Star Trek: Lower Decks – The 10 Worst Things Boimler Did – Screen Rant

In Star Trek: Lower Decks, Biomler willing to do almost anything to cement his legacy. Sometimes, he goes just a little too far with his actions.

InStar Trek: Lower Decks,the series that looks at a day in the life of the average Starfleet officer, the motley crew of the Cerritoscarry out their tasks without the notoriety of the bridge crew. Maybe that's why eager-to-please Brad Boimler dreams of nothing but proving himself in the eyes of his friends, his captain, and the rest of the fleet.

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Boimler may want nothing more than to be an impeccable paragon of what it means to be in Starfleet, but he's willing to do almost anything to cement his legacy. From kissing up to the captain to throwing his friends under the bus, and even almost getting himself and everyone killed, he's done some pretty unscrupulous things to get recognized.

When Boimler's girlfriend visited theCerritoshe couldn't have been happier, buthe soon became insecure about her relationship with other members of the crew. The only person who was convinced she wasn't who she claimed to be was Mariner, who didn't appreciate Boimler dropping his friends as soon as his girlfriend arrived.

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He didn't need Mariner's help in making things awkward with Barbara, however - his insecurities surrounding her interactions with old friends like Jet soon drove a wedge between them. Even if hedidn'tend up having a parasite attached to his skull, she'd have broken up with him anyways after he dumped his beer on her in the mess.

When he scored a candidacy for Captain Freeman's Advanced Diplomacy Workshop, Boimlercouldn't decide how much of a suck-up to be, so he did the worst thing possible. He decided to load "Program Boimler 7" into the holodeck to stage fake interviews with the bridge crew and better prepare for his examination.

To accurately portray the crew, he uploaded seven years of entriesfrom theentirecrew's private logs.While it algorithmically recreated a "perfect simulation" of everyone on theCerritos,it crossed several personal boundaries and breached several codes of conduct.

When Boimler got his first secret assignment, to be a spy for Captian Freeman and keep an eye on Ensign Mariner, he reported anything she did outside of Starfleet protocol. Unfortunately, this resulted in him breaking Starfleet codes as well in the process.

He thought Mariner was bartering Starfleet equipment with alien species for contraband and went so far as to draw his phaser and shoot at them when he thought he was witnessing the exchange. It turned out that Mariner was helping them get access to much-needed farm equipment, and the act wasn't breaking any Starfleet regulations.

Because Boimler wanted to go to a party with Mariner, he didn't think too much of it when Fletcher told them to have a good time while he manned their post and was responsible for their duties over the course of their shift. While they were doing the train dance, Fletcher was being overtaken by a mechanical monstrosity with a mind of its own.

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When Fletcher wasn't immediately determined to be the culprit, Boimler went so far as to blame the night crew for the damage caused, even though they had nothing to do with any of the weird occurrences happening around the ship as a result of Boimler's negligence.

Always eager for a reason to show off and potentially get promoted, Boimler decided to over-extend himself by interfering with Rutherford's transporter diagnostics. He volunteered to help him test the transport time because he thought the visiting captain would be impressed that he helped improve efficiency around the ship.

Fortunately, the test was a success, and Rutherford beamed Boimler to another ship and back in less time than normal. Unfortunately, Boimler came back mutated and glowing.He then got sent to a special ship called theOsler,a Division 14 vessel ferrying similar people caught in transporter accidents while waiting for his condition to be fixed.

Over-achieving Boimler couldn't seem to fathom why the crew of theCerritosadhered to "buffer time", the practice of overestimating the time it took to do tasks in order to pad out their work schedules and have more leisure time. He blabbed about buffer time to the captain, and suddenly she expected everyone to be as efficient as he was.

Eventually, not even Boimler could keep up with his own efficacy and was running ragged along with the rest of the poor crew. Thankfully the tightened schedules eliminated the ability for the crew to adapt to unstructured problems, and the captain had no choice but to reinstate "buffer time".

Spying on Mariner's activities resulted in the release of a native beast of burden that didn't take too kindly to Boimler's investigations, choosing to make him and Mariner the focus of its rampage after being released from its pen.

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It wouldn't leave Boimler alone, and instead not only attacked him but chose to see him as some kind of mate. Luckily Mariner extracted him before things got too involved, so he only suffered a few bruises and some damaged pride, when he could have gotten himself and Mariner killed.

While searching foraninfamous Klingon general who disappeared from their protective custody, Boimler almost gets himself and Mariner killed multiple times trying to track him down. Whether he was offending the Klingon merchant at the bazaar, or insulting a Taxor by talking about its fecesin its mangled native tongue, he couldn't seem to do anything right.

No sooner had he narrowly avoided death than he was flirting with a shapeshifting alien with the ability to appear as a beautiful female human, only detectable to Mariner because of certain telltale characteristics. As if that weren't enough, before they could finally find the general, Boimler's had managed to start a barfight with a dozen Andorians.

Even though she served on ships like the Enterprise, Mariner didn't like getting preferential treatment, so she keeps her privileged status as Captain Freeman's daughter to herself. Boimler figured out her secret and inadvertently told her about his revelation - while his communicator badge was picking up their entire conversation.

Not only was Mariner's secret spilled, but Captain Freeman's secret as well, and the entire bridge knew about their connection. After that, the crew tried to suck up to Mariner in any way they could so that her mother would give them special treatment.

Boimler and Mariner had an imperfect relationship, but through their many madcap adventures, they learned to lean on each other and respect each other's strengths and weaknesses. Therefore it was crushing when during the season finale, Boimler accepted a promotion and a position on theTitanwithout even telling his best friend goodbye.

He called Mariner his "mentor" and said he was finally ready to cast rank aside and accept what he had on theCerritos,butthen at the first opportunity, he left it.While Boimler wasn't meant to be the most emotionally intelligent character in the series, he wasn't the most inhumane, making his actions especially heartless and disrespectful.

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