9 Ups & NO Downs From Star Trek: Lower Decks 5.9 - Fissure Quest

10. UP — (Pen)Ultimate Premise

It was in season three that Boimler's transporter double — William (by any other name would not swing leg so high) — had his death faked for him. We'd neither neurocine nor heard of him since his recruitment into that unnameable organisation. In Fissure Quest, he was back de-PHI-ing the quantum odds across universes as Captain of the aptly named Anaximander.

Before all of the special guest stars, the penultimate episode of Lower Decks shines by its basic premise. By way of Bradward, Fissure Quest is brilliantly bookended by its 'I wonder / I wonder no longer' conceit, executed with flair. William remains different enough to be his own person, but still a Boimler, and definitely not 'evil' as that maniacal laugh at the end of Crisis Point 2: Paradoxus might have suggested.

As the two-part culmination of the season-long arc, we couldn't have asked for better. A Section 31 ship crewed by officers from across the multiverse was an inspired idea. The fact that the 'spacetime potholes' weren't nefarious in their artificial nature, merely an oversight in that famous need to 'seek out,' was a great surprise reversal.