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.

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,

"Of Gods and Angles" may be the most representative episode title of "Lower Decks"' fifth season. Not only do the Cerritos crew cross paths with "Star Trek"'s answer to a deity, they also have to broker peace negotiations between two geometrically opposed alien races.

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.

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

SPOILER ALERT: Details follow for Season 12, Episode 7 of “The Masked Singer,” “Who Are You Fest Night,” which aired November 13 on Fox. It may have been a wipeout, but surfer Bethany Hamilton told Variety that she still enjoyed her brief appearance on “The Masked Singer.” Hamilton was the latest celebrity to be unmasked, …