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• The episode opens with flashback featuring a chyron informing us the stardate is 61914.3, setting the scene sometime between “Last Flight of the Protostar, Part II”, and “Ascension, Part I”, assuming stardates increase with the passage of time, as they show.

    • We get to see Wesley captured by Ascencia and the Vau N’Akat, which was revealed to be his status in “Ascension, Part I”.

• Gwyn records the current stardate as 62083.5 in her personal log.

• ”Sounds like they’re…playing poker.” We’ve seen that the senior staff of both the USS Enterprise D and the USS Cerritos enjoy playing poker in their off hours.

• With the expedition of Zero, the Protogies all return to wearing their civilian clothes from season one.

• The Protogies have an emergency site to site transporter with power for one beam-out. The appearance looks to be based on a similar device used by the Tom Paris of an alternate universe in "Non Sequitur".

    • Data used a similar device in “Star Trek Nemesis” to save Captain Picard, but that prototype emergency transport unit could only transport one person, whereas this one should be able to move the entire group.

• ”Wesley Crusher told us we must stay together.” Maj’el is referring to events depicted in “The Devourer of All Things, Part II”.

    • Later this episode, Wesley clarifies that he meant they needed to maintain physical proximity at all times. The Protogies have split up in: "Last Flight of the Protostar, Part II", "A Tribble Called Quest", "Cracked Mirror", and "Ascension, Part I".

• The other Vau N’Akat imprisoned with the Diviner are the Elders who were depicted in “Into the Breach, Part II” as being Solumn’s heads of state.

• To avoid detection by some guards, Zero puppets an unconscious Vau N’Akat while Gwyn provides a voice. In “The Magnificent Ferengi’ Rom and Nog come up with a way to remotely puppet the corpse of a Vorta and temporarily fool some Jem’Hadar and Iggy Pop.

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• ”Pew, pew, pew, pew, pew.” The middle of the battle against the Rev-1 seems like an odd time for Murf to imitate someone complaining about “Star Trek: Discovery”, but he does seem to have things handled.

• ”You talk too much, Mr. Crusher.” Ascensia echoes Captain Picard’s sentiments from “Datalore”.

• We see the incurser weapon embedded in the hull of the USS Voyager A, not dissimilar from the Jem’Hadar torpedo that struck the USS Defiant in “Starship Down”, or the photon torpedo that took a bite of the USS Enterprise in “Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2”

• Tysess invokes an Andorian deity named Uzaveh, that has nor previously been mentioned on screen, but did originate in the DS9 novel, Paradigm.

• The incurser releases a wave of temporal radiation, which rapidly ages Tysess. Captain Picard’s hand experienced the same fate in “Timescape” when he reaches out to examine a bowl of rapidly rotting fruit.

    • Despite his rapid aging, Tysess’ hair remains the same.

    • Other characters been prematurely aged include Kirk, Spock, Doctor McCoy, Scotty, and Arlene Galway in “The Deadly Years”; Doctor Pulaski in “Unnatural Selection”; and the half-a-rascal from “Much Ado About Boimler”, but only the right half of him.

• Admiral Jellico calls to inform Admiral Janeway that no help is coming to save the USS Voyager A, because ”The fleet is stretched too far.” This reinforces what has previously been established in “Chain of Command, Part I”, “Chain of Command, Part II”, and “Masquerade”, that Jellico is the absolute worst.

• Though this is the first mention of Starfleet attack omega, or the phoenix triad maneuverers, the Yeager loop was the Nova Squadron cadets in “The First Duty” claimed they were attempting instead of the banned Koolovord starburst.

• As their body degrades, Zero recalls their words to Ion in “Is There in Beauty No Truth?”

• We finally see Dal and Nova Squadron perform the Boothby starburst, which appears to be three ships flying straight ahead, detaching the cockpit sections from the rest of the Nova Flyer, and crashing the rest of the shuttle into whatever object they're pointed towards.

    • The starburst is named after Boothby because he was actually a colony creature similar to a Pandorian, who would detach his head and then send the rest of his body to go run into people.

• Dal records the stardate as 61945.4

• ”You hear that, Grom? Let’s cut the chitchat and concentrate.” Much her fellow Lurian, Morn, the Nova Squadron cadet has the gift of the gab.

• The Nova Squadron cadets are practicing a maneuver called the Boothby Supernova, named for the venerable Starfleet Academy groundskeeper, who perished in such a maneuver, as per “In the Flesh”.

• The Doctor informs Zero that their organic body cannot sustain much more damage without ceasing to function altogether. Zero was informed their body would break down if they left Ovidia IV in “Is There in Beauty No Truth?”

    • The Doctor claims they’ll be able to make Zero a new body, and thanks to recent developments, that body will be able to experience physical sensation. In “Return to Tomorrow” the crew of the USS Enterprise was working to build android bodies for the Arretans, but those bodies would not be able to feel.

• ”It’s not every day you meet a version of yourself from the future.” Admiral Janeway and Chakotay discuss their meeting the alternate timeline future Admiral Janeway in “Endgame”.

    • Chakotay claims that the events of “Endgame” were his and Janeway’s last day together aboard the *USS Voyager”.

    • Chakotay states that the alternate future Janeway provided them with the designs for the uniforms from her timeline, in a flagrant disregard for the temporal prime directive.

• Admiral Jellico claims that Starfleet is spread too thin by the Romulan evacuation, which we learned about in “Remembrance”, and the damage from the Living Construct, as seen in “Supernova, Part II”. He also mentions that A500 androids are *“barely keeping member worlds going.”; the A500s will be used by the Zhat Vash to attack Mars, as seen in “Children of Mars” and “Maps and Legends”.

• Jellico informs Janeway and company that ”The Department of Temporal Investigations will handle the rest.” The Department of Temporal Investigations were introduced in “Trials and Tribble-ations”.

• ”It’s been a long road, Admiral. Maybe it’s time our journey finally ends.” Chakotay references both the theme for ENT and Wesley Crusher’s final TNG episode, “Journey’s End” in a single sentence.

    • I did think they milked it a bit much when he followed it up with, ”We have to respect the chain of command. I wouldn’t want to let this be our last battlefield, because the butcher’s knife cares not for the lamb’s cry. It is truly a fistful of Datas.” That last bit doesn’t even make sense.

• Ascencia sends a Vau N’Akat starship called the Rev-1 after the USS Voyager A. The Diviner’s starship in season one was the Rev-12. The Rev-1 is a different spaceframe, presumably owing to the advanced technology Ascencia has acquired.

• ”Voyager’s draining more juice than a dikironium cloud creature.” Too soon, Jankom! A dikironium cloud creature was responsible for the deaths of 200 people aboard the USS Faragut, as we learned in “Obsession”.

• The mark-2 Nova Flyers were designed by Tom Paris. Paris designed the Delta Flyer in “Extreme Risk”.

    • Interesting that Paris would name this new ship the Nova Flyer, when Tom Paris was never in Nova Squadron, and any similarities between himself and actual members of Nova Squadron is purely coincidental.

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• The episode title, “Cracked Mirror”, follows the practice of referencing mirrors in titles of episodes where the mirror universe is visited, going back to the very first, “Mirror, Mirror”.

    • Prior to “Cracked Mirror”, there were eight mirror universe episodes, alluding to mirrors in the titles:

      • “Mirror Mirror”
      • Through the Looking Glass”
      • “Shattered Mirror”
      • “Reflections”
      • “In a Mirror Darkly, Part I”
      • “In a Mirror Darkly, Part 2”
      • “Mirrors” - this episode does not visit the mirror universe, but does largely take place on a mirror universe ship that transported refugees to the prime universe

    • There are nine mirror universe episodes that don’t mention mirrors in the title, as well as the “Section 31” film. This is not including “The Tholian Web” or “Into the Forrest I Go”, which do include the mirror universe, but one only as a retcon, and the other only in a cliffhanger for the following story arc.

• ”The protowarp is merely bending spacetime around us.” Zero’s vague explanation for how the protodrive works does not differentiate it from how the more common warp drive works: the ship generates a subspace displacement field which compresses spacetime in front of the ship, and elongates it behind. So is the protowarp merely a more powerful version of the warp drive?

• ”She’s a whole lot different than the one I remember.” We’re told the character of Chakotay served aboard the USS Voyager on VOY that was stuck in the delta quadrant in VOY, but I cannot find any indication of the character.

• The Emergency Janeway Hologram tells Rok-Thak she’s a dog person. Unlike Captain Archer, the real Janeway whom the EJH is patterned upon left her dog, Mollie, in the care of her fiancée when she took command of Voyager, as per “Caretaker”.

• Admiral Jellico has taken command of the USS Voyager A. Jellico was introduced in “Chain of Command, Part I” as the captain assigned to temporarily take command of the USS Enterprise D.

    • The Protogies quickly discover that they reality where Jellico takes over after the deaths of Janeway, Tysses, and Noum is an alternate to their own, so fortunately Jellico can’t make anything worse for them in a way that it matters.

• It’s Okona! From Star Trek! Or at least an alternate reality iteration of Okona. He’s outrageous! Okona was introduced in the episode “The Outrageous Okona”, and the Protogies previously met in him in season one’s “Crossroads”. Okona is voiced by Billy Campbell, who also portrayed him on TNG.

• When Rok-Thak and Zero exit the turbolift, they find the Voyager A crewed by Enderprizians, who were introduced in “All the World’s a Stage”. The ship

    • The Enderprizian whom Rok-Thak and Zero speak with activates his comm to alert Captain Tuvix.

• ”I’ve been through something like this before.” Chakotay may be referencing the VOY episode, “Shattered”, where Voyager was caught in a temporal anomaly, and he was able to move through different time periods on the ship until finding a way to resolve the issue.

• Maj’el proposes using an inverse tachyon pulse to seal the interphasic rift Voyager A is caught in. In “All Good Things…” it was discovered that the USS Enterprise D using inverse tachyon pulses at the same point across three different times is what was creating the anti-time eruption.

• It’s the Mirror Universe! From Star Trek!

    • MU Janeway is wearing a Starfleet uniform, though “Crossover” established that the Terran Empire fell to the Klingon Cardassin Alliance in the 23rd century. This could indicate that there is still a pocket of the Terran Empire active, which was the case in the Shattered Mirror comics.

    • Janeway’s uniform does appear to be based on one from the Shattered Mirror comics. Like the mirror universe Marshall Janeway from Star Trek Online, this iteration has a Borg implant similar to Seven of Nine’s over her left eye.

    • MU Chakotay has a goatee, a look popularized for mirror universe executive officers by Spock in “Mirror, Mirror”. MU Chakotay also sports the same tattoo as his prime universe counterpart. As per “Tattoo”, Chakotay got the tattoo to honour his father.

• Apparently humpback whales are able to serve in the Terran Empire as well, though that does raise the question of how humpback whales were able to survive being hunted to extinction in the mirror universe, considering they killed out in the prime universe. Were there circumstances similar to those of “Star Trek: The Voyage Home”? Or perhaps Terrans simply got more joy out of grinding up puppies, rendering whaling obsolete.

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• The episode title refers to the hip hop group, A Tribe Called Quest, which Data mentioned as being his favourite recording artists in the TNG episode, “Family”.

    • Tribbles first appeared in “The Trouble with Tribbles”.

• Rok-Tahk refers to the tribble by it’s scientific name, tribleustus ventricosus, which was first mentioned in the short, “The Trouble with Edward”.

    • Keiko O’Brien’s classroom in DS9 had a diagram of tribble labeled polygeminus grex, which was taken from the “Star Fleet Medical Reference Manual”, published in 1977.

• ”A tribble outbreak once brought the Klingon Empire to its knees.” Worf mentioned in “Trials and Tribble-ations” that tribbles were once considered mortal enemies of the Empire.

• ”But tribbles don’t have teeth.” We saw a tribble with teeth in the PIC episode, “The Bounty”, but that was genetically modified.

• Giant tribbles approaches the Protogies and Chakotay. In the TAS episode, “More Tribbles, More Troubles”, genetically modified tribbles were able to combine together in one large colony creature.

• Doctor K'ruvang is on the planet researching a way for the Klingon Empire to defeat the tribbles. In "More Tribbles, More Troubles" the Klingons had genetically engineered a creature called a glommer to eat tribbles.

    • K’ruvang was sent to this planet by Martok, whom we last saw in either “What You Leave Behind”, or “The Least Dangerous Game”, depending on if you count an unlicensed Ferengi boardgame using his likeness.

• Chakotay askes how smart Rok-Tahk actually is, and Dal claims she fixed a core breach in 10 minutes, though he neglected to add that from Rok’s perspective in “Amok Time”, she had significantly more time, perhaps even years.

• Rok accidentally combining her DNA with that of a tribble resulted in a monstrosity. Edward Larkin also combined mixed his DNA into the tribbles in “The Trouble with Edward”.

• Dal mentions that like Rok-Tahk’s abomination, he too is a hybrid being created through combining the DNA of multiple species, as we learned in “Masquerade”.

• Quadrotriticale grain was introduced in “The Trouble With Tribbles”. Though in “More Tribbles, More Troubles”, Starfleet had developed quintotriticale grain.

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