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• The episode begins where “Hegemony” ended, with Captain Pike [Anson Mount] in a state of shock as the Gorn starships attack the USS Enterprise.

• Number One [Rebecca Romijn] suggests jamming the Gorn communications so they can’t co-ordinate attacks, similar to how in the Kelvin universe, the the crew aboard the USS Franklin was able to override the drone swarm’s signal in “Star Trek Beyond”. Presumably due to budgetary constraints, Uhura uses a Beastie Boys soundalike as opposed to actually broadcasting “Sabotage” this time.

    • It was established that the Gorn use light for ship to ship messaging in “Memento Mori”

• Spock [Ethan Peck] suggests tagging the Gorn destroyer with an element called wolkite that will allow it to be tracked through subspace. In “Star Trek: The Undiscovered Country” Spock put a viridium patch on Kirk’s uniform so that he and Doctor McCoy could be tracked after being taken prisoner by the Klingons. And, in “Star Trek Beyond” Spock suggests a necklace he gave Uhura could be used to locate her thanks to its unique radiation, though he claims he did not originally intend to gift his girlfriend a tracking device.

• Season three opening credits changes:

    • There is a slightly different angle on the close up of the bussard collector

    • At approximately 42 seconds in, the season two opening featured a port side profile the saucer bathed in an orange light, whereas the season three iteration shows the ship traveling through a green gas cloud

    • At approximately 51 seconds, the season two opening showed a close-up of the secondary hull as the sEnterprise travelled away from a glowing orb at about a ¾ angle, and in season three, we have a low angle on the starboard side of the secondary hull which pulls out to reveal the ship traveling away from a fiery burst

    • Season two’s opening showed the Enterprise traveling through the atmosphere of a planet with what appears to be extremely large plant stalks at 55 seconds, and season three’s intro does the same, but this time it appears to be at night, whereas season two’s was in the morning

    • About 67 seconds into the season two opening, the Enterprise is flying towards a tower in a planetary atmosphere, and in season three, we see it traveling through planetary ring with a Klingon D7 battlecruiser in the foreground

    • At 70 seconds in, on the season two opening, the Enterprise is flying through the planetary ring, but there’s no Klingon ship and the asteroids are on fire, and in the season three sequence, the Enterprise is flying towards the aforementioned tower, but the landscape is snow and ice, as opposed to clouds or mist

    • Approximately 72 seconds in, and the Enterprise is flying through an asteroid field in the season two opening, and in season three it’s is flying in orbit of a tiny green planet

    • Season two’s opening has the same tiny green planet sequence at approximately 75 seconds, and season three’s intro features a shuttlecraft leaving the shuttlebay before the Enterprise warps away

    • At 77 seconds, in season two, the Enterprise is flying above some glowing green volcanoes or craters, and in season three we see one of Starbase One’s biome pods with some mountains surrounded by water, with the shot eventually zooming out to show more of the starbase and the attending fleet; In addition to Enterprise and other Constitution-class, or Sombra-class starships, spaceframes featured include:

      • What appears to be design inspired by the NX-01

      • A freighter with a number of cargo pods

      • A starship with underslung nacelles and a dorsal mission pod

    • Approximaety 80 seconds in to season two’s opening, we see a Starbase One biome pod with a snowcapped mountain

• When the Enterprise drops out of warp into the fleet, we see the USS Pablo Picasso, which is the same spaceframe as the USS Kelcie Mae from “Under the Cloak of War”.

    • There appears to be Nimitz-class starships with new, cylindrical nacelles, as part of the fleet.

• In Pike’s ready room we see a close up of the star map, featuring part of the Gorn Hegemony’s claimed territory, and just outside that territory is the Cestus system; a colony on Cestus III being attacked by the Gorn in “Arena” was that episode’s inciting incident; the Gorn captain claimed that the Federation colony were invaders into their space.

• Pelia [Carol Kane] and Scotty [Martin Quinn] attempt to integrate the device he created to hide his shuttle from the Gorn, as mentioned in “Hegemony”, into the Enterprise systems.

    • Martin Quinn has been added to the cast as one of the stars of the show.

• La’an has flashbacks to her time as prey on a Gorn breeding world as an adolescent, which we learned about in the series premiere, “Strange New Worlds”.

• George Samuel Kirk [Dan Jeannotte] speculates that the digestive chamber that he and the rest of the away team were placed in breaks down living bodies to create fuel for the Gorn destroyer, which would indicate that a bunch of rendered humanoids can somehow power an absolutely massive ship capable of warp, and with seemingly impenetrable shields. Guess the Federation should feel silly for relying on matter/anti-matter reactions.

    • Doctor M’Benga [Babs Olusanmokun posits that the digestive chamber might simply be making food for the Gorn. What both he and Sam fail to realize is that the Gorn are using the biomass to create a giant, Kaiju sized Gorn that they’ll need to assemble a team to go on a suicide mission to defeat, but if they’ve got enough Paragon or Renegade points they’ll be able to complete the mission without losing anyone.

• Chapel [Jess Bush] and Spock speculate they could use a Number One’s genetically modified Illyrian DNA to fortify Captain Batel’s [Melanie Scrofano] human system to give her a chance of surviving the Gorn parasites hatching. We learned that Number One is Illyrian and her genetic modification is able to prevent all sorts of problems, up to and including a warp core overload, in “Ghosts of Illyria”.

• The screen in Pike’s ready room shows a map of the Finibus system, the Galdonterre system, and the Kessik system.

    • Enterprise visited Finibus III in “Memento Mori” and found that the colony there had been attacked by Gorn.

    • The Albino hid on Galdonterre III and escaped before Kor, Koloth, and Kang could locate him, as per “Blood Oath”

    • We learned in “Prophecy” that B’Elanna Torres was born on Kessik IV.

• ”Uhura and I have been pouring over all available data on the Gorn.” When Kirk asked Spock about information regarding intelligent life in the region of space near Cestus III, Spock replied, ”Nothing specific, Captain. Unscientific rumours only. More like space legends.”

• Number One tells Pike that Gorn sightings correlate to coronal mass ejections, something Sam speculated in “Hegemony”.

• Chapel and Spock wear red biohazard suits, seemingly inspired by the ones worn by the away team that visited the Psi 2000 Federation outpost in “The Naked Time”

• ”If this goes sideways, it’s Valeo Beta all over again.” The *Enterprise was dispatched to Valeo Beta V in “All Those Who Wander” and found Gorn.

• ”Enterprise, against an entire armada? We wouldn’t stand a chance.” Enterprise and the USS Discovery held off an armada of automated Section 31 starships, including Enterprise covering Discovery’s escape through a time portal, in “Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2”.

• La’an’s brother, Manu, was previously mentioned in “Memento Mori” and “All Those Who Wander”.

• This is the first instance of Gorn text being seen on screen. The TNG comic, “The Gorn Crisis” also featured a Gorn alphabet, but it was not the same symbols as shown here.

• Enterprise was able to beam out ”several hundred” surviving Parnassus colonists from the Gorn destroyer in a matter of less than a minute, through critical levels of radiation, and their own shields. In “Crisis Point”, Rutherford exclaimed, “It’s a movie. You can beam whatever you want. You can do all sorts of beaming stuff in a movie.”* No, wait, that doesn’t actually apply here.

• ”I can’t help wondering if we didn’t create a problem for someone else to solve later.” “Arena” takes place about seven years after this episode, and by that point the Federation will have apparently have forgotten all knowledge of the Gorn.

• ”I’m Erica Ortegas. I fly the ship,” Ortegas’ [Melissa Nevia] catchphrase originated in “Among the Lotus Eaters”.

• Pike begins to pray after saying his father won. We learned in “New Eden” that his father taught comparative religion.

• Batel objects to Number One’s genetically modified Illyrian DNA being used in her treatment. Batel was responsible for persecuting the case against Number One for lying on her Starfleet application.

• This is the 40th, and ostensibly final episode of “Star Trek: Prodigy”.

    • During the episode, Wesley Crusher tells Dal that the reason the Protogies have to stick together ”hasn’t happened yet.” Maybe we’ll get some more PRO stores in comics or novels.

• The swarms of Loom flowing out of the wormhole above Solum is reminiscent of the extragalactic synths reaching through the portal in the PIC season one finale, “Et In Arcadia Ego, Part 2”.

• ”Once more into the breach,” Janeway misquotes “Henry V”. General Chang got the quote right in “Star Trek: The Undiscovered Country”, and a season seven DS9 episode also used the correct quote as its title.

    • In “Equinox, Part II”, Janeway described a message meant to communicate with nucleogenic lifeforms as ”Not exactly Shakespeare,” and apparently she’s an expert on that topic.

• The EMH back-up module was first mentioned in “Living Witness”.

• Dal places his combadge on the floor of the USS Protostar’s bridge for the younger Rok-Tahk to find, as she did in “Lost and Found”.

• We get a mini-clipshow, featuring scenes from: “Lost and Found”, “Starstruck”, “Dreamcatcher”, “Terror Firma”, “Time Amok”, “Supernova, Part II”, “Asylum”, “All the World’s a Stage”, “Crossroads”, “Masquerade”, “Preludes”, “Last Flight of the Protostar, Part I”, “Observer’s Paradox”, “Is There in Beauty No Truth”, “The Devourer of All Things, Part I”, “Last Flight of the Protostar, Part II”, “Cracked Mirror”,

• We see Tars Lamora again as the Protostar sets down. The series began here with the Protogies as slaves in “Lost and Found”.

• Janeway records the stardate as 62134.8 in her personal log.

• The crate two Vau N’Akat load on to a shuttle has the Daystrom Institute logo on it.

• Doctor Crusher’s desk features a plaque commemorating her away team being declared honourary citizens of Cor Caroli V, as mentioned in Allegiance. The plague was previously seen in “The Next Generation”.

• Doctor Crusher introduces Wesley to his brother, who we learned about in “Disengage”. The scene cuts before we see Doctor Crusher asking Wesley if he can use his Traveler powers to alter time so she wouldn’t be 60 year old woman raising a toddler whom she conceived with a 79 year old man who doesn’t even know he’s a father.

• Zero and Maj’el do Vulcan finger touching in a disgusting public display of affection. The practice was first seen in “Journey to Babel”.

• ”Jankom is practically royalty. Again!” Jankom first decided he was Tellarite royalty in “Asylum” after learning Tellarites were founding members of the Federation.

• ”I heard Admiral Janeway first wanted to be a science officer.” Janeway did serve as science officer on the USS Al-Batani.

• A display shows news coverage of the synthetic attack on the Utopia Planitia shipyards, as seen in “Maps and Legends” and “Children of Mars”.

• The Starfleet admirals we see have switched to new uniforms, first seen in the flashback in “The End is the Beginning”. Both Picard and Raffi were wearing the uniform there, despite her not being an admiral.

• Jellico states that due to the synth attack on Mars, Starfleet has lost personnel and materiel such to the point that they have so few resources they don't have enough combadges to upgrade half the fleet. In "Maps and Legends" Admiral Clancy stated that they didn't have enough ships left to maintain the Federation and continue to assist in the Romulan evacuation.

    • They apparently do have enough resources for new uniforms, though.

• Jellico claims Picard did not take the news of Starfleet halting their aid of the Romulan evacuation well. We learned in “The End is the Beginning” that he resigned his commission in protest.

• Janeway assigns the Protogies to crew a new Protostar-class starship, the USS Prodigy NCC-81084.

    • The Protogies are also given field commissions to ensign.

    • The Emergency Janeway Hologram refers to the Prodigy as the “Protostar”.

• The EJH has been upgraded from training hologram to emergency training hologram, an idea the Doctor first suggested in “Tinker, Tenor, Doctor, Spy”, which he alludes to.

• The Protogies get an entirely new, entirely hideous uniform of their own to end the series.

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• Dal unpacks his original combadge which he received aboard the USS Protostar in “Dreamcatcher”

• Zero calls back to the Protogies time travelling aboard the Infinty to save Gwyn in “Temporal Mechanics 101”.

• Tysess informs Admiral Janeway that there’s ”Not nearly enough,” quantum torpedoes to stop the Vay N’Akat ships from traveling to through the wormholes to attack Starfleet outposts, without giving a specific number. This is a reference to the fact that in “The Cloud” it was stated that the USS Voyager had 38 photon torpedoes at its disposal with no way to replace them, and ended up firing over 90 through the course of the series.

• I believe this is the first time it’s been explicitly states that Solum is in the Delta Quadrant.

• Maj’el, Rok-Tahk, Wesley Crusher, and Zero recount the events of “Lost and Found”, “Supernova, Part 2”, and “Who Saves the Saviors” in brief.

• ”Small changes to time don’t matter as long as we make sure the big stuff still occurs.” Spock established in “Tomorrow is Yesterday” that removing someone who provided no ”relevant contribution” to history would not alter the timeline.

    • What Rok actually describes is a bootstrap paradox. not making insignificant changes to history.

• Ascensia fights Gwyn with her own heirloom. Gwyn lost the heirloom to Ascensia in “Who Saves the Saviors” when they performed that Va;Lu’Rah duel.

• The episode title is likely a callback to the TNG season two finale, “Shades of Gray”.

• Janeway records the stardate as 62091.1 in her personal log.

    • We learn that it is also the 14th anniversary of Janeway receiving her first command, the USS Voyager. We saw Janeway’s first day aboard the Voyager in “Relativity*, but no stardate was given for that date.

• ”This isn’t your first rodeo.” Chakotay is referring to the VOY episode, “Rodeo” where the Voyager encountered the ancestors of a group of humans who’d been abducted to the Delta Quadrant from the American west in the 19th century, and assimilated by the Borg.

• The conversation in Janeway’s ready room took place before the the cliffhanger of the previous episode, “Brink”, which we then seen repeated here.

• The Emergency Janeway Hologram expresses envy regarding the Doctor’s mobile emitter. Though the Doctor’s emitter originated on the 29th century timeship, the Aeon, mobile emitters are in use in the early 25th century, as seen in PIC season three, some 16 years after this episode.

• ”It’s been a while since I piloted, uhm, anything.” Wesley Crusher frequently served as conn officer while he was an acting ensign aboard the USS Enterprise D.

• ”I’m a doctor, not a covert operative.” The Doctor is padding out his stats as the character who uses the ”I’m a [occupation], not a [different occupation]” construction the most across all of Star Trek.

    • The Doctor did serve as a spy for Overlookers in “Tinker Tenor Doctor Spy”, and again in “Renaissance Man”.

• ”Before you were a Traveller, you were a Starfleet officer…” While Picard did make Wesley an acting ensign in “Where No One Has Gone Before”, and then a field promotion to ensign in “Menage à Troi” he did go to Starfleet Academy as a cadet in “Final Mission” and technically never actually graduated.

    • ”...and from what I hear, a heck of a good one.” A large percentage of the officers on Voyager were former terrorists pressganged into being her crew, so Janeway’s standards might be a bit skewed.

• The Doctor disguises himself as Admiral Janeway to distract Ascencia. He did so previously in “Renissance Man”.

• ”As we used to say on the farm, ‘Let’s free the chickens from the coop.’” Ignoring the fact that no one has ever said that Janeway was established to have ”grown up around farmers” in “Resolutions”.

    • Riker claimed in “Lonely Among Us” that humans ”no longer enslave animals for food purposes.”

• Janeway set her combadge to overload, causing an explosion. We’ve previously seen combadges used to create a personal forcefield in “A Fistful of Datas”.

    • Janeway claims the exploding combadge was an old trick from her time at the Academy, which would explain why she had to repeat her second year three times, as we learned in “In the Flesh”.

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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.