LOW · SEASON 22×05

An Embarrassment of Dooplers

NOMADIC PICK · FUN PICKRichard Kind, multiplied many times over.
FIRST SHOWN (US)
9 September 2021
ON
Paramount+
STARDATE
58053.9
DIRECTED BY
Kim Arndt

WRITTEN BYWritten by Dave Ihlenfeld & David Wright

IN BRIEF

SPOILER-FREE

The Cerritos escorts a nervous Doopler diplomat to a Starfleet conference, but Dooplers multiply when embarrassed, and Mariner and Boimler are scheming to crash an exclusive starbase party.

SYNOPSIS

SPOILERS
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The Cerritos carries a Doopler emissary to Starbase 25 for a Starfleet conference. Dooplers duplicate whenever they feel embarrassed, and when Captain Freeman accidentally embarrasses him, copies start filling the ship. The crew discovers that anger reverses the effect, so Freeman, T'Ana and Billups shout the duplicates back into one. Mariner and Boimler, meanwhile, are desperate to get into the legendary after-party, open only to crews of Luna-class ships and above. Boimler gets in by posing as his duplicate from the Titan, but Mariner is turned away, and the two fall out over his time on the Titan. He leaves the party to join her at a dive bar, where they learn that Kirk and Spock were once refused entry too. The senior officers, also snubbed, end up there as well. Tendi and Rutherford struggle to finish a model ship they started before his memory loss, until Tendi admits leaving it unfinished was always an excuse to spend time together.

DID YOU KNOW?

  1. 01Richard Kind guest stars as the voice of the Doopler emissary, whose species duplicates itself when embarrassed.
  2. 02Thadiun Okona, the roguish pilot from TNG's “The Outrageous Okona”, turns up as the DJ at the Starfleet party.
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