"Fully Dilated" is not about surprise space babies. The dilation in question is of the time variety. Wacky away mission, ahoy!

OUR TAKE Lower Decks continues careening towards the end of its run, though this week we get one of the most fun episodes this season, and probably the most fun so far! It’s another girls trip episodes,

Fully Dilated, fully everything. This week's episode was beyond a doubt the highlight of the season so far. Temporal shenanigans are often a sure-fire success, but Lower Decks isn't one to rest on the laurels of relativity. Besides, laurels were sooo last week.

Lower Decks continues to send up Star Trek history with a classic kind of away mission and a creative guest appearance from a TNG legend.

This article contains spoilers for the latest episode of "Star Trek: Lower Decks." "Star Trek" shows have been known to go big for their final seasons (or movie send-offs, as was the case with "Star Trek Generations"),

That fateful incident — which saw the Enterprise's resident android comprehensively obliterated — occurred in “Star Trek: Nemesis” (2002), set in 2379. "Lower Decks" season 5 takes place in 2382, so he should be very dead indeed at this point in the "Star Trek" timeline.

Lower Decks season 5 continues to honor the franchise's history with its latest episode, which nods to two all-time great Trek episodes.