TEMPORAL EDICT sees LOWER DECKS confront one of the franchise’s most absurd tendencies – its refusal to acknowledge music from any time after the early 20th century. Tendi and Mariner bring heavy metal to light entertainment as they rock out during Boimler’s staid violin recital and inadvertently cause some tensions on the bridge. The real ..

TERMINAL PROVOCATIONS sees STAR TREK LOWER DECKS finally get round to doing a malfunctioning holodeck story – in its own inimitable style. During a tense standoff with a crew of Drookmani scavengers over some Starfleet salvage, Tendi confesses she never finished her spacewalk training and asks Rutherford to help. Meanwhile, Boimler and Mariner find themselves ..

In order to prepare for the upcoming advanced diplomacy programme, Boimler creates a holodeck programme of the USS Cerritos in order to get the inside scoop on how to impress Captain Freeman but when Mariner is ordered into therapy after overstepping protocol once too often, she decides to repurpose Boimler’s brown-nosing programme into a thereputic ..

KAYSHON, HIS EYES OPEN makes a deceptively obvious callback to DARMOK but it’s really burying the lede which is that, once again, Mariner is about to be confronted by not only her own recklessness but her tendency to overshadow and endanger her friends. Meanwhile, Boimler’s tour of duty on the Titan reaches a very STAR ..