Preview Star Trek: Lower Decks season 3, episode 2, "The Least Dangerous Game," with stills and a clip
Poster art for STAR TREK: LOWER DECKS season 3, featuring Boimler (Jack Quaid). Image: Paramount+.
On a tropical paradise planet, Mariner questions Commander Ransom on how he structures his away team. Boimler makes a bold career decision.
AUGUST 30, 2022 - In Richard Connell’s 1924 short story “The Most Dangerous Game,” a big-game hunter finds himself stuck on an island, prey to a bigger-game hunter whose thesis is that mere wild animals don’t provide enough sport for a blood-thirsty predator; hunting humans is the real challenge. The story has been adapted numerous times, but Star Trek: Lower Decks’ take on it is a little bit different.
This week’s episode, dropping Thursday, September 1, turns the tale on its head. Boimler decides it’s time to become bold and agree to everything he’s asked to do, even if it’s foolhardy, like being asked to become a ferocious alien’s prey. Once the hunt begins, we follow Boimler and his foe on a mad dash around the Cerritos. Odds are against Bold Boimler. Will he survive?
Sickbay, please expect a visit from Boimler. Who's got odds on the giant killer alien thing ✋ #StarTrekLowerDecks pic.twitter.com/s2jlzBb501
— Star Trek on Paramount+ (@StarTrekOnPPlus) August 23, 2022
Meanwhile, Mariner learns a lesson about obeying orders, and Rutherford and Billups learn a lesson about…belly buttons? Find out what it all means when you tune in Thursday, September 1 on Paramount+.
T is the Managing Editor for Daily Star Trek News and a contributing writer for Sherlock Holmes Magazine and a Shakespeare nerd. He may have been the last professional Stage Manager to work with Leonard Nimoy, has worked Off-Broadway and regionally, and is the union Stage Manager for Legacy Theatre, where he is currently working with Julie Andrews. after which he’ll be working on Richard III at Elm Shakespeare Company.
