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STAR TREK Picard Episode 10 Worf and Riker 1|?

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THIS is Wargames Janeway. She is in tactical mind chess mode. The fuckin POWER she exudes, even beat down and struggling.

I fully believe that if Year of Hell HAD been a full season, THAT is when they would have shown us true Mirror Janeway. Terran Marshal. The Pirate Queen of the Delta Quadrant.

By the season finale she has amassed a fleet of warships. Voyager had been on the brink of destruction, but has been rebuilt using decimated Borg cubes to repair and overpower the added cannons.

Janeway herself has acquired cybernetic implants, after an explosive blast 4 months in, sheared her left eye. She straight up had Seven nanoprobe her. Which repaired a lot of the mass of damage, and then added a cybernetic left eye to replace her destroyed one. It technically matches, but some fuckery leads to it turning bright emerald green in an attempt to match her blue eye, and silver or glowing blue (ala warp core)when it attempts to match the gray it shifts to in anger. She deemed it "more intimidating" to leave the color shift and some of the scarring around the eye.

Her right arm has significant cybernetics after a run in with a Borg cube.

The Queen succeeded in kidnapping her for a day or two, before Seven could break her free.

Rather than just assimilate her enemy on the spot, the Queen experiments with a much slower torture. She had begun a 'deconstruct slowly and painfully piece by piece' method to get what she wanted from Janeway. She wanted her to CHOOSE assimilation, accept Borg perfection, become her new Tertiary Adjunct. They had been in the process of removing the upper/shoulder portion of her arm when Seven finally broke through.

B'Lanna and Seven, alongside Tom and Harry, with input from The Doctor, built her a Winter Soldier-esque right arm replacement.

She can interface directly with Voyager, or the Shuttles, courtesy of Seven's contribution. It has lights embedded in the top wrist/forearm for a flashlight, courtesy of Harry. a blade comes from the inner wrist or knuckles, and/or along her outer forearm courtesy of B'Lanna. And because Tom is a whole little shit, and was dead sure she would love it; phaser beam from index finger gun, compression blast from two finger finger guns. To the surprise of no one, she absolutely did.

The metal of it could be either Iron Man/Winter Soldier paneling which shifts, or Sci-fi that biz, and it's a liquid flowing metal (like Odo, but metal soo, like Gwyn) that shifts either by thought focusing through the nanoprobes, or certain muscles could trigger certain things. Gesturally, I guess?

Which comes the point that she took to "adapting" the uniform.. into a sleeveless command tunic, made of a thicker more leather-like material.

During 'diplomatic exchange' she will wear a full sleeve open Command jacket and gloves, to hide the arm. Just in case her arm being cybernetic is a possible problem.

Eventually as the trauma and desperation catch up with her she becomes less diplomatic and more pirate....

Man....now I want this to be a fic.

Hey my lovelies!? Somebody write this in epic fashion. Super please. Gimme.☺️

Things I'm noting on another rewatch of Year of Hell is the way Janeway completely gives up on command decorum. She is Tired and has zero patience anymore.

(I won't be surprised if this is how she was during the Cardassian border wars, during the siege).

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Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 2 Episode 1 Easter Eggs & References

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This Star Trek: Lower Decks article contains spoilers for Season 2, Episode 1: “Strange Energies.”

The mission of the USS Cerritos is to do the jobs other Starfleet ships can’t; following up with all sorts of minutiae and boring outer space logistics, long after the Enterprise or the Defiant has warped out. But whether it’s Lower Decks or Picard or Discovery or Strange New Worlds, the mission of hardcore Trek fans is the same: Pause the screen and see what deep-cut Easter eggs got slipped in this time!

In Season 1, Star Trek: Lower Decks earned the reputation for the most meta-textual Star Trek ever. There are layers and layers of Trekdom within every frame of this series, making it hard to look at one episode and catalog all the references. But if you thought Season 1 went deep into the wells of Trekkie references and Easter eggs, Season 2 is here to make Season 1 look tame. The Season 2 premiere of Lower Decks — “Strange Energies” — is one giant Easter egg with a bunch of reproducing tribble-ish Easter eggs inside of it. Unless you’ve got ESP powers on the level of Dr. Elizabeth Dehner, there’s no way you caught all of these. 

Cardassian ships

The episode has a cold-open on some kind of prison inside of an asteroid field. This is surrounded by two kinds of Cardassian ships, the Galor-class and the smaller Hideki-class scout ships.

“The Keep Showing Me Lights”

Hologram Boimler says the Cardassians “keep showing me lights.” This line, and the existence of the secret Cardassian facility references the famous Next Generation two-parter, “Chain of Command,” in which Picard was kidnapped and tortured by the Cardassians. If you somehow haven’t seen that episode, the whole idea is that the Cardassians try to gaslight Picard into thinking there are five lights in front of him when there are only four. Lower Decks referenced “Chain of Command” in Season 1, too! In Season 1, Episode 7, “Much Ado About Boimler,” Mariner joked about the Cerritos getting a “Babysitter Jellico-type,” for a subsitute captain, which referenced the temporary captain the Enterprise got in “Chain of Command.” Freeman, Shaxs and Ransom whore the all-black special ops outfits in that episode, too, and Tendi did the same in “Veritas.” 

Too Many Ships to Count 

As Mariner escapes from the Cardassian facility, there are soooo many ships being stored in this particular hanger. It’s all the ships. Here’s just a few we caught

A Federation runabout

Jem’Hadar fighters

A Nemesis-era Romulan warbird

An old school Romulan Bird-of-Prey from TOS

Federation fighter craft (like the ones seen in TNG’s “Preemptive Strike.”)

And many, many more.

Miranda-class USS MacDuff

Mariner steals a Miranda-class Federation starship with the registry NCC-1877, and the name “USS MacDuff.” There’s a lot going on here.

The Miranda-class was first seen in The Wrath of Khan, in the form of the USS Reliant. That film also featured someone stealing a ship like this with ease.

The bridge for this ship is basically identical to the Reliant.

Lower Decks showrunner Mike McMahan said in 2020 that he was inspired by the Reliant for the design of the Cerritos. 

The name “MacDuff” might reference the TNG character, Kieran MacDuff, from the episode “Conundrum.” In that one, the crew has temporary amnesia and MacDuff manipulates them into fighting a war they’re not supposed to be involved in.

Jennifer 

Jennifer is back! Mariner is interrupted during her holographic work-out by Jennifer, an Andorian crewmember from last season. In the Season 1 finale, “No Small Parts,” Mariner runs through the halls and pushes this character out of the way, saying, “Move Jennifer.” As far as we know, Jennifer is the only Andorian named Jennifer, but you really have to wonder, was this an Andorian name, or a human name? 

“I know we’re not supposed to have interpersonal conflict”

Mariner’s dislike of Jennifer is punctuated by her talking to herself saying, “I know we’re not supposed to have interpersonal conflict…but I really hate that Andorian.” This references a long-standing rule from the TNG–era of Trek TV; that Starfleet officers weren’t supposed to have petty differences with each other. This rule was apparently implemented by Gene Roddenberry and drove several writers, including Ron Moore and Jeri Taylor, nuts. 

Slightly new opening-credits

In Season 1, we saw the Cerritos running away from a battle involving a bunch of Borg cubes and Romulan Warbirds. Now, that same battle includes a Pakled ship from the Season 1 finale, a few Klingon Birds-of-Prey, and seemingly, fewer Borg. 

Fred Tatasciore’s name in the credits?

Although Shaxs died in the Season 1 finale, Fred Tatasciore’s name appears in the opening credits…hmmm…will this ever be explained? 

Rutherford’s date with Ensign Barnes

“Strange Energies” directly parallels the 2020 Season 1 debut, “Second Contact,” in several ways. The crew is involved with a second contact mission that goes horribly wrong and Rutherford starts dating Barnes for the “first” time. In the Season 1 finale, Rutherford lost his memory, which is why his relationship with Barnes seems new to him. This is why Mariner says “that sounds familiar.” 

Hating pears…a Doctor Who reference? 

Tendi is concerned that Rutherford used to hate pears, but now he doesn’t. This is possibly incorrect, but this could be a Doctor Who reference. In the Doctor Who episodes “Human Nature,” “Twice Upon a Time,” and “Hell Bent,” the Doctor (both David Tennant and Peter Capaldi) mention hating pears. In fact, in “Human Nature,” when the Doctor’s memory is erased, he asks Martha Jones to “never let me eat a pear.” 

Sonic power washing 

“Sonic showers” have long been a thing in the Star Trek universe, making their debut in Star Trek: The Motion Picture. But, we’ve never seen sonic power-washers before!

“Ever heard of Gary Mitchell”

Ransom’s possession is very much a tribute to Gary Mitchell’s god-like powers in the second TOS pilot episode “Where No Man Has Gone Before.” Dr. T’ana’s insistence that Kirk beat Gary Mitchell with a “boulder” is accurate. For whatever reason, the very first canonical Kirk-adventure ever, established that rock beats god-like powers any day of the week. It should also be noted that Mariner referenced Gary Mitchell in the first episode of Season 1, too.

Possible Harlan Ellison reference?

While Ransom is starting to work out, you can briefly hear him say, “The trick isn’t becoming a God. The trick is staying a God.” This could be a reference to the axiom attributed to Harlan Ellison: “The trick isn’t becoming a writer. The trick is staying a writer.” Ellison wrote “The City on the Edge of Forever,” for TOS. In Star Trek: Picard Season 1, Soji traveled on a ship called the Ellison, which Michael Chabon revealed was an Easter egg meant to reference Harlan Ellison. So, you never know? 

“The Trick isn’t becoming a god, the Trick is staying a god”

Harlan Ellison reference?

Ransom on the Mount

Mariner says that Jack is “going all Ransom on the Mount.” This almost certainly references a hilarious fan video called “Shatner on the Mount,” in which a group called Fall On Your Sword remixed a behind-the-scenes interview with William Shatner (promoting Star Trek V: The Final Frontier) into a hilarious kind of talking-rap song. It has to be seen to be believed. 

Giant God Head

A giant God head coming out to grab a starship might seem silly, but there are several precedents for this kind of thing in Trek canon. In the TOS episode “Who Mourns For Adonais?” a giant green hand grabs the Enterprise, which is later revealed to be the hand of the god Apollo. In the TNG episode “The Nth Degree,” the giant head of a Cytherian finds its way onto the Enterprise-D bridge. And, of course, in The Final Frontier, the crew meets “the God of Sha Ka Ree” which also, is a giant floating head. 

My older sister got a symbiont 

Barnes and Rutherford joke around that her Trill sister has a symbiont, but she doesn’t. This references the idea that not all Trill are joined, which was established in both TNG and Deep Space Nine.

Cetacean ops

Barnes mentions going swimming in “Cetacean ops,” a part of the USS Cerritos that we’ve never seen, but we have to assume has something to do with sea creatures. This is the second time Lower Decks has referenced Cetacean ops, which itself derives from an overheard line in TNG’s “Yesterday’s Enterprise.” Again, with yet another parallel to its Season 1 debut, “Cetacean ops” was last referenced by Lower Decks in Season 1, Episode 1, “Second Contact.”

“LDS thing”

Rutherford incorrectly refers to SMD as “LDS.” This references a few things. First, for most fans, the official abbreviation of Lower Decks is LDS. But, that abbreviation also references a joke from Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home in which Kirk incorrectly refers to the drug “LSD” as “LDS,” saying that Spock “did a little bit too much LDS back in the ‘60s.” 

Nightengale Woman 

At the end of the episode, Stevens tells Ransom he’s going to read him “Nightengale Woman.” This too is a reference to “Where No Man Has Gone Before,” which Gary Mitchell quotes from the poem “Nitengale Woman,” from memory. In Trek canon, the poem was written in 1996 on “the Canopus Planet.” In real life, the poem was written by Gene Roddenberry, who originally wrote part of the poem to describe flying a plane. 

Riker’s jam session

As the final moments of the episode cut back to the USS Titan, Captain Riker says “This jam session has too many licks and not enough counts.” In jazz, a “lick” refers to a pattern or musical phrase which is predetermined, but open to interpretation. Usually, a lick could result in a long jazz solo.  A “count” on the other hand, is more about the beat and form of a piece of music. Riker’s obsession with jazz began in the TNG episode “11001001.” In the season finale of Lower Decks Season 1, Riker’s catchphrase for sending the Titan into warp was a jazz count.

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Alright, Picard S01E08

Are we going to find out who the grand heroic captain was now? Betcha it’s the EMH who takes over the ship. Ooh, pretty space pictures again. The sphere the sphere the sphere the sphere Hell yeah we’re connecting to Discovery BOOM So Narissa’s old as balls, then. Ahh, that “some of” was carefully sliced out of that line for the trailer. Is that Ramdha? That properly looked like Airiam, crossed with the I, Robot robots. They’re family? Oh, that’s sad. Huh. I thought Narek had killed her. They’re really having fun exploring the various methods of cabbageheading, aren’t they? Last week realistic kid infodumping, this week, villainous soliloquay. Would have made a better Borg, or will make a better Borg? Daresay he’s had Faceless Man training for fighting blind. Me too, Elnor. Me too. How does she trim the nails of her left hand? Somehow, a fragment of Data will complete someone on the cube… Still feels weird that says it’s based on TNG, not Star Trek. Ooooookay, how do they know each other? Uh, who’s the captain here? Again, I have to ask; how come Dahj knew Picard instinctively but Soji doesn’t? Raffi, being sensible and logical Oh hey, Clancy! Nice to see you again. Would have been nice to see Wesley tell Picard to shut up. Uh… Raffi, how did you not pick up on the accent there? Nice detail there, that the image wibbles with her hand. Nice thing with the eyes. Me too, Elnor. Me too. Uh… what just happened to her eyes? He looks like he might have a line later just before someone kills him. Maybe he does, Soji. Depression will give a person alexithymia like that, and he’s had cause for a lot of depression. What element of The Inner Light is going to end up being the most significant? Picard having a son in another life? Hopefully played by the same actor again? AKA his actual son? Not THAT limited. He had Vulcan levels of sass. And liked his poetry, because honestly, it was really good. I’d say “how do you know?” but knowing shit you’re not supposed to know is your whole thing. Well, one of your things. Why the bad accents? Are they deliberately bad? Like “here’s my sphere!” So, the EMH is based on Bashir, the ENH is O’Brien, the EEH is Scotty, who are the EHH and ETH? Oh, Rios, sweetie. Wait, how long did you serve if you had that emblem on your stuff? To be fair, I don’t know when they exchanged it for the asymmetric one. How many pips does he have? K, not Captain Nog. Microcollective? You’ve done that before. But you’re going to do it, aren’t you? Ad break. Head smacking a la “Little Green Men”. Van der Meer. Of the sea. Like mermaids. Well, that was fun. What would have happened of Soji had met Maddox? That is red-eyed Airiam, I swear. Or related. Hubris. Nicely seeded word. We’ve only heard it once before in this show. Oh hey, Soji. Bless you, Raffi. You get access to a replicator that would probably do red wine, and you use it to get Rios a coffee. Did Van der Meer get the Knowledge That Drives You Mad? And just like that, Jurati has a reason to live again. I really don’t know what I make of her any more. He had The Knowledge That Drives You Mad. How long has Oh been head of Security? So that makes three. Oh no. Oh, Seven. Internally lit eyes. That was the Romulan theme again. Ad break. I have an idea. You have a concussion. And an idea. And what will happen to you when you do turn yourself in, to the authority that set you the mission in the first place? It’s the spheeeeeeeeere Somebody… Borgy. Yet the Romulans never really came for Data. They would have sent Sela, but she was too hot-headed and had already revealed herself. And now, she takes over the ship. Did someone already wipe out your family? Or Data picked it up when he was connected to the Queen. Uh, dude, who’s the captain? Yeah. There’s that head tilt again. Neatly done. You may yet make a better Borg than your auntie. How many voices is she speaking with just now? “Annika still has work to do”? Who said that? The rest of the xBs on the cube? Someone further away? How many of her will there be? Oh shit, N(ot S)arek came along for the ride.