• The episode picks up where the pervious episode, “The Devourer of All Things, Part II” left off, with the Protogies having located an older, grizzled, bearded Chakotay on a remote world. Chakoldtay immetately throws the CHAH-mooz-ee stone Dal was holding out to him at the end of the previous episode over his shoulder and goes back about the business of living off the land.

    • We see Chakotay whittling a chess set. Though as alternate dimension Kirk puts it in “Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow”, the old fashioned, two-dimensional version, ”Basically idiot’s chess.”

• It’s the Emergency Janeway Hologram! From Star Trek! The EJH…died for lack of a better term when she sacrificed herself in “Supernova, Part 2”, but thanks to time travel, she’s back.

• We learn that from Chakotay’s perspective, it’s been ten years since he was rescued from Solumn by the Protogies in “Who Saves the Saviors”.

• Chakotay explains that he and Adreek stranded the USS Protostar to pr

• The episode opens in the office where Wesley took the Protogies at the end of “The Devourer of All Things, Part I”, which appears to be based on Gary Seven’s office from “Assignment: Earth”.

    • Wesley confirms that it is not the actual office from “Assignment: Earth”, but a replica mimicking that office to train the Travellers’ field agents.

    • The newspaper in the office has a headline reading “Apollo VII Launches.” There was an Apollo VII mission patch displayed behind the bar of the 602 Club in “First Flight”.

      • The story of “Assignment: Earth” did feature a rocket launch, but that was for an orbital nuclear weapon platform, which Gary Seven was able to sabotage and detonate.

    • When Wesley turns around the bookcase revealing a hidden computer identical to the Beta 5 computer as seen in “Assignment: Earth”

• Commander Tysess swears on the Wall of Heroes to protect Maj’el with his life. The

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• “Star Trek: Section 31” is the 14th feature length Star Trek film, and and the first film made specifically for streaming.

    • Other Star Trek films include: “Star Trek: The Final Frontier”, “Star Trek Nemesis” and “Star Trek Into Darkness”.

    • The film was originally announced in 2020 as a series, before being transitioned to a movie in early 2023.

• The film’s title refers to the Section 31 organization first introduced in the DS9 episode, “Inquisition”.

• “Star Trek: Section 31” was directed by Olatunde Osunsanmi, who was the co-showrunner for DIS beginning with season three, and directed several episodes of that series.

• The screenplay was written by Craig Sweeny, who also a consultant on season one of DIS, and co-wrote the teleplay for the episode, “Context is for Kings”.

• Bo Yeon Kim and Erika Lippoldt are credited for the story; they were the going to be the showrunners for the “Section 31” television show, and wrote the pilot.

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• The episode title is a reference to the series title, “Star Trek: The Next Generation”.

    • The PIC series finale was also a reference to TNG, titled “The Last Generation”.

• This is the 50th and, ostensibly, final episode of LDS, making it the ninth completed Star Trek series.

• The fleet of Klingon Birds-of-Prey all appear to be the same arrangement as the HMS Bounty, introduced in “Star Trek: The Search for Spock”, though it’s unclear what specific class they are.

    • The one exception is Relga’s flagship, which is larger than the others, and has a number of noticeable differences.

• We’re introduced to Relga, who is the sister of Dorg and Bargh, introduced -- an killed by Ma’ah -- in “wej’Duj” and “A Farewell to Farms” respectively.

    • Like her brothers, Relga has a pet targ.

• The rift directed to the prime universe by William Boimler in the previous episode, “Fissure Quest”, opens up in front of Relga’s fleet.

• The

• The episode title may be a reference to the 1999 film, ”Galaxy Quest”, which satirizes Star Trek, and Trekkies.

• We learn that Rutherford’s cybernetic implant is called an oculus, which is a Latin word meaning ”eye.”

    • This is the second time this season Rutherford has been attempting to get his implant to reconnect to the USS Cerritos’ systems, the first being in “Shades of Green”.

    • We also learn that oculus can fire directed beams of plasma, which isn’t really a canon connection, but does renew my long held desire for a Star Trek fighting video game.

• Against all odds, Boimler’s ongoing facial hair storyline, the A-plot of the season, seems to have culminated in his growing a full beard, resembling that of Beardler, as seen in “Dos Cerritos”. Good for him.

• ”This is our last Boimler; we don’t got anymore after this.” Boimler learned his transporter duplicate, William Boimler, died in “Crisis Point 2: Paradoxus”. Of course, at the

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:
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• The episode title is a play on the TNG season episode, “Lower Decks”, which also served as the inspiration for the name of this series.

• Boimler’s beard has progressed to the point where his moustache and goatee have connected.

    • Rutherford appears to have shaved off his beard, perhaps indicating that after the previous episode’s michelada incident, he’s no longer trying to emulate Beardler.

• Halloween has previously been mentioned in:

    • “Catspaw” - Bones compared the situation he, Kirk, and Spock found themselves in to the holiday

    • “The Big Goodbye” - A holodeck character insulted Captain Picard by claiming his uniform made him *”ready for Halloween.”

    • “Crisis Point” - We learned that Mariner dressed up as Toby the Targ for Halloween on multiple occasions.

    • “Those Old Scientists” - We learned that Boimler dressed as Pike for Halloween on the USS Cerritos

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• 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 or

• 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 e