The fate of multiple realities is in the hands of two Boimlers and a lot of Harry Kims in 'Star Trek: Lower Decks' season 5, episode 9 "Fissure Quest".

"Lower Decks" is unique among the armada of "Star Trek" TV shows in that it doesn't focus on the upper echelons of starship/space station management — this is the only TV show in the franchise where a story about bridge officers could be an anomaly.

"We're sort of the stars of the show around here," Boimler — beard ever bearding — put it to Mariner. In quintessential fourth wall tipping-over fashion, he's right! The clue's in the title of the series. With only this and two more episodes to go, Boimler is equally and unknowingly admitting that they are soon the stars of the show no longer.

That fateful incident — which saw the Enterprise's resident android comprehensively obliterated — occurred in “Star Trek: Nemesis” (2002), set in 2379. "Lower Decks" season 5 takes place in 2382, so he should be very dead indeed at this point in the "Star Trek" timeline.

This article contains spoilers for the latest episode of "Star Trek: Lower Decks." The penultimate episode of "Star Trek: Lower Decks" season 5 (and the series itself), titled "Fissure Quest," pulls away from the U.

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