Star Trek: Lower Decks
2020–2024Paramount+Animation
The joke is in the structure: it opens exactly like a heroic Trek title sequence, and then the ship spends the entire minute getting wrecked by everything it meets. The Cerritos never wins a single shot of its own opening.
Star Trek: Lower Decks kept one opening title sequence, 68 seconds long, across seasons 1–5.
It arrived on Paramount+ in 2020, when SEAL Team, Star Trek: Discovery and Evil were also on the network.
The opening titles
Seasons 1–5
68sHeld for all five seasons — Chris Westlake's brassy fanfare plays it completely straight while the Cerritos is chased, dented and humiliated by one anomaly after another.
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