Star Trek: Lower Decks, the first animated comedy set in the Star Trek universe, brings its second season to a close today. The season finale episode, “First First Contact,” brings back an unexpected Star Trek: The Next Generation character as the crew of the USS Cerritos must save an entire Starfleet starship from disaster. Among them is Lieutenant Commander Andarithio “Andy” Billups, voiced by Paul Scheer. Episodes from earlier in the season revealed that the chief engineer with a pleasant demeanor is royalty on his home planet. The season finale revelation that [SPOILER WARNING] Captain Carol Freeman is considering taking a higher-profile posting on another Starship brought out another, more hot-headed side of Billups. But the crisis at hand forced Billups to step up in a new way, which may continue after Freeman’s arrest at the end of the episode.
