The latest "Lower Decks" episode, "Upper Decks", reveals what the command crew gets up to when Mariner, Boimler, Tendi, Rutherford, and T'Lyn aren't hogging all that main character energy.
So, as the lead quintet gets busy "mutilating gourds" for Halloween — everyone but T'Lyn would describe it as carving pumpkins — "Upper Decks" shows that the bridge crew doesn't just "fade into the background" when the junior officers are elsewhere. It turns out that alien invasions, potential engineering disasters, and metaphysical crises are all in an average day's work, in an outing that's also a clever nod to a 30-year-old episode of "The Next Generation".
