Star Trek: Lower Decks is not the kind of show for big, shocking revelations. But since I watched the episode ‘Temporal Edict’ this week, I could not stop thinking about the wonderful thing that happens at the end.
When this week’s story wrestles and the day is saved by Ensign Boimler, Captain Freeman arrives Insert buffer time again, us nice rule lover is rewarded with getting a whole rule named after him. Much to his surprise, the Boimler effect is specifically a rule about net following rules. But as Rutherford and Tendi reassure him, there are so many Starfleet regulations that everyone will soon forget the Boimler effect.
Hard cuts to the distant future, where a group of children are being taught, for a holographic gold statue of Boimler – being, uh, attacked by a nobility? – about the legend of the laziest, most quick-witted Starfleet officer ever. Womp womp! But as soon as that inevitable gag hits, Lower Decks swap it with another.
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The teacher moves her class to an even more important Starfleet officer. Perhaps the most important thing in all of history: and the holo statue flies out to transform into none other than Colm Meaney’s Chief Miles Goddamn O’Brien, star of The next generation en Deep Space Nine.
And that’s it. Your first size Star Trek came in Lower Decks. It all takes three seconds.
What I like most about this statue is that it’s specifically O’Brien as he appeared in it TNG. That the distant future is either completely overtaken by the fact that he played a crucial role aboard Deep Space Nine (and as you know, a frontline officer on the Defiant during one of the most important wars in the history of the Federation) if it confirms the theory that Deep Space Nine happened in Miles’ bored imagination on the Enterprise. What I also like is that this first great performance by a familiar Star Trek character does not affect Lower Decks‘story as a major sea change for their characters, related to Worf’s arrival DS9, Sulu’s flashback appearance in Voyager, of Picard‘s nostalgia-laden deployment of Riker and Troy.
It’s just a giant, gold-plated shitpost.
In approach to Lower Decks‘release, there was all this talk of’ Oh, the potential! ‘for others Trek characters to make appearances because it is animated, and that, like time, heals all wounds. Characters can pop in and out forever, and with it set so close to the events of TNG en Picard, which meant we could see the likes of one of their stars! Big names! Great heroes! De Star Trek people you love! I just love that it was true. And that it was Miles, an unsung hero, so very fitting for Lower Decks‘nature of placing Starfleet’s little boys and gals.
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