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The penultimate episode ofis an exercise in box ticking for the show’s creative team. It does the grunt work of laying the table and raising the stakes for next week’s series finale. But it’s also the show’s last — for now — chance to wring a gag or two out of all those deep-cut, Extremely Online Trek in-jokes. It’s fortunate that while the episode is a little on the thin side, the stuff that’s thrown at the wall is charming enough for it not to matter.
Boimler, the show’s avatar of a Star Trek fan, has been picking up stray figures from the canon during dimension hops. His crew includes T’Pol, Garak and an EMH version of Dr. Bashir, all played by their original actors.. And yes, Garak and Dr. Bashir are a married couple in this universe, because of course the show has to embrace that piece of fan lore that launched a thousand pieces of slash fiction.
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