Much Ado About Boimler
- FIRST SHOWN (US)
- 17 September 2020
- ON
- CBS All Access
- STARDATE
- 57752.6
- DIRECTED BY
- Barry J. Kelly
WRITTEN BYWritten by M. Willis
A transporter experiment leaves Boimler flickering in and out of phase, and he is sent to Starfleet's mysterious medical facility. Meanwhile, Mariner serves under an old Academy friend.
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Rutherford's transporter upgrade test goes wrong and leaves Boimler permanently out of phase. He is shipped off to Division 14's medical ship, the USS Osler, alongside the strange dog Tendi has genetically engineered, and both are told they are bound for “The Farm”. With Freeman and the senior staff away on a covert mission, Mariner's Academy friend Captain Amina Ramsey takes temporary command of the Cerritos and makes Mariner her acting first officer. Mariner, wary of being offered a real promotion, quietly sabotages away missions. When the USS Rubidoux is attacked by a giant space-dwelling lifeform, Mariner and Ramsey finally work as a team and use Rutherford's transporter to rescue the crew. Ramsey accepts that Mariner wants to stay an ensign. The Farm turns out to be a genuine place of healing: Boimler is cured and sent home, while the dog chooses to stay.
- 01The title plays on Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing.
- 02A Division 14 specialist is an Edosian, the three-armed species of Lt Arex from the animated series.
- 03The space lifeform resembles the living spaceship first seen in The Next Generation's “Encounter at Farpoint”.