Warning: SPOILERS For Star Trek: Lower Decks' Season 5 Finale - "The New Next Generation"
In the penultimate episode of Star Trek: Lower Decks' 5th season, "Fissure Quest", the collapse of a dimensional rift threatens the destruction of the entire Star Trek multiverse. Captain William Boimler (Jack Quaid) sends the universe-destroying beam of soliton radiation to Star Trek's Prime Universe, believing that Lieutenant Brad Boimler and the USS Cerritos crew are capable of handling it. In Star Trek: Lower Decks' season 5 finale, "The New Next Generation", the soliton beam's entrance into the Prime Universe creates a Schrödinger field that changes anything caught in it into a different version from the multiverse.
Star Trek: Lower Decks Brings Back Klingons From Star Trek: Discovery
Discovery Klingons Haven't Been Seen Since 2019
What Star Trek: Discovery Klingons In Lower Decks’ Multiverse Really Means
All Versions Of Klingons Are Canon To Star Trek's Prime Universe
One explanation for Star Trek: Lower Decks' Klingon transformation might be that there's a reality where Star Trek: Discovery-style Klingons have become the predominant variation in the 24th century over either of their less-ridged counterparts.
