Star Trek: Lower Decks coloring pages: 20+ free printable PDF designs featuring Beckett Mariner, Brad Boimler, D’Vana Tendi, Sam Rutherford, Captain Carol Freeman, Commander Jack Ransom, Lieutenant Shaxs, Dr. T’Ana, Kayshon, Dr. Migleemo, and Andy Billups from the Paramount+ animated series. Every page is available to download as a PDF or color directly in the browser, with no account or payment required.
Lower Decks presents a coloring challenge you will not find in any other set on this site. In most animated shows, each character has a distinctive costume with its own colors. Lower Decks does not work that way. Every Starfleet crew member wears the same uniform, and the only color that changes is the collar and trim: gold for command, red for engineering and operations, blue for sciences and medical. What actually separates Mariner from Boimler, Tendi from Rutherford on the page is not their outfit but their face, their species, their expression. The coloring work here is about getting those right while keeping the uniform colors consistent across the crew.
Quick Answer
Star Trek: Lower Decks coloring pages are a free set of 20+ printable PDFs and browser-based coloring sheets from the Paramount+ adult animated comedy, covering the main lower decks crew, the senior bridge officers, and several supporting characters.
Best for: Star Trek fans aged 12 and up, adult animation fans, and older children who watch the show
Formats: printable PDF and online coloring
Popular pages: Mariner solo, Beckett and Brad paired pages, the full crew group scenes, and the Star Trek logo page
Creative uses: a department color display, a crew portrait gallery, a Cerritos bridge vs lower decks comparison, and a Star Trek logo poster
What’s Inside Star Trek: Lower Decks Coloring Pages
The set covers both the lower decks ensemble and the senior bridge crew, with the most pages going to Beckett Mariner and the Mariner-Boimler pairing.
Beckett Mariner Pages
Mariner is the most-represented character in the set, appearing in six pages: three solo portraits and three paired scenes with Boimler. She is an ensign in the command division.
Coloring Mariner: Mariner wears the gold-trimmed Starfleet uniform of the command division. Her skin tone is warm brown, her hair is dark and worn in a bun or loose, depending on the page. Her most distinctive physical features are her expressive eyes and consistently defiant posture: she rarely stands at attention. On solo pages, the gold trim is her primary color accent. On paired pages with Boimler, the contrast between her relaxed stance and his more rigid one is the compositional anchor.
Brad Boimler Pages
Boimler appears in four pages: one solo portrait and three paired with Mariner. He is also in the command division and wears the same gold-trim uniform.
Coloring Boimler: Boimler is pale-skinned with dark purple hair, one of the more unusual character design choices in the show. His hair is a true medium purple, not dark enough to read as black. Getting that purple right is the most important color decision on any Boimler page. His expression is usually either anxious or trying to look more confident than he feels, which makes him immediately recognizable even at a small scale.
Tendi and Rutherford Pages
D’Vana Tendi appears in four group pages alongside the other ensigns. Sam Rutherford appears in three pages, including a solo portrait and a paired scene with Tendi.
Coloring Tendi: Tendi is an Orion, which means her skin is green. Not a dark green and not a yellow-green: a medium, warm green, similar in tone to sage or pistachio. Her hair is orange-red and cut short. The combination of green skin and orange-red hair is the most vivid color pairing among the four ensigns. Her uniform trim is blue, placing her in the sciences and medical division.
Coloring Rutherford: Rutherford is a human with dark skin and a cybernetic implant covering the left side of his face, a grey-silver mechanical component. His uniform trim is also blue. The implant is his most distinctive feature and should be rendered in cool grey or silver to read as technological rather than organic.
Senior Bridge Crew Pages
Captain Carol Freeman, Commander Jack Ransom, Lieutenant Shaxs, and Dr. T’Ana appear in two group pages and one additional group scene. Kayshon and Andy Billups each appear on one page alongside the bridge crew.
Coloring the bridge crew: Captain Freeman wears the gold command trim. Ransom also wears gold. Shaxs, as a security/tactical officer, wears red trim. Dr. T’Ana, as chief medical officer, wears blue trim. Having each character in the correct department color is the primary accuracy goal on the bridge crew pages.
Coloring Shaxs: Shaxs is Bajoran, with the characteristic ridged nose of his species. His skin tone is warm tan, and his expression is typically intense. The Bajoran nose ridges are a small but recognizable detail worth taking care with on close-up pages.
Coloring Dr. T’Ana: T’Ana is a Caitian, a cat-like species with fur, feline features, and a tail. Her fur is grey-brown with a darker pattern. She is one of the most visually distinct characters in the set because she is obviously non-humanoid even in silhouette.
Coloring Kayshon: Kayshon is a Tamarian with distinctive grey-blue skin and facial ridges. His species communicates through metaphor rather than direct language, which is a running reference for Trek fans. His coloring is the most unusual in the set: cooler and more grey-toned than any of the other characters.
Supporting Character and Logo Pages
Dr. Migleemo, the ship’s counselor, appears on one page. The Star Trek logo page rounds out the set.
Coloring Dr. Migleemo: Migleemo is a bird-like alien with orange and yellow plumage and a beak. He is the most colorful non-uniform character in the entire set. His pages are the exception to the uniform-dominated palette of everything else: bright oranges, yellows, and warm reds.
Coloring the logo: The Star Trek logo page is a clean graphic design exercise. The classic delta shield is the most recognizable symbol in the franchise. A gold or yellow fill with a clean dark outline is the most faithful version, but the logo has appeared in many color variants across the franchise’s history.
Printable PDF and Online Star Trek: Lower Decks Coloring Pages
Every design is available as a printable PDF or for coloring in the browser. The group crew pages and the logo are particularly well-suited to printing, where you can work across multiple characters in a single session.
What These Pages Do
Lower Decks is built around a specific reversal of the Star Trek premise. Every previous live-action Trek series followed the most important people on the ship: the captain, the first officer, and the chief medical officer. Lower Decks follows the least important people, the junior ensigns running maintenance, filing reports, and doing whatever the bridge crew cannot be bothered with. That structural joke is also the show’s emotional engine. Mariner is brilliant but deliberately underperforming. Boimler is desperate to be promoted but keeps undermining himself. Tendi and Rutherford are straightforwardly enthusiastic about work that nobody else cares about. The coloring pages capture all four of them in the middle of that.
The AAP notes that creative activities connecting to characters navigating workplace dynamics and institutional belonging give older children and adolescents a familiar emotional context for imaginative engagement.
Art therapy practitioners recognize that adult-oriented animated characters, drawn with the same expressiveness as children’s animation but carrying more complex emotional situations, invite deeper identification from older colorists. Mariner’s frustration, Boimler’s anxiety, Rutherford’s uncomplicated joy in engineering: these are adult feelings in cartoon form, and they make the pages more resonant for their intended audience.
How to Color Star Trek: Lower Decks Coloring Pages Well
Learn the three department colors before you start. Gold trim for command (Mariner, Boimler, Freeman, Ransom). Red trim for engineering and operations (Shaxs, Rutherford). Blue trim for sciences and medical (Tendi, T’Ana). Every group page makes more visual sense once you can read which character belongs to which department at a glance.
Boimler’s purple hair is the most unusual color in the set. It is tempting to go dark and end up with something that reads as black or dark brown. Keep it clearly in the purple family, a medium grape or violet, and it will look right.
Tendi’s green skin should stay warm. Cool greens make Orions look unwell. A warm, slightly yellow-leaning green, closer to sage than to teal, is closer to how the character reads on screen.
Rutherford’s cybernetic implant needs to read as metal. Cool light grey for the base, with slightly darker grey for the mechanical lines and details, separates it visually from his skin without requiring metallic materials.
On group pages, pick one character to finish first. With eight or more characters in frame, starting with a single figure and working outward prevents color decisions from bleeding across the page without a plan.
5 Creative Craft Ideas with Star Trek: Lower Decks Coloring Pages
Department Color Display
Color one page each from command (Mariner or Boimler), engineering (Rutherford), and sciences (Tendi). Mount the three pages side by side with the department names written underneath in the matching trim color.
A display that uses the show’s own color system as its organizing principle. Takes about thirty minutes.
Crew Portrait Gallery
Color the Mariner solo, Boimler solo, Rutherford solo, and one of the Tendi group pages. Frame them in matching simple frames and display as a four-character crew portrait.
The four lower decks are ensigns as a set. Takes about forty minutes across all four pages.
Bridge vs Lower Decks
Color one of the “Jack Ransom, Shaxs, Carol Freeman, and T’Ana” bridge crew pages and one of the “Tendi, Sam Rutherford, Beckett, and Brad” lower decks pages. Display them facing each other with “Bridge Crew” and “Lower Decks” written underneath.
The two groups around which the whole show is built are displayed as a contrast. Takes about thirty minutes.
Star Trek Logo Poster
Color the Star Trek logo page in the classic gold and black scheme, mount it on black card, and frame it.
The most graphically clean page in the set, and the one that looks most like official merchandise. Takes about fifteen minutes.
Cerritos Crew Display
Color the full cast group page as carefully as possible, aiming to get every character’s species coloring and department trim correct. Label each character by name underneath.
A reference display that rewards knowledge of the show. Takes as long as you want to spend.
FAQ About Star Trek: Lower Decks Coloring Pages
Are these Star Trek: Lower Decks coloring pages free, and can I color them online?
Yes. Every page is free, with no account, email, or payment required. Download the PDF to print at home, or open it in the online coloring tool to color on screen.
What is Star Trek: Lower Decks?
Star Trek: Lower Decks is an adult animated comedy series created by Mike McMahan, who previously wrote for Rick and Morty. It premiered on CBS All Access on August 6, 2020, and is now available on Paramount+. The series is set in the Star Trek universe in the year 2380 and follows the low-ranking support crew of the U.S.S. Cerritos, one of Starfleet’s least important ships.
Who are the main characters?
The four lower decks ensigns are Beckett Mariner, voiced by Tawny Newsome; Brad Boimler, voiced by Jack Quaid; D’Vana Tendi, voiced by Noel Wells; and Sam Rutherford, voiced by Eugene Cordero. The senior bridge crew includes Captain Carol Freeman, voiced by Dawnn Lewis; Commander Jack Ransom, voiced by Jerry O’Connell; Lieutenant Shaxs, voiced by Fred Tatasciore; and Dr. T’Ana, voiced by Gillian Vigman.
What do the Starfleet uniform colors mean?
In the Lower Decks era of Star Trek, gold trim indicates the command division, red trim indicates engineering and operations, and blue trim indicates sciences and medical. Mariner and Boimler wear gold, Tendi and Rutherford wear blue, and Shaxs wears red.
Who is Kayshon?
Kayshon is a Tamarian ensign who joins the lower decks crew in season two. Tamarians famously communicate only through metaphorical references to events from their culture’s history, a concept introduced in the Next Generation episode Darmok. Kayshon was the first Tamarian Starfleet officer depicted in the franchise.
Is this show suitable for children?
Star Trek: Lower Decks is rated TV-14 and is primarily aimed at adult Star Trek fans. The humor includes references to Trek lore spanning the entire franchise, workplace comedy, and occasional mature themes. The coloring pages themselves are suitable for all ages, but the show itself is best suited to viewers aged 14 and up.
Are these official Star Trek: Lower Decks coloring pages?
No. These are fan-made coloring sheets for personal use and are not affiliated with, licensed by, or endorsed by Paramount+, CBS Studios, or any other rights holder of Star Trek: Lower Decks.
How does Lower Decks connect to the rest of Star Trek?
Lower Decks is set in the same era as Star Trek: The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, and Voyager, roughly a decade after those series ended. The show makes frequent references to events, characters, and alien species from across the franchise, and several Next Generation characters, including William Riker and Deanna Troi, have appeared in the series.
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