The title is from Shakespeare’s King Lear, Act V sc iii: "Come, let’s away to prison; We two alone will sing like birds i’ the cage”.
The line also appears in "Romeo and Juliet" and perhaps might be taken as an allusion to the Caleb/Tarima relationship.
I hadn't heard that, other than they got his blessing basically (and the licensing) and he was given a copy of the script to read. Cirroc Lofton seems to be the one that was as close to hands-on involved as you can get when you're not a writer of the script.
Presumably it's a combination of "thank you for what you contributed to Star Trek" and maybe a way to acknowledge him letting them license the final scene narration off of an album he did some 20 years ago.
I'm just replaying the last 30 seconds over and over again and punching my feels into oblivion.
If you haven't been, at least try this episode (or everything up to this episode if you want to go all-in). If this episode doesn't move you in some way, then I don't know. Maybe it's not actually a show for you.
Loved the episode, no notes.
I wonder if the production staff just couldn't make up their mind to begin with honestly, because if you look close at Lura Thok's personnel file from E01 it says she's born in 3145 and is 50 years old, so you're back to 3195 again.
Personally I don't really trust relying on stardates for years in this future era since DIS wasn't really consistent about it, so I'm hoping someone will actually cite a year out loud at some point and get rid of the wondering.
The closed captioning says “Orillian lung maggots”, but I wonder if they didn’t mean “Aurelian”, a bird-like species that first appeared in TAS: “Yesteryear”.
“Orillian lung maggots” is correct. Neelix calls someone one in "Fair Trade".
Just wanted to note that Lynars are a throwback reference to "Chain of Command Part I".