9 Ups & 1 Down From Star Trek: Lower Decks 5.3 — The Best Exotic Nanite Hotel

Even the admirals — bad or dad — can't have everything. If not stuck behind a desk, then they just gotta go milk those whales. (Quick! Someone hide the model ships from Jean-Luc!) In fact, Admiral Milius, whom we met for the first time in and at The Best Exotic…, had cetacean lactation duty in not one, but two, universes.

No rare phenomena, no new life, and not even any Borg for this admiral, but relegation instead to farm dairy where others have farmed dairy before. (Bet they don't put that in the Academy brochure!) It's perhaps not surprising that Milius told Starfleet Command to shove a coconut — also with milk — where the optimally regulated artificial sun don't shine. As a "latinum elite guest" aboard the Duchess, the admiral also provided a neat addendum to the post-scarcity / post-capitalism plot point of Shades of Green.

In the end, as Captain Freeman noted, it was Boimler who "pulled some strings" to pull Milius out of hiding, and away from any whale glands, to help with another rather large (but microscopic) problem. More on that later.