Star Trek: Lower Decks knows a vulnerable franchise trope when it sees one, and finds a gem in Season 4, Episode 5, "Empathological Fallacies." Shipboard freakouts (in which a spore or contagion causes the entire crew to go banana) have been a part of the franchise since Star Trek: The Original Series. They're often exercises in goofiness as well, and even the straight-faced Star Trek shows tend to play them largely for laughs.
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