Tendi displays her usual boundless enthusiasm upon being given an atypical assignment.

Boimler laments about the current status of his career. At least the way he sees it.

Rutherford gives an unforgettable demonstration of a time-honored Starfleet tradition.

Freeman attempts to confront Mariner over her recent round of unauthorized actions and is met with the usual amount of success.

Mariner drags Boimler into partaking in yet another wild spree of her favorite unconventional pastime.

Two children wake up on an unfamiliar starship with no idea how they got there, and become friends over the course of a strange afternoon.

When dinosaurs roamed the Cerritos.

In which Tendi and Rutherford elope, Mariner has complicated feelings about that and Boimler has an unspoken crush. (An AU of Parth Ferengi's Heart Place.) (Somehow both fluffy and angsty.)

Ransom and Mariner discuss the privileges and pitfalls of having famous family members, in a job where reputation means everything.

An away mission goes slightly awry.

Mariner has a bad round in the holodeck, and Boimler calms her down.

The Cerritos's latest survivor of a near-death experience seeks spiritual advice from one of the only devout people on the ship, and Shaxs tries to explain religion.

An undercover enemy operative attempts to infiltrate the Cerritos. Boy, did they ever pick the wrong ship!

Boimler and T'Lyn go on an away mission a year after their lieutenant commissions. Both are thriving in their new environment. Unfortunately, in Lower Decks style, things go completely off the wall, and secrets are revealed. Slight Strange New Worlds crossover (specifically SNW: Those Old Scientists).

Mariner helps out the medical division sometimes. Mariner gets T'lyn's attention. Mariner ends up with a new friend.

Starfleet has a legendary reputation of accepting only the best and brightest to attend and serve within its ranks. That is until now.

In early 2374, a crewman and an ensign meet for the first time in a starbase terminal.

The Lower Deckers involve themselves in a classic starship debate. Maybe a little too involved.

The crew of the Cerritos prepares themselves for one of the biggest nights of the year. Not to mention one of the most insane.

After the conclusion of their battle with the Texas-class, Mariner and Boimler have a chat about her relationship with Starfleet.

It's a bad day to be a starship commander. It's an even worse day to be Beckett Mariner.

In which Mariner isn't sick, but she may as well be, and Boimler is a good boyfriend (and Tendi learns a little about human biology).

The first rule of Starfleet romances is to never fall in love with a hologram. The second is to never fall for a senior officer. Thankfully, Boimler does not have a crush on the famous Admiral Janeway, so running a Voyager bridge simulation on the holodeck was totally innocent—no matter how much Mariner insists otherwise.

Just an exploration of what could be for Mariner and Boimler if they were to become romantically involved. A little sappy sometimes, a little funny, a little angsty, and very fluffy: everything good that we love in a fanfic. Ch 12 really gets the Tendiford ball rolling.

There are those who hesitate about breaking rules and acting against established conventional authority. And then there are those who revel in it.