Not only are they not from the prime universe, but they are not even from the same universe as each other. And this alternate Bashir was actually just a hologram, as well. Lower Decks was a mess.
Star Trek overall is a mess, but what do you expect when you put people in charge who don’t like Star Trek, lower decks at least had people in charge who liked Star Trek.
For real. That show could easily have leaned into making fun of Star Trek just for being Star Trek. But the writers chose to punch up instead and just point out the obviously absurd from an in-universe perspective. Like the idea of ships having giant store rooms to put all of their doomsday weapons alien artifacts, and then ENSIGNS of all people being responsible for cleaning/maintaining said room and artifacts.
Not only are they not from the prime universe, but they are not even from the same universe as each other. And this alternate Bashir was actually just a hologram, as well. Lower Decks was a mess.
Star Trek overall is a mess, but what do you expect when you put people in charge who don’t like Star Trek, lower decks at least had people in charge who liked Star Trek.
For real. That show could easily have leaned into making fun of Star Trek just for being Star Trek. But the writers chose to punch up instead and just point out the obviously absurd from an in-universe perspective. Like the idea of ships having giant store rooms to put all of their
doomsday weaponsalien artifacts, and then ENSIGNS of all people being responsible for cleaning/maintaining said room and artifacts.