8 Ups & NO Downs From Star Trek: Lower Decks 5.6 - Of Gods And Angles
6. UP — To Thine Other Self Be True
The moral of the story this time isn't that 'radioactive jewellery equals bad,' but that the best way to succeed in life is to check how your parallel quantum universe double did things and copy that to the letter. If you can't be yourself, be your other's self.
There wasn't a significant amount of beard growth for Boimler in Of Gods and Angles, but we all know self-confidence doesn't come from the amount of hair on your face (or elsewhere). Real self-worth comes from a book, or in this case, a nabbed PADD. Of course not, but it did provide for some seriously on-point comedy as Boimler tried to get in Doctor T'Ana's good books just like his counterpart.
At first, it was mostly the bad books — specifically a 300-year-old medical textbook given to T'Ana as a "gag gift because of how f**king stupid it is". On the flip side, Boimler then actually flipped… over onto a table of untested anaesthetics. T'Ana flipped her lid before Boimler flipped the script.
The unfortunate lieutenant might not have gotten the nickname he wanted, but we all learnt a valuable lesson. In Rutherford's words, "Staying true to yourself is wrong!" Oh, Lower Decks! You are flipping brilliant!