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• The episode title, “Caves” is a call back to the frequency in which caves or cave like structures are featured prominently in episodes of “Star Trek”, going all the way back to the original pilot, “The Cage”. Caves have been a significant part of the following episodes:

• This episode was Ben Rodgers, who voices lieutenant Steve Stevens.

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• In this episode, we see caves on the following planets:

    • Grottonus - A grotto is a form of cave

    • Kyron 4 - Unfortunately not the fourth chyron we see in the episode

    • Balkus 9

    • Glish

• ”Oh, awesome. I feel like since we got promoted we never get paired up any more.” Boimler and Mariner were both on travel guide duty in “Parth Ferengi’s Heart Place” two episodes together, but even then they approached the responsibility separately. That is the only episode we’ve seen where they’ve been on a mission together since their mutual promotion in the season premiere “Twovix”.

• ”I hate caves!” Mariner revealed in the series premiere, “Second Contact” that she was once trapped in a sentient cave. *”That’s a dark place that knows things.”

    • Mariner mentions the sentient cave again at the end of this episode.

• “I feel like I’ve been in this cave a hundred times.” Throughout TNG, DS9, and VOY, the same cave set was reused frequently to depict caverns on multiple planets across the galaxy. It was not every cave, but many of them.

• “Like the time we all got stuck together after that rage virus outbreak on the ship.” Tendi is referring to the events of “Second Contact”.

• Steve Levy was introduced in “No Small Parts” where we learned he’s a conspiracy theorist.

    • ”Wolf 359 was a tragedy.” In “No Small Parts” Mariner said that Levy claimed Wolf 359 was an inside job during a date they went on.

• During the flashbacks to the various caves the Lower Deckers have been trapped in, they’re all lieutenants junior grade, meaning that for all of them, the events have occurred since getting promoted in “Twovix”.

• We learn that the Vendor Prime is in the Beta Quadrant.

    • In “The Survivors” Spock claimed that the Vendorian homeworld is quarantined; “Their practice of deceit as a way of life puts them off limits.”

• The Vendorians are played by:

    • Noël Wells - Tendi

    • Dawnn Lewis - Cap’n Freeman, and Thusa this episode

    • Jerry O’Connel - Ransom, and the carnivorous moss this episode

    • Fred Tatasciore - Shaxs, and Steve Levy

• ”I thought you were just a paranoid anxiety made up by people who needed an imagined enemy.” Boimler had previously encountered a Vendorian in “Envoys”.

• ”...how you guys falsified data that going warp speed damages subspace.” In “Force of Nature” Hekaran scientists demonstrated to the crew of the USS Enterprise D that traveling at warp can damage subspace.

• ”We did not, as you put it, ‘do the Klingon civil war.’” Presumably Levy’s theory refers to the conflict between those Klingons who supported Gowron’s claim to be Chancellor of the Empire, and those who supported the House of Duras, seen in “Redemption” and “Redemption II”.

• “Sure, hang out with a guy who thinks we’re in the evil mirror universe.” The mirror universe was introduced in “Mirror Mirror”, and has been featured in several episodes of DS9, ENT, and DIS.

• Rutherford informs the Lower Deckers that he and Doctor T’Ana had a ”cave baby” together. Apparently he was impregnated by contact from a dying alien that is able to reproduce parthenogenetically through touch with a host.

    • Troi was non-consensually impregnated by a non-corporeal intelligence in “The Child”.

    • Tom Paris and Captain Janeway had children together while they were hyper evolved salamanders in “Threshold”.

    • Trip was accidentally impregnated through touch by a Xyrillian woman in “Unexpected”.

    • The less said about Captain Picard and Doctor Crusher’s child, the better.

• Doctor T’Ana states that molecular fungo-sites can’t be replicated. Other things that cannot be replicated include:

    • The vaccine for Anchilles fever - “Code of Honor”

    • Ketracel White - “The Abandoned”

    • Bio-neural gel packs - “Learning Curve”

    • Borg cortical nodes - “Imperfection”

    • Presumably latinum also cannot be replicated, but this is never explicitly established

• Delta Shift and the Lower Deckers’ rivalry with them were introduced in “Terminal Provocations”.

    • This is the first time we’ve gotten names for Karavitus, Amadou, and Asif on screen.

• Mariner’s mission with Delta Shift used the shuttle, Kings Canyon, which is the same shuttle Boimler’s team used in “In the Cradle of Vexilon”.

• Pergium was introduced in “The Devil in the Dark”.

• Amadou explains that a nearby mineral vein is emitting chronitons, causing the aging effects. Chronitons were first mentioned in “The Next Phase” as subatomic particles with temporal properties.

    • In “Timescape” Picard’s hand ages rapidly when he reaches into a temporal fragment. It is not explicitly stated there are chronitons involved, but both incidents were the result of issues with a Romulan singularity drive.

• ”We’re just going to have the doc grow you a new one.” Nog’s leg was replaced with a bio-synthetic limb after he lost it in “The Siege of AR-558”.

• Delta Shift has a chant, like the Lower Deckers’ ”Lower Decks!” chant, first seen in “Second Contact”.

• The beginning of Tendi’s flashback to the USS Cerritos’ bar is taken from “Second Contact”.

• ”I thought synthohol let you shrug off the effects of alcohol.” Data explained that was the case to Scotty in “Relics”.

• Targs are Klingon animals used as pets, food, and candles. The first one seen on screen was manifested by Worf’s mind in “Where No One Has Gone Before”.

• The episode title is a reference to the spaghetti western, “A Few Dollars More”.

    • “A Few Dollars More” was the sequel to “A Fistful of Dollars” which TNG referenced with title of season six’s “A Few Datas More”.

    • Badgey as introduced in “Terminal Provocations”. Jack McBrayer reprises the role here.

• The Kalla system was first seen in “Firstborn”, and it’s where the USS Cerritos fought the Pakled clumpship “No Small Parts”.

    • Here we see Drookmani scavengers collecting Rutherford’s lost implant. We already saw this happening at the end of “The Stars at Night”, but the scene ended before revealing it was the Drookmani collecting the implant.

• The Drookmani captain is voiced by Fred Tatasciore, the actor who voices Shaxs.

• The Droomani lower decker is voiced by Paul Scheer, the actor who voices Billups.

• The bisected circle emblem on the Bynar ship as also seen on the high tech fanny packs the Bynars wore in “11001001”, as well as this episode.

• The Bynars are speaking in the language we heard in “11001001”, and we see their text shown a display, also from that episode.

• While we never saw a Bynar ship in any previous iteration of Trek, I did think it worth pointing out that they are a species where two individuals are linked and act in unison, and here we see what would be a single captain’s chair on almost any other species’ ship is actually a loveseat, occupied by two Bynar.

• The Mysterious Threat adds the Bynar ship to it’s collection.

• Badgey appears to be controlling the Drookmani who salvaged him via glowing cybernetic implants, which immediately invokes the Borg. It also makes me think, however, of the fact that after having been beamed into space in “Datalore”, we learn in “Brothers” that Lore was rescued by Pakleds.

• Rutherford has outfitted the Sequoia shuttle with a grappler. The NX-01 Enterprise was equipped with grapplers as seen “Broken Bow”, and so were its shuttlepods, which we saw in “Similitude”.

    • Boimler expressed excitement over the NX-01’s grapplers in “Those Old Scientists”, as did La’an.

• The Daystrom Institute was first mentioned in “The Measure of a Man”, and is named for Richard Daystrom from “The Ultimate Computer”.

    • The view of the Daystrom Institute is recreated from the PIC episode, “Remembrance”.

    • The Daystrom Institute’s Self-Aware Megalomaniacal Computer Storage room was first seen in “Where Pleasant Fountains Lie”.

• Peanut Hamper was introduced in “No Small Parts” and given over to the custody of the Daystrom Institute in “A Mathematically Perfect Redemption”.

    • Peanut Hamper is played by Kether Donohue.

• AGIMUS was introduced in “Where Pleasant Fountains Lie”, where we also saw him placed in Daystrom Institute custody.

    • AGIMUS is portrayed by Jeffery Combs, who has played a number of roles across DS9, VOY, and ENT, including:

       • Tiron - “Meredion”

       • Penk - “Tsunkatse”

       • Krem - “Acquistion”

• Lord Tyrannikillicus was first seen in “Where Pleasant Fountains Lie” and is voiced by Shaxs’ voice actor, Fred Tatasciore.

• We saw AGIMUS’ drones in “Where Pleasant Fountains Lie”, but only depicted in a mural on a world he had conquered, or in a fantasy he had; this is the first we’ve seen an actual drone.

• AGIMUS states the Mysterious Threat’s attack on the Bynar ship occurred on stardate 58934.9.

• The Drookmani ship is outfitted with a number of canons. In “Terminal Provocations”, the first episode to depict the Drookmani, their ship has no weapons at all, and uses a tractor beam to throw space junk at the Cerritos.

• ”Almost as noble as the time you snapped my [beep]ing neck!” Badgey is still upset about the events of “Terminal Provocations” when Rutherford had to ”kill” him in order to save his and Tendi’s lives.

• Rutherford’s hug causes Badgey to split into two separate entities, one of whom is named Goodgey. In “The Enemy Within”, Captain Kirk was separated into his good and evil halves.

    • Perhaps worth noting that Goodgey is silver, similar to the combadges worn by the Cerritos crew.

    • Badgey also splits off his logical aspect in Logic-y. Spock dreamed about being split into his human and Vulcan halves in “Spock Amok”.

• ”This stuff is great! All we have on Orion are, like, sharp little pebbles.” It as established in “Second Contact” that there is no sand on Orion.

    • It was also established that sand gives Boimler a rash, but he doesn’t mention it here.

• Tendi is barefoot in this scene in Ecuador.. Unrelated, this scene is also lifted directly from the pitch for the proposed Quentin Tarrantino Trek film that was being talked about back in 2017.

• ”Do you guys want to take a root beer float break?” Root beer is like the Federation, so bubbly and cloying and happy. It’s insidious.

• The EMH used neurazine gas to incapacitate the Romulans who’d hijacked the USS Prometheus in “Message in a Bottle”.

• The Tyrus VIIA research station was seen in “A Quality of Life”. It’s where the Exocomps were created by Doctor Farallon and developed sentience.

    • The interior of the Tyrus VIIA research station is recreated from “A Quality of Life”.

• Badgey develops a plan to travel at warp 9.9 and transfer himself across subspace to the entire Federation. In “Threshold” we learned that an object traveling at warp 10 exists at all points of the universe simultaneously.

• We are introduced to Peanut Hamper’s father, Kevin. In “No Small Parts” Peanut Hamper declared that the only reason she joined Starfleet was to upset Kevin.

• Among the Federation material we see Badgey infect are:

    • A subspace relay which appears to be identical to the “ancient space capsule” the USS Enterprise D located in “The Neutral Zone” which contained three surviving humans from 20th century Earth who had been cryogenically frozen.

    • The Cerritos

    • The USS Vancouver where we see Barbra Brinson from “Cupid’s Errant Arrow”

    • The VCF Sh’vhal from “wej Duj”, commanded by Sokel

    • Starbase 25, first mentioned in “The Slaver Weapon” and seen in “An Embarrassment of Dooplers”

    • Deep Space 9 from DS9

    • Douglass Station which was introduced in “Second Contact”

• Badgey, now all powerful, turns a light blue tone, and exists simultaneously across his past, present and future. He departs to an empty dimension to create a universe.

    • Badgey expresses that he has become tired of Earth. These people. Being caught in the tangle of their lives. Also, for some reason he now has human genitals fully visible on screen.

    • Badgey ascends as O’Connor did in “Moist Vessel”; he has six arms, and the outline of a great bird appears around him, with three circles at its head. He says he might hang out with the Q Continuum, introduced in “Encounter at Farpoint” or check out the Black Mountain, which Shaxs told Rutherford of in “We’ll Always Have Tom Paris”. As he ascends, we see he is travelling towards the Koala. Why is it smiling? What does it know?

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• Like many Trek episodes, this one’s title was inspired by a great work of art, specifically “Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace”.

• The Ferengi lower deckers we see are cataloguing Cardassian, Klingon and Romulan handheld disruptors before apparently throwing them out.

    • Cardassian weapons were frequently called phasers, not disruptors in dialogue in DS9, such as in the episodes “Profit and Loss”, though in “Return to Grace” Kira refers to them as ”phase-disruptor” weapons.

• The Ferengi have a scaled down Genesis device which among the weapons they’re discarding. In “Star Trek: The Search for Spock”, Commander Kruge believed Genesis was designed as a Federation weapon.

• The Mysterious Threat appears again, making this the fourth attack since its introduction in “Twovix”.

    • The Ferengi, Jeef, implies that he was aware that the Mysterious Threat was going to be there and he’d made a deal with whomever is operating it.

• The bridge of the Ferengi ship appears to be a recreation of the one seen aboard Quark’s shuttle, Quark’s Treasure in “Little Green Men”, which was later used for Brunt’s shuttle in “The Magnificent Ferengi”.

• As is tradition with Ferengi episodes, we’re going to get some Rules of Acquisition. The Rules of Acquisition were first mentioned in “The Nagus”.

    • Rule 62: ”The riskier the road, the greater the profit.” - “Rules of Acquisition”

    • Rule 10: *”Greed is eternal.” - “Prophet Motive”

    • Rule 8: ”Small print leads to large risk.” - This is the first time it’s been said in canon, but was included in the “The Ferengi Rules of Acquisition” reference book written by Ira Steven Behr

• The USS Toronto NCC-70494 is a Parliament-class starship. We first saw the USS Vancouver in “Cupid’s Errant Arrow”.

    • Despite the fact that Parliament-class ships appear to all take their names from Canadian capital cities, the USS Winnipeg is a Daedalus-class, and the USS Regina is an Oberth-class, seen in “An Embarrassment of Dooplers” and “First First Contact” respectively.

• Cap’n Freeman records the Stardate as 58901.5 in her log.

• This is our first view of Ferenginar from orbit.

• Admiral Vassery was introduced in “Moist Vessel”.

• ”It makes Moab IV inside the dome look like Moab IV outside the dome.” Moab IV was a human colony built as a planned society fostered with eugenics introduced in “The Masterpiece Society”.

• It’s Rom! From Star Trek! Rom is played by Max Grodénchik, who played Rom in DS9, showing up in the series premiere, “The Emissary”.

    • Grodénchik played several other Frenengi as well: his first Trek role was as Sovak in “Captain’s Holiday”; he played Par Lenor in “The Perfect Mate”; finally he appeared as Grand Nagus Gint in Quark’s dream in “Body Parts”.

• It’s Leeta! From Star Trek! Leeta once again portrayed by Chase Masterson. The character first appeared in “Explorers”.

• Rom and Leeta are accompanied by a Hupyrian attendant, as both Zek and Brunt were when they were Grand Nagus. This one is the first female Hupyrian we’ve seen.

• The Ceremonial Invoice for the Bust of Good Fortune features Ferengi script, first seen in “Ménage à Troi”.

• We see the Lower Deckers working on the Sequoia, the shuttle introduced in “Second Contact”. This is the first time we’ve seen the shuttle this season.

• Mariner is weathering a self-sealing stembolt, a device introduced in “Progress” which use has never been made entirely clear.

• ”The Cerritos *is statistically the horniest and least romantically committed crew in Starfleet,” I’d like to know what metrics they use for gauging that, but Starfleet is a notoriously horny organization. See: All of TOS, TNG, DS9, VOY, ENT, and SNW.

• ”Maybe I should have Honus and nurse Westlake take a crack at it.” Honus, Westlake, along with Matt are Ransom’s self described ”Friends for life.”

• The skyline of Ferenginar includes the Tower of Commerce, first mentioned in “Prophet Motive” and seen in “Family Business”. The angle here is different, showing more of the capital city and less marshland.

    • It is raining pretty heavily on Ferenginar. According to Quark in “Let He Who is Without Sin…” there are 178 different words in the Ferengi language for types of rain.

    • There’s a Ferengi shuttle flying over the city. The first Ferengi shuttle on screen was seen in “The Price”

• Among the business and billboards we signs for:

    • All You Can @#$%!

    • Slug-O Cola - “Profit and Lace”

    • Acquire Pour Homme

    • Now Playing: Latinum Lost

    • Maximum Oo-Mox Rub Dungeon

    • Uncle Quark’s Youth Casino

    • Lobe’s Lodge

    • The Museum of Gambling

    • The Museum of Haggling

    • Slug-Nasium

    • The Ferenginar Historic Public Library

    • Quark’s Federation Experience Bar & Grill

• One of the ships parked at Lobe’s Lodge is one resembling the ship the Ferengi used when they attacked the NX-01 Enterprise in “Acquisition”.

• There are payboxes for several amenities on Ferenginar for depositing latinum, which we saw introduced in “Family Business”.

    • Shuttle parking

    • Mini bar

    • Hotel bed

    • Toilet

    • Bathroom access

    • Hotel viewscreen

    • Brunch restaurant

    • Dressing rooms

• The confetti canon Parth fires off is shaped similar to a Ferengi hand phaser, like the ones seen in “Ménage à Troi”.

• The viewscreen in in Boimler’s hotel room is very suspiciously familiar, but I can’t quite put my finger on it.

• Mariner meets up with Quimp whom we previously saw in “Envoys” helping her to scam Boimler into believing he was a capable officer.

• ”I never thought you’d dig your way out of crashing that Oberth.” Was it the USS Regina? We may never know.

    • Presumably the incident with the Oberth-class happened prior to the start of the series, which means that Mariner has been promoted and demoted at least once since then, during the events of “Moist Vessel”, and Quimp is merely unaware that happened.

• Mariner Orders two shots of Cardassian tequila, which presumably can only be produced in the Tequila region of Cardassia Prime.

• Mariner also orders a ”dagger of the mind on the rocks.” “Dagger of the Mind” was a first season TOS episode, but also part of a line from “Macbeth”.

• ”I like baseball. It’s fun.” Rom was the worst player on the Niners in “Take Me Out to the Holosuite” but Max Grodénchik played in high school and was good enough that he considered going pro before pursuing a career in acting. During the filming of “Take Me Out to the Holosuite” he had to play left handed because he couldn’t convincingly look bad while playing the game with his dominant hand.

• Boimler is watching “Pog & Dar: Cop Landlords” and one of the tenants has a dog-like pet with horns and antenna like the one seen in “The Enemy Within”

    • Pog, Dar, and the tenant all have Ferengi hand phasers, which were last seen in the TNG episode “Bloodlines”.

    • The tenant has muttonchops, and is the only Ferengi we’ve seen to have hair of any kind.

• ”Haha, they put commercials in the shows? It’s like mind control.” When Boimler says this line, the wall art of a mountain with some stars above it twinkles, and I can’t quite place why it’s familiar.

• Quark’s Federation Experience Bar & Grill is based on Star Trek: The Experience, a now defunct attraction that used to be at the Hilton in Las Vegas, which did include a Quark’s Bar. Among the features here are:

    • Models of the USS Enterprise D and the USS Voyager hanging from the ceiling, both of which were in Star Trek: The Experience.

    • A Mugato - “A Private Little War”

    • The Guardian of Forever - “The City on the Edge of Forever”

    • A Vulcan wedding venue/gladiatorial arena - “Amok Time”

    • One of the primitive peoples encountered on Taurus II - “The Galileo Seven”

    • A holodeck arcade - Ferengi generally refer to them as holosuites

    • A rack of red shirts

    • A Jefferies Tube entrance

    • A Ten Forward exhibit

    • A ”blind box” shaped like a Class-F shuttlecraft

• Production Error: Despite what the sign says, Rutherford refers to it as *”The Starfleet Experience Bar & Grill”.

• One of the Ferengi women eating in the background of Quark’s Federation Experience is nude. Before Zek changed the law leading to the events of “Profit and Lace”, it was illegal for Ferengi omen to wear clothes.

• Rom and Leeta host Vassery and Freeman in the Chamber of Petitioners, seen in “Ferengi Love Songs”.

• Cap’n Freeman tricks Rom into signing a contract which hinges on him bringing Qo’noS into the Federation. In the TNG episode, “Samaritan Snare”, Wesley asks Picard “Was this before the Klingons joined the Federation?” regarding a story of his Academy days, and in “Heart of Glory” we see a Klingon bridge displaying the Federation Emblem alongside that of the Klingon Empire.

• Rom reveals that his outrageous demands were all part of a test to see if there were those in the Federation who would respect Ferengi culture. Captain Pike realized the delegation from the R’ongovian Protectorate were doing something similar in “Spock Amok”.

• The Ferengi ”local authorities” is wearing a simplified version of the Ferengi uniform introduced in “Peak Performance” and has a military tattoo on his forehead, which we haven’t seen since “Bloodlines”. He’s also wielding an energy whip, introduced in “The Last Outpost”.

Clearly there is some chemistry between the characters, but it often appears that Shaxs is putting up with a lot that he is not interested in, or is even finds unpleasant.

Specifically in “Room For Growth” and “I Have No Bones Yet I Must Flee” we get insight into their off duty time together, which appears to be running a holodeck program where Doctor T’Ana escalates the violence and then wants Shaxs participate in sexual activity, while making their holographic victims watch. In both episodes Shaxs implies that this is not something he enjoys. In “Room For Growth” we see Shaxs open up to Doctor T’Ana about things he’s going through and she mocks him for it.

And obviously Shaxs is a character capable of tremendous violence, and it’s something he enjoys, but unlike Doctor T’Ana, he’s also interested in wellness. In “Envoys” we see that Shaxs is concerned about the job satisfaction of his subordinates, and in “Empathological Fallacies” he makes it clear that he views part of his responsibilities as the Cerritos chief of security to see to the mental wellbeing of the crew as well as their physical wellbeing. He puts that in action for himself as well, which we see in “wej Duj” where he’s using art therapy to deal with his own trauma. T’Ana, by contrast, is hostile to the idea. In “Mugato, Gumato” we see that she’s removed her own name from the list of patients aboard the Cerritos.

It seems as though Shaxs is the one putting in all the effort, and Doctor T’Ana is somewhat toxic.I feel like Shaxs could do better.

• Captain Sokel and the VCF Sh’vhal were both introduced in “wej Duj” the same episode in which we first saw T’Lyn.

     • This is the first time the prefix VCF has been applied to a ship. Presumably it is Vulcan specific.

• The Betazoid diplomats the USS Cerritos is ferrying spent three weeks on Angel I, a planet with a matriarchal society introduced in the episode Angel One.

     • The diplomats’ whalebones have labels that read ”Angel 1” in front of a flower-like emblem that was seen on the surface of Angel I.

     • When the USS Enterprise D visited Angel I in “Angel One”, Data described their technological development as being similar to that of mid-20th century Earth. It’s never explicitly stated that they’re pre-warp, though. The Federation considered it important to maintain excellent diplomatic relations with the planet.

• The Cerritos is taking the diplomats to Risa, a ”pleasure planet” first introduced in “Captain’s Holiday”. It’s a popular destination for Starfleet officers engaging in sex tourism.

• We learn that ancient Catians used to hunt ancient Betazoids for food.

• Katrot has a cap that reads, *”It’s Romulan ale o’clock somewhere,” which she purchased from a woman on Angel I. Romulan ale was introduced in “Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan”, and is illegal in the Federation. Of course, Angel I is not a Federation world, and it is very close to the Romulan neutral zone.

• In her personal correspondence to Sokel, T’Lyn makes note of her ”chaotic tendencies” and ”punishment,” both of which were plot points in “wej Duj”; Sokel recommended T’Lyn be reassigned to a Starfleet due to her inability to control her emotions.

• ”I know you don’t drink, but there’s going to be a chocolate fountain if you want to get wild.” It has become a bit of fan canon that Vulcans become intoxicated consuming chocolate, though it’s not actually supported by anything we’ve seen on screen.

     • Vulcans do drink, however, despite Spock’s claim that they don’t experience the ”dubious benefits” of alcohol. Spock drinks in “The Enterprise Incident”, “Requiem for Methuselah”, and “The Broken Circle”. Sakonna drinks Bajoran spring wine and we learn that there’s a Vulcan port in “The Maquis, Part I”, which is where people think Quark offers Sakonna chocolate, but does not actually happen in the episode. Tuvok and Chakotay share some Vulcan brandy in “Repression”. And, of course, the Vulcans who made official first contact with Earth drank with Zefram Cochrane in “Star Trek: First Contact”.

• T’Lyn has a painting on her wall depicting a large statue carrying a lirpa. The painting is based on a matte painting of Vulcan made for “Star Trek: The Motion Picture”.

• Boimler is quizzing himself on the names of everyone aboard the Cerritos, and we find out the blue woman with barbels is named Sleepy Merp, making her the third named Merp on the ship, along with Big Merp and adjectiveless Merp, and I have several questions.

     • Boimler does say he’s trying to remember ”every single crew member’s name,” but one of the people in his quiz is Honus the bartender.

• ”This crew is always weird and yelling.” T’Lyn has summed out three and a half seasons of “Star Trek: Lower Decks” in a single sentence.

• Boimler asks Shaxs if he’s going to learn tsunkatse, a popular bloodsport on the planet Norcadia Prime in the Delta Quadrant that Seven of Nine was press ganged into participating in, in the episode “Tusnkatse”.

• The Bear Pack engages in activities related other security officers in or related to Starfleet.

     • Haubold shares her slam poetry about Worf, who became chief of security aboard the Enterprise D after Yar’s death in “Skin of Evil”.

     • Kayshon uses charades to depict constable Odo, the security chief on Deep Space 9, introduced in “Emissary”.

• T’Lyn proposes that Zanthi fever could be affected the Betazoids, which would then cause the crew’s increased emotional instability. In “Fascination” Lawaxana Troi’s Zanthi fever affected several of the people aboard Deep Space 9.

• This is the first time we’ve learned ensign Haubold’s name, despite her being a background character since the series premiere, “Second Contact”.

• Shaxs’ ritual box is not the same as the containers holding the Tears of the Prophets, but it shares many of the same elements.

• Shaxs’ puzzle depicts captain Malcolm Reed and the NX-01 Enterprise.

• Shaxs’ Bajoran tarot deck has art based on the Rider-Waite deck, and features several Bajor specific cards:

     • Celestial Temple i.e. Bajoran Wormhole

     • Orbs - This card is based on the Ten of Pentacles and depicts ten orbs; originally it was believed there were only nine Tears of the Prophets, but Captain Sisko discovered the Orb of the Emissary in "Shadows and Symbols"; because not all the orbs have been named on screen, with books, comics, and video games we have names for 16 different orbs.

     • Invasion - A Bajoran in a field with a sword, facing down what I believe we can assume to be a Cardassian based on the legs and boots.

     • Derna - Bajor’s fourth moon, seen in “Image in the Sand”

     • The Emissary - The cars is based on The Magician; we see Sisko wearing what appears to be the a hat Winn Adami wore as a vedek, and robes similar to those of Kai Opaka except in white and red.

     • Borhya - In “The Next Phase” Ro tells Geordi of the Bajoran spirits of the dead.

• The Betazoid delegates turn out to have been officers of the Betazed Intelligence Agency the whole time.

• The starmap depicting the Cerritos’ proximity to the Neutral Zone also show Romulus, and, notably, the planet Cheron, which was seen in “Let That Be Your Last Battlefield” and was the homeworld of Bele and Lokai.

     • The map is a recreation of the one seen in “Balance of Terror”.

• T’Lyn is actually the cause of the emotional outbursts aboard the Cerritos, and she notes that Vulcans can suffer similar afflictions to Zanthi fever such as Bendii syndrome, the same condition which affected Sarek in “Sarek”.

     • T’Lyn states that Bendii syndrome ”is mostly observed in the elderly,” and lets Mariner know she is only 62 years old. Sarek was 201 when he became afflicted.

• We learn that Boimler was aboard the Cerritos when he turned 25.

• T’Lyn’s running with ridged arms bent at 90° may have been inspired by Spock’s running in “Star Trek: Into Darkness”.

• “Phasers? Big phasers?” In “Where Pleasant Fountains Lie” when Mariner asked Boimler how the type-3 phaser differed from others, his response was, “They take two hands.” • Big Merp is playing the titular game from “The Game”.

• Steve Stevens and another person are wearing anbo-jyutsu gear introduced in “The Icarus Factor”. According to Kyle Riker, anbo-jyutsu is ”the ultimate evolution of the martial arts.”

• Dolorex gives Cap’n Freeman a Betazoid PADD with an image of the Mysterious Threat on it. The PADD has the emblem previously seen on the Betazoid flag in “The Star Gazer” on it.

• ”Maybe all three of us could go to the pottery shop and throw some clay?” We learned the Cerritos has a pottery room in “wej Duj”.