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Star Trek: Lower Decks sets up its finale elbowing its own ribs

'Lower Decks' sets up its series finale with one last dash around the in-joke vault.

The penultimate episode of Star Trek: Lower Decks is an exercise in box ticking for the show’s creative team. Boimler, the show’s avatar of a Star Trek fan, has been picking up stray figures from the canon during dimension hops. He’s the only one who’s ever been promoted above the rank of ensign, nodding to the rumor that longtime series head Rick Berman said someone had to be the lowest-ranked member of the crew.

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