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The Tholians are going to be joining the Gorn for the Final Frontier edition of the game.

There are two previews of what to expect:
https://gamefound.com/en/projects/gf9/star-trek-ascendancy/updates/5
https://gamefound.com/en/projects/gf9/star-trek-ascendancy/updates/6

• Though the episode title, “Fully Dilated”, is referring to the time dilation effect of the planet, Dilmer III, in “Disaster”, Worf described Keiko O’Brien as being, ”fully dilated to ten centimetres,” while she was in labour.

• Cap’n Freeman records the stardate as 59499.6 in her log.

• The USS Cerritos has been dispatched to deal with the season’s B-plot, a dimensional fissure. The fissures have factored into three other episodes this season, “Dos Cerritos”, “The Best Exotic Nanite Hotel”, and “A Farewell to Farms”.

    • A purple iteration of the USS Enterprise D crossed over to the prime universe while, apparently, battling evil clones of Tasha Yar. Assuming the purple universe is on the same timeline as the prime universe, that would indicate that their Enterprise D was not destroyed during the events of “Star Trek Generations”, and that their Data did not die in “Star Trek Nemesis”.

• This is the first mention of the Viltan Flats on screen, but they originated in the “The Way of Kolinahr: The Vulcans” sourcebook for Last Unicorn Game’s “Star Trek Role Playing Game”.

• Cap’n Freeman mentions filling the senior science officer position. Tendi was transferred from sickbay to senior science officer training in “First First Contact”.

• A new development in the season’s A-plot is that after the events of the previous episode, Rutherford is now also growing a beard in an attempt to mimic the success of the minor universe’s Beardler. As opposed to finding a more successful version of himself to emulate.

    • Boimler’s beard growth continues, but it seems to have slowed down, which is saying something.

• ”The position should go to the most qualified candidate, not just the one who’s dreamt about it since they were old enough to carry a dagger.” Tendi has dreamt about become a Federation science officer since she was eight months old.

• T’Lyn claimes to be, “particularly sensitive to odour.” As per “Broken Bow”, Vulcan females have a heightened sense of smell.

• ”This is going to be a fun alternate dimensional technology recovery girls’ trip.” Mariner and Tendi also referred to their running an errand for Doctor T’Ana in “We’ll Always Have Tom Paris” as a girls’ trip.

• ”Oh, it’s like that planet Voyager went to.” Tendi refers to the events of “Blink of an Eye”, where the USS Voyager visited the Weird Planet Displaced in Time, though while Dilmer III’s time dilation causes a week to pass on the surface for every second in orbit, the WPDiT experienced one day every 1.03 seconds.

• Snell is played by Eric Bauza, who has voiced a number of characters across LDS, PRO, and the “Very Short Treks”, including Barniss Frex, as well as both Screwhead and Ass Face.

• Hey, it’s purple Data! From purple Star Trek! Purple Data is voiced by Brent Spinner, who has a story credit on “Star Trek Nemesis”,

• *”My away mission résumé is going to be more padded than a Romulan’s shoulder.” We first saw Romulan uniforms with somewhat robust shoulder padding in “The Neutral Zone”.

• ”This is starting to feel like when Picard got duped into thinking he was a family man by that probe.” Mariner is referring to the events of “The Inner Light”.

    • ”I gotta find a flute!” Despite Mariner’s chastising Boimler earlier in the episode for ”plagiarizing someone’s vibe,” she’s pretty quick to take away the wrong lesson from Picard’s probe experience.

• ”Why’s there always a suspicious lurker when you’re in a Carbon Creek situation?” Carbon Creek is the name of the town where T’Pol’s grandmother, T’Mir lived for some time after her survey team’s ship crashed on Earth prior to first contact, as well as the name of the episode where she shares the story. Notably, there wasn’t actually anyone doing much lurking in the episode.

    • Archer and Trip were skeptical of the story T’Pol told, though she did claim the information was documented in the Vulcan archives.

• ”Do not be concerned, I have been just a head before.” Purple Data apparently experienced the events of “Time’s Arrow” and “Time’s Arrow, Part II”.

    • Purple Data further confirms the purple universe engaged with their own “Time’s Arrow” by claiming that it was himself, Picard, and ”some guy in a silver jumpsuit” who located his missing head, as was the case in the prime universe.

    • Data was also just a head in “Disaster”.

• Apparently food is not allowed in the transporter bay. In “Tomorrow is Yesterday”, we saw there was food synthesizer in the transporter room aboard the USS Enterprise, and in “The Dauphin”, Wesley brings a visiting head of state a chocolate mousse in the transporter room before she leaves.

• Purple Data points out to Tendi that Vulcans rarely require sleep. In “The Paradise Syndrome”, Spock claimed he could go without sleep for weeks, and in “Muse”, Tuvok stayed awake for a full ten days.

• ”That is some Edo level bullshit, right there.” In “Justice”, the Edo legal system’s only punishment was execution via poison needle, so Mariner is exaggerating the consequences of her actions.

• Tendi is attempting to construct a transporter using resources available on Dilmer III.

    • In “The City on the Edge of Forever” Spock constructed a mnemonic memory circuit, while stuck on Earth in the 1930s

    • In “Time’s Arrow”, Data built a device to track time shifts while in 1893

    • In “Carbon Creek”, Stron was attempting to build a subspace transceiver in 1953 before the Vulcan survey team was rescued

• ”Wow, you really are fully functional.” Data claimed to be fully functional, and programmed ”in a broad variety of of pleasuring,” in “The Naked Now”. Programming, which apparently includes eating ropes.

• Mariner’s prison pals call her ”Big Mare,” which is also the name Tawny Newsome coined for Mariner’s depiction on large advertising banners at real life events, such as San Diego Comic Con.

• Ransom records the stardate as 59482.3 in his log.

• The USS Cerritos is hosting peace talks between two different photonic species, the creatively named Orbs and Cubes. Previous photonic lifeforms encountered include:

    • Beings interpreted as the monster Grendel by holodeck characters - “Heroes and Demons”

    • A trans-dimensional species that entered the holodeck, and promptly found themselves in a war against the pulp character Chaotica - “Bride of Chaotica”

    • Photonic fleas - “The Voyager Conspiracy”

• Among the bits of circular furniture ensign Olly is attempted to stack on a hover sled is a “ball chair” like the one Worf had in his quarters for much of TNG, and a dabo table, as seen in Quark’s in DS9.

• The USS Reseda has not been mentioned previously, but is likely a California-class, based on being named after a neighbourhood in Los Angeles.

    • According to Mariner, the crew of the Reseda is entirely reformed Maquis. Most of the Maquis were wiped out by the Cardaissian Union and the Dominion, as per “Blaze of Glory”.

• Olly is descended from the Greek god Zeus. We learned in “Who Mourns for Adonais” the Greek pantheon wer actually alien beings who visited Earth and were sustained by the worship of humans.

    • ”Didn’t Kirk kick their asses?” To the best of our knowledge, Kirk only encountered Apollo. The USS Enterprise destroyed his power source, a temple, from orbit.

    • ”I thought they all went off and became ‘one with the wind,’ or whatever.” In “Who Mourns for Adonis”, Apollo does claim the other Greek gods, ”returned to the cosmos on the wings of the wind.”

• Admiral Vassery was introduced in “Moist Vessel”.

• Olly has been removed from six ships before arriving to the Cerritos. In “Hollow Pursuits”, Captain Picard said of Reginald Barclay, “It’s easy to transfer a problem to someone else. Too easy.”

• Boilmer’s beard growth remains the most consistent storyline this season.

• In Rutherford and Boimler’s quarters, we see that Boimler has added a doll of Data in the “Star Trek: First Contact” uniform to his Mirror Archer and Spock figures. On Rutherford’s shelf, there’s the model of DS9 he got in “An Embarrassment of Dooplers”, as well as a recreation of Wesley’s portable tractor beam from “The Naked Now”.

• Rutherford is aware that Boimler keeps looking at the PADD he stole from the minor universe in “Dos Cerritos”.

    • ”Also it’s red.” We’ve seen red PADDs in “Coming of Age”, “Clues”, “Lower Decks”, “Homefront”, and “Image in the Sand”.

    • Tendi is also aware of Boimler’s stolen PADD.

• ”Good joke. We got a real Roland B. Moore over here.” Ronald B. Moore was a visual effects supervisor on TNG, and, according to a display outside the holodeck, was also the name of the stand-up comedian program played by Joe Piscao in “The Outrageous Okona”. Based on the fact that Boimler is claiming Rutherford was being funny, I believe we can assume he was talking about the visual effects supervisor.

• Apparently Olly was assigned Mariner’s old bunk, which we haven’t seen since the Lower Deckers moved out of the hallway bunks in “I Have No Bones Yet I Must Flee”.

• ”You don’t have to be Dixon Hill to see that some bad shit went down in here.” Dixon Hill is the fictional private investigator whose adventures Picard likes to relive on the holodeck, as per “The Big Goodbye”.

• ”If we get some Ferengi blood, we’ll have an entire rainbow!” Ferengi blood is yellow, as first seen in “Mugato, Gumato”.

• ”What about Shaxs? You’re in the bear pack.” Boimler was made a member of the bear pack in “Empathalogical Fallacies”.

• The Sphere Rondus, as well as the gestalt Sphere, Orbiculus, are voiced by Fred Tatasciore, who voices Shaxs.

• ”Didn’t you learn this with the whole Hawaii thing?” Tendi is recounting the events of “wej Duj” when Boimler claimed to be Hawiian to be able to join Ransom’s group of other [fake] Hawaiians.

• The Cube Sexagus, as well as the gestalt Omegacube, are voiced by Carl Tart, who is the voice of Kayson.

• The Sphere Spheronius is voiced by Jerry O’Connell, who is the voice of Ransom

• ”To be fair, Qs are more annoying than scary.” In “Q-Less”, Sisko punches Q in the face and he never returns to Deep Space 9.

• The Cube Quadralon is voiced by Jack Quaid, who voices Boimler.

• The Sphere Radiara is voiced by Gabrielle Ruiz, who voices T’Lyn.

• We learn that Quadralon and Radiara were not murdered, but instead ran off together after a night of passion that trashed Quadralon’s room. No confirmation as to what the square shaped “photonic residue” on the walls of the chamber were. “The Outrageous Okana” also featured a “Romeo and Juliet” romance between two children of conflicting colonies, resulting in a pregnancy.

• SquAaron is voiced by Roan Lai, who was also the voice for the moopsy in “I Have No Bones Yet I Must Flee”.

• ”I love the brig, this is my favourite place.” Olly echoes Mariner’s words to Ransom from “Temporal Edict”. However, she’s a bit more chill so she doesn’t also claim that she’s going to ”dance in [anyone’s] blood.”

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Mariner’s voice actor, “Starfleet Academy” writer, and unnamed Trek series co-developer Tawny Newsome joins regular hosts Ben and Adam to discuss LDS episode, “Starbase 80?!”

https://maximumfun.org/episodes/greatest-trek/ep-300-fantasy-junk-league-lower-decks-s5e5-with-tawny-newsome/

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• The episode title is a play on the title of the 1590 George Peele poem, “A Farewell to Arms”, which Ernest Hemmingway also referenced with his 1929 novel of the same name.

• It’s Ma’ah! From Star Trek. Ma’ah first appeared in season three’s “wej’Duj”, and is voiced by Jon Curry.

• Ma’ah’s brother, Malor, is voiced by Sam Witwer, as is the character of Sig Legnog. Witwer previously played an unnamed Xindi-Arboreal in “The Shipment”, and voiced the character of Tenavik in STO, after Kenneth Mitchell personally choose Witwer to replace him.

• In this episode we learn that bloodwine is made from worms that have been stomped similar to grapes. Bloodwine was first mentioned in TNG’s “A Matter of Honor”.

    • The sequence of Ma’ah going through the process of producing bloodwine may have been intended as a callback to the scene in “The Star Gazer” where we see Château Picard being prepared. As opposed to Picard’s longing glances at Laris though, we see Ma’ah annoyed with Mariner attempting to call him.

• This is the second episode to not use the standard LDS title sequence featuring the USS Cerritos’s misadventures, the first being “A Mathematically Perfect Redemption”

• Bahgol is a Klingon beverage previously seen in “Blood Oath”.

• K’Elarra is voiced by Mary Chiefo who played L’Rell in seasons one and two of DIS.

• K’Elarra is…physically aggressive with Ma’ah as an act of courtship. In “The Dauphin” Worf described Klingon women mating behaviour to Wesley as, “Women roar. Then they hurl heavy objects. And claw at you.”

• ”Don’t count on that. Ma’ah killed Bargh’s brother,” Malor tattles by relating the events of “wej’Duj”.

• Boimler’s facial hair has grown in enough to see that his moustache is purple as well. According to his own log in “Grounded”, Boimler dyes his hair, and no one knows what his real hair colour is.

• ”Doctor Migleemo, I’ve never seen you this nervous before, not even when I made you fight that giant Orion,” Tendi relates the events of “Old Friends, New Planets”.

• ”We Klowahkans invented warp travel in the hopes of discovering strange new meals.” Migleemo reveals that his preoccupation with food is something of a species trait, as opposed to unique to himself.

    • This is the first time we’ve heard the name of Migleemo’s species. Coincidentally, the name for this species of birdlike people sounds very similar to the excretory vent birds, as well as reptiles and amphibians, have.

• The Ketha Lowlands are part of the Ketha province, where Martok’s family is from, as per “Once More Unto the Breach”.

• ”Hey, look, you really helped me back on Serbal V, all right?” Mariner and Ma’ah fought in “The Inner Fight” until she experienced a breakthrough coping with Sito Jaxa’s death.

• ”Weren’t you just afraid of skiing?” Boimler attempted to go down the Coward’s Gulch path aboard the Cosmic Duchess, before having to follow a person he was tailing down the Expert’s Demise slope.

• Madame Gonald is voiced by Gillian Vigman, who regularly portrays Doctor T’Ana.

• ”Experience bij!” A Klingon hover biker hollers a line from the 1993 interactive VCR board game, “Star Trek: The Next Generation - A Klingon Challenge”.

• It’s K’orin! From Star Trek. General K’orin was introduced in the episode “Envoys”. He’s voiced by Jess Harnell.

    • ”Yeah, we violated some treaties back in the day.” In “Envoys” Mariner told Boimler that she and K’orin were involved in ”off the books, grey ops stuff.”

• The Oversight Council chambers feature sets of Klingon honour guard uniforms from STO.

• Bargh is voiced by Colton Dunn, who previously portrayed Dorg, Bargh’s brother, in “wej’Duj”.

• We learn that Doctor Migleemo’s first name is Gabers.

• The Rite of Unending Pain appears to be superficially similar to the Rite of Ascension seen in “The Icarus Factor”. Those undergoing the rite walk through a path lined by raised platforms with warriors wielding painstiks to either side.

• ”Once Kahless made it across the field, he tore the thorns from his legs and he used them to kill Fek’lhr.” As per “Devil’s Advocate”, Fek’lhr is a demonic figure, and the Guardian of Grethor.

• Darsek’s a Klingon currency first mentioned in “Fristborn”.

• Migleemo claims the hogfish galantine is ”as plorpful as the ones served on Enara Prime.” Enara Prime was featured in the third season VOY episode “Remember”, and is in the Delta Quadrant. This raises the question of how Migleemo would know about their cuisine.

• ”Look, a while back, I was transferred to one of the coolest ships in Starfleet.” Boimler was transferred to the USS Titan at the end of “No Small Parts”, and transferred back to the Cerritos in “Kayshon, His Eyes Open”. Though he didn’t so much choose to return to the Cerritos as he wasn’t able to serve on the same ship as his transporter duplicate.

• We learn that Mariner was in on Qo’noS for more than just returning an artifact and to help Ma’ah regain his rank; another quantum fissure has appeared in Klingon space, making this the third episode of the season where the fissures have been a factor.

    • The scanning indicates that the dimensional rifts are not a natural occurrence.

• Cap’n Freeman, Rutherford, and Tendi swapped out the Klowahakan’s amuse bouche with replicated manure. In “There Is A Tide” Admiral Vance informs Osyraa the replicators use recycled waste to create food. ”It tastes pretty good for shit.”

• “A Klowahakan without a sense of taste is no Klowahakan at all.” Doctor Migleemo’s adage echoes Rule of Acquisition 18: “A Ferengi without profit is no Ferengi at all.” And, according to Kor in “The Sword of Kahless”, ”A Klingon who denies himself the Rite of Vengeance is no Klingon at all.”

• ”Martok started on a ship like this.” Martok claimed in “Once More Unto the Breach” that he started as a labourer cleaning the officer’s mess aboard General ShiVang’s flagship.

• ”I can see Kahless! The first one, the original one!” Kahless’s clone was discovered by Worf on Boreth in “Rightful Heir”.

    • ”The one that did impressions!” It was revealed in “The Savage Curtain” that Kahless was skilled at mimicking the cries of his foes to lure their allies into traps. Honourably. He also would do a tight five minutes at open mic nights.