We have already recapped and reviewed Star Trek: Lower Decks season 5, episode 2, “Shades Of Green,” and discussed it on the All Access Star Trek podcast. Today we are looking at all the canon connections, easter eggs to and nods to Trek lore. Here are the ones that jumped out to us, which includes SPOILERS. And in case you missed it, we also gathered the easter eggs for episode 1, “Dos Cerritos” which debuted the same day.

Working to better ourselves

The big plot for this episode revolved around the notion of a post-scarcity society with the introduction of public replicators for new Federation member Targalus IX. The Cerritos was dispatched to help the transition away from a capitalist system. Mariner and Boimler got into the spirit of things by wearing tee shirts that celebrate getting rid of currency. Brad’s shirt read “No Money No Problems” a play on the saying, and the hit rap song from the 1990s “Mo Money Mo Problems,” by Notorious B.I.G.

This future egalitarian utopia has always underpinned Star Trek, as expressed by Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: First Contact when Lily Sloane was astounded to learn there was “no money?!” He explained: “The acquisition of wealth is no longer the driving force in our lives. We work to better ourselves.” On Targalus IX, Lower Decks showed how the infrastructure around the acquisition of wealth was transformed into ways they could better themselves. For example, we saw a bank being transformed into the “Museum of Friendship,” while they burned all the money.

Sailing away

Tendi’s story involved a space race, something we have seen in Trek before, notably in the Voyager episode “Drive.” and more recently on Prodigy episode “The Fast and the Curious.” For Lower Decks, the Orion race was with ancient solar sailing ships, reminiscent of the Bajoran Lightship from the DS9 episode “Explorers.”

Space bats and dogs

On the Tendi sail ship, D’Vana was very concerned about taking care of her sister D’Erika, after learning she was pregnant. This included offering her Pyrhtian bat milk, promising it was full of vitamins. On Star Trek: Enterprise, Dr. Phlox kept a Pyrthian bat in his sickbay, presumably for some medicinal purpose, perhaps their vitamin-enriched milk.

Concerned over keeping D’Erkia’s feet from getting chilly, D’Vana also offered up some warm comfy socks, which look to be styled like cute little pink Alpha 177 Canines, the horned dogs first seen in the TOS episode “The Enemy Within.”

Goodgey and Fiddlesticks

One of the references to Lower Decks lore was the brief appearance of Goodgey, the AI helper evolved from the good parts of (periodically evil) Badgey in the season 4 episode “A Few Badgeys More.” In this week’s episode we don’t hear him talk, but Goodgey shows up in the background, giving T’Lyn a hand dismantling the Sequoia shuttle.

Another quick gag reference to the show’s lore came when we saw Billups in a corridor singed and smoking, Rutherford mentions how his mother (who we met in the episode “Where Pleasant Fountains Lie”) recently sent him a dragon. Billips comes from the royal line of  Hysperia a medieval fantasy-themed culture from a planet which includes lifeforms that resemble dragons. In the episode “Twovix” Billups reveals he had a childhood pet dragon named “Fiddlesticks.”

By your command

There may have been a nod to non-Trek canon with the mansion robots turned into guards by the rich elitists turned terrorists. These robots didn’t deal well with being tasked as guards, and seemed ready to snap. The gardening robot complained “I am programmed to mow, not kill. I cannot predict what my jumble of commands may cause me to do.” This issue of conflicting commands is what turned the HAL 9000 homicidal in the classic movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. The Targalus IX bots also resemble the household robots from Caprica, the prequel series to Battlestar Galactica that chronicled the development of Cylons, who of course eventually did turn on their masters.

What did you see?

Spot any new Trek references we missed on Lower Decks? Have a favorite? Sound off in the comments below.

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