Warning: SPOILERS for Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 4, Episode 8 – "Caves"
Summary
- Lt. Brad Boimler debunks hilarious and insane conspiracy theories in the "Caves" episode of Star Trek: Lower Decks season 4.
- Starfleet Officers sometimes leave out key details in their logs, either because they can't explain something or to keep the truth from Starfleet Command.
- Starfleet has faced actual conspiracies in its history, including the assassination of Klingon Chancellor Gorkon and the Borg's plot to assimilate Starfleet Officers in Star Trek: Picard season 3.
Lt. Brad Boimler (Jack Quaid) debunks a series of hilarious and insane conspiracy theories in Star Trek: Lower Decks season 4, episode 8, "Caves." The history of Starfleet is filled with encounters with the unexpected and the bizarre that sometimes leave behind questions that can't be answered. As of Star Trek: Lower Decks' late-24th century, Starfleet Officers have met cosmic beings beyond human comprehension and fought wars for the fate of the United Federation of Planets itself. It makes sense that a subculture of conspiracy theorists, or truthers, has sprung up.
Starfleet Officers from Ensigns to starship Captains keep logs recording their activities and service. Starship and Officers logs are meant to be a document about the ever-expanding history of Starfleet, but it's also not surprising that many Starfleet Officers sometimes leave out key details of their adventures, either because they can't explain something or to purposely keep the truth out of their logs and from Starfleet Command's knowledge. One prime example is Captain Benjamin Sisko (Avery Brooks) deleting his entire personal log in which he confessed he tricked the Romulans into entering the Dominion War on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Sisko, the Bajoran Emissary who ascended to become one with the Prophets at the end of DS9, is, not surprisingly, a figure that truthers maintain conspiracy theories about.
