Star Trek Viewing Guide
Chapter 12 · Life on the Lower Decks
  1. 1The Road to the Federation2063–2161
  2. 2Toward the Five-Year Mission2230s–2261
  3. 3The Expanding Federation2265–2268
  4. 4The Long Road to Khitomer2268–2293
  5. 5A New Generation2324–2367
  6. 6Continuing Voyages2367–2369
  7. 7New Frontiers and Foundations2369–2370
  8. 8Exploring New Quadrants2371–2372
  9. 9Storms on the Horizon2372–2373
  10. 10The Dominion War2373–2375
  11. 11Trying to Get Home2375–2379
  12. 12Life on the Lower Decks2380–2382
  13. 13Echoes and Legacies2383–2401
  14. 14The Far Future3074–42nd century

Strange New Worlds · S2 · E7

Those Old Scientists

First aired July 22, 2023

An accident while investigating a time portal sends Ensign Brad Boimler through time from the twenty-fourth century, and Captain Pike and his crew must get him back where he belongs before he can somehow alter the timeline.

Commentary

We now travel back for our last Strange New Worlds episode, which is ABSOLUTELY a delight.

Why is this here?

“Those Old Scientists” is a crossover with Lower Decks, a show we will not get to for over a hundred years. I struggled with this one, as I do believe you COULD watch it with the other SNW shows, as it has some character progress for both Spock and Uhura, and see it as a “preview” of Starfleet to come, but I eventually came down on placing it amongst  Lower Decks as I think it is stronger there. Plus, I do love the “surprise” visit to earlier in the timeline for people working through this chronology. It’s arguable though, so if you are disappointed by this and want to watch it at this point, I’m not going to try to talk you out of it - it still mostly works.

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