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”.

Star Trek #12
Written by: Collin Kelly
Art by: Jackson Lanzing, and Angel Unzueta
Cover Artist: Malachi Ward

The crossover event between Star Trek and Star Trek: Defiant comes to a thrilling conclusion in part five of Day of Blood! Using powers bestowed upon him by the Prophets, emissary Benjamin Sisko withstands the god-killing weapon for now, but forces of the Orb of Destruction wear on him with each passing moment. Meanwhile, Worf agonizes over a fatal wound of his own that he can never hope to heal. What will become of our heroes? What will become of the universe? Can the crews of the Theseus and Defiant stop the godkiller once and for all?
 

Star Trek: Day of Blood - Shaxs' Best Day
Written by: Ryan North
Art by: Derek Charm
Cover Artist: Derek Charm

You've seen Captains Benjamin Sisko and Worf with their crews of the U.S.S. Theseus and Defiant stop the fascist, god-killing clone Kahless II from declaring war on non-followers across the galaxy in a brutal battle on Qo'noS. But you haven't seen it from the eyes of the man, the myth, the legend-Lieutenant Junior Grade Shaxs!
From the writer behind the best-selling Lower Decks comics series, Ryan North, with esteemed artist Derek Charm (The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl), comes a 30-page standalone tie-in to the Star Trek: Day of Blood event detailing the Bajoran's beast-mode brawl and showcasing all the behind-the-scenes Klingon-zealot butt-kicking in full animated glory!
 

Star Trek: Picard's Academy #1
Written by: Sam Maggs
Art by: Greco Ornella
Cover Artist: Sweeney Boo

From New York Times-bestselling author Sam Maggs (Star Wars Jedi: Battle Scars) comes a new ongoing series unveiling the past of one of Starfleet's most celebrated officers: Captain Jean-Luc Picard! Before becoming the Federation's finest, Jean-Luc was an ordinary student at Starfleet Academy with sights on the stars. His path forward was charted: blow his classmates out of the water on the infamous Evasive Maneuvers exam and graduate early. But there's a detail Cadet Picard hadn't factored into his plan: the exam was a group project and he'd need to make friends with, ugh, people if he stood a chance at passing. Federation starships aren't run by a party of one, after all!

• The Orion starship we see in the opening is visually similar to the Orion interceptors seen in “Borderland” with some distinct differences.

     • Notably, this interceptor has a pair of arms extending from the underside of the ship, similar to the Orion starship seen in the TAS episode, “The Pirates of Orion.”

• Starting with Risik’s tattoos, we see several examples of the Orion alphabet introduced in “Borderland”.

• Among the plunder the Orion lower deckers are sorting is:

     • A Bat’leth

     • A number of 24th century Starfleet type-2 phasers

     • A Vulcan harp

     • A 23rd century Starfleet type-2 phaser

     • A Starfleet compression phaser rifle

• ”Hey, did you guys see that Maleer got big pieces of metal attached to her head?” In “Borderland” we were introduced to the idea that Orion body modification practices do include grafting bits of what appears to be scrap metal to their bodies.

• The captain’s chair aboard the Orion ship is similar in shape to the one seen in “The Pirates of Orion”.

• The Mysterious Threat destroys the Orion vessel, just as it did the Klingon Bird-of-Prey, IKS Che’Ta’ in “Twovix”, and a Romulan ship in “I Have No Bones Yet I Must Flee”.

• “I have put my foot in my mouth enough when it comes to Orion stuff.” Tendi was hurt by Mariner’s insistence that all Orions are pirates who love to pillage in “Crisis Point”, and Mariner again insulted Tendi by suggesting she use her pheromones to influence a dom-jot game they were attempting to hustle in “We’ll Always Have Tom Paris”.

• Among his possessions on display, Boimler has a USS Cerritos commemorative plate.

• Tendi, Mariner, and T’Lyn take the Yosemite II shuttle on their away mission/girls’ trip. The original Yosemite was destroyed in when Mariner and Boimler were caught in a gravity well and forced to crash land in “Where Pleasant Fountains Lie”, and the Yosemite II was introduced in “Grounded”.

• As the shuttle approaches Orion, we see an Orion barge of the type operated by Harrad-Sar in “Bound”.

• Several of the buildings on the Orion skyline bear the symbol worn by the Orion crew in “The Pirate of Orion”.

• “You grew up in a castle, like friggin’ Billups?” We learned that chief engineer Billups grew up as heir to the throne of the human colony Hysperia, which is populated entirely by “ren faire types.”

• Tendi confirms that her family is part of the Orion Syndicate, a criminal organization first mentioned in “The Ascent”.

• B’rt Tendi is played by Nolan North, who’s portrayed several Trek characters, including:

     • Bridge officer of the USS Vengeance - “Star Trek Into Darkness”

     • The Half a Rascal - “Much Ado About Boimler”

     • Cerritos transporter chief, Lundy

     • Sokel - “wej Duj”

     • K’ranch - “The Least Dangerous Game”

• The A.B. Chambers is the steamboat that Mark Twain briefly worked on.

• Boimler and Rutherford both show up dressed as Mark Twain. The real Samuel Clemens encountered the crew of the USS Enterprise D when they travelled back to 1893 in “Time’s Arrow”.

• Tendi was first referred to as the Mistress of the Winter Constellations in “We’ll Always Have Tom Paris”.

• The bottle the Slit Throat bartender pours from features an image of the Orion captain from “The Pirates of Orion”.

• The stir stick in Madam G’s drink is topped with the symbol worn by the Orion crew in “The Pirates of Orion”.

• New Seattle is a colony on Penthara IV, a world the Enterprise D responded to a disaster on in “A Matter of Time”.

• The pattern on the privacy screens of the hump dungeon mirror those of the fence in the fantasy Captain Pike experienced of Vina as an Orion “slave girl” in “The Menagerie, Part II”.

• T’Lyn observes that the male Orions in the hump dungeon appear to be under the influence of pheromonal chemical manipulation. It was established in “Bound” that Orion culture is actually matriarchal, with women controlling the men via the use of pheromones.

• ”Tendi’s made it clear that Starfleet made those pheromones up.” Actually, all Tendi ever said in “We’ll Always Have Tom Paris” is that she’s, ”not even that kind of Orion.”

• Coqqor is played by Eric Bauza, who’s portrayed several PRO and LDS characters, including:

     • Barniss Frex - “Asylum”

     • Scot’Ee and Sool’U - “All the World’s a Stage”

     • Assface and Screwhead - “Skin a Cat”

• Though there has previously not been any canon Chalnoth ships, the design here appears to be based on the ships seen on the cover of DC Comics’ “Star Trek: The Next Generation” #61, published in 1994.

• The starship boneyard that Tendi and D’Erika used to play in as children contains a Federation exploration vessel of the same design as the USS Raven, which Seven of Nine’s parents used to study the Borg and get assimilated. Ship type was first seen in “The Raven”.

• Coqqor devours Rutherford and Boimler’s bonsai tree. In “Allegiance” the Chalnoth Esoqq was unable to eat the food disks provided to Picard and the others by their captors, but did strongly imply that he could subsist on the Mizarian prisoner.

• ”I may not be a pirate, but I’ve rerouted my share of EPS conduits.” Tendi demonstrated her shipjacking abilities in “Hear All, Trust Nothing”.

• ”A report without the subject’s consent would be unethical.” Vulcans monitor other species without their consent all the time, such as in “Star Trek: First Contact”, “The Andorian Incident”, and “Carbon Creek”.

• Boimler and Rutherford end the episode on the holodeck, both dressed as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The works of Mozart have been featured in:

     • “Where No One Has Gone Before”

     • “The Ensigns of Command”

     • “Sarek”

     • “A Matter of Time”

     • “A Fistful of Datas”

     • “Cogenitor”

• Cap’n Freeman’s log records the stardate as 58759.1.

• The world of Corazonia is an artificial ringworld circling a star. In “Rosetta” and “Coming Home” we saw that Species Ten-C used similar Dyson rings to harvest energy from the stars of their original home system, and their newly established home.

     • The scale of Corazonia and its star is…questionable, but that’s hardly a new issue in Trek. Consider the USS Voyager traveling through the planetary ring in VOY’s title sequence, or the utterly massive Borg cube being visible in Jupiter’s eye in the PIC finale, “The Last Generation”.

     • Not canon, but Corazonia very much resembles the Ringworld from the cover art of Larry Niven’s 1970 novel, “Ringworld”, set in his Known Space series, which is also the origin of the Kiznti.

• Corazonia’s climate is controlled by a sentient computer, Vexilon. Other planet controlling computers have been seen in:

     • “The Return of the Archons” - Landru

     • “The Apple” - Vaal

     • “Spock’s Brain” - The Controller

     • “For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky” - The Oracle of the People

     • “When the Bough Breaks” - The Custodian

• Freeman roles up her sleeves before getting to work on Vexilon, not unlike the way Mariner keeps her sleeves all the time, despite it landing her in the brig at least once.

• Freeman states that she ”minored in archaic technology back at the Academy.” If Mariner is to be believed in “Room for Growth”, the USS Cerritos has been overwritten by D’Arsay technology three times.

• Boimler’s team’s shuttle is the Kings Canyon, presumably named for Kings Canyon National Park

• ”Statistically, ensigns serving under recently promoted commanders are more likely to experience death and/or dismemberment.” Wesley Crusher’s entire team in “Pen Pals” died during his first time in charge, and he wasn’t even recently promoted.

• Inside the anomaly storage room we see:

     • A probe resembling the Kataan probe from “The Inner Light” but with some notable differences

     • What appears to be an oversized Vulcan lirpa

     • Nomad from “The Changeling”, or a very similar Earth probe transformed into an artificial life form

     • A Wadi board game, from “Move Along Home”

     • What appears to be an empty transport case for a Medusan, including a visor missing the red protective lens; Ambassador Kollos used one in “Is There in Truth No Beauty?”

     • A bat’leth

     • A Betazoid gift box, like the one seen in “Haven”

     • A 23rd century Romulan cloaking device, like the one Kirk and Spock stole in “The Enterprise Incident”

• Billups’ pet ferret is named Lancelot; it was established in “Where Pleasant Fountains Lie” that Billups comes Hysperia, a planet colonized by “Ren faire type” humans.

• Tendi, Mariner, and Rutherford are using T-88 scanners to check the chips in the isolinear chip junction. T-88s were first seen in “Cupid’s Errant Arrow” and weren’t available fleetwide yet, but Rutherford and Tendi did steal a bunch from the USS Vancouver.

• ”Is it a unotronic?” Duotronic and multitronic systems were designed by Richard Daystrom, which we learned in “The Ultimate Computer”. This is the first mention of a unotronic system, though it’s not entirely clear if that’s an actual thing, or simply a bit for Billups’ joke.

• Dirks claims he was trapped in the Wadi game for a month as a child. The Wadi are a gamma quadrant civilization who were first encountered in 2369, 12 years prior to this episode.

• Boimler refers to the large blue guy as ”Big Merp.” In “I, Excretus” the scoreboard showed that another member of the same species was also named Merp. Are all members of the species named Merp? Is it the name of their species and just what they’re all called? Or is Merp simply a common name among their species?

• Rutherford ends up in the Wadi game, where he encounters the same puzzles Captain Sisko, Kira, Doctor Bashir, and Jadzia did in “Move Along Home”.

• Dirks states the Tellarite slop jazz musician Fats B’zirtak overdosed on ketracel-white. Assuming fats was not a Jem’Hadar, I believe this is the first time we’ve heard of a non-Jem’Hadar consuming ketracel-white in canon.

• The Betazoid gift box gets zapped by the not-Kataan probe and experiences an entire simulated life, similar to what happened to Captain Picard in “The Inner Light”, though at no point from Rutherford’s perspective does the gift box appear to be unconscious.

     • ”I miss my wife.” The gift box repeats Michael Sullivan’s line from two episodes ago in “Twovix”.

• After he dies we see Boimler in room which appears to be inspired by the red room from “Twin Peaks” based on the floor pattern, lamp, and end table. Outside the window he sees the black mountain, which Shaxs described as a ”spiritual battleground” in “We’ll Always Have Tom Paris”.

     • The Koala appears, and according to the subtitles it’s ”speaking Koala” but if you reverse the audio it says, “It is not your time, Bradward Boimler.”

     • This is the second time Boimler has seen the Koala, the first being when he nearly drowned in “First First Contact”.

     • Despite being at the Black Mountain, Boimler did not have to fight three faceless aspirations of his father, nor did the surviving father feed Boimler his own heart, as Shaxs described in “We’ll Always have Tom Paris”.

• ”You never forget your first death.” Ransom implies that he too has died.

• The episode title is reference to the Harlan Ellison short story, “I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream”. Ellison also wrote the TOS episode, “The City on the Edge of Forever”.

     • In “Far Beyond the Stars”, the science fiction writer Herbert Rossoff (portrayed by Armin Shimmerman), wrote a story titled “I Have No Voice and I Must Shout”.

• We see a Romluan starship decloak. The vertical physical arrangement of this ship is taken from Andrew Probert’s concept art for the Romulan D’deridex-class from 1988.

     • This configuration was eventually seen in Probert’s contribution to the 2011 Starships of the Line calendar, but has not been used elsewhere.

• The torture chair the Romlan lower deckers are scrubbing down is the same as the one used on Geordi in “The Mind’s Eye”.

• On the Romulan bridge, the emblem of the Star Empire we see is the one introduced in “Star Trek: Nemesis”

• As with the previous episode, “Twovix”, when the Mysterious Threat destroys the Romulan ship, we do not see any bodies floating among the wreckage.

• Shaxs and Ransom are doing some stretching exercises wearing the same workout clothing Doctor Crusher and counselor Troi wore in “The Price”. Also, their routine involves the same stretches Crusher and Troi performed in that episode.

     • We’ve previously seen LDS background characters wearing the same workout gear aboard the USS Cerritos in “wej Duj”.

• Rutherford gives Tendi his model of the Cerritos; we saw him finish building it in “An Embarrassment of Dooplers”.

     • Among her beakers, and graduated cylinders, Tendi also has a photo of The Dog from “Much Ado About Boimler”.

• Boimler has packed:

     • The Captain Freeman Day banner he made- “First First Contact”

     • His Boimler Effect plaque - “Temporal Edict”

     • His commemorative Tom Paris plate - “We’ll Always Have Tom Paris”

     • The Klingon ridges & hair prosthetic he wears while playing Bat’leths & Bi’BiHnuchs - “The Least Dangerous Game”

     • What appears to be a model of a Constellation-class starship.

     • His electric violin - “Temporal Edict”

     • An action of figure of mirror universe Jonathan Archer in a green wrap tunic - “In a Mirror, Darkly, Part II”; though no prime universe characters were present for those events, the crew of the USS Discovery became aware of them in “Despite Yourself”

• Mariner, Ransom, and ensign Gary are on a mission to retrieve some humans accidentally played in an alien menagerie. We’ve aliens add humans too their collection one way or another in:

     • “The Menagerie”

     • “The Eye of the Beholder”

     • “Displaced”

• Among the collection in Narj’s menagerie, we see:

     • A glommer - “More Tribbles, More Troubles”

     • Florkas - “Moist Vessel”

     • A Ceti eel - “Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan”

     • A koala - Why is he smiling? What does he know?

     • Crabs from the planet Boimler and Mariner crashed on with AGIMUS - “Where Pleasant Fountains Lie”

     • A large predator from the planet Boimler and Mariner crashed on with AGIMUS - “Where Pleasant Fountains Lie”

     • The horned dog from Alfa 177 - “The Enemy Within”

     • Winged turtles from Areolus - “A Mathematically Perfect Redemption”

     • Winged goat from Areolus - “A Mathematically Perfect Redemption”

     • Sky snake from Areolus - “A Mathematically Perfect Redemption”

     • Three headed Aldebaran serpent - “Hide and Q”

• To mitigate the red light coming off the Bussard collector, Boimler dons a visor like the ones used to protect people from exposure to a Medusan’s unshielded form, as seen in “Is There In Truth No Beauty?”

• Rutherford increases the power output of the Tucker tubes by seven picocochranes. This is the first time we’ve had a name for the Tucker tubes, though they’ve been seen in Trek going as far back as “Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan”, and have shown up in TNG, VOY, and ENT.

     • The original Tucker tube prop was created for “The Incredible Hulk”, and has been seen in a wide variety television shows and films.

     • Ensign Livek added a third tube, and called them the Billups tubes.

• In addition to this mirror universe Archer doll, Boimler has one of Spock in the movie era uniform.

• Boimler has his Starfleet recruitment poster seen in “Those Old Scientists”, but Number One’s face is obscured every time it’s on screen.

• Doctor T’Ana and Shaxs engage in some holodeck fun time with a Robin Hood program. Though we haven’t seen a Robin Hood holodeck program before, Q did create a Robin Hood simulation for the senior staff of the USS Enterprise D in “Qpid”.

• On he wall of the quarters between the to holodecks is a painting of flock of birds created by Data in “Birthright, Part I”

• ”You stabbed me in the foot with a battle blade,” Ransom did that so he would be the one fighting the Gelrakian champion in “Temporal Edict”.

• “you turned into a giant head and tried to eat me,” Mariner wasn’t on board the Cerritos when Ransom was chewing on it in “Strange Energies”.

• “you tried to trick me into messing up on that space elevator.”* Mariner is referencing the events of “The Least Dangerous Game”.

• In the Jeffries tube, Boimler has set up a Data in the “First Contact” uniform doll to go with his mirror universe Archer, and Spock.

• ”Man, now I wish I hadn’t turned down all those promotions.” This answers a question I’ve had since fairly early into the series. Mariner was/is self sabotaging, Tendi was fresh out of the Academy, and Boimler was also very new and on his first assignment, but Rutherford had been part of Starfleet for some time, was well regarded by peers and senior staff, and very capable. We learn he was offered promotions for:

     • Saving the Cerritos from the Pakleds - “No Small Parts”

     • Saving the USS Rubidoux crew from the space jellyfish - “Much Ado About Boimler”

     • Removing the hull of the Cerritos to save the USS Archimedes - “First First Contact”

• Rutherford’s moving box has:

     • The model of Deep Space 9 Tendi gave him in “An Embarrassment of Dooplers”

     • A handheld tractor beam and/or forcefield projector like the one Wesley Crusher built in “The Naked Now”

• The episode title calls back to the VOY season two episode, “Tuvix”, in which Neelix and Tuvok are combined into a single being by due to the unique properties of an alien orchid and the transporter.

• This episode was written by series creator Mike McMahan.

• Boimler [Jack Quaid] has holodeck waste removal duty, a task Mariner [Tawny Newsome] was assigned in “Moist Vessel” as part of a plan to get her to transfer off the USS Cerritos.

• It’s the USS Voyager! From Star Trek!

     • The VOY theme plays as we see the ship, and again later when the ship is landed on Earth.

• Voyager has been transformed into a museum piece. We see the ship displayed at the fleet museum in “The Bounty” some 20 years later. Exhibits on the ship commemorating the Voyager crew’s adventures include:

     • The Borg regeneration alcoves in Cargo Bay 2. One of the Cargo Bay 2s, anyway. - Established in “Scorpion, Part II”

     • The galley converted from what would have been the captain’s private dining hall, including authentic Talaxian foodstuffs.

     • The bridge.

     • The ”Neelix cheese”. - From “Learning Curve”

     • Janeway and Tom Paris’ hyper-evolved salamander forms after travelling at Warp 10. - Seen in “Threshold”

• The large battle in the title sequence has been updated again. In addition to Borg Cubes, Romulan Warbirds (season one), Klingon Birds-of-Prey, Pakled Clumpships (season two), and Crystalline Entity (season three), there is now a Breen Interceptor, and the Whale Probe introduced in “Star Trek: The Voyage Home”.

     • We can hear the Whale Probe’s call before the Cerritos warps away.

• Cap’n Freeman records the stardate as 58724.3 in her log.

• Tendi [Noël Wells] is moving a containment unit holding the orchid introduced in “Tuvix” when the lid pops off and a petal floats through the ventilation system into the transporter room.

• Billups tells Doctor T’Ana about the pet dragon he had growing up. Billups was established as coming from the Hysperian colony settled by “Ren faire type” people in “Where Pleasant Fountains Lie”

• Billups and Doctor T’Ana are combined into a single being calling himself T’Illups. Much like Tuvix, the yoke of T’Illups’ uniform has a floral pattern.

• Throughout the episode, more characters get Tuvixed:

     • Cap’n Freeman and Doctor Migleemo - Captain Doctor Frigleeman

     • Shaxs and Barnes - Shabarnes

     • Bartender Honus and Transporter Chief Lundy - Chondus

     • Matt the whale and Steve Stevens - Swhale Swhalens

     • Nurse Westlake and Jennifer - We don’t actually see the combined form

• ”She knows Janeway straight up murdered Tuvix, right?” This is an accurate description of the conclusion of that episode.

• Mariner accidently opens a panel on the Voyager bridge, releasing one of the Tak Takian macroviruses introduced in “Macrocosm”.

• “Uh, you know, Chakotay served here.” Technically true up until about season five of VOY, at which point the only characters aboard the ship were Seven of Nine, the Doctor, and sometimes Captain Janeway.

• ”Dude, this is nothing compared to, you know, that Pike thing we aren’t supposed to talk about.” Mariner is referring to the events of “Those Old Scientists”.

• ”How many…physical memories do you have from before?” Shaxs and Doctor T’Ana have an intimate relationship, implied at least as far back as "Mugato, Gumato".

• One of the macroviruses impacts a panel, causing it to create holograms of Doctor Chaotica from “Night”, the Clown from “The Thaw”, and Michael Sullivan from “Fairhaven”.

     • While Chaotica and Sullivan were holodeck characters created by Tom Paris, the Clown was a manifestation of the fears of five aliens neurally linked together in stasis. Mariner does point out that the Clown wasn’t a holodeck program.

     • Martin Rayner, Michael McKean, and Fintan McKeown are not credited for the episode, so it would seem that none of them are reprising their roles.

• Beljo Tweekle installed holo-emitters throughout the ship. In “The Killing Game” the Hirogen did the same, for the purposes of their wargame simulations with the Voyager crew.

• One of the marcoviruses has Harry Kim’s clarinet. It was established in “Caretaker” that Kim played the instrument, though he gave it up in favour of the saxophone by season six’s “Ashes to Ashes”.

• A Borg nanite attempts to assimilate to macrovirus, becoming a macronanite.

• “Computer, delete this guy! Come on, computer!” In “Fairhaven” Janeway uttered her famous line, “Delete the wife,” regarding Sullivan’s spouse.

     • “I miss my wife.” Apparently at some point Sullivan’s memories of his wife were restored to him, or he remarried.

• Boimler is concerned that if he’s promoted, it will negatively impact his relationship with Mariner, just as it did when he accepted the promotion to the USS Titan and left without telling any of his friends, or answering Mariner’s messages, in “No Small Parts”.

• Mariner was sent to Starbase 80 in “Trusted Sources”.

• T’Lyn is able to combine all the Tuvixed beings into one creature, which is then described by Tendi as a “Non-sentient blob of meat,” handily circumventing the ethical dilemma presented by “Tuvix”.

• Boimler claims to be the son of Captain Proton, the character whom Tom Paris played in these simulations, and Doctor Chaotica’s mortal enemy. First seen in “Night”.

• Rutherford [Eugene Cordero] gums up Voyager with the brill cheese as it did on it’s own in “Learning Curve”.

• Boimler, T’Lyn, Tendi, and Mariner all get promoted to lieutenant junior grade. Mariner was briefly a full lieutenant in “Moist Vessel”, and Boimler was lieutenant junior grade while serving aboard the Titan in “No Small Parts”, “Strange Energies” and “Kayshon, His Eyes Open”.

• ”My main objective here is to prove to the High Council that I should be reinstated to the Vulcan fleet.” T’Lyn was believes her provisional assignment to Starfleet is an unwarranted punishment, as per “wej Duj”.

• It’s the IKS Che’Ta’! From Star Trek! Specifically from “wej Duj”

     • The Mysterious Threat destroys the Che’Ta’, but even though we see a close up of the wreckage, including a spear and bloodwine barrel, but no bodies.

Produced by: Awesome Inc
Created by: Casper Kelly
Executive Producers: Casper Kelly, Ashley Kohler
Supervising Producer: Brandon Betts
Producer/Director: Aaron Hawkins

Cast: Ethan Peck, Pete Holmes, Cristina Milizia, Bonnie Gordon, Eric Bouza