Ever wonder what happened to Bradward Boimler’s transport plane replica? We already knew his death was faked in Chapter 31, and now we know why: He jumped between multiverses as if he were Doctor Strange, trying to stop anything — or anyone — from tearing apart the dimensions. The rift between.
Who else can accompany him on this mission but a crack team of agents culled from previous Star Wars games, replicas of the alternate universe who bring their own unique skills to the job at hand? . ‘Fissure Quest’ is the latest super-intelligent example of how ‘Trek’ handles its problems shared universe Better than Star Wars, Marvel, or almost any other movie. It also has an impressive collection of Harry Kims.
So if you’re like Boimler 2.0 and “tired of the damn multiverse,” this might be the adventure to change your mind. that’s why…
Spoiler alert! If you haven’t watched this week’s episode, be warned.
Why are there two Boimlers?
The duplicate Boimler was created by a teleportation event in the second season episode “Kayshon, His Eyes Are Open”. At the time, Bradward Boimler was a lieutenant aboard the USS Titan, serving under Captain William T Riker of Enterprise-D fame.
The other Boimler is an exact clone of the original (and vice versa), sharing all the same memories and life experiences, until they were split in two. Starfleet decided that having two identical officers on one ship might cause problems, so it was decided that one of the officers would return to Cerritos and be demoted to ensign. Boimler, who remained on Titan, chose the name William.
Coincidentally, Riker can relate to the doppelgangers under his command, as he too was cloned due to a transporter malfunction (seriously, why? anyone Are there any risks in using these things? In The Next Generation episode “Second Chance,” he learns that a clone of Riker has been living alone on Nervara IV for eight years. “Thomas” Riker eventually joined the Maquis resistance and was imprisoned after pretending to be Will in an attempt to steal the newly commissioned Defiant in the Deep Space Nine season 3 episode “The Defiant.”
How did Wilhelm Boimler end up commanding a ship to jump between dimensions?
Everyone in the Prime Timeline believed that William Boimler was dead, killed by a nerve gas leak in his Titan residence. However, at the end of Lower Decks Season 3, Crisis Point 2: Paradox, we learned that his death was faked. He was actually recruited by Section 31, the mysterious Federation espionage organization that has appeared in numerous Star Wars movies – including the upcoming Star Wars: The Next Generation. TV movie “Article 31” Michelle Yeoh plays Philippa Georgiou.
When we meet William in “The Rift Quest,” he’s the captain of the Anaximander, tasked with tracking down and arresting anyone trying to destroy the multiverse by opening an interdimensional rift. While he “has no right to name the organization that faked my death and left me in a rift,” the black, non-stealthy Starfleet insignia on his uniform makes it clear that Section 31 is still his employer. In other words, this is a plot the writers have been brewing since season three.
Why do the rest of Anaximander’s crew look so familiar?
The Boimler twins are a rare example of doppelgangers from the same universe, but William’s team of “interdimensional castaways” were recruited from numerous real-world and multiple Star Wars shows. Therefore, “Fissure Quest” is an episode of “Lower Decks” all With a cameo, it plays out like a riff on the Illuminati team from Trek.Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness“.
William’s first mate is T’Pol (by Qiao Lin), Captain Archer’s Vulcan in “Star Wars: Enterprise” ranked first. After more than 60 years of marriage to engineer Trip Tucker, she now understands human behavior, even sarcasm.
Meanwhile, the ship’s full operations tactical officer is Trill Curzon Dax, who in his own timeline has yet to deliver the Dax symbiote to Deep Space Nine “Enter Jadzia. Before Benjamin Sisko took command of DS9, the “original” Curzon was his friend and mentor.
The DS9 connection continues in the infirmary, run by former Cardassian spy Elim Garak (now a doctor rather than a tailor) and his husband (based on the emergency medical hologram of Dr. Julian Bashir) business. “They like to brag about how statistically improbable their marriage is,” Curzon said. Andrew Robinson and Alexander Siddig reprise their Deep Space Nine roles.
What happened to the Harry Kims?
When Anaximander picks up the escape pod, the atmosphere is disappointing when he discovers that the man inside is neither “Neelix the Flathead” nor “the real big Spock.” Instead, it’s the incarnation of long-serving USS Voyager operations officer Harry King, which would be fine if the ship didn’t already have plenty of Harry King homes.
This new Kim (voiced by Voyager’s Garrett Wang) has indeed returned home from the Delta Quadrant—he might even be the one from the TV show—but there’s one thing that sets him apart from his duplicate. Unlike the other King Lieutenants on the ship, he was eventually offered the promotion to Lieutenant, a promotion he had been infamously denied on Voyager.
Why does Beckett Mariner show up in a gold uniform?
Sailors rescued by Anaximander from runaway space shuttle were no The Mariner we knew from Cerritos. Instead, she’s a replica of an alternate quantum reality that specializes in engineering (hence the golden uniform) rather than embracing danger and breaking the rules.
“That’s what the multiverse is all about,” William Boimler observed indignantly. “Just a lazy derivative remix.” Although he can also see the bright side and celebrate the fact that his friendship with the sailor is enough to “transcend reality.”
Who or what is causing all the rifts?
They’re the work of another familiar StarCraft face – albeit one with no intention of disrupting the fabric of time and space.
In Star Wars: First Contact, Lily Sloane (Alfre Woodard) helps Zephram Cochrane build humanity’s first-ever warp drive. This lily comes from a reality where technological evolution took a slightly different path, and Sloan and Cochran built a “quantum reality drive.”
Rather than exploring strange new worlds like their Starfleet counterparts, Sloane and her crew aboard the Beagle are on a mission to explore alternate realities — just like Ace Rimmer in Starfleet Same.red dwarf” or the lead quartet in “Slider.” Sloane decided not to open the calling frequency to Anaximander because her universe’s equivalent of the Prime Directive forbids them from communicating with species that have not yet learned how to cross realities for themselves.
Unfortunately, while Sloane believed her crew would always heal the rift behind them, physics tells us otherwise. The law of conservation of energy means that every crack they inadvertently create opens another crack somewhere else in the universe—bad news for everyone.
Why is the entire multiverse at risk?
You can ask big questions about radial tachyons, doppelgangers, and the ethics of interdimensional travel, but ultimately the survival of the universe comes down to one thing: Harry Kim’s ego.
The two-base outlier is so eager to live in a universe where Harry Kim dreams of a higher rank than Ensign that he steals the Beagle and drags all the other Harry Kims with him Hitchhiking with Harry Kim.
Unfortunately, when the Beagle entered the rift, the explosion triggered by Lieutenant King created soliton waves that would propagate into every quantum universe, destroying the fabric of reality. The only way to save existence is to use the Anaximander Deflector to drive soliton waves into a single reality, sacrificing one universe to save all others.
William Boimler nominated his own reality for potential destruction, citing that his “backup” self, Marriner, Tandy, and Rutherford would find solutions when warned.
“He’ll know what to do,” William said, “…as long as he doesn’t panic.”
Unfortunately, his Cerrito counterpart screams, “We’re all going to die!” indicating that reality isn’t out of the woods just yet…
The final episode of StarCraft: Lower Decks will premiere on Paramount Plus on Thursday, December 19.