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• The episode title of course refers to a popular party game. In the PRO episode, “Mindwalk”, the Protogies where had to communicate with Dal using charades, because he didn’t learn any Morse code.

• Both Nurse Chapel’s and Spock’s personal logs gives us a stardate of 1789.3.

• The USS Enterprise is travelling to the Vulcan system, first seen in “Amok Time”.

    • Alternatively, one could argue that the first visit to the Vulcan system was when the Enterprise visited the planet Delta Vega to affect repairs after sustaining damage attempting to travel through the Galactic Barrier in “Where No Man Has Gone Before”. Delta Vega is also the planet that Nero marooned prime Spock on (and Kelvin Spock marooned Kelvin Kirk on) in 2009’s “Star Trek”, and Spock was able to watch the destruction of Vulcan. In an interview, Robert Orci claimed they ”moved” the planet for the film because the easter egg of the name was more important than coming up with a new name fans wouldn’t be familiar with.

        • Both the 2011 Kelvin universe “Star Trek“ comic series, and “The Enterprise War” novel attempt to reconcile this by claiming there are two Delta Vegas.

• We learn of the Kerkhov moon, and the fact that there was an ancient civilization there that vanished at one point. Other ancient civilizations which have disappeared from the galaxy leaving behind only ruins and mystery are:

    • The Greek Gods

    • The Arretans

    • The Preservers

    • The Tkon Empire

    • The Iconian Empire

    • The D’Arsay

    • The Hur’Q

• The Vulcan Science academy was first mentioned in “Journey to Babel”.

    • On Vulcan they preface everything by distinguishing that it’s Vulcan because it’s important to them that the rest of the galaxy be aware that it’s theirs.

• ”What are Korby’s three principles of archaeological medicine?” Spock mentioned Roger Korby is referred to as the Pasteur of archaeological medicine in “What Are Little Girls Made Of?”

    • Roger Korby will be Chapel’s future fiancée.

• The notion that Vulcans use nasal suppressants to overcome how debilitatingly pungent humans are was introduced in “The Andorian Incident”.

    • ”Not to be indelicate, Captain, but the scent of humans is something most Vulcans must become…used to.” Spock grew up with a human mother, and human adopted sister.

    • In “Broken Bow” Archer comments that Vulcan females specifically have a heightened sense of smell, but in “The Andorian Incident” it is a male Vulcan monk who comments that the smell aboard the NX-01 “must be intolerable.”

        • Later in this episode, T’Pril repeats the claim that Vulcan women are more sensitive to odours.

• ”I am still not speaking to my father.” It was established in “Journey to Babel” that Spock had not spoken to Sarek in 18 years, which would mean their communication ceased nine years prior to this episode.

• The shuttlecraft Spock and Chapel take to scan Kerkhov is the Cervantes, which was previously used on the mission to investigate the USS Peregrine after it was divested by Gorn hatchlings in “All Those Who Wander”, and transported Captain Pike, La’an, and Doctor M’Benga down to Rigel VII where they lost their memories and were subject to a Starfleet yeoman turned Tyrant in “Among the Lotus Eaters”, and maybe they should leave the *Cervantes” in the shuttlebay next time.

    • The Cervantes is also the shuttle Ortegas pilots herself, Chapel, and Uhura in back to the anomaly when they revisit it.

• ”The Vulcan Science Academy would be lucky to have someone of your experience.” “Battle of the Binary Stars” established that as of 2249, ten years earlier, Michael Burnham was the only human to have attended the Vulcan Science Academy. However, in “Brother” in 2257, Paul Stamets had accepted a full time teaching position there, so they weren’t entirely opposed to the idea.

• After the Cervantes crash, Spock had to be healed by the Kerkhovians who made him fully human. In “Faces” a Vidiian scientist split B’Elanna Torres into two separate beings, one fully human, and the other Klingon. The Klingon died to save her human counterpart during the escape, and the Doctor was later able to restore B’Elanna to her hybrid self using genetic material from the deceased Klingon.

    • In “Spock Amok” Spock had a dream that he was human, fighting a fully Vulcan counterpart, but he later lied and claimed that in his dream he was the fully Vulcan half.

• The episode cuts off before Spock can finish saying, “What the fairly intriguing development.” As we all know, Spock was unfamiliar with profanity until visiting Earth’s 1980s in “Star Trek: The Voyage Home” despite living on a starship and closely working with one Doctor Leonard McCoy.

• As a human Spock chooses to eat bacon despite most Vulcans including himself being vegetarian. In “All Our Yesterdays” Spock appears to be disgusted with himself for enjoying consuming animal flesh after being transported to the past causes him to regress to an earlier stage of Vulcan cultural development. As we all know, all humans eat meat, and this scene certainly didn’t disgust any vegans who might be watching and then later writing a point form list of how the episode ties in to other Trek canon.

    • According to T’Pol in “Broken Bow”, Vulcans also do not touch food with their hands, but we see Spock picking up the bacon with his fingers here. Of course, Spock also touched his food with his hands in “All Our Yesterdays” as well as his marshmallow in “Star Trek: The Final Frontier” so perhaps that’s a cultural practice that fell out of usage between ENT and DIS/SNW/TOS.

        • Later this episode, Sevet does not hesitate to go in on some tevmel with his hands.

• ”I just thought that my field work would be relevant.” In “Journey to Babel” Kirk argued to Amanda Grayson that Spock’s time aboard the Enterprise was “a better opportunity for a scientist to study the universe than he can get at the Vulcan Science Academy.”

• ”She did seem awfully enthusiastic about purchasing dilithium.” The Federation of this era is a moneyless society, as established in such episodes as:

    • “Mudd’s Women” - The character of Harry Mudd is transporting three women around to find them husbands out of the goodness of his heart, and lithium miners on Rigel XII offer to give the crystals to the Enterprise for free.

    • “Errand of Mercy” - Kirk intimates to Spock that Starfleet would not be troubled by their potential deaths, because their training cost nothing.

    • “Catspaw” - Lieutenant DeSalle says he would make a bet on the effectiveness of their strategy, but there is no money and hence no gambling.

    • “The Trouble With Tribbles” - Cyrano Jones gives away exotic animals, and no one pays for drinks at the bar, because what would they pay with?

    • “The Escape Artist” - We see several android duplicates of Harry Mudd captured by concerned citizens intending to hand him over to Federation authorities, because there’s no need to collect a bounty when everything is free. Also, Mudd doesn’t complain about Federation taxes, because what would they tax?

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Star Trek #10
Written by: Collin Kelly, Jackson Lanzing
Art by: Mike Feehan
Cover Art: Mike Feehan

Don't miss out on the lead up to the Day of Blood crossover event between the Star Trek and Star Trek: Defiant ongoing series! Lieutenant Shaxs receives visions from the Bajoran Prophets. He sees his past and his future, and he sees the trial of Benjamin Sisko. The crew of the Theseus must fight their way back together after being separated across Cardassian space before their Captain's fate is set in stone and Kahless can carry out his promise of more bloodshed…
 

Star Trek: The Motion Picture - Echoes #3
Written by: Marc Guggenheim
Art by: Chudakov, Oleg
Cover by: Jake Bartok

Akris-a maniacal doppelganger of Chekov from a parallel universe-has begun working with the Romulans on a superweapon with a promise to reduce the Federation and its allies to ash. And with half the bridge crew in Romulan custody, it's up to Spock and McCoy to hold down the ship and devise a plan to get their captain and crewmates out of enemy hands!

I’ve been interested in Star Trek: Away Missions since I learned about it. The game is being published by Gale Force None, which also puts out Star Trek: Ascendancy, which I really enjoy despite its flaws.

Can’t decide if I like the cartoony, big head style of the miniatures. Also, while they’ve announced Romulan and Klingon expansions, I personally can’t muster much enthusiasm for the Borg in any iteration.

• The title refers to the Homer’s “Odyssey” when Odysseus’ voyage reached the land of the Lotus-eaters. These people’s primary food source was the fruit and flowers of the lotus, which was powerfully narcotic, and caused those of Homer’s crew who ate it to forget their desire to return home.

• Pike’s personal log records the stardate as 1630.1. Ortegas’ personal logs record the stardate as 1630.3, and 1632.2.

• The USS Cayuga previously appeared in “A Quality of Mercy”.

• Captain Batel gives Pike an Opelian mariner’s keystone, a device worn by ancient Opelian captains to ”guide lost sailors home.” Another reference to Odysseus’ journey.

    • Batel says she found the keystone on a planet which the subtitles spelled ”Galt.” Worf lived for a time on Gault with his adopted mother and brother, and headbutt another child to death there during a soccer match; that world’s name was pronounced the same as this.

• Captain Patel was passed over for a promotion to commodore; she believes it’s a result of Admiral Pasalk punishing her for losing the trial against Number One in “Ad Astra per Aspera”.

• Rigel VII was first mentioned in “The Menagerie, Part I”. Pike and crew were shown via Talosian record, and Pike and Doctor Boyce discussed losing three crew people on the away mission, and its impact on Pike. In “The Menagerie, Part II” we saw that the Talosians forced Pike to relive his fight with one of the brutish Kalar.

• Number One describes Rigel VII as ”a remote M-class planet”. However, there are several other inhabited worlds in the Rigel system:

    • Rigel II - According to “Shore Leave”, Bones was familiar with two women from a chorus line in a cabaret there

    • Rigel III - In the alternate future of “All Good Things…” Geordi retired to this world with his wife to become an author

    • Rigel IV - The entity Jack the Ripper resided there for a while, murdering women to feed its need for fear, and possessed Hengeist before moving on to Argelius II to continue in “Wolf in the Fold”

    • Rigel V - The homeworld of the Rigelians, first mentioned in “Journey to Babel”

    • Rigel VI - I would argue that the canonicity of this world being habitable is dubious at best, as it’s only mentioned on a menu screen in the post credits commercial for Tribbles cereal at the end of “The Trouble with Edward”

    • Rigel X - A colony world occupied by a wide variety of aliens, seen in “Broken Bow”.

    • Rigel XII - The earliest mention of a planet in the Rigel system, in “Mudd’s Women” the USS Enterprise stopped there to negotiate purchase of lithium crystals to replace the cracked lithium crystal circuits necessary for controlling the ship’s power flow from the warp core.

    • The “Star Trek: Star Charts” have attempted to reconcile this abundance of worlds by relabelling the Rigel star close to the Sol system in the star chart seen in “Star Trek: The Motion Picture” as Beta Rigel. This would be where Rigel X is located, considering it was the first planet visited by the NX-01 after launching from Earth. Presumably, Rigel II, Rigel III, Rigel IV, and Rigel V as well. Rigel VII and Rigel XII would be more remote, where the actual Rigel star is, some 860 light years from Earth. The map of the Alpha and Beta quadrants seen in Admiral Clancy’s office in “Remembrance” did have that star labelled as Beta Rigel as well, but there is nothing official stating that the various worlds are in that system.

• The display for information for the Enterprise’s first mission to Rigel VII, five years earlier, says the stardate was 2455.4. If Pike is Odysseus, I am Sisyphus.

• ”Last time we went down there we were in uniform; I am not making that mistake twice.” Despite the prime directive an concerns about altering cultural development, during TOS it still seemed to be general policy for Starfleet crews to beam down to pre-warp civilizations in uniform, with their gear.

• ”I like her,” Number One says of Batel, the woman who arrested her in “A Quality of Mercy”, and prosecuted criminal charges against her based solely on her species in “Ad Astra per Aspera”.

• In her quarters, Ortegas has models of Constitution, Walker, and NX-class starships.

• Ortegas refers to the Kalar as Kalarans. Apparently ”Recon 101” does not include more than skimming the mission brief.

• ”I may not be Erica Ortegas, but I was a test pilot, remember?” “Light and Shadows” established that Pike’s first assignment out of Starfleet Academy was test pilot.

• The away team’s shuttle is the Cervantes, which was introduced in “All Those Who Wander”.

• ”We’ve got subdermal universal translators.” This is the first mention of Starfleet personnel having translators implanted beneath the skin. In “Little Green Men” we saw that Ferengi had translators implanted in the ear canal, but Starfleet translators have always been part of the communicator or combadge, a function of the ship or station, or a wholly separate device.

• The Kalar palace is featured in season two’s opening credits.

• The type-3 phasers the Kalar carry are identical to the ones introduced in season one of DIS.

    • The Kalar have at least eight type-3s, which raises the question of how many they took with them to during the first away mission.

• Yeoman Zac Nguyen has been taken in by the Kalar and given a position of authority as High Lord Zacarias.

    • In "Bread and Circuses", Merchant Marine captain, and Starfleet Academy dropout, R.M. Merik was stranded on a planet where he became First Citizen Merikus of a society that mirrored Earth's Roman empire.

    • In "Patterns of Force", former Starfleet Academy history instructor, John Gill introduced the planet Ekos to the concept of fascism, and set himself up as Fuhrer, because he believed fascism to be the most efficient form of government, meaning John Gill was terrible at both understanding history, and not getting assassinated by members of the explicitly Nazi party he installed on an independent world.

    • In “The Omega Glory”, Captain Tracey integrated himself with the Kohms assumed a position of authority.

    • In “All the World’s a Stage” we saw the Enderprizians, who took in ensign David Garrovick and made him to be a heroic figure, En Son.

• The radiation affecting the Enterprise crew doesn’t appear to be something Number One’s Illyrian healing glow works against, despite the fact that we’ve seen her survive the radiation of a near warp core breach in “Ghosts of Illyria”.

• Ortegas’ file says she was born in 2233, making her 26 years old. Melissa Navia is 38.

    • The files specifies, “Lieutenant Ortegas is a 23rd century Federation Starfleet officer.” Presumably it’s necessary for the files to have information about the century in which an officer serves due to all the time travel.

• The Enterprise computer illuminates wall panels to guide Ortegas to her quarters. In “Encounter at Farpoint” Riker was guided to the holodeck and Data by a similar system.

• La’an and Doctor M’Benga once again share the gesture where they trace a line under the right eye with their index finger. They did this in “Strange New Worlds” and “The Broken Circle”.

• Pike makes the decision to remove the asteroid emitting the radiation causing the Kalar to forget from the surface of the planet, back to the debris field in orbit. Spock asks if it’s a violation of the Prime Directive, and Pike claims that it’s not because the asteroid interfered with the natural development of the planet for thousands of years. We’ve previously seen Pike make such unilateral decisions to ignore General Order 1 in “The Sound of Thunder” when the USS Discovery was used to amplify a signal that triggered puberty for every Kelpien on Kaminar.

Personally I would probably put "Devil's Due" at number one, but I realized not everyone can have such a refined taste in Trek.

• The episode title “The Broken Circle” is similar to the title of DS9’s second season episode, “The Circle”.

  • The titular Circle in “The Circle” was the colloquial name for a Bajoran extremist organization, the Alliance for Global Unity, who were being covertly supplied by the Cardassian Union in order to sow political chaos and smooth the way for them to retake Bajor. Here the Broken Circle is a mining syndicate made up of former soldiers from both the Federation and Klingon empire looking to reignite the war between powers so they can profit off the conflict.

• At Starbase 1 we see:

  • A number of ships which appear to be identical to the drones used by the Section 31 ships under the control of…Control during “Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2”.

  • Shuttlecraft of the type introduced in the episode, “Strange New Worlds”.

  • A Starfleet vessel of a previously unseen configuration.

    • We only see the nacelles, struts, and a bit of the secondary hull that they’re attached to of this ship, but it appears to be the Crossfake-class from later in the episode flipped upside down, including have the registry.

  • A single nacelle ship, of the same type as the USS Archer seen in “Strange New Worlds”.

  • The USS Enterprise NCC-1701, no bloody A, B, C, D, E, F, or G.

  • A starship with the same spaceframe as the USS Farragut as seen in “A Quality of Mercy”.

• Pike’s [Anson Mount] captain’s log records the stardate as 2369.2.

  • One time to refresh everyone’s memory of how SNW does things, here are the stardates mentioned in season one:

• “Oh sure, just take three days off from being captain of the Enterprise to go to the other side of the quadrant and get a door slammed in your face.” Quadrant here doesn’t likely refer to the entire alpha quadrant, but the smaller quadrants that were frequently mentioned in TOS and TNG, before DS9 and VOY started having major concerns on the other side of the galaxy.

• Doctor M’Benga [Babs Olusanmokun] cites the events of season one’s “All Those Who Wander” where Spock [Ethan Peck] embraced his anger over the death of lieutenant Duke to combat the Gorn. Apparently doing so has had long term impact on Spock’s ability to suppress his powerful Vulcan emotions.

• Doctor M’Benga produced a Vulcan lute from a supply closet. We know from season one that Spock has one in his quarters as well. The instrument was introduced in “Charlie X”.

• Nurse Chapel [Jess Bush] tells Doctor M’Benga she is considering applying for an archeological medicine fellowship. Her future fiancée, Roger Korby, is referred to by Spock as ”The Pasteur of archeological medicine,” in “What Are Little Girls Made Of?” and he taught classes that Chapel attended.

• Nyota Uhura [Celia Rose Gooding] has traded in her cadet’s badge for that of an officer. She did have on an officer’s delta during Pike’s flash forward in “A Quality of Mercy” but at the very end of the episode when we saw her in the show’s present, she was back to being a cadet.

• Admiral Robert April [Adrian Holmes] refers to lieutenant La’an Noonien-Singh [Christina Chong] as ”a former member of Starfleet,” because she’s been on voluntary leave for a few months. Seems kind of harsh, especially when we’ve seen characters resign their commission and come back to duty with no consequence, such as Worf in “Redemption” and “Redemption II”.

• Changes from the season one opening credits:

  • The Enterprise flies through the atmosphere of a planet with massive trees - The Enterprise is depicted in front of a field of ice

  • The Enterprise performs a roll as it flies directly at the viewer, and the Enterprise flies over the surface of a planet towards a distant tower - The camera pans across the rear of the Enterprise from starboard

  • The planetary ring from the season one credits appears to be burning up, and the Enterprise flies from right to left - The Enterprise flies left to right through a planetary ring

  • Meteorites impact against the shields of the Enterprise - A nebula orbiting a star is visible beyond the bow of the Enterprise

  • The Enterprise orbits Starbase 1 with an arctic environment visible in on of the biomes - The Enterprise orbits Starbase 1 with a deciduous forest environment visible in on of the biomes

• Spock and the remaining senior staff enact a plan to steal the Enterprise so they can intervene in the threat La’an warned them about via a coded distress signal. Spock will also steal the Enterprise in “The Menagerie, Part I”, and in “Star Trek: The Search for Spock” Kirk and the senior staff steal the Enterprise to retrieve Spock’s body.

• Commander Pelia [Carol Kane] is seen wearing a Stafleet operations division badge with a black backing, possibly indicating her position as an instructor at the Academy.

• ”You can always count on a Vulcan’s inability to lie.” Vulcans lie all the time.

  • In “The Menagerie, Part I”, Spock tells Pike, “I have never disobeyed your orders before, Captain,” which contradicts “The Red Angel” where he refuses an order to stand down.

  • In “The Menagerie, Part I”, Spock made a false entry in the Enterprise’s log.

  • In “The Menagerie, Part 2”, it is revealed that Spock has been aware the entire time that the trial was a Talosian projection and thus has been making false statements in service of that deception.

  • In “A Taste of Armageddon”, Spock lies as a distraction, claiming there’s a bug on someone’s shoulder before nerve pinching them.

  • In “Errand of Mercy”, Spock tells Kor he’s a merchant.

  • In “Amok Time”, Spock lies about his excitement seeing that Kirk survived kal-if-fee, claiming it was simply logical relief that Starfleet did not lose a capable captain.

  • In “The Enterprise Incident”, the Romluan commander asks if it is merely a myth that Vulcans cannot lie, to which he responds, “It is no myth.”

  • In “The Enterprise incident”, Spock claims he was unprepared for Kirk’s attack, and used the *”Vulcan death grip” instinctually. Clearly the attack had been planned, and there is no such thing as a Vulcan death grip.

  • In “Yesteryear”, Spock lies about his identity after travelling to the past and visiting his family.

  • In “More Tribbles, More Troubles” Spock claims that Vulcans don’t have a sense of humour, which they obviously do.

  • In “Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan”, Spock lies about how long it will take to repair the Enterprise in case the transmission is being monitored. When Saavik calls him on this, he claims he merely exaggerated.

  • In “Spock Amok”, Spock told Chapel that he had a dream where he had to fight his human side, whereas it was obvious that in his dream Spock was the human half fighting his Vulcan side.

• Pelia notes that Spock is the son of Amanda Grayson, a character first introduced in “Journey to Babel”

  • We learn that Amanda is one of the first people whom Pelia came out regarding being a Lanthanite. This is presented as being fairly noteworthy, yet in the episode Spock is apparently unaware that Pelia is a Lanthanite, or even that his mother is acquainted with one. It would seem that Spock learned his habit of keeping personal information close to the chest from Amanda.

• Pelia implies that she contribute to the design of the engines aboard the Enterprise.

  • Pelia says that it has been 100 years since she previously was on a ship with engines she worked on, which would mean it was around 2160. The Federation was established in 2161.

• Uhura recognizes Pelia’s accent as being Lanthanite.

  • Spock says that Lanthanites ”managed to live on Earth among other humans, undetected until the 22nd century,” which would seem to imply that Lanthanites are actually an extremely long lived subspecies of humans.

  • In “Requiem for Methuselah” we were introduced to the character of Flint, a human born 3834 BCE.

• Spock’s “I would like the ship to go. Now,” does not survive to his becoming first officer, nor does he have a “thing” in TOS or the movies.

  • Kirk did not have a ”thing.” Nor did Sisko or Janeway. The idea that everyone likely to give the command to go to warp needs to have their own catchphrase is unsustainable.

• The bloodwine mugs appear to be slightly battered versions of the ones first seen in “Apocalypse Rising”.

• When Doctor M’Benga catches La’an’s attention, he traces a line with his index finger beneath one eye, a gesture they shared in “Strange New Worlds”.

• La’an reveals she was able to locate the parents of Orianna, the child rescued from the wreck of the USS Peregrine in “All Those Who Wander”. La’an took her leave of absence to find them at the end of that episode.

• ”Up until the war, this planet provided a steady flow of dilithium to both sides, like it does now.” In “The Vulcan Hello” it was established that there had been no interactions between the Klingon Empire and the Federation for 100 years. Presumably one or both sides could have been supplied through some third party, though.

• We learn that Doctor M’Benga and Chapel both served during the Federation-Klingon War. As per “Project Daedalus” the USS Enterprise was not recalled during the war.

• A curtain in the makeshift medical tent reads ”Medical Clinic” in Federation Standard, Klingon, Illyrian, Orion, and Tellarite.

  • The tent also has a Starfleet Medical caduceus stencilled on it.

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