Reality is falling apart around Mariner. What does her new girlfriend have to do with it?

Opening scene from the Babylon 5 episode "Babylon Squared" translated to Star Trek: Ransome and Shaxs prank Mariner.

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).

The Lower Deckers discover reunions can turn out to be crazy, awkward and unexpected affairs. So what else is new?

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!

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).