Star Trek: Every Two-Parter Ranked From WORST To BEST

33. The Inner Fight, Old Friends, New Planets

How spoiled do you have to be to demand more from a world in which everything is already free? The answer to that question is measured in 'Nick Locarnos'. Dead ringer or not, Locarno was no Tom Paris, barely even a Lieutenant Marseille. He proved that much in the two-part season four finale of Star Trek: Lower Decks.

In fact, only Lower Decks could bring back an obscure, but ultimately memorable, character as the 'big bad' of the season at the end of an episode that owes its pun to another. The Locarno cliffhanger will hold up as one of the most shocking of all time.

Old Friends, New Planets was just as strong. Nova Squadron got a self-promotion to Nova Fleet, and we got to see more through flashbacks of the events surrounding The First Duty. Boimler in command knocked it out the park, and smashed it into the shield grid. And let there be latinum, or it's Genesis for you!