I have this headcanon now that Boimler met his purple universe self once, and that’s why he started dying his hair.

Wait a minute now, is he actively dying his beard as it grows in? That’s pretty weird, isn’t it? Did he lie in his own personal log about dying his hair, or does the hair dying occur at a follicular level?

“We’ll have to lick it off” had me reeling.

I found the lurkey quite funny this episode, even if it was a bit of an embellished and exaggerated character.

And my goodness, I love the guest star that they found on the time dilation planet in this episode: The Vasquez Rocks.

I’m loving the friendly beard-off between Boimler and Rutherford, who just casually between episodes has grown a stubble that is more impressive than Boims’ shaggy growth.

It’s especially nice that their differences didn’t evolve into an episode-long, passive aggressive competition between comrades over who’s is the better — oh, hello Tendi. Didn’t see you there.

I enjoyed this one more than last week’s - I think I’m calibrated to prefer the more heartfelt episodes over the sillier ones. And this one added “the purple D” to the lexicon, so that’s…a real legacy, is what it is.

The Mariner subplot was pretty thin, and probably could have been cut entirely.