Composer who wrote the main theme and scored all five seasons of Star Trek: Lower Decks, giving the animated comedy a sincere, full-blooded orchestral sound.
Chris Westlake is a film and television composer who scored Star Trek: Lower Decks from its premiere in 2020 to its final episode, The New Next Generation, in December 2024. He had previously worked with the series' creator Mike McMahan on the animated comedy Solar Opposites.
His main title theme, which includes a choir, plays over shots of the USS Cerritos repeatedly blundering into danger. Westlake has explained that he scored the series earnestly, in the tradition of the Next Generation era, on the grounds that sincere music makes the jokes land harder.
A soundtrack album covering the first two seasons was released by Lakeshore Records in October 2021.