This is a package. Or is this supposed to be a twist?
this The final episode of StarCraft: Lower Decks Already airing, what follows is a five-year mission aboard the USS Cerritos, exploring strange corners of the classics in search of new laughs and comedic situations, boldly going without”StarCraft” It’s past, it’s over.
So, to commemorate the voyage of Starfleet’s second contact specialist, we’ve picked out the 25 best “Trek” callbacks from the show’s five-season run—from Starfleet’s whale to the infamous Riker maneuver.
opening credits
From the riffs on Alexander Courage’s famous “Trek” horns to the faithful lettering of “Next Generation” and the stylistic flybys of “Voyager,” the opening title of “Lower Decks” is one long callback. The best part is Cerritos’s valiant retreat from the battlefield, which by the final season includes the Borg, Romulans, Klingons, the Crystal Entity, Star Trek IV’s whale-seeking probe, and the Apollo Titans The Greenland’s Rogues Gallery comes from the hands of the original series “Who Mourns Adonis?”
Operation Cetacean
In the classic “The Next Generation” episode “Yesterday’s Enterprise,” a reference to the Cetacean Operations Unit was changed to a pair of uniformed beluga navigation officers – Kimolu and Matt – in “Lower Decks.” The USS Voyager-A also has its own humpback whale, Gracie.StarCraft: Prodigy”.
officer on deck
While the Cerritos crew is transformed into rampaging zombies in the first episode, “Second Contact” (Season 2), Ensign Rutherford and Barnes continue their date aboard the ship. Their starry walk echoes Picard and Worf’s spacewalk in First Contact, although the Borg are smaller in number and there’s more appreciation for the “classical” music of the Menkies.
rock man
A creature carved out of rock was supposed to attack James T. Kirk in the final scene of StarCraft V: The Final Frontier. The scene was later deleted due to substandard costumes, but thirty years later the species got an unexpected reprieve in “Envoy” (season 1), thanks to a brief cameo in a bar fight.
Log out
It was never officially confirmed at the time—Kirk, Scotty, and Chekhov would later appear in the TNG crossover movie Generations—but Star Wars VI: The Undiscovered Kingdom always felt like It’s like a swan song for the original crew of Enterprise. The veteran cast signed autographs before the end credits, and the Lower Deckers did the same at the end of “Crisis Point” (season 1).
exosomes
In the “TNG” episode “Quality of Life”, Data successfully demonstrates that Exocomps (small functional robots designed to perform menial tasks on the Tyrus 7A) are sentient. Years later, in “No Widgets” (Season 1), an Exocomp named Peanut Humper joins the Cerritos crew – although it is later revealed that she has developed feelings of rebellion against Starfleet.
animated series
“Star Wars: The Animated Series” continues the five-year mission of the USS Enterprise, and most of the actors are from the original cast. It’s often been the inspiration for Lower Decks, with the grumpy Dr. Tanna being of the same species as M’Ress from TAS, and the shape-shifting purveyor from The Envoy making a brief cameo. . But the best part is undoubtedly the “photo” of Kirk and Spock’s “TAS” incarnations from “No Small Parts.”
Those old scientists
In the real world, the “TOS Era” refers to the “Original Series” era of Kirk, Spock, and McCoy. The term is also used for “Lower Decks”, although as Commander Ransom explains in “No Widgets” the in-universe definition is “those old scientists”. “Those Old Scientists” is also the name of this organization “Strange New World”/”Lower Decks” crossover set.
Lieutenant Kechan
Lieutenant Keshun is Cerritos’ new head of security in “Kashun, His Eyes Are Open” (Season 2). He is the first Tamarian to serve in Starfleet, but we’ve seen him before his race. In the classic “The Next Generation” episode “Darmok,” Jean-Luc Picard and a Tamarian captain are stranded on a planet and can only communicate through metaphors and allegories. Kayshon talks in a similar manner.
bomler x2
One of Starfleet’s frequent transporter accidents led to the creation of The Next Generation’s recurring Will Riker (aka Thomas). In “Kayshon, His Eyes Are Open,” Bradward Boimler suffered the exact same fate while serving under the USS Titan, Riker. One of the doppelgangers even chose the name William as a tribute to Riker.
Prank call to Armus
Arms was the vicious slick who killed Tasha Yal for no apparent reason in The Next Generation season one. In Super Spy (Season 2), the Belowdecks used a piece of Manifold Stone as a prank to summon Vagla II’s self-proclaimed evil skin. He still has unresolved anger issues.
naked time/now
In “I, Shit” (Season 2), Mariner goes through a training session to fight the virus, which anyone who has watched the TOS episode “The Naked Time” and TNG’s “The Naked Now” will know Become familiar with this virus. It was this inhibition that blocked the infection that turned Sulu into a sword-wielding maniac and prompted Yar to lure out Data – meaning the Mariner saw something no one should have seen – but as Starfleet tests As it goes, it’s not the Kobayashi Maru.
Go climb a rock
“Star Wars V” – also known as the one where Kirk meets “God” – has always been considered a weak film. StarCraft movie in canon. Brad Boimler clearly didn’t get the memo, however, and in Wej Duj (Season 2) he paid homage to the film during some holodeck-based R&R, wearing Spock’s rocket boots. and Kirk’s “Go Rock Climb” top.
Captain Freeman’s Day
It’s not just a craft day for toddlers anymore… In “First Contact” (Season 2), Brad Boimler makes a “Happy Freedman’s Day” banner, It seems a lot of Like the decoration the kids aboard the Enterprise made for Captain Picard in the “The Next Generation” episode “Pegasus” — a memento so important that two decades later in “Picard,” , it is still on display in the Starfleet Archives.
swagger stick
Captain Styles, the commander of the USS Excellent, only appeared for a few minutes in Star Wars III: The Search for Spock, and Barely concealing his glory – but his bizarre behavior while holding up a swaggering stick (essentially a military riding crop) ensured he would never be forgotten.
When Captain Freeman was promoted in First Contact (season 2), her daughter Beckett Mariner worried about potential replacements, suggesting “we might end up with some weirdo wearing a riding crop” . Dr. Ta’Anna takes it a step further in “Stars at Night” (Season 3), wielding her own riding crop.
Ketracel White Hot Sauce
In Deep Space Nine, the Dominion Alliance lackey Jem’Hadar was genetically modified to require a drug called Ketracel White to stay alive. In “Grounded” (Season 3), we learn that Sisko’s Creole Kitchen (run by Captain Sisko’s father, Joseph) has Ketracel White Hot Sauce – a spicy concoction that’s absolutely It would be shocking.
Riker maneuver
Will Riker sits in an unorthodox chair on the Enterprise, and his co-pilot on Cerritos, Jack Ransom, also Riker maneuvers advocates. “You need to sit down, cross your legs over the back of the chair, and squat down,” he tells a group of junior officers in “Stars at Night” (season 3). “Command that chair!”
tiilups
The mission to transport the decommissioned aircraft carrier USS Voyager in Twovix (Season 4) provides an opportunity to revisit one of Captain Janeway’s most infamous command decisions. as other The transporter failure merged Neelix and Tuvok into Tuvix, Dr. T’Ana and Chief Engineer Billups into T’Illups, and then created a hybrid “Tuvix Army”. The episode also raises a lot of moral questions about Janeway’s decision to split Tuvax into his component parts, effectively murdering a new species in the process.
sailor starfleet academy days
Not every callback in “Lower Decks” exists for comedic purposes. In “The War Within” (Season 4), we learn that Beckett Mariner was at Starfleet Academy with Wesley Crusher, Sito Jaxa, and other cadets, and that their unauthorized Flight training leads to the death of a classmate in “The Next Generation” “First Duty.” After Ensign Sito’s death in ‘TNG’s ‘Lower Decks,’ Sailor goes on mission to avoid promotion to honor her late friend
Not a puppet
While hunting down the fugitive Nicholas Locarno (another member of Wesley Crusher’s ill-fated team of cadets) in The War Within, Captain Freeman mistakenly believes the information broker is a puppet.
This is arguably an easy mistake to make, as he’s the exact same puppet used by the childlike Baroque in the original series episode “Corbomite Maneuver”. The unforgettable original is an unforgettable scene in the end credits of TOS.
Creation Device
From Star Wars: Nemesis to Star Wars: Into Darkness and beyond, the series has often tried to recreate the magic of its greatest moment, “The Wrath of Khan.” However, there are few homages as blatant as Old Friends, New Planets (Season 4), in which Marriner faced off with former classmate Nicolas Locarno in a nebula—a close encounter that ultimately led to The explosion of the Genesis device.
stain removal gel
When Cerritos visits the space station of the same nameStarbase 80? Although we don’t remember that Archer, T’Pol, and Tucker enjoyed using the goo just as much as Ransom did.
Olympus team member
In the original series episode “Who Mourns Adonais?,” Kirk, McCoy and Scotty meet Apollo, an alien disguised as an Olympian god. Close relative Lieutenant Ollie died in “gods and angels” (Season 5), and reveals that those sacred golden bay leaves are actually part of her skull. Unfortunately, her lightning throwing skill still needs some work.
music concert
Continuing in the tradition of Will Riker on trombone, Data on violin, and Harry Kim on clarinet, the Cerritos officers have no shortage of gifts waiting for their crews Concert performer, culminating in Barnes showcasing her tuba skills in “upper deck“(Season 5).
Wilhelm Boimler’s Anaximander Crew
“Crack Exploration(Season 5) revealed that the not-actually-dead William Boimler was working for Section 31 to repair the rift in time and space, but the bigger headline was the makeup of his crew. T’Pol, Deep Space Nine’s Curzon Dax, and location Harry Kims (“Voyager”) (still not promoted) is welcomed on the Anaximander Bridge. The writers also played up many fan fiction fantasies by making DS9’s Elim Garak and Julian Bashir (the latter a hologram) a married couple.
Every episode of Star Wars: Lower Decks is available to watch on Paramount+.