Lower Decks

"Lower Decks" is an episode of the seventh season of the science fiction television series Star Trek: The Next Generation. While enduring the Enterprise's promotion evaluation process, four junior officers find themselves involved in a top-secret mission. Four young Enterprise junior officers find their friendship strained during personnel evaluations. Two of the friends, Sam Lavelle and a young Bajoran woman named Sito Jaxa discover that they ar... more

"Lower Decks" is an episode of the seventh season of the science fiction television series Star Trek: The Next Generation. While enduring the Enterprise's promotion evaluation process, four junior officers find themselves involved in a top-secret mission. Four young Enterprise junior officers find their friendship strained during personnel evaluations. Two of the friends, Sam Lavelle and a young Bajoran woman named Sito Jaxa discover that they are being considered for the same job. Joined by their pal Ben, a civilian who works as a waiter, they learn that promotions seem to be already decided on for their other two friends, Nurse Ogawa and the young Vulcan engineer Taurik. Worf soon detects an escape pod inside Cardassian space, which is off limits to the Enterprise, and Geordi and Taurik work to transport the passenger on board, amidst a cloak of secrecy. Ogawa seems to be doing nicely in the evaluations as Dr. Beverly Crusher has nothing but praise for her abilities and... less