One of these unfairly cancelled Star Trek titles has just received a major update from its creator, who revealed he had enough great ideas to fuel multiple additional seasons. Star Trek: Lower Decks, created by Mike McMahan, ran for five seasons and 50 episodes before concluding its run in late 2024. In October 2023, months before Season 5 was announced, McMahan expressed his desire to keep making the series, noting that seasons beyond the fifth were never guaranteed.
By April 2024, Paramount officially confirmed that Lower Decks Season 5 would be its last. However, the highly creative showrunner remained open to continuing the stories in other media, including films, comics, books, and video games. Now, McMahan has shared exactly what would have happened if the Star Trek show had been renewed for Seasons 6 and 7. Responding to a fan on Bluesky, McMahan stated he “couldn’t be prouder” of the show’s legacy before revealing, “I had at least two seasons more in me.” The creator then treated fans to a breakdown of the specific storylines they missed out on:
“Wanted to hit up the Delta and Gamma quadrants. One more Vindicta holodeck movie. Meet a weirdly nice leftover Weyoun, more stories with the whales and Kayshon, T’Lyn and Ensign Olly. Lots of stuff.”
Collider Exclusive · Star Wars Quiz Which Force User Are You? Light Side · Dark Side · Or Somewhere Between
The Force is not a binary. It is a spectrum — from the serene halls of the Jedi Temple to the shadowed corridors of Sith space. Ten questions will reveal where you truly fall. The Force has always known. Now you will too.
🔵Jedi Master
🟡Padawan
🔴Sith Lord
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What is the Force to you? Your relationship with the Force defines everything else.
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When you feel strong emotions — anger, grief, love — what do you do? The Jedi suppress. The Sith feed. Others choose differently.
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The Jedi Council gives you an order you disagree with. You: How you handle authority reveals your alignment.
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You are offered forbidden knowledge that could give you enormous power. The cost is crossing a moral line. You: The dark side’s pull is never more than a choice away.
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Your approach to training and learning is: A student’s habits become a master’s character.
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In a duel, your lightsaber fighting style reflects: Combat is the purest expression of a Force user’s philosophy.
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A defeated enemy lies at your feet, powerless. You: Mercy — or its absence — is the truest test of alignment.
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The Jedi Code forbids attachment. Your honest view on love and bonds: The source of the greatest falls in the galaxy.
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Why do you use the Force at all? What’s the point? Purpose is the difference between a knight and a weapon.
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At the final moment — light side or dark side pulling at you — what wins? In the end, every Force user faces this moment. What does yours look like?
Your Alignment Has Been Determined Your Place in the Force
The scores below reveal how the Force sees you. Your highest number is your true alignment. Read on to understand what that means — and what it will cost you.
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🔴 Sith Lord
⚫ Inquisitor
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Disciplined, compassionate, and deeply attuned to the living Force, you have walked the path long enough to understand its demands — and accept them. You lead not through authority alone, but through example. You have felt the pull of the dark side and chosen otherwise, every time. That is not certainty. That is courage.
You are earnest, powerful, and brimming with potential — and you know it, which is both your greatest asset and your most dangerous flaw. You act before you think, trust your gut over your training, and sometimes confuse impatience for bravery. The Masters see something in you, though. The question isn’t whether you have what it takes — it’s whether you’ll be patient enough to find out.
You are not simply dangerous — you are certain, and that is worse. You have decided what the galaxy needs, and you have decided you are the one to deliver it. Your power is genuine and formidable, earned through sacrifice that would have broken lesser beings. But examine your victories carefully. Every Sith believed their cause was righteous. The dark side’s cruelest trick is that it agrees with you.
You were forged in fire and reshaped by those who found you at your lowest. You serve, because service gave you structure when you had none. Your allegiance is not to an ideology — it is to survival and to the master who gave you purpose. But there is something buried beneath the conditioning. The Jedi you hunt? You recognize them. Because you remember what it felt like before the choice was taken from you.
You have looked at the Jedi Code and the Sith Code and found both of them incomplete. You walk the line not out of indecision but out of conviction — you genuinely believe both extremes miss something essential. The Jedi don’t fully trust you. The Sith think you’re wasting your potential. They’re both partially right. But so are you.
‘Star Trek: Lower Decks’ Is Star Trek’s Best Cancelled Show
Couldn’t be prouder of the five we made, but I had at least two seasons more in me. Wanted to hit up the Delta and Gamma quadrants. One more Vindicta holodeck movie. Meet a weirdly nice leftover Weyoun, more stories with the whales and Kayshon, T’Lyn and Ensign Olly. Lots of stuff.
— Mike McMahan (@mikemcmahan.bsky.social)2026-07-01T22:27:42.536Z
Lower Decks’ cancellation still feels particularly unfair, even years later, especially when compared to other modern Star Trek entries. Consider the similarly animated Prodigy, which was cancelled and removed from Paramount+ in June 2023 before Netflix rescued it. Despite its incredible quality and critical acclaim, it struggled to find its footing and secure a consistent audience. Lower Decks, by contrast, enjoyed a highly dedicated fanbase and gained significant critical acclaim over time. The sci-fi gem maintained an incredible 93% overall rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with every season after the first sitting at a perfect 100%.
