While Beckett (Tawny Newsome) and Boimler (Jack Quaid) got to do some light time-traveling over to live-action with Star Trek: Strange New Worlds last year, Lower Decks brings the whole cast along for the ride this time.

The following article discusses the fifth season of Star Trek: Lower Decks and older Treks. There’s no such thing as “dead” in Star Trek, the sprawling, perpetual opus that has thrived in spite of itself for almost sixty years.

Lower Decks pokes fun at Star Trek and its obsession with caves, but the episode's story touches on the thing that makes this franchise endure.