We open with the Spring Semester, which brings us to the first week of January 3192. By the announcement of the Academy closure for the All-Worlds Day Break, this episode might take place just before or after the official opening of the semester. For what it’s worth, January 7 is the first Monday of January 3192.

As noted before, the Sato Atrium is likely named after Hoshi Sato, communications officer and xenolinguist of the NX-01 Enterprise. Tarima is recovering on Betazed after the events of the previous episode which saw her unleash her emphatic powers against the Furies, which put her in a coma at the end of it. The memorial service was likely for LTCDR Tomov of the Academy and Cadet B’Avi of the War College, who were killed by the Furies also last episode.

Caleb says it’s been a month and two days since he and Tarima last talked in SFA: “Come, Let’s Away”. SFA: “Series Acclimation Mil” took place during midterm season (late October to early November), then the Furies ambush likely a few weeks later (since it seems a few weeks separate each of the previous episodes), making that in early December, just before the end-of-year break mid-December. One month and two days brings us to early January, so that kind of tracks, regardless of whether you’re a 3192 or 3195 proponent or some other year.

Kenda II was the homeworld of Dalen Quaice, Beverly Crusher’s mentor. Enterprise-D transported him back there from Starbase 133 following his retirement (TNG: “Remember Me”). Sam was wounded by the Furies, hence her glitching.

The Pre-Command Track could be what the Academy calls the Command Training Program in the 32nd century as both are designed to prepare a Starfleet officer for commanding a ship and crew. The CTP was first mentioned in DIS: “Lethe”, and then-Cadet Sylvia Tilly was accepted into it.

The saga of Krebs’ Talaxian furfly continues, now attacking a lab technician. Coach Ohtani may be an inside reference to pro baseball player Shohei Ohtani of the Los Angeles Dodgers, considered one of the best players of his generation.

The closed captioning calls the item rolled towards Darem a “Khionian pebble.”

Interstellar transport portals, in lore, have been associated with the Iconians (TNG: “Contagion”), who used them to control a vast empire more than 200,000 years prior. We have also seen them associated with Progenitor technology (DIS: “Life, Itself”).

For the record, there is no actual system named “Ursa Nowhere”. Ursa Major and Ursa Minor, of course, are well-known constellations in the night sky.

In Germany, there is a tradition known as Brautentführung, literally “bride kidnapping”, where the bride is “kidnapped” during the reception and brought to a bar where she has drinks with her captors until the groom comes and rescues her. In Lombok, Indonesia, the practice of meratiq is when a groom ritually “kidnaps” his bride (but with the parents’ consent) to his house as part of the wedding rite. Bridal kidnapping, in its more sinister guise of actually abducting a woman and forcing her into marriage, has been practiced throughout the world, although in the modern era it is mostly illegal.

Darem explains that “Ko’zeine” is analogous to a best man at a wedding. Darem was betrothed to Kaira when they were children, much like Vulcan children were betrothed to each other to eventually marry when they reached adulthood (TOS: “Amok Time”). Another wedding-themed plot which a character could have left the show was Deanna Troi in TNG: “Haven”.

Takka berries are a fruit native to Drayan II in the Delta Quadrant. They are sometimes eaten with cherel sauce (VOY: “Innocence”).

Jay-Den’s protestation about the Ko’zeine toast is because he has a fear of public speaking (SFA: “Vox in Excelso”).

The meteor shower referred to is likely the Quadrantids, a shower that peaks in early January, appearing to originate from the constellation Boötes.

As Jay-Den waves back to Kyle, the sign behind him and Darem says, “There is no easy way from the Earth to the stars” (non est ad astra mollis e terris via), a quote not from Star Trek but the Roman philosopher Seneca the Younger, echoing the Starfleet motto, “Ad Astra Per Aspera”.

The closing song is “We Watch the Stars” by Fink from his 2019 album “Bloom Innocent”.

I mean... all of them?

If you’ve seen the TAS-style VOY shorts (no longer available on YouTube), this is the guy behind them. His animation studio was asked to contribute to the documentary.

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I watched Nemesis again, for the first time in years. I thought Tom Hardy's performance as Shinzon was amazing but I thought the character itself could have been given more development. I thought the film itself was lacking. The film kind of seemed pointless to me. I do still like this movie and I like the character of Shinzon but I thought it could have been much better. I thought the film's themes of identity were fascinating but I struggled to find any meaning in it beyond that. Maybe there is no other meaning but the theme of identity could have been explored much more. Anyway, do y'all like this movie? Why or why not?

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I saw a bit of them at the final season of Star Trek Deep Space Nine, but it was clear the serie run out of time, I look some clips of Star Trek Discovery but I didn't like the first episode of the series, so, were can find more information of them? I'm curious about this faction, specially because I want to know how strong they are compared to Jam Hadar or The Borg.

As far I understand, they are like Star Wars mandalorian, they are basically bounty hunters or mercenaries, right?

I can understand in a "#MeToo" movement can be wrong, but at least tries to show a complicated idea.

Now, Blood Fever presents rape with fetish ideas, first, the Vulcan tries to do a forced Pon Farr, that rape attempt has no punishment, I mean, Worf was complained for following his traditions, but Vulcans seems to be safe of any complain or repercussion of the ship. I know the idea is of being understable with chemical disbalances, but I was expecting at least one saying "that is not excuse".

Then, almost episode is the sexual tension of Torres with Paris because she got affected by the Pon Farr, and she is like "Stop ignoring me, I want to have sex with you".

Tuvok, pharaprasing, order to: Tom Paris, to laid with B'ellana Torres, "or she gonna die" that porn-plot is delivered with a serious tone quote. Then the vulcan cames back to fight for mating porpuses.

Were the writers horny when they made this up? At least the episode end with Borg drone, giving some plot tension.

My question is, how "Blood Fever" is not as complained as "Retrospect" episode?

And also, sorry my bad english.

EDIT: Oh, and I forget there are aliens in the cave, because it was more of a pretext of sexual stuff.

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country is one of my favorite Trek films. It’s a great finale for the original crew and it’s both well done and also not at the same time (I could do a whole thread on the numerous continuity errors within the film, but I digress). One thing I’ve always wondered is why the galley in the Enterprise is so beat up in the scene where the senior crew debates the use of a phaser as part of the crime against the Klingon Chancellor.

So…. Why is the galley so beat up?

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The title is from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Act I sc v: "Come, let's away, the strangers all are gone." It also appears in King Lear, Act V sc iii: "Come, let's away to prison; We two alone will sing like birds i' the cage”.

The opening song is “UFO”, a 2023 song by Olivia Dean, which talks about the feeling of not being in control when one is newly in love - appropriate to describe what’s happening between Caleb and Tamira.

The Deltan race was first seen in TMP with Ilia. Deltans are a very sensual and sexually open people, and to prevent issues with non-Deltans obsessing over them, those who join Starfleet have to take oaths of celibacy so as not to take advantage of sexually immature species.

Tamira’s neuroinhibitors start to flash; she wears them because she claims she feels emotions more intensely than other Betazoids (SFA: “Beta Test”) and that it can harm people if she loses control.

Betazoids are telepathic with others of their own species. However, they can teach this to people they are intimate with or close to, as Deanna Troi did with William Riker (TNG: “Encounter at Farpoint”).

The toy bear is Caleb’s toy Scrap, which he used as a diversion 15 years prior to escape from Pikaru (SFA: “Kids These Days”). He experiences flashbacks to those events.

Ship graveyards can be either actual graveyards where the wreckage of ships is left as a memorial to those who died there like the location of the Battle of Wolf 359 (TNG: “The Best of Both Worlds”, Star Trek Online), or junkyards/depots where old ships are abandoned (TNG: “Unification”).

The USS Miyazaki (NCC-316606) is presumably named after famed anime director Hayao Miyazaki (or his namesake city in Japan). This is the first we’ve heard of the “Singularity Drive”, although the Romulans famously used a quantum singularity to power their warp engines in the 24th century.

Kelrec was previously referred to as Commander, but now Nahla calls him “Chancellor”, so it may be that commander really is his rank after all. The mission, to repower Miyazaki and reboot the computer, bears some resemblance to reactivating the USS Hathaway in TNG: “Peak Performance”, although that was in preparation for war games.

The new “plasma-based” life support system is reminiscent of the force-field-based life-support belts used by Kirk & Co. during the animated series, starting from TAS: “Beyond the Farthest Star”.

This is the first time we’ve heard of ghan’aq, presumably a Klingon drink.

This is the first appearance of the Furies, although an ancient collective of races named the Furies or the Host were the antagonists in the Invasion! series of Star Trek novels.

Latinum (or gold-pressed latinum) is a currency most often used by Ferengi. The latinum itself is liquid and then encased in relatively worthless gold. Its value comes from the fact that latinum apparently cannot be replicated.

We last saw Nus Braka escaping Athena in a lifepod at the end of “Kids These Days”. Sector 119 is first mentioned here on-screen, but a planet in Sector 119-D was the setting of the Gold Key Star Trek comic story “Dwarf Planet” in issue #25 (1974).

“The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few…” was an aphorism quoted by Spock in ST II to Kirk, who finished it with, “… or the one.” Of course, Kirk risked everything to save Spock in ST III “because the needs of the one outweighed the needs of the many.”

“The hills are alive with the sound of murder,” is an obvious take-off on “The hills are alive with the sound of music,” from Rodgers and Hammerstein’s musical The Sound of Music, but I first read it as "the streets are alive with the sound of murder," in the book Sing along with Mad (1970), as part of a parody of the musical set in the world of organised crime, written by the great Frank Jacobs and drawn by the equally legendary Al Jaffee.

Añejo means “aged” in Spanish and is used to refer to (in this case) aged tequila or aged rum.

Vance here uses “T-Tauri System” as if it’s a proper name. Although TNG: “Clues” uses “the T-tauri system” several times, the dialogue makes it clear that it’s a type of star rather than the name of a star system and the crew are using “the” just to identify the relevant system that contains that kind of star. In fact, Data notes that unstable wormholes have been mapped near 39 T-Tauri systems.

Nus is apparently short for “Nustopher”. Taygeta is a trinary star system in the constellation of Taurus, with Taygeta V featured in the TOS novel Tears of the Singers by Melinda Snodgrass.

A hengra, also known as a hengrauggi, was a creature from the ice planet Delta Vega (not to be confused with the planetoid Delta Vega from TOS: “Where No Man Has Gone Before”), seen in the Star Trek (2009) movie.

Stardate 898898.3 translates to 3221, which is about 30 years in the future from SFA, so that can’t be right, especially when it’s said that Miyazaki hasn’t been operational for a century. The stardate should be in the 768000s.

Nus plays with a golden version of the NX-01 Enterprise.

A trauma loop is when an individual becomes stuck and re-experiences or re-enacts traumatic events over and over again. It is usually self-perpetuating, like a person who has been abused might unconsciously seek out situations where they will experience the same kind of abuse again. Nahla mentioned previously that she lost her son because of the Burn, but here we get some more detail.

Psilosynine is a neurotransmitter linked to Betazoid telepathy (TNG: “Dark Page”). As we saw in “Beta Test”, Tarima’s father, President Emrin Sadal of Betazed, is deaf. We find out why here.

The Furies are part-Lynar, which makes their inner ears sensitive to high sonic frequencies. Lynars were mentioned in TNG: "Chain of Command" by Picard as "a kind of Celtrine bat" (native to Celtris III).

The Intrepid-class USS Sargasso referred to here is not the 24th century class that the USS Voyager belonged to, but that of the 32nd century Voyager-J, first seen in DIS: “Die Trying”.

We see a trail of green blood at B’Avi’s mouth. Vulcan blood is copper-based, hence the colour.

We get a mention of Discovery, so she must have finished her retrofit (“Kids These Days”).

Nus’ final message to Nahla, where he rages about the self-righteousness of the Federation, is similar to Eddington’s speech to Sisko in DS9: “For the Cause”, accusing the Federation of being more insidious than the Borg in assimilating cultures.

The sound of the Furies screeching plays over the end credits.