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".

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.

Red alert! This article contains spoilers for the latest episode of "Star Trek: Lower Decks." If "Lower Decks" had to end with its fifth and final season, at least it continues to go out on the highest of notes (as /Film's Jacob Hall noted in his review) with a string of episodes that feel as fitting as can be.

"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.

Watch an exclusive clip from the penultimate episode of "Star Trek: Lower Decks," "Fissure Quest," before it airs!

Lower Decks season 5's penultimate episode satirizes the multiverse storytelling trend while also finding ways to defend it.