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it's entirely possible; I personally don't remember and I can't find a hard reference in Memory Alpha on any relevant pages (industrial replicator, vehicle replicator, Intrepid class, uss voyager). Most of the memory alpha references are in DS9.

In Prodigy, the USS Protostar has a vehicle replicator that it uses to print shuttles on demand. The Intrepid class was fairly resilient and self-contained, so it's a fair assumption it would have something similar, but we never see one on screen or even directly mentioned.

It's one of those things from BB/BCS that is a very pivotal dramatic moment in the show but subsequently got memed to death, so the connotation in online use is generally different from how the scene was played. Same story of that short of Walter White falling over in Ozymandias.

Disco S3: Admiral Charles Vance had the option to sign a peace treaty with the Emerald Chain which would essentially merge it with the Federation, putting the Chain's hegemony over the alpha quadrant with the Federation's political legitimacy. Vance looked over the terms and (with a gun metaphorically to his head) conceded they were actually pretty good, he asked for only one concession: that Minister Osryaa be prosecuted for her many (and well documented) crimes. She wasn't keen on this, so Vance rejected the treaty because he considered the UFP's ideals worth dying for. Basically, Osyraa put on the face of a reformer but Vance correctly noted she just wanted the Federation brand.

Disco S2: Captain Christopher Pike needs a time crystal for Story Reasons™️. He meets with a Klingon monk named Tenavik on Boreth and, while inspecting a crystal destined for him, sees his tragic future. Tenavik says that Pike can get out of it if he leaves the time crystal. Because Pike is a moral pillar/absolute chad of a captain he steels himself and takes it. IMO Pike's finest moment, and obviously the catalyst for his SNW characterization.

I can honestly see them pulling the trigger on it at the end of this season. This season's pretty emphatically pushing the gang past their former status quo-- Mariner has supportive superiors, now what? Boimler is in charge sometimes, now what? Figuring this romance situation out would just be running with the theme of growth and change.

I'm happy either way they end up, although I think Rutherford's comment about green eyes is telegraphing there's something there, even if he and Tendi are oblivious to it.

Totally was the Sense-Ores admiral from Moist Vessel. Memory Alpha lists him as Admiral Vassery.

maybe they're doing the star trek thing of having bad/meh early episodes, just on a more compressed time scale. (yeah it's subjective, but I certainly liked these ones a lot more than the first ones).

I liked this one, just some wholesome series-to-series love wrapped up in a goofy package. A very Lower Decks feel. The Prodigy erasure continues to be a thing but I don't think that's ending anytime soon.

And if heavens forbid this is the last Star Trek thing George Takei does at least it's on the same fun retrospective note as he had in his Crisis Point II appearance.

Aight let's put some from some of the unmentioned series here:

• Osyraa, as she was rejected by Vance (Disco, calling out hypocrisy)
• Christopher, the crystal grasped firmly (Disco again, duty in the face of suffering)
• Solum, the wormhole collapsing (Prodigy, defiance in the face of insurmountable odds)
• Una and Spock, together on the turbolift (Short Treks, the sharing of embarassing personal secrets)
• La'an, as she stares at her watch (SNW, despair from holding in a secret)

I'd be remiss if i didn't point out we have an actual, canon phrase ("Arnock, on the night of his joining") that we know is appropriate for such an occasion though.

I know you put Angela here as Dr. Crusher but even though it's all wrong I can't stop seeing her as a gender-bent lt. Stamets, ill temper and all.

...With apologies to the meme poster.

Hard to do, sure, but "cannot be done easily" is a far different proposition from "cannot be done." Unless you want to argue that the multiple transporter clones we have seen are philosophical zombies.

The Cerritos is continuing the proud Starfleet tradition of having good mental health advisors and a kinda useless ship's counselor.

Man, I was hoping they'd confirm the commonly held theory that Sokel is T'lyn's father (since she's the Sh'val's version of Mariner). No dice unfortunately.

Really like how Mariner was emotionally mature enough to solve the problem by just talking. Sure, she's done that some other times (Crisis Point II comes to mind), but she doesn't really know T'lyn nearly as well as those other examples. Really shows how far she's come from the therapy-hating Mariner in Season 1. She's not wrong to point out how Vulcans tend to have a very narrow view of what their species should be like while idolizing paragons who don't fit that mold. Tear them space elves down, girl!

Other notes:

• One of Shaxs' officers at the gathering reaaally looked like a Kiley (Kileyan?) from SNW episode 1. Guess Pike's message stuck.
• I noted previously that they drew the betazoids with larger eye dots to reference their dark irises. Looking back, I think they even did that when drawing Counselor Troi in season 1.
• we don't often see Tendi being the butt of the joke. guess there's no place to ham up her excessive emotionality than a T'lyn episode.

Ah, that explains why they actually acknowledged that Prodigy exists for once.

I was about to say that since LD doesn't color in characters' irises there's very little to differentiate the animated Betazoids from humans. But it turns out they gave them bigger black eye dots!

Looks like Tendi's happy crying in one of the last pictures, so here's hoping that T'lyn gets some embarrassing wholesome emotions exposed.

And you may tell yourself, "This is not my aesthetically pleasing residence!"

And you may tell yourself, "This is not my aesthetically pleasing Bynar spouse!"

I’m a little surprised her ride home wasn’t stolen/stripped for parts.

Fifth most powerful family in the Orion crime syndicate. The people who are above Tendi in the social hierarchy don't need it, those below probably like living.

Loved this one, prob my favorite of the season so far. We've had Tendi's attitude towards her own Orion heritage hanging over her character this entire show (plus a touch of SNW), so it's fun to finally dive deeper. I like how T'lyn was used here-- basically as a manifestation of Tendi's friends prying into her personal life. I wasn't expecting Mariner's main role this episode to be running gag, but hey, it worked.

The plot resolution (at least on the character arc side) wasn't super surprising, but I think it works and goes beyond where we last left the thread of Tendi's pirate identity in season 3. On DS9 it felt like she just saw herself as a trained pirate trying to be a scientist, here we have the gang affirming that the scientist is Tendi's real self. For those of you reading queer allegories onto Tendi, this episode just makes them all the deeper.

The Brutherford B-plot was incredibly silly, even as LD plots go. It's not deep, but I think it was just audaciously funny enough to work. I was initially skeptical of how they just yadda-yadda'd past the guys' conflict resolution on the holodeck. I think it works because it heightens captain Freeman's (and the audience's) disbelief that they'd expect their petty Seinfeld shenanigans would translate to any useful diplomatic measures.

Other notes:

• The big guy from the B-plot friggin' threw Shaxs. might be the first time we've seen Shaxs succumb to the so-called Worf effect
• T'lyn seemed to accept a group hug at the end with nary a raised eyebrow. So un-Vulcan!
• Tendi's great-grandmother Astrea had the same title Mistress of the Winter Constellations, and if the bouncer's reaction is any indication it's related to D'vana being her family's prime--does that imply Astrea also had a similar path in life before ending up on the science ship D'Var?

Vanessa Marshall as: a different green skinned space lady

I know they said that in production, and I personally find it funny, but in universe it doesn't make sense. Harry was the head of Voyager's Ops department. Being an upper-decker/bridge crew matters way more in practice than rank on paper. It's not like his department would explode oor even substantively change if he made Lt. JG.

Hell, Tuvok got promoted to Lieutenant commander in the middle of Voyager's flight and nothing weird happened in his department. And the less said about Tom Paris' rank situation the better.