Frankly, the scene that introduced Stamets and Culber together I think was intended to surprise the audience in a different way –– Stamets is a huge jerk the previous few episodes and set up as a semi-antagonist, and that bit shows him in a very different light, as the audience/Burnham starts to thaw on the Discovery crew.
The Orion ship that arrives to collect Tendi is inspired by the one introduced in “The Pirates of Orion”, but appears to be a more modern iteration of that craft, as well as being significantly larger.
There have been a number of references to that episode this season, but STILL no one has said “Oreeeeon” or worn a silly green jumpsuit/helmet combo. Like what are they even doing?
If Locarno had kidnapped like Harry Kim or Geordi or some shit and put them on that viewscreen like he did Mariner, we would have had a full episode’s worth of them interminably trying to find a way to play along and send a secret message out and agonizing over the situation, when just yelling “this guy’s an idiot and his plan is stupid” is genuinely a vastly better plan.
The information broker has had cosmetic surgery to resemble the puppet Balok used to appear intimidating in “The Corbomite Maneuver”
I don’t think it specifies in the episode that the information broker had cosmetic surgery, does it? I wondered if this episode was trying to semi-canonize the Dassik. I don’t really care either way because that bit was hilarious.
With all the “Pirates of Orion” references in this one, they really missed the boat not having at least someone pronounce Orion the insane way they do in that episode.
The Bill thing at least is a joke about TNG season 1 - they had Troi call him Bill and it was in the early series bible that Picard would call him William and he would be called Bill by “close female friends.” I hate these shorts (although I’m glad they exist for the animation, at least), but that was a pretty funny callback.
Knowing a few people who have worked on series that ended up looking for new networks, I feel pretty confident that for zillions of reasons (both legal and promotional) they would never have shown this footage if it wasn’t basically a done deal –– this is just marketing to see us go bananas over the Doctor before they reveal the streaming deal. Which –– I could not believe it when I woke up this morning because I was totally sure all the “new home” stuff was entirely wishful thinking and that Prodigy was fully dead.
My 8-year-old daughter loves Prodigy, and we’ve started dipping into Voyager (after 50,000 rewatches of every Lower Decks episode except the Billups one), and she loves it, but every time Harry Kim is on screen she lets out this teenagery exaggerated groan of annoyance (I’ve never connected more with another human being). I’m so hoping he shows up on Prodigy because it would be hilarious how angry she’d be.
Barclay’s actor has become a truly odious person in real life –– I don’t think the TNG cast (Stewart in particular) would have agreed to have him on the show.
So the ending of Prod was basically the same as Pic. It’s a little annoying to basically see the same plot in two shows that aired like a year apart....
I wish this had been addressed, but I feel like it would be easy to see Fleet Formation as a response to both the PRO and LD incidents. If you have a ship that’s compromised (like the Protostar or one of the Texas class ships), Fleet Formation lets you immediately deprive that ship (or any other infected ships) of autonomy by locking it into a unidirectional control from Starbase One. If it really can override anything else, that would mean that in the event of a Living Construct or whatever, Starfleet could just lock everything in Fleet Formation and the ending of PRO would never happen. But I guess they didn’t anticipate a threat coming from inside Starfleet.
When is season 4 anyway? (izzydata.xyz)
Canon Connections: Lower Decks 4x10 - Old Friends, New Planets
• When we see Starfleet Academy in the open shot of the episode it is a recreation of the closing shot of “The First Duty”....
Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Lower Decks | 4x10 "Old Friends, New Planets"
LoglineTop Secret, again. Edit: well, this was certainly worth waiting for: Mariner faces her past in the season four finale....
Canon Connections: Lower Decks 4x09 - The Inner Fight
• The episode title, “The Inner Fight” calls back to two previous titles, TNG’s “The Inner Light” and VOY’s “The Fight”....
Canon Connections: LDS 4x07 - A Few Badgeys More
• The episode title is a reference to the spaghetti western, “A Few Dollars More”....
New Comics Discussion September 27 | Star Trek #12 | Star Trek: Day of Blood - Shaxs' Best Day | Star Trek: Picard's Academy #1 (startrek.website)
Star Trek #12...
Canon Connections: Lower Decks 4x04 - Something Borrowed, Something Green
• The Orion starship we see in the opening is visually similar to the Orion interceptors seen in “Borderland” with some distinct differences....
Star Trek: very Short Treks | "Worst Contact" (www.startrek.com)
Here’s the direct YouTube link, though the latest issue of the accompanying comic can only be found on the official website.
Does the crew ever truly know what to expect from Kirk? (startrek.website)
WOW - Prodigy Second Season Sneak Peek! (ca.startrek.com)
Didn’t see this coming. Prodigy EPs the Brothers Hageman have dropped a scene from season two, episode one....
[IDW's Star Trek: Day of Blood #1 comic] Star Trek Confirms an Underrated TNG Crew Member Is Destined for Command (screenrant.com)
I hoped for Barclay but it’s Beverly Crusher.
(Spoilers for Prod and Pic)Just finished Prod and have a thought.
So the ending of Prod was basically the same as Pic. It’s a little annoying to basically see the same plot in two shows that aired like a year apart....