiered in August 2020, has a delightfully simple premise: The bridge crew of Starfleet’s USS Cerritos couldn’t get through their various medium-stakes adventures (they’re usually on “second contact” missions) if not for the unsung work of their dedicated ensigns; they’re known as “lower deckers” for the location of their quarters. In...

In a sea of science fiction series that take themselves far too seriously, “Star Trek Lower Decks” has been a sweet and funny balm, a loving parody of the iconic speculative fiction universe that celebrates and pisses on its history in equal measure. Like all good sitcoms, however, “Lower Decks” is coming to an end, and the finale promises to be…maybe, possibly, moderately serious?

The animated series will premiere the finale to its fifth and final season Thursday, December 19, on Paramount+. The episode, titled “The New Next Generation” in reference to the beloved ’80s-’90s “Star Trek” series starring Patrick Stewart, will have an extended running time, and bring back a few characters from the show’s past. Among them are Klingon brothers, Malor (voiced by Sam Witwer) and Ma’ah (Jon Curry), first seen in a previous Season 5 episode. In an exclusive clip shared with IndieWire, the duo...

The Office producer Michael Schur has created or co-created several beloved comedy series, including The Good Place, Parks and Recreation, and Brooklyn Nine-Nine. In 2024, he returned to Netflix with a brand-new series, A Man on the Inside, which has received critical acclaim.

Three weeks after the series premiered on Netflix, the streaming service has officially renewed A Man on the Inside for Season 2, Tudum confirmed. A Man on the Inside premiered at the top of the TV charts and received positive reviews from both critics and the audience. Given the interest in the series, the team is ready to get back to work, as Deadline reported Season 2 is expected to premiere in 2025.

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"We are thrilled to make another season of A Man on the Inside, starring young up-and-comer Ted Danson,...

Ted Danson's Netflix sitcom series has been renewed for season 2. Danson is best known for playing Sam Malone in the long-running sitcom Cheers, with Danson playing Sam throughout all 11 seasons that aired from 1982-1993. After Cheers concluded, Danson went on to play a variety of roles, including billionaire Arthur Frobisher in the legal drama Damages, a fictionalized version of himself in Larry David's Curb Your Enthusiasm, and the titular character in the CBS sitcom Becker.

In Michael Schur's popular NBC sitcom The Good Place, which aired from 2016-2020, Danson gained further recognition by playing the leading role of Michael. Danson's performance as Michael helped the show receive near-universal acclaim and led to him receiving multiple Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Leading Actor in a Comedy Series. After The Good Place ended, Danson starred in the NBC sitcom Mr. Mayor, which was canceled after one season.

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Ted Danson’s sleuthing adventures will continue: A Man on the Inside has been renewed for Season 2, Netflix announced Monday.

Season 2 will premiere some time in 2025, though details on where Charles (Danson) is headed next and a possible new cast are still to come.

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“We are thrilled to make another season of A Man on the Inside, starring young up-and-comer Ted Danson,” series creator Mike Schur said in a statement to Tudum.

“A Man on the Inside” has been renewed for Season 2 at Netflix.

Netflix made the announcement on their official X account on Monday. The second season of the show is now slated to debut in 2025. The series debuted on Netflix on Nov. 21.

Ted Danson stars in the single-camera comedy, which is based on the Oscar-nominated Chilean documentary “The Mole Agent.”

The official series description states, “Retired professor Charles (Danson) feels life has nothing new in store for him. A year after his wife’s passing, he’s become stuck in his routine and grown distant from his daughter Emily (Mary Elizabeth Ellis). But when he spies a classified ad from private investigator Julie (Lilah Richcreek Estrada), he’s inspired to roll the dice on a new adventure. Charles’ mission: to go undercover inside the Pacific View Retirement Home in San Francisco and solve the mystery of a stolen family heirloom.

Jerry O'Connell thinks Star Trek: Lower Decks saved the best Jack Ransom moment for last.

"My favorite Ransom scene comes in the finale. It's good, and people are going to be satisfied with it," O'Connell told Bleeding Cool ahead of Lower Decks' penultimate episode's release, with the animated Trek show concluding its five-season run on December 19. While he didn't reveal too much about its plot, O'Connell described the series finale as "a bridge episode that takes place on the bridge... getting out of the musty, moldy lower decks and coming up to the bridge where all the action is, finally! [We're] giving the people what they want, no more hanging out in those…I got to tell you, I've been on the lower decks. Everybody smells like feet down there. You don't want to be hanging out down there. Come up to the bridge! It smells great! We have candles lit.

Warning: Spoilers for Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 5, Episode 8 - "Upper Decks"V'Ger, the villain from Star Trek: The Motion Picture, has received two surprising callbacks in Star Trek: Lower Decks season 5. In its fifth and final season on Paramount+, Star Trek: Lower Decks has the USS Cerritos fixing fissures in space that lead to alternate Star Trek timelines. However, Star Trek: Lower Decks season 5, episode 8, "Upper Decks," takes a break to focus on the Cerritos' bridge crew. Amazingly, "Upper Decks" also has two references to V'Ger 45 years after Star Trek: The Motion Picture.

V'Ger is unforgettable in Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Introduced as an impossibly vast energy cloud that destroys everything in its path on a direct course for Earth, V'Ger's secret was unlocked by Admiral James T. Kirk (William Shatner) and the crew of the USS Enterprise. V'Ger was a massive, sentient starship built from Earth's Voyager 6 space probe,...

Warning: Set phasers to spoilers, because this article discusses plot details from the latest episode of "Star Trek: Lower Decks."

Nearly five full seasons into "Lower Decks" and Trekkies might have noticed that some of its most integral characters have remained a bit of an enigma so far. No, we're not talking about our usual crew, all of whom have transformed from some of the franchise's biggest upstarts when the animated series first debuted to fan-favorite additions to the canon. We're not even referring to the simmering rivalry between the delta shift and beta shift on the USS Cerritos, which was first introduced way back in the season 1 episode "Terminal Provocations." No, this team has been hiding in plain sight all along, going about their duty on a daily basis while rarely ever receiving the credit they deserve. And, in an episode that couldn't possibly be more fitting for the show's final season,...

It’s time to give thanks to D’Arcy Carden for confirming a major Man on the Inside cameo.

“Another mystery solved,” Carden, who played Janet on The Good Place, shared on Instagram, along with a group photo revealing that Kristen Bell did, in fact, make an uncredited guest appearance in Episode 8.

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Beam us up and away from spoilers. This article discusses major plot developments from the latest episode of "Star Trek: Lower Decks."

"Lower Decks" has been getting a whole lot of mileage out of alternate universe antics during its fifth and final season, starting with the premiere episode that threw our Cerritos crewmembers alongside their mirror selves and kickstarted Ensign Boimler's (Jack Quaid) obsession with growing out that fugly-looking facial hair. That pattern continues in episode 7, titled "Fully Dilated." The action kicks off when Boimler and Rutherford (Eugene Cordero) clumsily drop their obnoxious martinis all over the delicate transporter controls, dooming the away team to months (if not years) on the surface of a nearby planet currently undergoing severe time dilation. While Ensigns Mariner (Tawny Newsome), Tendi (Noël Wells), and T'Lyn (Gabrielle Ruiz) are trapped indefinitely, they continue to investigate the reason they embarked on the mission in the first place: a purple-colored,...

Plot: Retired professor Charles feels life has nothing new in store for him. A year after his wife’s passing, he’s become stuck in his routine and grown distant from his daughter Emily. But when he spies a classified ad from private investigator Julie, he’s inspired to roll the dice on a new adventure. Charles’ mission: to go undercover inside the Pacific View Retirement Home in San Francisco and solve the mystery of a stolen family heirloom.

Review: Michael Schur’s track record should speak for itself. After writing memorable episodes of The Office, Schur went on to co-create both Parks & Recreation and Brooklyn Nine-Nine and created the brilliant The Good Place. Ted Danson, who starred in The Good Place, has reunited with Schur for the new series A Man On The Inside, which mines similar comedic elements for a shorter, more focused series that blends humor and...

After “The Good Place,” creator Mike Schur and star Ted Danson are back with another comedy to keep you laughing while tugging on the heartstrings with “A Man on the Inside.” The Netflix series stars Danson as Charles, a retired and widowed man bored with his daily routine who gets the opportunity to reinvent his life when he’s hired by a private investigator to infiltrate a retirement home.

Danson is joined by an ensemble full of familiar faces, from former Schur’s comedy regulars to seasoned character actors. Here’s your handy guide to the cast of “A Man on the Inside” and where you’ve seen them before.

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“The Good Place” star Ted Danson reunites with series creator Michael Schur for “A Man on the Inside.” Danson plays Charles, a retired professor who is thrilled for a new adventure when he gets the...

Spoiler shields up! This article discusses plot details from the latest episode of "Star Trek: Lower Decks."

If "Star Trek: Lower Decks" must end with its fifth and final season (which /Film's Jacob Hall reviewed here), it might as well go out swinging for the fences. That seems to have been the approach from creator/showrunner Mike McMahan and the writing team as a whole so far in this series, in all fairness, but season 5, episode 6 takes this Mo to even greater heights. Titled "Of Gods and Angles," the story sees the crew of the USS Cerritos having to don their diplomacy hats in order to mediate between two disgruntled factions of photon-based lifeforms: alien races made up of cubes and spheres, hilariously enough. Yet, as ridiculous and silly as this gets, the main plot doesn't even take the title for the nerdiest moment of the episode. No, that honor...

Warning: Spoilers for Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 5, Episode 6 - "Of Gods and Angles"

Star Trek: Lower Decks season 5, episode 6 has Lieutenant Bradward Boimler (Jack Quaid) unexpectedly name-drop the comic Joe Piscopo played in Star Trek: The Next Generation season 2 back in 1988. Crossing the midway point of Star Trek: Lower Decks' final season on Paramount+, the crew of the USS Cerritos takes a break from investigating rifts in space that lead to alternate Star Trek timelines to broker peace between warring factions of aliens who are cubes and spheres.

However, Lt. Brad Boimler remains obsessed with becoming more like the alternate universe bearded Boimler he met in Star Trek: Lower Decks' season 5 premiere, "Dos Cerritos." Boimler has been growing a beard, and he's obsessed with the bearded Bradward's files in the Padd he swiped from the parallel universe. When his roommate, Lt. Sam Rutherford (Eugene Cordero) asks to borrow Brad's alt-universe Padd,...

Netflix's A Man on the Inside surrounds Cheers star Ted Danson with a talented cast of veteran actors. Set in a retirement community, the show follows Charles, a widower and retired professor who decides to answer an ad for a private detective. Excited to try something new, Charles goes undercover in a retirement home in San Francisco to help search for a family heirloom that has been stolen from one of the residents, meeting new friends and gaining a new perspective along the way.

A Man on the Inside stars many film and television veterans that fans will recognize from their previous projects, speaking highly of the comedic and dramatic chops the cast brings to the production. Alongside a well-known and talented cast, A Man on the Inside comes from creator Mike Schur. Schur is known as a producer and writer of The Office, a co-creator of Parks and Recreation and Brooklyn Nine-Nine,...

In Netflix’s A Man On The Inside, Ted Danson stars as Charles a retired professor who goes undercover in a retirement community to solve the mystery of a resident’s family heirloom that’s disappeared.

Based on the Maite Alberdi’s documentary The Mole Agent, the series, which launches today, could be seen as a limited project, a one and done investigation, but Danson and showrunner Mike Schur are hoping for more cases.

In the finale episode [Spoilers Alert], Danson’s Charles answers his phone from private investigator Julie, played by Lilah Richcreek Estrada. “I can’t believe I’m saying this but I have another job for you,” she says.

“Say no more,” replies Charles before hanging up the phone. “Hey, sorry I do need you to say more but whatever it is, I’m in,” he adds as he calls her back.

The setup is designed for a second season.

Alternate Universes, Orion Pirates, and bearded Boimler there's just so much to enjoy about the fifth (and tragically final) season of Star Trek: Lower Decks, and somehow we are already halfway through the last episodes of the hilarious and groundbreaking animated series. We've rejoined the crew of the USS Cerritos for one last ride through the Alpha Quadrant with our favorite Lower Deckers ready to take the next steps in their Starfleet careers, but what might those futures look like? I recently sat down with stars Tawny Newsome, Jack Quaid, Eugene Cordero, and Nol Wells to get all the scoop on the good, the bad, and the Badgey, and to finally talk about that thing we're all dreading: the series finale of one of the most innovative installements in the Star Trek franchise to date.

Warning: Spoilers for Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 5, Episode 5 - "Starbase 80?!"

Star Trek: Lower Decks has brought back numerous aliens from Star Trek: The Next Generation, including the tattooed Acamarians. In Lower Decks season 5, episode 5, "Starbase 80?!," the USS Cerritos is forced to travel to the infamous Starbase 80 when their navigational system malfunctions. When the Cerritos crew arrives, Station Commander Kassia Nox (Nicole Byer) greets them and shows them around the station. Because of its remote location, Starbase 80 has been neglected by Starfleet and is in desperate need of upgrades and repairs.

While Captain Carol Freeman (Dawnn Lewis) and Commander Jack Ransom (Jerry O'Connell) try to track down the parts they need to repair the Cerritos, Lts. Beckett Mariner (Tawny Newsome), Brad Boimler (Jack Quaid), D'Vana Tendi (Nol Wells), and Sam Rutherford (Eugene Cordero) explore the station with Nox, helping with repairs. As they walk through the shopping area of the station,...

Warning: Spoilers for Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 5, Episode 5 - "Starbase 80?!"

Star Trek: Lower Decks just introduced a new member of Guinan's (Whoopi Goldberg) species who serves in Starfleet. Guinan became a fixture on Star Trek: The Next Generation as the bartender of the USS Enterprise-d's Ten Forward lounge. Guinan was a bit of an enigma upon her introduction, and Tng revealed more about her and her species slowly over time. As an El-Aurian, Guinan came from a race of listeners with extremely long lifespans. She was longtime friends with Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) and he regularly sought out her advice.

In Star Trek: Lower Decks season 5, episode 5, "Starbase 80?!," the USS Cerritos pays a visit to the infamous Starbase 80 in search of a navigational computer. Upon arriving at the starbase, they are greeted by Commander Kassia Nox (Nicole Byer), who hopes the Cerritos crew will help with some of the station's repairs.

One of the stars of Star Trek: Lower Decks, Dawnn Lewis, who voices Captain Carol Freeman, of the U.S.S. Cerritos took inspiration from another StarTrek actor, the late Nichelle Nichols, who played the iconic Nyota Uhura on Star Trek in the 1960s. Lewis told CinemaBlend that what she saw being portrayed in the original series, the respect and collaboration, wasnt something she was used to seeing as a child.

I saw myself in the show in Nichelle Nichols and saw the possibility of all kinds of different people from all kinds of different places working together, respecting each other, collaborating with each other. And thats not what I would see when I would watch any other show or particularly the news growing up in, in the sixties, Lewis said.

Nichols played Uhura in all three seasons of Star Trek and the original series' Star Trek feature films. Lewis...

Gabrielle Ruiz is making sure Star Trek: Lower Decks season 5 is remarkable and fascinating for Lieutenant T'Lyn. After officially joining the crew of the USS Cerritos in Star Trek: Lower Decks season 4, the Vulcan with a dry sense of humor has fit right in with the rest of the Lower Deckers.

In Star Trek: Lower Decks season 5, T'Lyn works alongside her fellow Lower Deckers, Lieutenants Beckett Mariner (Tawny Newsome), Brad Boimler (Jack Quaid), Sam Rutherford (Eugene Cordero), and D'Vana Tendi (Noel Wells) as they investigate rifts opening in space that lead to other Star Trek parallel realities. Meanwhile, T'Lyn has shown new sides of her personality as she develops deeper friendships with the Warp Core Four.

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For five years, the biggest Star Trek alien villain crossover has been gradually happening on Star Trek: Lower Decks, but in the animated comedy's opening credits. Created by Mike McMahan, Star Trek: Lower Decks is set in the late 24th century of Star Trek: The Next Generation's era. This means everything Star Trek up to that point, from Star Trek: Enterprise, to Star Trek: The Original Series, Tng, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager, and the first 10 Star Trek movies are ripe for homage or parody. And this includes the numerous aliens Starfleet and the United Federation of Planets have faced.

Star Trek: Lower Decks' opening credits evolve throughout the show's five seasons. Set to the majestic score by Chris Westlake, Star Trek: Lower Decks' titles showcase the USS Cerritos and its misadventures warping around the galaxy. After the names of the four main Star Trek: Lower Decks cast members,...

The beloved animated series Star Trek: Lower Decks will end its run with its fifth season. For each cast member, it's been quite the journey that first began with the launch of the show in 2020.

At New York Comic Con, Cbr's Kevin Polowy spoke about Star Trek: Lower Decks with series creator Mike McMahan alongside voice actors Jack Quaid (Brad Boimler), Tawny Newsome (Beckett Mariner), Eugene Cordero (Sam Rutherford), and Nol Wells (D'Vana Tendi). Those in the group observed how it was odd that this was the first time they had all been together in one room, given how they record their voiceovers separately. The actors then reflected on how they brought their characters to life and how the personal touch they each provided helped influence who they voiced as the series went on.

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Star Trek: Lower Decks has teased a surprising possible future for the Ferengi. Although the Ferengi were originally intended to be the main villains of Star Trek: The Next Generation, they came across as too comical during their earliest appearances. After popping up a few times on Tng, the Ferengi finally got more depth on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine thanks in large part to Armin Shimerman's portrayal of Quark. Quark embraced the profit-focused nature of Ferengi culture and made his fair share of mistakes, but he ultimately proved to have a good heart.

Since their introduction, the Ferengi have been depicted as a greedy and cunning species who are often underestimated. They value earning a profit above all else, and their society is built around this concept, meaning the most powerful Ferengi are usually the most savvy businessmen. When participating in business dealings, the Ferengi rely on a...

For all Trekkies across the world, there is no shortage of movies and television series. One of the most popular and successful Star Trek shows in recent memory, Star Trek: Lower Decks, will be flying off into the sunset following its final fifth season. The animated Paramount+ series was created by Mike McMahan and features the vocal talents of Tawny Newsome, Jack Quaid, Nol Wells, Eugene Cordero, Dawnn Lewis, and Jerry O'Connell.

The fifth and final season of Star Trek: Lower Decks is now underway on Paramount+. Ahead of the debut of the final season's third episode, Cbr can unveil a sneak peek clip.

The episode, dubbed "The Best Exotic Nanite Hotel," is set to debut on Oct. 31 following last week's double premiere of the first two episodes on Disney+. The episode, written by Stephanie Amante-Ritter and directed by Brandon Williams, will see the Lower Deckers "hunt nanites on a resort... in space," according to the synopsis. Cbr's sneak peek clip features Brad Boimler (Jack Quaid) learning about an "undercover mission" he'll be going on with Jack Ransom (Jerry O'Connell) and Andy Billups (Paul Scheer). The video can be watched below.

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Warning: Spoilers for Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 5, Episode 2 - "Shades of Green"

Star Trek: Lower Decks puts a hilarious twist on a famous quote spoken by Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) in Star Trek: The Next Generation. Following the adventures of the USS Cerritos, Lower Decks focuses on the lower-level officers like Lieutenants Brad Boimler (Jack Quaid), Beckett Mariner (Tawny Newsome), and their friends. Picking up about about one year after the events of Star Trek: Nemesis, Lower Decks continues Star Trek's Tng era. Because of this, several characters from previous Trek shows have popped up on Lower Decks, including Tng's Captain Will Riker (Jonathan Frakes).

In its fifth and final season, Star Trek: Lower Decks remains as funny as ever, incorporating numerous references to past Trek while building on its own established lore. In Star Trek: Lower Deck season 5, episode 2, "Shades Of Green," the Cerritos visits the...

Paramount has been cranking out new Star Trek shows like crazy over the past several years, including Discovery, Strange New Worlds, Prodigy and Picard. Just last week, Paramount+ started airing new episodes of Star Trek: Lower Decks, an animated comedy set during The Next Generation era. This is the show's fifth and final season, and according to showrunner Mike McMahan, it's the best one yet.

"Watching any Star Trek, you get a couple seasons in and you’re like, oh, it just clicked," McMahan told StarTrek.com. "They grew the beard. You know what I mean? This is the season where we grow the beard a little bit, and it feels like a nice culmination of everything we’ve been doing so far."

McMahan is very confident, going so far as to promise that the series finale "Will make a lot of people tear up."

[T]he finale is bonkers...t...

A Man on the Inside trailer reveals Ted Danson's reunion with The Good Place creator for a new Netflix comedy. The upcoming comedy series is created by Michael Schur and stars Ted Danson in the lead role as a retired widower who goes undercover in a retirement home to solve the mystery of a missing family heirloom. The cast also includes Mary Elizabeth Ellis, Stephanie Beatriz, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Sally Struthers, Eugene Cordero, Margaret Avery, John Getz, Susan Ruttan, Lori Tan Chinn, Clyde Kusatsu, Marc Evan Jackson, Jama Williamson, Kerry OMalley, and many more.

Now, Netflix has released the first official trailer for A Man on the Inside. The trailer introduces Ted Danson as Charles, a retired professor who, a year after losing his wife, has fallen into a monotonous routine and has drifted apart from his daughter. One day, he spots a classified ad from a private investigator,...

Ted Danson is on the case.

On Monday, Netflix dropped the first trailer for “A Man on the Inside,” its new comedy series scheduled to premiere on Thursday, Nov. 21. Based on Maite Alberdi‘s Oscar-nominated documentary “The Mole Agent,” the series hails from Mike Schur and stars his “Good Place” lead Danson as Charles, a retired professor who is stuck in a rut after losing his wife a year ago. His daughter Emily (Mary Elizabeth Ellis) encourages him to find something “that excites you.” Charles answers a wanted ad for an investigative assistant aged 75 to 85. He gets hired by Julie (Lilah Richcreek Estrada) and is dispatched to go undercover at the Pacific View Retirement Home, where a necklace has been stolen.

Charles quickly befriends the home’s residents, all of whom are a potential suspect, while trying to throw off the suspicion of Pacific View director Didi (Stephanie Beatriz). The...

Netflix has released a trailer for its upcoming comedy series A Man on the Inside, which features a reunion of star Ted Danson and creator Mike Schur after they worked together on The Good Place.

The show, which Netflix gave a straight-to-series order in March 2023, is based on the Oscar-nominated documentary The Mole Agent. Danson plays Charles, a retired professor who’s in a rut following the death of his wife, having grown distant from his daughter, Emily (Mary Elizabeth Ellis). Netflix describes the show this way:

“When Charles spies a classified ad from private investigator Julie (Lilah Richcreek Estrada), he’s inspired to roll the dice on a new adventure. Charles’ mission: to go undercover inside the Pacific View Retirement Home in San Francisco and solve the mystery of a stolen family heirloom. Everyone, residents and staff alike, is a potential suspect, and it’s up to Charles to...

“For the majority of seniors, the biggest threat to their wellbeing isn’t an accident or health, it’s loneliness,” says Stephanie Beatriz’s Didi, director of the Pacific View Retirement Home in Netflix’s upcoming series A Man On The Inside.

To combat this Ted Danson’s retired professor Charles becomes a mole agent at the home. “I don’t know how to be a spy, but it’s good for me, makes me feel useful,” he says in the first trailer for the show.

A Man On The Inside, a sweet, scripted adaptation of Maite Alberdi’s documentary The Mole Agent, debuts on Netflix on November 21.

The series, which is exec produced by Mike Schur among others, follows Charles as he feels life has nothing new in store for him. A year after his wife’s passing, he’s become stuck in his routine and grown distant from...