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• 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 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

Star Trek Defiant #7
Written by: Christopher Cantwell
Art by: Angel Unzueta
Cover Artist: Malachi Ward

"Day of Blood," Chapter Four. Thousands of years ago, Kahless the Unforgettable led his people to glory and raised an empire of honor. But his clone, Kahless II, has gone too far, murdering innocents in cold blood and hungering for power that can no longer be sated by Qo'noS and the Klingon people. He now stands alongside Alexander in front of Worf and Sisko, pitting father and son against each other and making a mockery of the Bajoran Prophets and their emissary. Meanwhile, the power of the Orb of Destruction surges from his ship above. Can Kahless be stopped, or will he once again prove to be the greatest warrior of them all? Find out in the penultimate chapter of the crossover between Star Trek and Star Trek: Defiant!

• The title refers to the Gorn Hegemony, the name of the polity from which the Gorn hail. It was first mentioned on screen in the ENT episode, “Bound”, but it as used non-canon as early as the 1992 novel, “The Disinherited”.

• Captain Betel’s log gives us the stardate as 2344.2. Seeing as we’re in the season finale, let’s look at both seasons.

• The USS Cayuga is visiting a world outside Federation space, Parnassus Beta, which a colony built on the ”small town model,” and it was “made to look like the old Midwestern United States,” and certainly not like a backlot in Pickering, Ontario, just outside Toronto. In “Sub Rosa”, we were introduced to the Caldos colony, which was modelled to look like a Scottish village.

     • Like an authentic midwest American town, the Parnassus Beta colony is having trouble making sure everyone is vaccinated.

     • The Parnassus system is named for the mountain in Greece, and all the businesses we see are also named for Greek mountains or mountain ranges.

     • Despite being outside the Federation, the medical clinic still features the Starfleet Medical caduceus.

• Several the officers on the planet are wearing excursion jackets, and we get close up enough on Batel to see that the patch on her shoulder reads "USS Enterprise".

     • Based on the length of the word, it also looks like ensign Doug's shoulder patch is also the Enterprise one, we don't get a clear enough look at it that I saw.

• Nurse Chapel has tagged along for the ride so she can reach her fellowship with Doctor Korby. Korby was first mentioned in “What Are Little Girls Made Of” as Chapel’s fiancée. His expedition will go missing on the planet Exo III approximately two years after this episode.

• ”I’m not busting into song every ten minutes, so that’s a minor victory.” Pike is referring to the events of the previous episode, “Subspace Rhapsody”.

     • Pike is fidgeting with the Opelian mariner’s keystone Batel gifted him in “Among the Lotus Eaters”.

• A Gorn Destroyer, previously seen in “Memento Mori” breaks through the atmosphere.

• ”I’ve seen them up close and personal, and they’re not hard to understand, Bob. They’re monsters.” In “Arena” Kirk monologued of the Gorn, “Like most humans, I seem to have an instinctive revulsion to reptiles. I must fight to remember that this is an intelligent, highly advanced individual. The Captain of a starship, like myself. Undoubtedly a dangerously clever opponent.”

• According to Spock’s display, the Cayuga was a Constitution-class Heavy Cruiser, which settles the question as to whether or not it might be a second Sombra-class starship.

• We previously saw the Gorn Hunter ship class in “Memento Mori”.

• The Gorn have sent Starfleet an image with a demarcation line separating the Parnasus system. According to Tim Peel, the motion graphics designer for SNW, the intent is that as planets move through the system they’ll end up on the Federation side, tempting Starfleet to engage in rescue or reconnaissance missions, and eventually the planet will cross back into the side claimed by he Gorn, at which point any stragglers will be fair game to use as food, or breeding incubators.

     • According to display of the planet, Parnassus Beta’s year is 402 days. Whether that’s Earth days, or the 26.5 hour Parnassus Beta days is not explicitly clear.

• The crew has duct tapped random bits of scrap to a shuttlecraft so they’re disguised as debris to fool the Gorn Hunter. In “Lower Decks” Geordi and Taurik marked a shuttle with phaser burns to fool the Cardassians.

• ”Don’t worry, I did this a hundred times during the war.” It was established in “Those Old Scientists” that Ortegas served on the front during the Federation-Klingon War.

• “I thought you were a test pilot.” Pike’s first assignment out of the Academy was test pilot, as per “Light and Shadows”.

• La’an relates her memories of surviving on the Gorn breeding planet as a child. La’an’s history with the Gorn was established in the series premiere, “Strange New Worlds”.

• La’an questions why the Gorn ”younglings” aren’t fighting for dominance, which they apparently did in her experiences on the breeding planet, as well as when we saw them in “All Those Who Wander”.

• It’s Scotty! From Star Trek! Montgomery Scott first appeared in the second TOS pilot, “Where No Man Has Gone Before” played by James Doohan. Since then the character has been played by Simon Pegg in the Kelvinverse films, as well as Matthew Wolf briefly offscreen in the alternate future Pike experienced in “A Quality of Mercy”. Here he’s played by Martin Qinn, who, unlike all the previous actors, is Scottish.

• Doctor M’Benga and Ortegas discuss having learned that Nurse Chapel beamed back to the Cayuga right before the Gorn arrived in system. ”I’m not sure how I’m going to tell her sister,” Ortegas mentions having once met Chapel’s identical sister who is named Kristine, and happens to also be a nurse serving in Starfleet.

• ”If you had answered like that in my class, I would have given you an A+.” Number One received a C in Pelia’s class at the Academy, as per “Lost in Translation”.

• ”Placing those rockets is a near impossible task. No human can do this.” Spock was a huge influence on Captain Solok, introduced in “Take Me Out to the Holosuite”, who published over a dozen papers on the relative merits of humans and Vulcans.

     • “...I am the only member of the crew who can pull this off.” Apparently it’s not just humans, but also Tellarites, Andorians, Illyrians, Lanthanites, Bolians, Denobulans, and whatever other non-Vulcan crew people are serving aboard the ship whom Spock looks down on.

     • Spock was right; no human could possible place a rocket on to the ship, wait for it to adhere itself, and move on to the next spot to repeat the process, which is what we see Spock doing on the wreck of the Cayuga.

• We see an adult Gorn with a rather lengthy tail. Or at least a mechanical tail built into its space suit. In previous episodes where we’ve seen adult Gorn -- “Arena”, “The Time Trap”, “In a Mirror Darkly, Part II”, “Veritas”, and “An Embarrassment of Dooplers” -- none of them have had tails.

     • We also saw a Gorn skeleton in “Context is for Kings” and no signs of tail.

• Batel has been infected by Gorn eggs. She claims it takes ”about a day and a half” for the eggs to mature. According to the records aboard the USS Peregrine in “All Those Who Wander” it took days for the eggs to mature in a human host.

• Batel invokes Hemmer and his sacrificing his own life for the good of everyone else in “All Those Who Wander”.

• The saucer of the Caygua crashes into the surface of Parnassus Beta, destroying the Gorn interference field tower. Fortunately Chapel was certainly the only one aboard the ship at the time of the attack who survived, and Spock didn’t just send a bunch of others still unconscious or trying to work their way off the ship to their deaths.

• We see a Gorn transporter effect, and it is green.

• Pelia is the only person this episode to call lieutenant Scott ”Scotty.”

• Admiral April orders the Enterprise to withdraw from the Parnassus system, despite the fact that Starfleet officers, and human colonists, were just beamed up by the Gorn. In “Saints of Imperfection” Pike gave a speech: ”Starfleet is a promise; I give my life for you, you give your life for me, and no one gets left behind.”

• In the final scene of the episode, Scotty and Pelia are working on his jury-rigged Gorn transponders in sick bay when the eggs in Batel’s arm hatch, exploding out out and spattering emerald viscera all over Scotty’s face. We get an extreme close up on his hundred yard stare, as he whispers hoarsely, ”It’s green,” echoing lines spoken in “By Any Other Name”, and “Relics”.

• Uhura provides the stardate 2398.3 in her communications officer’s log.

• Uhura is routing communications manually like a switchboard operator, because apparently every extra bit of computing power is necessary for an experiment Spock is running. Among the calls she takes are:

     • Captain Pike requesting a hail be put through to Captain Batel, who was introduced in the series premiere, “Strange New Worlds”.

     • Number One requesting an update on the arrival of James Kirk from the USS Farragut. James is Sam Kirk’s brother, who was introduced in the episode “Where No Man has Gone Before”. The Farragut was first mentioned in “Obsession”.

     • Chapel is awaiting a reply from Doctor Korby regarding her application to his fellowship. In “What Are Little Girls Made Of?” we find out that Chapel and Doctor Korby were engaged before he went missing on the planet Exo III in 2261.

     • Uhura’s console shows names and ranks of people whom are using the communications, though we only see named characters and ”cadet” who apparently doesn’t rank having a name. Interestingly, Number One’s is listed only as ”Lt. Una”, whereas characters other than Spock have their first initial and full surname; also, Number One’s rank is lieutenant commander, not lieutenant.

• We see lieutenant Mitchell in the captain’s chair, I believe for the first time.

     • When Pike arrives on the bridge later, Mitchell is back at navigation, and an unnamed gold shirt is in the big chair.

• The captain of the Farragut sent a message ahead of James’ arrival on USS Enterprise but we’re not given that character’s name. Previously, the ship was commanded by Captain Garrovick, but he was killed by a predatory cloud two years earlier than this episode, according to “Obsession”.

• The drink James mentions refers to the time La’an contacting under false pretenses after watching an alternate universe doppelganger of him get killed by a Romulan agent in the past in “Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow”.

• Doctor M’Benga echos the claim Spock makes in “What Are Little Girls Made Of?” that Doctor Korby is ”the Louis Pasteur of archaeological medicine.”

• The song Uhura sends through the subspace fold is “Anything Goes”, written by Cole Porter for the 1934 musical of the same name. The version she selects was recorded by Eileen Rodgers in 1962.

• Spock begins singing his report, and is followed by the rest of the cast, for “Status Report”. The first time we saw a character sing in Trek was in “Charlie X” when Uhura sings in the rec room.

• The opening credits are accompanied by an a capella version of the theme.

• The Heisenberg compensators are a transporter component introduced in “Realm of Fear”.

• During the song “Connect to Your Truth”, Number one sings, *”I can see myself up on the stage, And for three hours a night, And to everyone’s delight, I’d regale them all with my renditions, Of Gilbert and Sullivan.” While trapped in a turbolift with Spock in “Q&A” the pair sang a piece of the “Major-General’s Song”.

     • The theme of the song is based in Number One’s new philosophy that she should not be so closed off from the crew, though in “Q&A” she advised Spock that it was necessary ”keep [his] freaky to [himself]” if his ultimate goal was command.

• While she sings “How Would That Feel” La’an opens a case in a drawer in her quarters to reveal she’s held on to the diver’s watch she and the alternate James Kirk used in “Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow”.

     • In her fantasy, we see the hotel room she and that James shared, which he was able to pay for in cash after winning a bunch of chess games.

• During “Private Conversation” we learn that Captain Batel’s first name is Marie. Surely this, and the sudden priority one mission the USS Cayuga is assigned at the end of the episode can only mean good things for her long term prospects as a character.

• The improbability field causing the Enterprise crew to break out into song is expanding to the entire fleet, including the USS Cayuga. Uhura projects a map of the local subspace network on the main viewer, and in addition to the Enterprise and the Farragut we see listed:

     • USS Lexington; Constitution-class - first seen in “The Ultimate Computer” but listed on a chart of ships at Starbase 11 in “Court Martial”

     • USS Potemkin; Constitution-class - first seen in “The Ultimate Computer”

     • USS Kongo - only listed on a chart displayed in “Star Trek: The Undiscovered Country” and named on the pin Spock wore for Starfleet Remembrance Day in “Memento Mori”.

     • USS Republic - James is mentioned as having served aboard the ship in “Court Martial”

     • USS Hood; Constitution-class - first seen in “The Ultimate Computer” but listed on a chart of ships at Starbase 11 in “Court Martial”

     • USS Valiant; Valiant was one of 14 names proposed for Constitution-class ships by the producers of TOS’ second season

• ”...And those feelings pose an actual space-time security risk.” La’an is referring to the events of “Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow”.

• *”The secrets I keep safe inside, A skill I perfected, So I could survive.” During the song, “Keeping Secrets”, Number One refers to the fact that she previously hid the fact that she’s an Illyrian, and subject to prejudice and discrimination in the Federation.

• ”The last thing anyone wants is singing Klingons.” Klingons have a rich history of opera and drinking songs.

• General Garkog is played by Bruce Horak, who has previously portrayed Hemmer in season one, and the illusion of Zombie Hemmer in “Lost in Translation”.

• “Some of us need fun to deal with the constant threat of dying.” Kirk is killed by flying extragalactic parasites on the Deneva colony after leaving Starfleet, and his corpse is found in “Operation -- Annihilate!”

• During “I’m Ready” Chapel sings, “The sky is the limit, My future is infinite, My possibilities are endless.” Chapel continues serving aboard the Enterprise for over a decade, eventually becoming and MD and taking over as chief medical officer until Kirk has Doctor McCoy drafted in “Star Trek: The Motion Picture”. She does not appear to be part of the crew when the ship is reassigned as a training vessel, but does show up organizing relief efforts on Earth during “Star Trek: The Voyage Home” when the whale probe begins to destabilize the planet.

• La’an calls the incoming Klingon vessel a K’t’inga-class ship. The term originated in Gene Roddenberry’s novelization of “Star Trek: The Motion Picture”; this is actually the first time it’s been said on screen.

     • The model we see is the same as the one used for the D7-class introduced in “Through the Valley of Shadows”. Whether or not the K’t’inga and the D7 are the same ship has been a matter of some dispute among fans since 1979, and this likely isn’t to change that.

• James mentions his baby mama, Doctor Carol Marcus, who was introduced in “Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan”.

     • Doctor Marcus is pregnant with their son, David Marcus, which would mean he’s around 25 years old when he appears in “Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan”.

• Spock sings “I’m the X”, as song about how he needs to close himself off from his emotions to avoid being hurt in relationships. In “This Side of Paradise” he encounters Leila Kalomi, a woman who fell in love with him six years earlier in 2261, but he never expressed his feelings to her.

• In “Keep Us Connected” Uhura recounts how everyone around her dies, beginning with the deaths of her family via shuttle crash, which we learned about in “Children of the Comet”, and then Hemmer’s demise in “All Those Who Wander”.

• Spock asks how they’re going to get 200 crew members to sing in spontaneous unison. The Enterprise had 203 crew people during their visit to the Talos system according to Pike in “The Menagerie, Part I”, as well as Burnham’s scans of the ship in “Brother”.

• During “We Are One”:

     • James sings, “If I make captain, It’ll be thanks to all of you.” Seems like he’s getting a little bit ahead of himself.

     • We see the interior of the IKS par’Machstreet Boys, and it is significantly different from any Klingon bridge we’ve seen before, including being extremely deep, as well as having a captain’s chair that appears capable of dollying backwards.

     • The Klingon captain’s chair has Klingon glyphs on it, which appear to read “Kahless Rocks”.

     • The mek’leths the Klingons are dancing with are the simpler version originally introduced in “The Way of the Warrior” as opposed to the more ornate iterations seen in season one of DIS, beginning with “Battle at the Binary Stars”.

• Spock once again was able to drink the Klingons into not wanting destroy the Enterprise, as he did in “The Broken Circle”. This is not a technique he employed in other encounters with the Klingons, such as in “Errand of Mercy”, “Friday’s Child” or “Day of the Dove”.

• ”Sorry, earworm.” In “Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan”, Khan inserted Ceti eel larva into the ears of Captain Tarrell and Chekov, causing them to be extremely susceptible to suggestion.

Specifically Johnson talks about the episode's significant moments of character development, not getting all your players to sing. Presumably that will be another video down the line.

• “Under the Cloak of War”. The flashbacks in this episode are set during the Federation-Klingon War seen during DIS season one, and a large part of that conflict was the new Klingon cloaking devices that T’Kuvma, and then Kol installed on their various ships. Get it? Yeah, you get it.

• This episode was written by Davy Perez, who also wrote “All Those Who Wander” and co-wrote “Memento Mori” and “Among the Lotus Eaters”.

• Jeff Byrd directed the episode; he also directed the DIS episode, “Rosetta”.

• Pike gives us the stardate 1875.4 in his captain’s log. M’Benga’s CMO’s log records the stardate as 1875.8.

• We are introduced to the USS Kelcie Mae NCC which, based on its appearance, answers the question, ”If there is a Utopia Planitia Shipyard, does it not follow that there is likely also a Dystopia Planitia?”

     • It used to be that when you saw a ship like USS Buran (“Best of Both Worlds, Part II), or the USS Curry (“A Time to Stand”), or the USS Yeager (“Doctor Bashir, I Presume”) you knew that the design team was basically fishing for parts at the bottom of the box of leftover Federation starship bits, and hastily gluing them together so there could be something that resembled a Federation ship in the background of a shot for a fleeting half moment. But with the USS Kelcie Mae someone used the most powerful 3d design software available to create an entirely new ship to be front and centre on screen.

     • I will never again complain about the Sombra-class from “All Those Who Wander” being a Constitution-class ship with a bit of blue paint instead of read, and a slightly larger bridge window.

• Prospero is the protagonist of Shakespeare's “The Tempest”. Data once portrayed the character on the holodeck while studying humanity in “Emergence”.

     • Prospero’s lines from the play are also quoted by:

         • Miranda Jones - “Is There In Truth No Beauty?”

         • Chancellor Gorkon - “Star Trek: The Undiscovered Country”

         • General Chang - “Star Trek: The Undiscovered Country”

         • Jean-Luc Picard - “Et in Arcadia Ego, Part II”

         • Beckett Mariner - “Crisis Point”

         • The Emergency Janeway Hologram - “Kobayashi”

• Starbase 12 is has been mentioned mentioned in a number of episodes across multiple series, including SNW’s “The Serene Squall” but was first named in “Space Seed”.

• The H16 Starfleet boatswain’s whistle is slightly different from the C18 that appeared in “Star Trek: The Undiscovered Country” and the C19 from “The Next Generation”.

• Among Dak’Rah’s crimes Ortegas mentions the siege of Athos. Athos is apparently a colony on the J’Gal. However, there is also a planet named Athos IV in the Badlands where the Maquis had a hidden base, seen in “Blaze of Glory”.

     • Captain Archer’s dog, Porthos, had a littermate named Athos.

• Klingons call Dak’Rah ”The Butcher of J’Gal”. We learned in “The Broken Circle” that Doctor M’Benga was stationed at J’Gal during the Federation-Klingon War.

• Spock and lieutenant Mitchell attempt to synthesize raktajino, a Klingon coffee. The mug that’s produced appears similar to the ones frequently seen in DS9, though more ornate.

     • Mitchell states of their first attempt to create a raktajino that we see, this one’s cold.” According to “The Passenger”, Jadzia occasionally enjoyed her raktajino iced, with extra cream.

     • With the second attempt, we see a cartridge of some sort lower into the bar, as the raktajino is produced. In some TOS episodes, such as “Tomorrow is Yesterday” and “And the Children Shall Lead” we characters with flat, coloured disks into a slot on a food synthesizer to produce the desired meal.

• *”On a recent mission, Spock was able to parlay with a Klingon captain.” Number One is referring to Spock’s encounter with Captain D’Chok in “The Broken Circle”.

• Shuttlecraft 12648, is very different from the Class C shuttlecraft that were aboard the USS Discovery in this era, but it does have the same paint colours as those ships.

     • Shuttlecraft 12648 has a registry number, NCC-7901, presumably for the starship it is usually berthed on, which seems pretty high for this era.

• The Starfleet officers we see in the flashbacks to J’Gal are all wearing tactical vests that were introduced in SNW’s “Memento Mori”, not the ones worn through seasons one and two of DIS, introduced in “The Battle of the Binary Stars”.

     • The badges everyone is wearing are also the ones the introduced with the Enterprise crew in season two of DIS, not the split delta design of DIS which everyone other than the Enterprise crew wore..

     • The badge Trask is wearing when he shows up does not have a division logo on it. Chapel says that he is special forces.

     • Similarly, the black uniforms are new, but appear to be the same cut as Chapel’s white jumpsuit, rather than resembling the ones worn in DIS which would have been common during the Federation-Klingon War.

• Doctor Buck is played by Clint Howard who previously appeared as:

     • Balok - “The Corbomite Maneuver”

     • Grady - “Past Tense, Part II”

     • Muk - “Acquisition”

     • A character credited as Creepy Orion - “Will You Take My Hand”

• It cost Doctor Buck a case of Romulan ale to get Chapel assigned to J’Gal as head nurse. Romulan Ale is illegal in the Federation, and was first named in “Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan” but might have been the blue beverage the Romulan commander served Spock in “The Enterprise Incident”.

• ”Doctor, I need a doctor.” Chapel is a doctor, as established in “Strange New Worlds”, but presumably Alvarado would not benefit from epigenetic treatments.

     • By “Star Trek: The Motion Picture” Chapel will also be an MD.

• Doctor M’Benga suggests keeping Alvarado in suspended animation in the transporter buffer, a technique he will later use on his own daughter aboard the Enterprise as seen in “Ghosts of Illyria”. The first time we saw it used in Trek was in “Relics” where Scotty’s pattern was able to remain stable for 75 years aboard the USS Jenolan, but not ensign Franklin’s. ”He was a good lad.”

• ”The Gorn attack as Finibus III,” Doctor M’Benga mentions in his log was seen in “Memento Mori”.

• Pike shows up in sick bay looking for Deltan parsley. In “The Enemy Within” the aggressive Kirk went to sick bay demanding Saurian brandy from Bones.

• Due to protests at Dak’Rah’s previous transport, Starfleet command has decided that veterans of the Federation-Klingon War are required to interact with him and make him feel welcome. For other ridiculous command decisions by the Starfleet admiralty, see: all of Star Trek.

• In flashback we see Doctor M’Benga tell Chapel to use her hand to manually pump their patient’s heart as part of their efforts to save him. In “Second Contact” Tendi had to manually pump Stevens’ heart to keep him alive.

• ”Convincing Propero Alpha to agree to an armistice was like getting a Tellarite to give a compliment.” The contentious nature of Tellarites was established in “Journey to Babel” when Sarek generalized the entire people.

• “We all just call it the Moon.” In “Valiant” Collins tells Jake Sisko that ”nobody who’s ever lived on the Moon calls it Luna, either. That’s just something they say on Earth.”

• We learn that Doctor M’Benga has ”The most hand-to-hand kills confirmed.”

• Doctor M’Benga’s wheatgrass shot seen in “The Broken Circle” is called protocol 12, and he’s the one who designed it.

     • Doctor M’Benga says that protocol 12 is, ”adrenaline and pain killers,” and not just the ”green juice, extra green” that Tilly ordered from the food synthesizer in “Lethe”. It’s not canon, but the current storyline in the ongoing comics, “Star Trek” and “Star Trek: Defiant” involve the followers of Clone Emperor Kahless injecting the Red Path sacrament, a mixture of Klingon adrenaline and some chemical found in ketracel white.

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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - The Dog of War #5
Written by : Mike Chen
Art by: Angel Hernandez
Cover Art : Angel Hernandez

With stolen Starfleet data on its way to the Dominion, Captain Sisko dons the mysterious Borg headset in an attempt to stop the transmission! Meanwhile, Major Kira and Lieutenant Commander Dax race to keep their new crewmember and prized corgi off the black market.  
 

Star Trek: Defiant #6
Written by : Christopher Cantwell
Art by: Angel Unzueta
Cover Art : Malachi Ward

The crossover event between Star Trek and Star Trek: Defiant continues here in part two of Day of Blood! Worf and Sisko begin their trek to Kahless' spire to stop the false prophet's siege of Qo'noS with each other being the last man either wants to rely on. Meanwhile, Spock takes the bridge of the Theseus, reuniting with his old friend Captain Montgomery Scott and desperately attempting to keep the Red Path's Bloodwings at bay.

• In the episode “No Small Parts” Ransom explains to Captain Freeman that he calls the 2260s the ”TOS Era” in honour of ”Those Old Scientists” like Spock and and Scotty. Of course, this episode takes place in 2259, so clearly it’s time for a shake-up among the SNW production team.

• This episode was co-written by Kathryn Lyn, who also wrote “wej Duj” and co-wrote “Charades”. She was initially hired to be a canon consultant for LDS, before becoming an executive story editor for that series in season two, and is currently the supervising producer for SNW season two.

• Johnathan Frakes directed this episode. Trekkies will recognize him as the director of several episodes and movies, including:

     • “Sub Rosa”

     • “Meridian”

     • “Parturition”

     • “Project Daedalus”

     • “Two of One”

     • “Star Trek: Insurrection”

• It’s Bradward Boimler! From Star Trek! Boimler is voiced, and performed in live action for the first time, by Jack Quaid.

• Boimler records the stardate as 58460.1, which, because LDS has a functioning stardate system, would put this adventure between “Hear All, Trust Nothing” (58456.2), and “Trusted Sources” (58496.1).

• It’s Beckett Mariner! From Star Trek! Mariner is voiced, and performed in live action for the first time, by Tawny Newsome.

• It’s Samanthan Rutherford, and D’Vana Tendi! From Star Trek! Rutherford and Tendi are voiced by Eugene Cordero, and Noël Wells respectively.

• Rutherford has a holo-imager identical to the one introduced in the VOY season five episode, “Drone” when photography became one of the Doctor’s hobbies.

     • The viewfinder display on the holo-imager is also accurate to what we see in VOY, starting with “Infinite Regress”.

• Tendi has previously demonstrated being sensitive about the common association between Orions and piracy in the minds of her fellow Starfleet officers, going back to “Crisis Point”.

• As he’s being portaled by the portal, Boimler cries out, ”Remember me!” which is also the title of a TNG episode in which a swirling energy vortex repeatedly tries to pull Doctor Crusher into itself.

• The portal dumps Boimler 122 years in the past.

• The SNW opening credits are recreated in the animation style of LDS, with some slight adjustments to the angles at which things are seen. Fortunately they kept in all the usual elements, such as the glowing space leach attempting to digest the nacelle, and the Koala.

• Pike’s gives the stardate as 2291.6 in his captain’s log.

• The USS Enterprise is en route to Setlik II to deliver a shipment of grain. This is the first direct mention of the planet, but Setlik III was established in “The Wounded” as the site of the Setlik III massacre during the Federation-Cardasssian War.

     • The grain is tritriticale. In “The Trouble With Tribbles” there was a large amount of quadrotritricale grain being stored at Deep Space K-7 with the intent of transporting it to Sherman’s Planet, and in “More Tribbles, More Troubles” the Enterprise was escorting too transport ships loaded with quintotriticale grain, again to Sherman’s Planet.

• Number One explains to Pike that Boimler’s badge is also a communicator. Pike first saw such a device when Section 31 agent Ash Tyler used his badge as a communicator in “The Saints of Imperfection”.

     • ”But flipping it open’s the best part.” Pike is objectively correct.

• “Computer end program.” Boimler attempts to shut down the past like a holodeck simulation.

     • In “The Inner Light” Picard gives the same command after awaking as Kamin in the memories imparted to him by the Kataan probe.

     • In “Ship in a Bottle” Barclay tests to see if using that command will shut off a simulation of the USS Enterprise D after encountering Moriarty, and his being trapped in a simulation.

• The soles on Boimler’s boots have the delta and star print on them that they do in animation on LDS.

• In “Cupid’s Errant Arrow” Boimler gets the computer to replicate him the coolest outfit ever in a ”Boy’s size small,” and in ”The Least Dangerous Game” transporter chief Lundy accurately guesses Boimler’s weight to be 61.2 kilograms, and asks him to volunteer for his afternoon life drawing class because they need ”a skeletal boy.” However, Boimler is taller than every every member of the bridge crew, and thus we can only conclude that everyone serving aboard the Enterprise is tiny.

• ”It’s a classic S/COMS operating system.” ”Spacecraft Operations and Management System” was seen on screen in “First Flight” and the ENT showrunners consciously adapted the displays to feature more familiar elements from the TOS computers as the series continued.

     • S/COMS would be considered a classic by Boimler, because by the time of “Encounter at Farpoint”, Starfleet has adopted LCARS as their operating system.

• ”Definitely won’t happen again, Worf’s honour.” Worf suffered discommendation and was stripped of his honour in “Sins of the Father”.

• “And, perhaps most important, don’t make any attachments.” La’an became attached to an alternate version of Sam Kirk’s brother James when they travelled to the past together, and she watched him get killed by a Romulan agent.

• ”Riker!” Boimler swings his leg over the saddle in an imitation of the Riker maneuver, a practice he would have no doubt been witness to during his brief time serving aboard the USS Titan.

     • According to an interview, the line was ad libbed by Jack Quaid and, of course, Jonathan Frakes was in the room directing when he did it.

• “I’m sorry, my friend Mariner, would be freaking out right now.” Though Tawny Newsome has stated in interviews what an important character Uhura is to her, Mariner has never mentioned Uhura in LDS. The only direct mention was actually by Boimler, when he was dehydrated talking to a hallucination of Sulu in “Crisis Point 2: Paradoxus”.

• “‘Explode,’ you said?” In “Arena” the Gorn were able to cause Spock’s tricorder to explode during their attack on the Cestus III outpost.

• An Orion scout ship arrives in orbit of Krulmuth-B. It’s design is inspired by the Orion vessel seen in the remastered version of “Journey to Babel”; in the original episode, the ship was merely a blip of spinning light.

     • ”Some Orion vessels are specifically designed to fool sensors.” Spock surmised that the Orion ship in “Journey to Babel” either had a dense enough hull, or was cloaked in some other way to prevent sensors from being able to get specific readings.

• ”What would come after the dash?” A bloody A, B, C, or D. Or E. Or F. Or…G unfortunately. Or J.

     • La’an’s statement implies that Starfleet has not yet adopted the custom of maintaining a Starship’s legacy by preserving its designation and registry number.

     • The Federation survey ship the Enterprise learned crashed on Talos IV in “The Menagerie, Part I”, the SS Columbia, had a registry of NC-5940-1, as seen on the printout of their distress call.

• Boimler built a model of an Orion scout ship in a bottle. Building ships in bottles is a hobby he shares with Captain Jean-Luc Picard and Miles O’Brien, as per “Booby Trap”. Lieutenant Carey also spent all his time aboard the USS Voyager between seasons one and seven building model of the Voyager in a bottle, which we see in “Friendship One” after his death. ”Ships in bottles. Great fun.”

     • The episode “Ship in a Bottle” does not feature any ships in bottles.

• ”He was so excited to see me, that for a second it felt like maybe my future wasn’t so bad.” Pike’s future, so far as he’s aware, is ending up in a disfigured and living in a life support chair, able to communicate only through beeps after being exposed to delta radiation, which we see in “The Menagerie, Part I” and he sees in “Through the Valley of Shadows”.

• ”I know, but like smaller jetpacks.” In “A Moral Star, Part I” we see the Protogies using significantly smaller thruster packs than the ones seen in “The Vulcan Hello” or “Star Trek: The Motion Picture”.

• Ortegas tells Boimler she’s going to give him all the credit for the birthday party they’re going to throw for Pike. In “Temporal Edict” captain Freeman instituted the Boimler Effect, encouraging officers to add buffer time as needed into their scheduled tasks, something which Boimler also did not want credit for, but we see is his legacy far into the future in that same episode.

• Chapel assures Boimler he is not responsible for Spock’s recent exploration of his emotions. Spock broke his Vulcan mental conditioning in order to fight the Gorn in “All Those Who Wander”.

     • “I’ve read literally every book about Spock and they mention his upbringing on Vulcan, his pet sehlat, his relationship with his mom and his dad--” The books on Spock are apparently far more forthcoming about his life than he is; in “Journey to Babel” Kirk was unaware of the fact that Spock’s father was one of the most respected Federation ambassadors, and in “Yesteryear” after watching I-Chaya die while in the past, Spock only told Kirk that a pet died, not his own childhood pet.

• ”For all I knew you were dead, or stuck in a dystopian San Francisco in the middle of a riot.” Mariner is referring to the Bell Riots, as seen in “Past Tense, Part II”.

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