Star Trek Social Club

The title is a play on the classic 1965 Sergio Leone spaghetti western, “For a Few Dollars More”, starring Clint Eastwood. That movie was a sequel to “A Fistful of Dollars”, which was referenced in the TNG episode title “A Fistful of Datas”.

Badgey is an instructional AI created by Rutherford that went homicidally rogue (LD: “Terminal Provocations”). Badgey was thought destroyed in LD: “No Small Parts” but last seen encoded in Rutherford’s original cybernetic implant and being salvaged from the wreckage of the Battle of Kalla in LD: “The Stars at Night”. Badgey’s code was also used in that episode as a basis for the Texas-class AI, with predictably disastrous results.

The ship that salvages Badgey is Drookmani, who scavenge the wreckage of battles, claiming “trash” as their own. They were last seen in LD: “A Mathematically Perfect Redemption”, where they raided the Areore on the instigation of rogue exocomp Peanut Hamper.

The Bynars are a cybernetically augmented species, connected to a master computer on their planet Bynaus (TNG: “11001001”). This is their first appearance since their introduction, despite occasional mentions in the series. The speech and lettering they use is consistent with that in the TNG episode.

Grapplers were used on starships and shuttlepods, like the NX-01, in the 22nd Century (ENT) as a precursor to tractor beams. La’An Noonien Singh and Boimler both said they liked grapplers (LD: “Those Old Scientists”). Pakleds also used gigantic grapplers to tear ships apart (LD: “No Small Parts”).

AGIMUS, another rogue AI, first appeared in LD: “Where Pleasant Fountains Lie”, where he was placed in the Daystrom Institute’s Self-Aware Megalomaniacal Computer Storage facility. In “A Mathematically Perfect Redemption”, Peanut Hamper was placed in the cell next to AGIMUS.

The shot of the Daystrom Institute is of their facility in Okinawa, last seen in “Where Pleasant Fountains Lie” but also present in 2399 in Season 1 of PIC, where it housed the Institute’s Division of Advanced Synthetic Research.

The drone AGIMUS produces is similar in design to the Echo Papa 607 drone of the arms merchants of Minos (TNG: “The Arsenal of Freedom”).

Montañita is a coast town in Ecuador known for being a party destination, at least in the 21st Century.

The movie the AIs are watching appears to be a Lassie movie, based on the appearance of the collie.

AGIMUS says the Bynar ship went missing on Stardate 58934.9, if anyone’s keeping track.

If an attacking ship knows the frequency that the target’s shields are tuned to, they can get tune their weapons accordingly to bypass them (ST: Generations).

Rutherford snapped Badgey’s neck to “kill” him in“Terminal Provocations”. Installing holo-emitters so that a hologram can appear off the holodeck first turned up in VOY: “Message in a Bottle” and then in VOY: “The Killing Game”. Voyager was also installed with holo-emitters when converted into a museum ship in LD: “Twovix”.

Tendi first encountered sand (and a beach) on the holodeck in LD: “Second Contact”. Boimler’s plan to play along and get intel is similar to how Kayshon and Ransom dealt with the Pakled spy in LD: “The Spy Humongous”. AGIMUS says Plymeria is a planet that is ripe for domination.

Goodgey and Badgey splitting into good and evil parts is what happens with Kirk in TOS: “The Enemy Within”, although that was the result of a transporter accident.

Root beer was used as a metaphor for the Federation in DS9: “The Way of the Warrior”. Alexander Rozhenko preferred root beer floats to bloodwine in DS9: “Sons and Daughters”.

Neurazine gas is used to incapacitate humanoids (VOY: “Message in a Bottle”), not to be confused with neurocine gas, which is lethal to Bajorans and Humans (DS9: “Civil Defense”). The latter was used to fake WIlliam Boimler’s death so he could be recruited by Section 31 (LD: “Crisis Point 2: Paradoxus”).

Badgey’s plan to upload himself into subspace relays and then take over bears some similarities to Control’s commandeering the Section 31 fleet in DIS, the Construct’s taking over of ships in PRO, or the Borg taking control of the fleet in PIC. Seriously, guys, find a newer plan.

Boimler sarcastically remarking that Starfleet couldn’t reverse the invasion in an hour refers to where catastrophic events are pretty much solved and reset within the hour runtime of an episode.

The Tyrus VIIA research station was where the exocomps first displayed signs of sentience (TNG: “The Quality of Life”). The station is the site of a particle fountain used in mining the moon below. The interior of the station’s main control matches the set from the original episode.

Warp 9.9 is approximately 3029.26c, per the TNG warp scale. As Badgey uploads himself into subspace, we see shots of the Cerritos, the Vancouver (LD: “Cupid’s Errant Arrow”), with Boimler’s ex Barbara Brinson, the VCF Sh'val with Captain Sokel (LD: “wej Duj”), Starbase 25 (LD: “An Embarrassment of Dooplers”), Deep Space 9 (LD: “Hear All, Trust Nothing”), Douglas Station (LD: “Second Contact”).

Badgey’s ascension, including the blue hue he takes on and the bird-like shape surrounding him, is identical (but less painful) to LT O’Connor’s in LD: “Moist Vessel”. He also sees the Cosmic Koala and mentions the Q Continuum and the Black Mountain (LD: “We’ll Always Have Tom Paris”, and actually seen in LD: “In the Cradle of Vexilon”).

As theorized by many fans, the mystery ship isn’t destroying the ships, but stealing them.

Written by: Edgar Momplaisir

Directed by: Bob Suarez

I’ve searched every way I can think of and can’t find anything.

Seeing Voyager at warp from that angle is really nice. It's cool seeing the front end with the nacelles raised.

Sidenote, he's done a bunch of these for different shows as well as HD versions of intros like Voyager.

Looking for news about saving Star Trek Prodigy, I came across this shameless paid promotional piece on MSN from Paramount Home Entertainment.

Murf cupcakes, a galaxy jello version of ‘floor pie’, recipes and decorative suggestions are all here for fête to celery the release of the S1 E11-20 BlueRay.

Wish Paramount+ had been this keen on promoting the show.

• 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”.

Rob & Kev lose control of their emotions and, after breaking down the highlights of "Empathological Fallacies", cannot resist their powerful urges to revisit two classic episodes of The Original Series, "The Naked Time" (TOS) and "Day of the Dove" (TOS).

For those not subscribed to Master Replicas email notifications of releases of Eaglemoss Star Trek models, this Tuesday October 10th will be the launch of a special ‘signature’ release with plaques signed by Nana Visitor, Adam Probert, & William Shatner.

Here’s the Simon & Schuster listing of ebook deals for this month. $0.99 in the United States.

There’s a heavy focus on TOS Spock focused books, with several classics featured by Diane Diane, AC Crispin and others. There’s also Una McCormack’s excellent Star Trek Picard prequel novel ‘The Last Best Hope.’

Pricing expires on October 29th in the United States.

Other countries - deals are available but not necessarily all the same books. And there may be others on low feature prices!

How to figure out what deals are available where?

Option 1: for UK, Canada, Australia and India, there are links at the bottom of the page that take you to the Simon & Schuster country sites.

1. Go to your country

2. Search for “Star Trek” in the search field

3. Filter by lowest price to highest.

Pro. If you’re on the Simon & Schuster page you’ll be offered a free ebook.

Con. There are sometimes more books available at the lowest prices through Amazon Kindle and Kobo. And in some cases the full US ebook special list is in effect on other countries’ Amazon, but not on the publisher’s own site.

Option 2: go to a major ebook seller for your country

1. Search for “Star Trek” in books

2. Filter by ebooks

3. Filter by either ‘lowest to highest price’ or just by a low maximum price e.g., £ 2 for the UK.

This yields a lot of IDW single issue comics as well as novels, but it’s viable.

I’ve checked for Canada, Amazon Kindle .ca has the full US list plus a few more. David Mack’s excellent Kelvin Universe book ‘More Beautiful than Death’ is at $CDN 0.99, among others.

Enjoy!

I've been watching the Next Generation for a while but on my dad's recommendation I started SNW and I love it. I'm getting through it really quickly and thought about jumping straight to TOS after.

Is it going to be really jarring or do the two sync quite nicely? Do the characters feel a bit flat after all the exploration they get in SNW?

I just saw the latest LD episode 6: Parth Ferengi's Heart Place. The poking fun on modern capitalism was one point.

This is what star trek was supposed to be. One of the greatest episode IMHO.

The title is a pun on the 2004 British horror parody television series Garth Merenghi’s Darkplace. The Ferengi dragging Boimler out of his room is using a Ferengithe Ferengi merchant Ulis in 2151 (ENT: “Acquisition”).

Rom became the Grand Nagus in DS9: “The Dogs of War”, Zek appointing Rom as his successor to carry on his reforms to create a kinder, gentler Ferenginar.

The Genesis Device is of course the central McGuffin of ST II. The one that blew up and created the Genesis Planet was thought to be the only one, but we’ve seen another model stored in Daystrom Station (PIC: “The Bounty”).

“He thinks Rom is the next Lonz.” A deep cut, Lonz was the most famous nose flute player in Ferengi history, also known as “Old Golden Nostril” (DS9 book: Legends of the Ferengi).

Rule of Acquisition No. 62: “The riskier the road, the greater the profit”, was first mentioned in DS9: “Rules of Acquisition”, among other episodes.

The Stardate is 58901.5. The Ferengi Alliance wanting to join the Federation is a huge deal. Although Nog was the first Ferengi in Starfleet (DS9: “Heart of Stone”), by 2400, there will be more Ferengi cadets in Starfleet Academy (PIC: “The Star Gazer”, a Ferengi flag is being flown during commencement among other flags showing the composition of the graduating class), and by the 32nd Century, Ferengi officers are seen frequently, even a Captain (DIS: “Anomaly”).

The foods being served on board the Parliament-class (LD: “Cupid’s Errant Arrow”) USS Toronto (NCC-70494) include a bowl of Ferengi tube grubs (DS9: “Homefront”), cheese cut out in Starfleet delta shapes and a wooden serving board in the shape of a Galaxy-class cruiser.

The bald Admiral is Vassery, who commanded Douglas Station and was the one Mariner mocked for his pronunciation of “sen-soar” (LD: “Moist Vessel”). He also appeared in Mariner’s holoprogram (LD: “Crisis Point”).

Moab IV is the location of the Genome Colony, a self-contained domed enclosing a genetically and socially-engineered society (TNG: “The Masterpiece Society”). The environment outside the dome was uninhabitable at the time the Enterprise-D visited, so Vassery’s joke might mean that has changed. Or is just a bad joke.

The 10th Rule of Acquisition is “Greed is eternal” (DS9: “Prophet Motive”); Freeman trying to quote this expresses her skepticism about Ferenginar’s application.

Leeta’s title as “First Clerk” is the title of the Nagus’ personal financial assistant (DS9: “Ferengi Love Songs”). Rom and her are accompanied by what seems to be a female Hupyrian. The species is known to be favorites of the Grand Naguses as servants, bodyguards and food tasters due to their devotion to their masters and their vows of silence to anyone other than their master. Zek’s male servant was Maihar’du (DS9: “The Nagus”).

I got to admit, the Ceremonial Invoice and the “Friends and Family Discount” made me spit out my soda. God, I’ve missed the Ferengi - the DS9 development of them, specifically. Yes, Quark made an appearance in DS9: “Hear All, Trust Nothing”, but still.

Self-sealing stem bolts are a component that nobody is quite sure what they do or what they’re for, except that they’re self-sealing. And are stem bolts (DS9: “Progress”).

For the record, “Lieutenants junior grade” is the grammatically correct usage. Much like it’s “Attorneys-General” and not “Attorney-Generals”.

There have been two travel guides published in the real world for Star Trek under the Hidden Universe Travel Guides banner: one for the Klingon Empire and the other for Vulcan. I also love the fact that the Cerritos is statistically the horniest and least committed crew in Starfleet because that tracks so much.

Finishing each other’s diophantine equations (polynomial equations where only integer solutions are allowed) could be a reference to a classic gag from Arrested Development where Michael says about Nellie, that they finish each other’s… and Lindsay chimes in with “Sandwiches?” to Michael’s bewilderment. The same joke coincidentally shows up in That 70s Show and as part of the song “Love is an Open Door” in Frozen.

Honus is the ship’s bartender (LD: “Mugato, Gumato”) and Nurse Westlake (LD: “Second Contact”) is named for Chris Westlake, the composer for LD.

We see a Ferengi shuttle (DS9: “Little Green Men”) flying by as we approach Ferenginar, on which it is always raining (DS9: “Family Business”). The Ferengi language has 178 words for rain (and none for “crisp”), rather like the hundreds of words Inuits use to describe various types of snow (DS9: “Let He Who is Without Sin”). The tall building dominating the skyline is the Ferengi Tower of Commerce, the capital building of the government (“Prophet Motive”).

Signs advertise All You Can @#S%!, Slug-O-Cola (DS9: “Profit and Lace”), Uncle Quark’s Youth Casino, Maxium Oo-Mox Rub Dungeon, Acquire Pour Homme, Lobe’s Lodge, Slug-Nasium. A marquee says “Now Playing: Latinum Lost!!!” which may be a reference to the Litverse novella Lust’s Latinum Lost (and Found), which centers around the erotic holonovel of the same title.

The aFerengi shuttle (DS9: “Little Green Men”) flying by as we approach Ferenginar, on which it is always raining (DS9: “Family Business”). which may be a reference to the Litverse novella Lust’s Latinum Lost (and Found), which centers around the erotic holonovelgi lobes is a symbol of virility and business acumen, which is what the Slug-O-Cola commercial plays on.

Quimp appeared in LD: “Envoys”, meeting Mariner on Tulgana IV, staging a fake attack to boost Boimler’s confidence.

Oberth-classes (like the USS Grissom from ST III) take a lot of flak. T’Ana once screamed that she didn’t spend 7 years on one just to get reassigned to a station (LD: “The Stars at Night”).

The “dagger of the mind” drink probably refers to TOS: “Dagger of the Mind” where a neural neutralizer empties a mind and makes it susceptible to suggestion.

Rom was on Sisko’s baseball team, the Niners, in DS9: “Take Me Out to the Holosuite” and scored the only run for the team in that game.

The unicorn dog in the Ferengi landlord cop show is of the species from Alfa 177 (TOS: “The Enemy Within”). We last saw one of them in the menagerie in LD: “I Have No Bones Yet I Must Flee”.

As Boimler laughs about product placement he is sitting in front of the Paramount logo. The screen also resembles the CBS eye logo.

Parth is using a holographic imager, but oddly enough closer to the Starfleet design (last seen in SNW: “Those Old Scientists”) rather than a Ferengi one (DS9: “Meridian”).

Mariner and Quimp play dabo (DS9: “Babel”) at the Ferenginar Historical Library.

Quark’s Federation Experience Bar & Grill (referring to the late lamented Las Vegas Star Trek: The Experience), has models of the Voyager and Enterprise-D hanging from the ceiling as the TNG theme tune plays. Among the decor are signs that say Engineering, Ten Forward, Where No Gift Has Gone Before, Jeffries Tube Entrance, Red Shirts and Holodeck Arcade.

Patrons enter the place between two TOS-style nacelles and are greeted by a Ferengi with a Vulcan hairstyle and eyebrows in a blue science division uniform. In a blink and you’ll miss it moment, there is a naked female Ferengi (head and shoulders visible) at one of the tables as we initially pan towards Tendi and Rutherford. Ferengi females were traditionally not allowed to wear clothes, but this began to change with Zak’s reforms, helped along by Quark and Rom’s mother Ishka.

On display are a Mugato (TOS: “A Private Little War”), the Guardian of Forever (TOS: “The City on the Edge of Forever”), a Vulcan gong in the arena from TOS: “Amok Time” and a Taurean ape-man with a spear from TOS: “The Galileo Seven”.

Tendi and Rutherford are seated at a table whose wall panels have a TOS-style red trim and chairs from that era. The Red Alert sound has of course been standard since TOS. The Ferengi bouncers are dressed in TNG-era security uniforms.

Tendi’s comment about the velour uniforms catching fire is similar to Boimler talking about exploding tricorders in LD: “Those Old Scientists”.

Sitting weird in chairs is a stereotype for bisexuals, of which Mariner is one. Naturally, the Ferengi Dominion War Memorial remembers the profits lost during that conflict.

The blind box is modeled on a TOS-era shuttle. We see a rocky backdrop for one of the tables that might be Sarpeidon from TOS: “All Our Yesterdays”.

The 8th Rule of Acquisition, “Small print leads to large risk” is from the beta canon book The Ferengi Rules of Acquisition.

The Ferengi dragging Boimler out of his room is using a Ferengi energy whip (TNG: “The Last Outpost).

Written by: Cullen Crawford

Directed by: Brandon Williams

I'm truly enjoying all these interviews that are coming out as Patrick Stewart goes around on the promotion circuit.

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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.