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• 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.

• 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”.

• 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.

• ”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.

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• The episode title, “Cracked Mirror”, follows the practice of referencing mirrors in titles of episodes where the mirror universe is visited, going back to the very first, “Mirror, Mirror”.

    • Prior to “Cracked Mirror”, there were eight mirror universe episodes, alluding to mirrors in the titles:

      • “Mirror Mirror”
      • Through the Looking Glass”
      • “Shattered Mirror”
      • “Reflections”
      • “In a Mirror Darkly, Part I”
      • “In a Mirror Darkly, Part 2”
      • “Mirrors” - this episode does not visit the mirror universe, but does largely take place on a mirror universe ship that transported refugees to the prime universe

    • There are nine mirror universe episodes that don’t mention mirrors in the title, as well as the “Section 31” film. This is not including “The Tholian Web” or “Into the Forrest I Go”, which do include the mirror universe, but one only as a retcon, and the other only in a cliffhanger for the following story arc.

• ”The protowarp is merely bending spacetime around us.” Zero’s vague explanation for how the protodrive works does not differentiate it from how the more common warp drive works: the ship generates a subspace displacement field which compresses spacetime in front of the ship, and elongates it behind. So is the protowarp merely a more powerful version of the warp drive?

• ”She’s a whole lot different than the one I remember.” We’re told the character of Chakotay served aboard the USS Voyager on VOY that was stuck in the delta quadrant in VOY, but I cannot find any indication of the character.

• The Emergency Janeway Hologram tells Rok-Thak she’s a dog person. Unlike Captain Archer, the real Janeway whom the EJH is patterned upon left her dog, Mollie, in the care of her fiancée when she took command of Voyager, as per “Caretaker”.

• Admiral Jellico has taken command of the USS Voyager A. Jellico was introduced in “Chain of Command, Part I” as the captain assigned to temporarily take command of the USS Enterprise D.

    • The Protogies quickly discover that they reality where Jellico takes over after the deaths of Janeway, Tysses, and Noum is an alternate to their own, so fortunately Jellico can’t make anything worse for them in a way that it matters.

• It’s Okona! From Star Trek! Or at least an alternate reality iteration of Okona. He’s outrageous! Okona was introduced in the episode “The Outrageous Okona”, and the Protogies previously met in him in season one’s “Crossroads”. Okona is voiced by Billy Campbell, who also portrayed him on TNG.

• When Rok-Thak and Zero exit the turbolift, they find the Voyager A crewed by Enderprizians, who were introduced in “All the World’s a Stage”. The ship

    • The Enderprizian whom Rok-Thak and Zero speak with activates his comm to alert Captain Tuvix.

• ”I’ve been through something like this before.” Chakotay may be referencing the VOY episode, “Shattered”, where Voyager was caught in a temporal anomaly, and he was able to move through different time periods on the ship until finding a way to resolve the issue.

• Maj’el proposes using an inverse tachyon pulse to seal the interphasic rift Voyager A is caught in. In “All Good Things…” it was discovered that the USS Enterprise D using inverse tachyon pulses at the same point across three different times is what was creating the anti-time eruption.

• It’s the Mirror Universe! From Star Trek!

    • MU Janeway is wearing a Starfleet uniform, though “Crossover” established that the Terran Empire fell to the Klingon Cardassin Alliance in the 23rd century. This could indicate that there is still a pocket of the Terran Empire active, which was the case in the Shattered Mirror comics.

    • Janeway’s uniform does appear to be based on one from the Shattered Mirror comics. Like the mirror universe Marshall Janeway from Star Trek Online, this iteration has a Borg implant similar to Seven of Nine’s over her left eye.

    • MU Chakotay has a goatee, a look popularized for mirror universe executive officers by Spock in “Mirror, Mirror”. MU Chakotay also sports the same tattoo as his prime universe counterpart. As per “Tattoo”, Chakotay got the tattoo to honour his father.

• Apparently humpback whales are able to serve in the Terran Empire as well, though that does raise the question of how humpback whales were able to survive being hunted to extinction in the mirror universe, considering they killed out in the prime universe. Were there circumstances similar to those of “Star Trek: The Voyage Home”? Or perhaps Terrans simply got more joy out of grinding up puppies, rendering whaling obsolete.

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• The episode title refers to the hip hop group, A Tribe Called Quest, which Data mentioned as being his favourite recording artists in the TNG episode, “Family”.

    • Tribbles first appeared in “The Trouble with Tribbles”.

• Rok-Tahk refers to the tribble by it’s scientific name, tribleustus ventricosus, which was first mentioned in the short, “The Trouble with Edward”.

    • Keiko O’Brien’s classroom in DS9 had a diagram of tribble labeled polygeminus grex, which was taken from the “Star Fleet Medical Reference Manual”, published in 1977.

• ”A tribble outbreak once brought the Klingon Empire to its knees.” Worf mentioned in “Trials and Tribble-ations” that tribbles were once considered mortal enemies of the Empire.

• ”But tribbles don’t have teeth.” We saw a tribble with teeth in the PIC episode, “The Bounty”, but that was genetically modified.

• Giant tribbles approaches the Protogies and Chakotay. In the TAS episode, “More Tribbles, More Troubles”, genetically modified tribbles were able to combine together in one large colony creature.

• Doctor K'ruvang is on the planet researching a way for the Klingon Empire to defeat the tribbles. In "More Tribbles, More Troubles" the Klingons had genetically engineered a creature called a glommer to eat tribbles.

    • K’ruvang was sent to this planet by Martok, whom we last saw in either “What You Leave Behind”, or “The Least Dangerous Game”, depending on if you count an unlicensed Ferengi boardgame using his likeness.

• Chakotay askes how smart Rok-Tahk actually is, and Dal claims she fixed a core breach in 10 minutes, though he neglected to add that from Rok’s perspective in “Amok Time”, she had significantly more time, perhaps even years.

• Rok accidentally combining her DNA with that of a tribble resulted in a monstrosity. Edward Larkin also combined mixed his DNA into the tribbles in “The Trouble with Edward”.

• Dal mentions that like Rok-Tahk’s abomination, he too is a hybrid being created through combining the DNA of multiple species, as we learned in “Masquerade”.

• Quadrotriticale grain was introduced in “The Trouble With Tribbles”. Though in “More Tribbles, More Troubles”, Starfleet had developed quintotriticale grain.

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