Warning: SPOILERS for Star Trek: Lower Decks, season 5, episode 3 – “The Finest Exotic Hotel on Nanite”Star Trek is no stranger to evil Starfleet admirals, but Star Trek: Lower Decks features an admiral who has a reason why he transformed. Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 5 is the animated comedy’s final season on Paramount+ and continues to explore new and hilarious aspects of life in Starfleet. In Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 5, Episode 3, ‘The Best Exotic Nanite Hotel’, Lieutenant Bradward Boimler (Jack Quaid) hunts for Admiral Milius (Toby Huss), who has disappeared with “holiday madness” on the interstellar cruise ship, the Cosmic Duchess.
Star Trek: Lower Decks has had encounters with corrupt Starfleet admirals before. Star Trek: Lower Decks The Big Bad of Season 3 was Admiral Les Buenamigo (Carlos Alazraqui), who sought to replace the California Class armada, which includes the USS Cerritos, with his own Texas Class ships. The AI-controlled Texas Class fleet turned evil and attacked Starfleet, including Admiral Buenamigo, who was killed by his own creation. But Starfleet never seems to learn when it comes to its own flag officers turning against the United Federation of Planets.
Star Trek: Lower Decks Gives a Reason Why an Admiral Turns Evil
Admiral Milius has problems with Starfleet
In Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 5, Episode 3, ‘The Best Exotic Nanite Hotel,’ Lieutenant Brad Boimler, Commander Jack Ransom (Jerry O’Connell), and Lieutenant Commander Andy Billups (Paul Scheer) locate Admiral Milius in the Temple of Dread aboard the Cosmic Duchess. Milius, an Elite Latinum member of the cruise ship, was in hiding because he was furious with Starfleet for the way he was treated. The reason for Milius’s move was because Starfleet routinely assigned him humiliating missions. involving the milking of space whales.
Admiral Milius’s grievance with Starfleet is understandable, even if he protested the wrong way. Starfleet has repeatedly isolated Milius on the same embarrassing missions. It turns out that even in alternation Star Trek In reality, Admiral Milius is still known for milking space whales. However, Milius had a chance at redemption after the crew of the USS Cerritos discovered the USS Endeavour, a microscopic-sized starship trapped in the Early Universe. Admiral Milius returned to duty with the mission of returning Endeavor to its proper universe.
Star Trek has many evil admirals
Badmirals appeared in Star Trek
Starfleet’s large number of bad admirals (also known as ‘bad admirals’) have plagued Star Trek for decades. Power corrupts and the power gained after achieving the rank of flag officer in Starfleet seems to distort the minds and hearts of former exemplary Starfleet officers. Admirals like Cartwright (Brock Peters) in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country or Layton (Robert Foxworth) in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine they are driven by fear of Starfleet’s enemies, so they form conspiracies or coups to divert power into their hands in order to ‘protect’ the Federation.
Other cowardly Starfleet admirals who believed they were acting for the greater good are Admiral Dougherty (Anthony Zerbe), who was willing to steal Briar Patch and forcibly relocate the Ba’ku to Star Trek: Insurrection, and Admiral Pressman (Terry O’Quinn), who violated a treaty with the Romulans to create a cloaking device in Star Trek: The Next Generation. Admiral Alexander Marcus (Peter Weller) attempted to militarize Starfleet and start a war with the Klingons in Star Trek Into Darkness.
Star Trek’s best captains also became great admirals
Admiral Picard and Admiral Janeway are exemplary
Happily, Star Trek There are many heroic admirals who are a counterpoint to the bad apples among the highest ranks of Starfleet. Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) and Captain Kathryn Janeway (Kate Mulgrew) have risen to the Admiralty and are paragons of virtue. Star Trek: Picard season three promoted Dr. Beverly Crusher (Gates McFadden) to admiral. In Star Trek: DiscoveryAdmiral Charles Vance (Oded Fehr) is a respected leader, as is Admiral Maxwell Forrest (Vaughn Armstrong) in Star Trek: Enterprise.
It is unthinkable that admirals like Kirk, Picard or Janeway would turn against the Federation.
Former USS Enterprise captain Robert April (Adrian Holmes) is a trusted admiral in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. Although Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner) became Starfleet’s admiral and chief of operations, his heart wasn’t in it and he preferred to be captain of the Enterprise. It is unthinkable that admirals like Kirk, Picard, or Janeway would turn against the Federation for their own ends. At least in Star Trek: Lower DecksAdmiral Milius had an understandable complaint and returned to duty to do some good.