The aptly named 'Upper Decks' follows on with Lower Decks namesake to give us an episode from the perspective of its senior officers.

It turns out that alien invasions, potential engineering disasters, and metaphysical crises are all in an average day's work, in an outing that's also a clever nod to a 30-year-old episode of "The Next Generation".

"We're sort of the stars of the show around here," Boimler — beard ever bearding — put it to Mariner. In quintessential fourth wall tipping-over fashion, he's right! The clue's in the title of the series. With only this and two more episodes to go, Boimler is equally and unknowingly admitting that they are soon the stars of the show no longer.

Tawny Newsome is developing a live-action Star Trek comedy series unrelated to Lower Decks. The sitcom will focus on resort employees on a 25th-century planet, featuring intergalactic reality antics. Newsome's project is still in early development, aiming to include connections to other Star Trek series.

Lower Decks' Season 5 episode 6 introduces new arrival Ensign Olly — a junior officer with a history of leaving trails of destruction in her wake.

Lower Decks is a show about Starfleet's underdogs, which means that other members of the Cerritos crew have been overlooked - until now.

Lower Decks flips the script on its own concept, reversing the format of the show and its Star Trek: The Next Generation inspiration.