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Star Trek: Lower Decks
''Star Trek: Lower Decks'' is an American adult-oriented animated television series created by Mike McMahan for the streaming service CBS All Access (later rebranded as Paramount+). It is the ninth ''Star Trek'' series and was launched in 2020 ...
'' is an American
adult animated
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television series created by
Mike McMahan
Mike McMahan is an American comedy writer and television producer. He is the creator of the animated comedies '' Solar Opposites'' (with Justin Roiland) and '' Star Trek: Lower Decks''.
Career
McMahan, a native of Chicago, first worked in pr ...
for the streaming service
CBS All Access
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. It is the ninth series in the ''
Star Trek
''Star Trek'' is an American science fiction media franchise created by Gene Roddenberry, which began with the eponymous 1960s television series and quickly became a worldwide pop-culture phenomenon. The franchise has expanded into vario ...
'' franchise, and was launched in 2020 as part of executive producer
Alex Kurtzman
Alexander Hilary Kurtzman (born September 7, 1973) is an American filmmaker. He is best known for his work on the ''Star Trek'' franchise since 2009, co-writing the scripts to ''Transformers'' (2007), '' Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen'' and ...
's
expansion of the franchise. ''Lower Decks'' is the first animated series created for All Access, and the first animated ''Star Trek'' series since the 1973–74 series ''
Star Trek: The Animated Series
''Star Trek: The Animated Series'' (''TAS''), is an American animated science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry. It originally aired under the title simply as ''Star Trek'', subtitled ''Created by Gene Roddenberry'', on Satu ...
''. It follows the support crew of the U.S.S. ''Cerritos'' in the year 2380.
Tawny Newsome
Tawny Newsome (born February 24, 1983) is an American musician, comedian,